 Poster: A snowHead
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Well just got back from weeks holiday in Vallandry. Despite all the gloom and doom merchants, there was snow and plenty of skiing to be had. Ok conditions weren't the greatest and there were one or two bare spots but generallly was fine - very similar to late season skiing.
Praise to the piste bashers who did an excellent job of maintaining the runs.
Skiing was possible down to Les Arcs 1800 and also to Vallandry, although the nervous may prefer the lift late in day.
More snow is needed though
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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 snow is on its way apparantly,fingers crossed
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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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I thought it was good cover while i was tehre in 1950 best snow was over in 2000 but there was some good skiing over vallandry/peisey and 1800 areas
there was even some skiing to 1600 although it was definately limited
didnt make it over to la plagne but it didnt look awful from plan peisey
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What are the conditions like in 1800 and above? I'm due to be our there last week in Jan and am a bit concerned to see the freezing level at about 2/3000m over the next week. Anyone have a forecast for the next week?
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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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Scooter, I am out for a week on 27th Jan also and have similar concerns - though I don't rate the accuracy of any forecasts further than 3 to 4 days out, if the next weeks charts are to be believed, it looks incredibly warm to me with freezing levels up at 3000m and above at times 
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Let's keep everything crossed and hope the conditions are good. Why is it that I worry about forecasts when they are usually wrong 
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Scooter, Scooter, I think you'll have a great time. As posted, was good skiing over Christmas and they have had a few days of snow since then. I'm willing to swap my week at work for your week
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I'm flying out next Friday to Peisey so fingers very firmly crossed - the current forcasts are way to warm
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just come back from 1800. The recent snow has covered almost all pistes but there are some (usually) black runs closed cos of wind. The local forecast is for more snow for all of this coming week. probably most days will have poor visibility.
All the runs to the resorts will be covered so the skiing should be good. I personally think that the piste grooming was a bit poor compared to ,say val d'isere, so expect a few rough areas.
all in all you should be able to ski where u want on good snow. It was a bit icy where there was a lot of lower level traffic.
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I have just returned from 2000. We had a good week, not the best of weather though as a few days were windy and blizzardy with the higher lifts closed. On Friday we had a fantastic day on the reds/blacks/off piste from the Lanchettes lift as not many people had gone up there. We ended the day getting the last bubble up to Aigulle Rouge and the snow on the way down was gorgeous.
The main problem was lift closures, we were stranded one day when Arpette closed early and had another dull day's skiing when only 4 lifts in Arc 200 opened restricting us to a zillion runs up and down Marmotte. On the plane home we reckoned that it still needs another large dump to sort out some of the lower areas but there's plenty of skiing to be had assuming the current snow holds.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The daughter has just returned from a week in Les Arcs (staying in Vallandry or Peisey or somewher) and after some snow early on had an excellent week (and won the 'most considerate skier' prize in her school party for helping fallers up; no sign of any consideration being shown to her ageing parents, of course).
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