 Poster: A snowHead
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We're out for the week on the 23rd Dec if any  's fancy meeting up.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hi, yup, myself and Mrs will be in Tignes this Christmas. We're there the week from 23rd Dec for a week. We'll be staying in Le Lac.
We have those walkie-talkies for staying in touch on the pistes, so if you have some and hear a 'Mal' or 'Sam' you'll know it's us.
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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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mal0r, Welcome to snowHeads. We're both on walkie-talkies as well. I'll contact you nearer the time.
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........."Crimbo"..........is this walkie-talkie speak..or a foreign language...like Geordie...? 
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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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Bet you're glad to finally see some snow in Tignes, hope it doesn't all melt by Dec 23rd.
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...It is for people from south of Hartlepool.
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Booked a week in Tignes at Christmas this afternoon so hopefully get a chance to meet up with anyone else going.
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If the snow keeps going the way it is, we'll all be bunched together on the upper slopes. Wear a snowheads logo and we'll easily be able to spot each other.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The webcams in tignes.co.uk show the toviere slope is still white, but on 12% of lifts running at the moment.
AxsMan, have you been to Tignes before ?
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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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mal0r, Was there (well we stayed in Val D, but skied mostly on the Tignes side ) last Christmas, and just got back from a (disappointing due to crowded slopes with little snow) long weekend. If the snow is good Espace Killy is great. The problem this weekend was that the Grand Motte was pretty much the only place open in the southern Alps so it was packed. Long (and I mean 45 minute) queues for the drag lifts, and not enough snow to ski down from the top without ripping your skis to shreds on the stones. Hopefully by Christmas a few more inches (feet?!) will have fallen. (or been made). 
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Do you know if the distance between Le Lac and Val Claret is walkable in ski boots ? Just wondering incase we can't manage to always join up the pistes to manage a final run into Le Lac
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You know it makes sense.
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mal0r, There is a regular bus service. I wouldn't want to walk it in ski boots.
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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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Lovely, thanks. Do you know if it's included in the ski-pass?
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Poster: A snowHead
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mal0r, As Frosty sais it's a long walk. We actually drove round on Tuesday morning to have a look at Le Lac (we were staying in Val Claret) and i reckon it's at least a kilometer, maybe a bit more. Last year the buses ran very frequently so we didn't mind too much where we 'came down' and riding the bus back can be quite a good way to see a bit more of the place.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The Mrs and I (plus a few others) walked from Val Claret to Le Lavachet after being booted out of a club at 03.30. We got in at 05.00. It was a howling blizzard and at least 2 were convinced of their impending demise.
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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,  I reckon I'll be holding out for the bus then.
I'm getting a smidge excited about it though, I've only been skiing a couple years and the novelty hasn't worn off yet. Looking forward to finding a fondue place while we're there, and the vin chaud.
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mal0r, For fondue can I recommend the restaurant de Neige which is directly opposite the Funicular entrance at Val Claret. You can't miss it. We had Fondue for Christmas lunch last year, washed down with several glasses of Vin, bierre and genepi to the point where we didn't actually ski in the afternoon! It was a great day.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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mal0r, From memory I think that's the 'DoubleM' which (given adequate snow cover ) is a reasonably easy red, just a couple of slightly steep sections which could be a bit daunting for beginners but otherwise a lovely run, pretty much right down from the top. You ride up Lanche and Vanoise to get to the top or use the funicular which is very fast, but involves a bit of standing and waiting. The Restuarant du neige is right in front of it at the bottom.
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AxsMan, I have been pouring over the piste-map for the last month (that's how excited I am) and looked at the 'DoubleM' run.
I'll need to break myself in gently when I first get there, was looking for a nursery slope, but couldn't find a single green unless I went down Val D side. I imagine, I'll just take a a poma up a small part of one of the fairly innocuous blue slopes a few times before I head right up the funicular.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Frosty the Snowman, Quality advice, another duly noted.
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mal0r, Espace Killy is not fantastically well equipped with really easy runs and they do have a tendency to mark pistes 'down' compared to other areas I have skied. (i.e. a 'Killy blue might be a bit of a purply red elsewhere ). However the three runs over at Val D from the Rocher de Belvarde, the two greens 'mont blanc' and (appropriately named) 'verte' as well as the adjacent blue '3i' were all very nice, and the ride back to them from the top of the Borsat express down borsat or genepi were also not too demanding. Getting back to Val Claret by skiing down piste 'H' is probably the easiest way we did. The only run I'm aware of from that side down to le lac is the black Trolles which wasn't too bad when we were there as there was good snow cover, but as Frosty says I imagine it would be nasty if it was iced up.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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AxsMan, Ok, so that's Christmas Eve's route planned then.
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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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mal0r, Have fun! (and see you in the restaurant du neige! - I'll be the red nosed one without the antlers )
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You know it makes sense.
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Just finishing my packing before heading to Gatwick and then, fog permitting, off to Tignes.
Probably be in the Crowded House at least to start with most evenings so anyone going feel free to drop in and say hello.
For everyone else, have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy whatever you have planned.
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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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Have a great time say Hi to spyderjon and Debs for me.
Merry Christmas
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Poster: A snowHead
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SHello, ..... fog fingers crossed - bon chance....!
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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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SHello, AxsMan, I keep missing you guys. We're out with Evo2 this afternoon so will be in the Jam Bar (bottom of the Pallafour lift) just after 5pm tonight for an apres ski shandy.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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spyderjon, SHello, Sorry we missed you, hope you had a great time, back now and looking forward to next weekend at Pila!
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Nice pictures mal0r,
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Still 3 weeks to go, it could all change by then. We were there last year for the same week and had a great time 
