 Poster: A snowHead
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Does anyone know anything about this.
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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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Mrs johnboy, It's organised via the ski schools http://www.larosiere.net/?rub_id=36 You can contact them via their own web sites to pre book or you can walk into their offices ESF is directly up the stairs from the ticket office.
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Do you need to be a advanced kind of skier to heliski?
I was just wondering if they could take you to some shallow gradients. Just want to experience the thrill without the steeps if you know what I mean.
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brian
brian
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johnboy, not necessarily. Obviously it's going to be unpisted snow so you're going to have to be able to ski whatever the conditions are but it's just like any other ski mountain at the end of the day, a variety of ways down. The easiest conditions are going to be at the end of the season (April/May) on the spring snow.
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I was led to believe that it was illegal to heliski in France? Or is that just some areas?
I know that there are plenty of Helos in the air but I thought that was for Emergency and transfer purposes!
Please give me feedback as it may be of interest to a few in our group.
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Roy Hockley, Have a look at the link AIR they take off just over the Italian border.
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Mrs johnboy,
You'll have to get to Valgrisenche ( Italian)...and book through the ski school. They are likely to take you up on to the Ruitor glacier which will mean you will at least have to be able to ski where they say you can ski, and should be able to stop exactly where they say... as is the norm with glacial terrain. You are then likley to make your way down to near the Village of St Foy and then get a bus back. If you start from La Ros, then this is fine, otherwise you will have to go up and over into Italy again for LA Thuile etc.
As for the skiing, you have to be prepared, they can't garuantee easy bits, just some more easier than others and even then that can be compromised with unhelpful snow. You should have had other excusions so know basics like side-slipping and how to take the steepness out of a hill etc...all in bad snow if poss.
I would say that the heli-trip might not be the best introduction if you haven't got a few mistakes in this kind of foray under your wings. The classic vallee blanche might be a very good intro, IMV. It depends how many weeks skiing you have and how kind the weather is... at least!
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There's also a heli taxi from LDA to AdH as well, it's not proper heli-skiing but you could claim to have used a heli to ski!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Mountain top landings are what are not allowed in France. You can use helicopters, flying high, village to village.
Thus you can ski over the back of the Fornet skiing (Val d'Isere) to Bonneval (you just walk up to the right from the highest glacier lift and go over the top): Ski for a while there and then take a helicopter back to Val d'Isere at tea time. Very spectacular..
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