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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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PhillipStanton, not a very bright SatNav, ours doesn't send us to Serre Che via (I assume the Col du Telegraph and Galibier) Valloire.  , although I do remember the AA website trying to do the same once. Fortunately I checked first. You may have been quicker continuing via Frejus tunnel,into Italy, then over the Col du Montgenevre and onto La Grave through Serre Che, rather than going right back to Grenoble.
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brian
brian
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PhillipStanton, 
That would be the Galibier, often the highest point in the Tour de France, it's about 2600m I think !
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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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I've stayed in the Edelweiss and remember none of that at all. Maybe I ended up in a coma.
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PhillipStanton, Which brand of Satnav, I'm considering getting one.
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PhillipStanton, Snowskisnow had a similar experience getting here - from La Plagne to LDA via the Frejus tunnel Satnav tried to send him over closed cols too, but probably not Ga;libier. In summer we had so many tourists trying to get up the old road because of it that they've now put at sign at the bottom saying LDA straight on, or words to that effect. found a guy turning round in the singles track road yesterday.
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you'd have thought including seasonally open roads wasn't beyond the wit of man - and gps does include a time signal
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Hoppo, you would have thought so wouldn't you, and I may be wrong, but I thought that the michelin site did this.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Is Sat Nav skiing available yet?
It could be interesting to turn oneself effectively into a satellite-controlled skier - effectively a skiing robot - with pre-set times and locations for restaurant stops, not to mention 'collision avoidance circuitry'.
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brian
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Helen Beaumont, it used to a few years ago but I think they've sorted it out*. It would be nice if they had an obvious option to select so you could plan a summer or winter route.
* just checked, it did send me via Frejus and Montgenevre from Valloire to La Grave.
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| micky wrote: |
| Which brand of Satnav, I'm considering getting one. |
My Garmin 2610, which is quite old now, lets you enter Avoidance Roads. This prevents them from being used in route calculations. You'd have to remember to turn them off when the cols open of course. They work very well, I had one in place for ages when they were widening the M25 near the Heathrow T5 exit. 
| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| Is Sat Nav skiing available yet? |
Well almost. I've carried a gps while skiing for years, and used it to map out a few French resorts - lifts, runs, restaurants etc. I won't be enhancing it to give routes and directions, although in theory it shouldn't be too hard.
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You know it makes sense.
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So long as it doesn't send you down dead-end pistes, or the wrong way down motorway runs, it must be fun!
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