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Off on Friday taking my school trip (110 14 yr olds) to St Sorlin D'Arves. More or less all the runs open as are all the lifts and links to other resorts. Webcams showing coverage at resort level too. Bit of a mix of snow and rain forecast this week but cant see conditions of pistes dramatically altering. Prob wont be too much powder about but that will suit us fine as we ski almost entirely on piste with the kids and we tend to have more serious accidents in thick snow. I can sleep soundly knowing conditions are great for us. Anyone else satisfied with the conditions or is the glass half empty for you?
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garethjomo, Going to Mayrhofen in two weeks and Morzine in four. Conditions in both are OK, could be better but could also be a lot worse, I'll enjoy it anyway. Very Happy

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garethjomo, we had a week in tignes in january and the conditions were better than the same week two years ago. Off to le corbier 3 weeks today so would appreciate feedback on the conditions in Les Sybelles Smile

Enjoy your trip
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garethjomo,

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110 14 yr olds


Shocked You are to be admired, I have enough trouble with one 14 year old Shocked
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nbt, I'll let you know. I tend to get over to Le Corbier and La Toussier a bit when out there so will let you know.

boredsurfin, They'll be fine and behave perfectly all week. They wont buy - booze, fags, knives or fireworks in resort and hide them under their beds i'm sure. Shocked
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garethjomo, in my experience, kids on a school trip are fine....it's the teachers you have to watch rolling eyes
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Elizabeth B, The cheek of it! wink

Although the biggest pain in the ar5e last year was a woman teacher on her first ski trip who managed to get her self kicked out of the total beginners group on the 3rd day for being so bad and holding up the group. She was in floods of tears. But she has confessed since she was upset because she really fancied the instructor!
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Worst I've come across (that I could post on a family forum!!) was ALL the staff getting blind drunk one night and not being able to make it out of bed the next morning to take the kids to their lessons.

At least when the kids get hammered they don't miss skiing!
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We've never had staff not make it because of drink but have a few stuck on toilet! Luckily instructors stay in same centre as us to take the kids out even if there were no staff!
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Last week in Les Arcs was significantly better than the matching week in La Plagne in 2006. In 2006 I was in ValThorens mid-January and, apart from a snowy Wednesday and a powder Thursday, conditions were very scratchy (Meribels slopes were in the wrst state I've seen.

While you cannot ignore the effects on Les Gets and simlar resorts this year, conditions don't "feel" any worse than last year and the season just improved from mid February to late March thereafter.

All looks a bit warm for the next week though... Confused
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sproggski, All weather sites seem to predict morning of rain afternoon of heavy snow etc. Does seem to be more snow than rain and higher up the mountain it should be snow anyway.
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Chris Brookes, Que?
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Conditions are fine, by the looks of it. What about terms 'n' ? Little Angel
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Hoping the US storm makes it over to the alpes...huge..!!! Laughing
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achilles wrote:
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Conditions are fine, by the looks of it. What about terms 'n' ? Little Angel


Laughing Those were the days wink
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Not especially, but there's not much you can do about it....
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Find me someone who's satisfied with the current conditions and you can bet your life it's because they're skiing in North America....and NOT in Europe.
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dazman, someone was complaining not so long ago that Utah had bog all snow. 2Alpes, on the other hand, had loads of fresh powder yesterday afternoon.
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well I went to Engelberg last week (ie before the recent snowfalls) expecting it to be hopeless. guess what? i had a great time with some really good skiing. yes, it's conceivable that I could have had a better time if there was a metre of fresh on a good base from the top of the mountain to the bottom but I had a more than satisfactory long weekend.
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dazman wrote:
Find me someone who's satisfied with the current conditions and you can bet your life it's because they're skiing in North America....and NOT in Europe.

Are there only two states of mind as far as snow is concerned: "satisfied" or "not satisfied"?

Since November I've skied every two or three weeks in the Tarentaise resorts in France, and for every trip there has been enough snow for plenty of skiing. Conditions on-piste have been at least satisfactory, occasionally good. Mostly I've skied in sunny weather and not had to worry about skiing in ultracold conditions which has been the case in the last couple of years. The only day which was completely spoiled by snow conditions was a day in November when there was too much snow for the skiing I wanted to do. Not sure how you define satisfied, but for me it's been satisfactory Smile. Not brilliant by any stretch of the imagination, but certainly satisfactory.
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satisfactory, occasionally good.

No need for special measures eh!
Sounds like an Ofsted report wink Laughing
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Just back from Morzine and spent all the time in Avoriaz, snow was excellent, thigh deep powder in places snowHead Cool
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Just back from Morzine and spent all the time in Avoriaz, snow was excellent, thigh deep powder in places snowHead Cool


Start a new thread! Just to quieten down the doom and gloom merchants!
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boredsurfin wrote:
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satisfactory, occasionally good.

No need for special measures eh!
Sounds like an Ofsted report wink Laughing

I was tempted to write what my most of my school reports used to say - "satisfactory, but unremarkable" - but thought that was unnecessarily pessimistic Smile
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rob@rar, Like mine

"Has the ability but needs to try harder" Confused

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Find me someone who's satisfied with the current conditions and you can bet your life it's because they're skiing in North America....and NOT in Europe.

What was that report about the sister resort to Mammoth Mountain closing for the season last month, because of terrible snow? And eastern resorts like Tremblant had some very thin weeks too, earlier on. We had some great times in January, good piste conditions and superb sunshine.
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Had very pleasant piste skiing all round Champoluc Saturday and Sunday although didn't get across to Gressoney - Sat 'cos of mixed ability constraints and Sun cos of high winds. Pistes in generally excellent shape.

Had a very rainy day in Chamonix today but almost certainly snowing heavily above 1,200 and will definitely do so overnight. I suspect tomorrow will be lovely for those who can escape their desks.

So, from my two samples conditions seem pretty OK.
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Overheard 2 brits in the cafe today complaining about the rotten weather, cos in California you only get fab snow and blue skies. Shocked Shocked Shocked they also think the resorts int eh states are more than 3,600m altitude. rolling eyes I told you all that peeps would complain if it snowed! rolling eyes rolling eyes rolling eyes
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Find me someone who's satisfied with the current conditions and you can bet your life it's because they're skiing in North America....and NOT in Europe.


I am more than satisfied with the current conditions & conditions all season. Laughing

YOU CANNOT CONTROL THE WEATHER 'you get what you get'

The only thing i am not happy with is having to dig the car out once again tio go to the bar rolling eyes
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stewart woodward, tut tut - driving to go to the bar? wink
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Whoah there folks...I wasn't having a go I was just pointing out that a lot of the Nrth American/Canadian resorts have been in the hundreds (cm) for a while as where we're only catching up now, that's all.
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Just a couple of photos taken this morning to show how little snow we have Very Happy



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easiski, Laughing Laughing

dazman, I'm sure you weren't having a go, no need to apologise, but do please at least get your facts straight.

North America is a continent. I think you'll find that the season has been just as varied...from what I hear here and elsewhere: the East coast had an atrocious start (and who would travel 10 hours to ski Vermont anyway?), West coast (CA, Tahoe) thought it would NEVER start and at least one Canadian resort has closed FOR GOOD...

For my personal experience, Chamonix has had an about normal season so far (at least above 1,800m which is where teh vast majority of the skiing is), Avoriaz has been at least average, Monterosa has been somewhat better than average, and I hear Scotland has been amazing...

I only have a vested interest in one of those locations!
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stewart, wow - that's some snow that's been dumped! snowHead
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OK....let's look at this differently, A lot of you appear to be living in resorts so if you get a bad week (warm & dry) it's ok because next week may bring snow and cooler temps "Ah we'll get the carvers out next week Love eh??"...but what about the folk who are there for the week and the conditions are shite (like thousands at Christmas)..Christmas was brilliant for the majority of the resorts Stateside....it's all well and good showing me photographs taken today but I'm pretty damn sure the people who paid good money to ski on limited pistes over the past two months wouldn't feel very "satisified".

As I've said earlier I'm not having a go...I'm just pointing something out.
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To be honest i don't really care what conditions were like for people who went at Christmas because i couldn't go Sad . What i am concerned with are the conditions when i arrive this week which look amazing Laughing
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dazman wrote:
OK....let's look at this differently, A lot of you appear to be living in resorts so if you get a bad week (warm & dry) it's ok because next week may bring snow and cooler temps "Ah we'll get the carvers out next week Love eh??"...but what about the folk who are there for the week and the conditions are shite (like thousands at Christmas)..Christmas was brilliant for the majority of the resorts Stateside....it's all well and good showing me photographs taken today but I'm pretty damn sure the people who paid good money to ski on limited pistes over the past two months wouldn't feel very "satisified".

As I've said earlier I'm not having a go...I'm just pointing something out.


You could turn that around that around. Many of us have made big compromises to be this side of the channel. Some have layed out big money for a second home (wether they can afford it or not). You miss out for one week and a few hundred quid, we've missed out for many weeks.
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dazman, Some resorts in Europe had decent snow at Christmas. Not all Stateside resorts are always good. This year the Rocky Mountain snow has been very good north and south of the border, but it's not always like that. You can't just assume that by going to the Rockies you'll get good snow - some years it bad there.
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We start skiing on Sunday morning and. according to the 0z run from this morning. in St Sorlin D'Arves we will have virtually non stop snow until at least Wednesday with almost 100% cloud cover each day.
Got my wish for snow but not for sunny skies. Can't win them all! wink
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