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What is an Arpette? Most french resorts seem to have a mountain area called L'arpette!
Similarly Marmotte is a popular piste amongst French resorts.
Any other names that crop up regularly across the piste maps of the world?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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No idea about Arpette, but a marmotte is a small mammal isn't it?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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tessaventer, I don't know about Arpette, (we don't have one). I'm sure Davidof will know if he spots this thread. A Marmotte is a large (Europe's largest) rhodent. they live in the alps in holes in the ground and are very cute indeed. In North America they're called Ground Hogs. See http://www.marmotburrow.ucla.edu/index.html for more info. 
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tessaventer, it was named by a Northerner and is a mis-spelling of Ey-up-pet
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With one T it's an errand girl, or (my dictionary says) a milliners apprentice! ( a common word in France no doubt).
With 2 Ts - no clue.
I've seen Marmotts right under a ski lift in early spring. Like a super-size hamster.
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brian
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tessaventer, don't know what an arpette is either but animals like marmotte are common. I think all the pistes in Méribel are named after animals. Other ones that spring to mind:
lièvre - hare
gelinotte - grouse
renard - fox
sanglier - boar
ours (blanc) - (polar) bear
lagopède - ptarmigan
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it's a little Arpe
just like salopettes are little Salopes
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Isn't there an M missing between the R and the P? 
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We went Marmotte spotting in the French Alps this Summer and were lucky enough to see 12 in one afternnon. They are incredibly shy and have very sensitive hearing. Yet the biggest burrows we saw that afternoon were all around a chairlift pylon.
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I've just put a picture i took of some Marmottes in September in the mediazone - & I dont have a clue how to get them here! 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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easiski, Thanks for the link, I know a little 10 year old who is going to enjoy reading the site and linked site's very much
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In Italy a Marmotte is the same in Italian (but Chamois are called Camosci) in case anyone's wondering on similarly named pistes elsewhere.
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brian
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geri, go to the pic in the media zone and copy and paste the text in either the BB code box (for a full size pic in this thread) or the linked thumbnail box (for a small pic that links to the big one).
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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brian
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geri, could maybe use a bit of zooming before uploading (assuming the original was a bit bigger) ?
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davidof, Isn't it a cheap korean car?
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'Genepy' is another popular one.
For years I thought GEOFF NET was somebody who sponsored particular pistes, in the same way that you can sponsor roundabouts in the UK.
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Thu 30-11-06 15:00; edited 1 time in total
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geri, sorry but where is the marmot in your pic? A grid reference might be handy - wait a minute, is it the two tiny brown blobs on the rock in the middle???? 
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What about Dahu's? There are lots of pistes called the Dahu in the Alps and they generally follow hills around the contour line, anyone know what an Dahu is?
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Presumably it belongs to the same family as the haggis:
"A haggis is a small four-legged Scottish Highland creature, which has the limbs on one side shorter than the other side. This means that it is well adapted to run around the hills at a steady altitude, without either ascending or descending. However a haggis can easily be caught by running around the hill in the opposite direction."
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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.
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TallTone, Whistler mountain was named after its marmots.
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TallTone, it's what they do when they're alarmed.
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geetee, ......General Custer seems to be missing from that cluster of arrows ....... 
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Poster: A snowHead
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BernardC, 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Anyone else thinking of Python's "Art of Camouflage" sketch?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Latchigo, ISTR Genepi being a particularly evil type of firewater available in the Haute Savoie area. At least that is my experience of something by this name 
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brian
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docsquid, that's the one, made using the alpine plant of the same name.
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brian, I didn't know what it was made from, only that I drank too much of it 
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davidof, An description of the Dahu here. It includes an explanation about why they might follow the contours, although if they need to go back whence they came, they would need to go right around the mountain.
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Swirly, thanks!
...now the other version to go for is "The Big Board" from HILTSWALTB
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More pistes that appear regularly in French resorts:
Bergers - presumably shepherds
Chamois - pretty but shy goat-like things
Rhodos - rhododendrons???
Ours- bear
Pralong - ???
Arolles - ???
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