 Poster: A snowHead
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You've booked the holiday, arrived in the hotel, skied the slopes but there's still something missing. What have you spotted that would take your favorite resort to the next level? My suggestion:
La Thuile - Some nightlife! Decent skiing, easily accessible but nothing to do after the lifts close.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Live music - proper down 'n' dirty blues, or old time rock 'n' roll.
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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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La Rosiere - Ditto
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France - the apres ski of Austria.
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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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ssnowman, lederhosen, cheesy Euro-pop and drunken hairy Germans?  No thanks.
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Lake Louise - The Apres Ski of Austria
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France - Beer prices that you dont have to sell an organ for 
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Chamonix - A decent lift system!
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ssnowman, lederhosen, cheesy Euro-pop and drunken hairy Germans? No thanks.
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hear hear. Thank goodness for a good glass of wine in quiet grown up surroundings. Must be getting old!
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Val thorens - some atmosphere
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Meribel, the French.
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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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Livigno - a short transfer
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France in general - Streets devoid of doggy do! (What is it about the French that they seem to regard any public street as their dog's private toilet?)
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You know it makes sense.
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| Meribel, the French. |
Meribel, the English...?
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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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Milton Keynes - a mountain.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Valberg - some snow 
awksquawk, you obviously don't live in London ... much worse than anywhere I've been in France imho !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Anywhere, slopes without snowboaders! 
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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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laundryman, - where to? I've never found this nirvana in North America
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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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It sounds like heaven. Just imagine, no having to dodge lazy snowboarders sitting all over the piste, and no having kids wondering around with their trousers down round their knees! I've never quite understood how that makes you better at snowboarding, but surely it must have some effect?
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holidayloverxx, it's in the link - Alta, Deer Valley (Utah), Taos (New Mexico), Mad River Glen (Vermont).
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Of course if you go there you'll never get down a slope due to the line of skiers stood across the top of any gradient change.
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Smaller obstacles than a sitting boarder though 
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laundryman,
Ta 
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iblair, yawn.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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As a novice, I'd like to see greens that are for novices & the people with them who are aiming to ski at controlled slow speeds while gaining confidence. Where I went (Serbia) a red/blue narrows and feeds into the one real novice run (Masinac) which is the first place you're taken after the 'playpen' area. My friends told me that the red/blue does have an alternative end section - so why don't they block it off so people have to use that? On my first 2-3 goes on this run I was really quite unhappy about joining in what seemed like a motorway with people whizzing down around your ears.
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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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NewSkier, I frequently think of that even after 8 weeks. I would reccomend Les Gets for quieter Green/Blue runs which do not get used by the 'faster folks'. They have a number of discrete slopes which are great practice for 2nd/3rd weekers. They are not 'fenced off' but are often alternative routes which are just not used by those who aspire to 'greater things'. I consider myself fortunate to have done my early skiing on those slopes.
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stephen bleakley, ditto. And with my trouser waistband firmly covering the kidney region.
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You know it makes sense.
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MagSeven, i challenge you to find a ski shop or a restaurant in Meribel that has not got at least one British staff member. You could not fit more british into meribel any more then south africans into wimbledon.
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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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PP, Sorry! yeah, for some reason I was thinking of 'what was wrong with resorts' which is what i meant with the english in meribel!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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St Anton - it's lacking a railway right through the middle which might give the village a lot more character.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Selva is currently missing me 
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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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Jungfrau: moving walkway between the bottom station of gondola and train station (both in Wengen and in Grindlewald, dont' know about Murren, didn't get around to go there due to poor visibility).
You can see one from the other, but it's a long and slow walk to get there, only to have the train leaves within sight and have to wait for another half an hour!
In one week, I walked in my ski boots more than I ever did in my 10+ years skiing. I actually broke my Cat-Trak, the thingy that goes on the bottom of boots to protect the sole plate and give some traction for wlaking. 
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scotland - snow.
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| Swirly wrote: |
| Selva is currently missing me |
Any resort with snow.... ME!!! Nuff said!!!
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Cairngorm - chairlifts
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Europe - avvy controlled off piste areas.
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Mosha Marc, there are Avvy controlled off piste areas in Europe.
After a snowfall, the pistehors (or whomever does the bombing) don't bomb the pistes in a lot of cases. They bomb off-piste areas above the pistes. Therefore the places that have been bombed will be safe. I'm not 100% sure why you would really want to be skiing over avalanche debris all that much anyway unless you had to.
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| smolo wrote: |
| I'm not 100% sure why you would really want to be skiing over avalanche debris all that much anyway unless you had to. |
That has always puzzled me about resorts which blast heavily to ensure an avalanche-free area. Skiing on debris is awful, just defeats the point of skiing off-piste.
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