 Poster: A snowHead
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Honda Kitty, Hello Georgeous 
La Plagne has just had/having a good dump. Very cold temperatures will preserve the snow for your arrival when it will start to warm up a bit. Perfect timing.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Honda Kitty, I'm off on Friday. It's all good news really. Fresh snow upon desolation below, fresh snow upon ample snow up top. So, lower pistes may be a bit strange (if so wet they slush up the fresh snow), and off piste low down is a no-no unless you like rocks. It's just got cold too, so it'll probably be as if it's just after the first major fall in mid-December. It's going to be a good week, probably brighten up quite a bit and get warmer by the following weekend.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Frosty the Snowman, Hello pretty lady, and crosbie, Thanks chaps - that has lifted the Kitty spirits and I am now off to do some cartwheeling down the corridor at work
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im very excited(similar to a young child at xmas)im out on the 27th and looks like its good timing,hope it stays in good condition.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Just back form Belle Plagne. Big dump on Thurs with excellent condition on Friday. 2 amazing powder days. Just fantastic fun
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If you've taken some photos...
Thanks 
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im leaving for belle plagne in 1 hour,cant wait. 
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madmac1, whare did you stay?
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boredsurfin, they must know im coming,looks like they have put a snow drift for me to crash in to at the bottom of tthe hill 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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notverygoodatskiing, Thats not a snowdrift, it is actually large piles of boredsurfin's, cash that have been cleverly hidden 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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boredsurfin, A God's morning in Paradise-ski . I wish I was there.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Frosty the Snowman, i'll be sure to check that out
boredsurfin,will do,whats so good about that bar?
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Poster: A snowHead
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| notverygoodatskiing wrote: |
Frosty the Snowman, i'll be sure to check that out
boredsurfin,will do,whats so good about that bar? |
The food the drink the ambience and the owners speak good English
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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notverygoodatskiing, .....happy days .....hope you're soon verygoodatskiing, .....
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notverygoodatskiing, we stayed in the 'Balcon 'apartments'. Very nice with views out to the slopes and skiing from the back door. Lovely restaurant with chilled out bar called the 'auberge' next door. Also worth trying is the 'Chelet Verdun Sud' down towards Champany off the Kamakaze run. Lovely ambience great food. Could have staed all afternoon
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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GReat conditions in La Plagne at the moment. Icy and patchy in places lower down, but get up and it's lovely.
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hi honey,im home, just returned from a great week,snow was excellant at the start with some nice powder,getting a bit icy when we left but still enjoyable,would recommend the skidooing and the bobsleigh,but wouldnt recommend staying at les constellations,very small and way over priced for what you get,overall a really good week im now classing myself as muchbetteratskiing.
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I just got back from a week staying in Belle Plagne and can only echo the above really. Great week's skiing with not a cloud in the sky but it was getting v icy on the main runs in when I left. At the end of the week we just headed up the glacier in the afternoon and there were still really good conditions up there.
One word of warning from an intermediate skier though - the piste gradings seem to be completely random! Nearly every run is a blue and a couple of the reds were extremely tough. Notably the one next to the top of the bubble car on the glacier (that runs under it) and "Kamakaze" which were both steep and mogully. I went with 3 advanced skiers and was just chucking myself down the reds/blacks (because I'm an idiot ) but I think timid intermediates might get a bit of a shock on some of the runs!
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Honda Kitty, I just returned from 1800 as well, got over to La Plagne for a day, managed to find loads of nice stuff just off the pistes and only injured (slightly) myself at the last hour of the last day 
Great week huh?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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ive got a week at the end of march booked off,i think im going to return if the snow is good again,really think la plagne is an amazing place,so much to see and do,admittingly the night life is crap but if your with the right people then that dosnt matter.
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You know it makes sense.
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I've just been to Plagne 1800 in Maeva Lauze (great apt., but no lift and 300m to piste).
Good snow. Nice and sunny. Thursday saw the pistes at their most polished and ungrippy, but the sun started to melt them for more grip on Friday afternoon. I don't envy those there this week.
Do not stay in Aime La Plagne (Plagne 2000) unless you are in Hauts Bois or Club Med - unless you like living in an airport departure lounge or a large ferry.
Here's the route to Au Bon Vieux Temps from 1800: Get bus to Plagne Centre, Get telemetro to Aime La Plagne, walk a mile through its labyrinth to the car park lift. Keep on descending the lifts and walking out until you reach the edge of the car park. Walk out of the car park and down the road 200 yards around 2 hairpin bends to a wooden sign identifying this as the route for 'Au Bon Vieux Temps'. Go around the back of the Club Med building car park to the edge of the piste. Walk 50 yards across the snow to the restaurant (bright light shines on piste at night). Does most Savoyarde stuff apart from Fondue Bourguinone (steak). Chef is ex-Ivy, so do try his specials.
Be very careful of the ancient chairlift by Le Chalet du Friolin if you're over 5'11". It almost concussed me and cut short my Friday afternoon. Next time I'll DUCK!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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and another thing why's Morbleu a black?
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FAQ
But doesn't it look great this Morning 
- stay safe out there people if you're heading out....
