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cathy, Thanks! I wouldn't have thought of the orange squash.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hurtle, I'm sure your TO won't make you drink water with iodine in like we did. They'll carry proper bottled water for you. Or it'll be boiled for tea.
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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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cathy, Good. Unless the tea is served, as I understand is customary in Tibet, with rancid butter in it.
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Climbing Mont Blanc and Gran Paradiso at the end of July then doing French Via Verratas in September,provided I survive Mont Blanc that is. 
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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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Hurtle, shouldn't be - never had that in Nepal! Though yaks cheese is rather yummy 
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Montalbert for 2 weeks in summer - hiking, chilling and taking mouth junior for his first gondola ride up to Grand Rochette (8 months old by then). Hopefully sharing a chilled beer with Boredsurfin as well
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brian
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Mouth, go on, knock yourselves out, have one each
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brian, oh yes good point. Boredsurfin won't like me sharing his - perhaps he will buy me one even!
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easiski, Thanks I'm looking for flights as we speak!
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Mrs johnboy, Little tiger has soemtimes flown to London and changed (from dublin of course). I think you hd a change for the PSB didn't you? TGV from Paris is still a possibility, and if you're renting a car Geneva is possible (nice drive but further).
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Les Deux Alpes for la Marmotte on 8 July, followed by a week in La Clusaz to recover, although there are some steep climbs to cycle around there as well. Some training between now and then in Scotland and Ireland.
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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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Really want to have a go at parapente but we'll see.
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MrDan, you should definitely have a go. I did a "tandem" flight with an instructor just before we left Les Saisies at the end of the season. It was a great experience, and not at all scary (though that was no doubt because the instructor was so good). I think the cost of learning in the Alps is a bit less than it is in England, and the weather conditions probably better too. I would like to do a course but I could not think of affording a wing of my own, and I have enough expensive hobbies already.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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pam w, I have just signed up for a climbing course at our local climbing wall, but not sure I'd fancy parapenting 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Helen Beaumont, I seriously fancy trying the via ferrata. Have you done any of it?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Lizzard, no, but I would like to try it out this summer, hence doing the climbing course first. Something to do with spending two weeks with three blokes I think. Anything to stop me having to hurl myself dowm a mountain track on two wheels.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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R32, I've already passed the big one, so has hubby, but he is a bit mental too, there are some hairy looking tracks down that mountain in LDA.
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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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Lizzard, Helen Beaumont, I couldn't climb these days, because I have quite bad arthritis in my thumbs and strong hands are essential for climbing. Holding poles gets tiring, when skiing - so snowboarding is less strain on my hands, though a bit more strenuous than skiing overall. I am definitely not mountain biking, I'm not great on a bike having not had one as a child. I can cycle to the library in Havant but that's about it. We tried mountain biking round one of the coastal paths round Chichester Harbour and I came off the bike on a tricky bit of path (actually I threw myself off it in preference to dropping about 12 foot onto the beach which seemed imminent otherwise!). I grazed my arms quite badly and felt a right idiot at a family wedding a few days later, in my fancy frock with grazed arms, having to confess that I'd fallen off my bike, like a 9 year old. The thought of hurtling down a mountain on a bike terrifies me, though falling on the snow is just not a problem. The parapente people jump off the mountain just behind our apartment, it's a great place for the sport, maybe I'll give it a whirl! One of my favourite summer activities is sailing, that's why we live on Chichester Harbour!
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Julieanne, have you seen the thread about the apartment for sale in LDA - 80,000 euros (or less for quick sale). It's in a great location, easy walk to lifts. We stayed in another apartment in the same block a couple of weeks ago. If we didn't already have a ski apartment we'd be seriously thinking about it!
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=25788&start=200
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pam w, Thanks, sounds very nice--but I have already made an offer on a flat in the Haute Savoie--where I have been going for many years and know it well. I actually plan to live there most of the year--not just in the ski season. This has been my dream since I was a child-- to live in the mountains-- so it's now or never!
It's now my main focus to sell the Spanish flat--if you know of anyone interested they could pm me for details? 
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There's a lot of parapenting in Les Saisies in the summer, also over Lake Annecy, where they can practice the really hairy manoevres, like deliberate stalls, and land in the water if it all goes pear-shaped (actually, that's only one of the shapes the advanced fliers make).
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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R32, usually at Hamsterley most Bank Holiday weekends, but not this one.
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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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Helen Beaumont, going to Xscape Glasgow on monday .
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I haven't tried Glasgow, but tend to meet up with other  's at Castleford occasionally. Hubby and kids are rather underwhelmed by it all though. We will definitely have a day in LDA on the glacie over the summer though.
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You know it makes sense.
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Helen Beaumont, we shall have to line up a few summer meets in the 'domes. I'm keeping an eye out for EB's skitest dates.
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FenlandSkier, sounds good to me.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Helen Beaumont, when will you be out in the summer, any dates set yet
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Have very rarely had proper summer holidays as I've invariably made the decision to have a winter holiday and not had much money left.
However am feeling very tired - lots of work at the moment - and the fact I haven't had a 'chill' holiday for years means that this year I'm going to take a week off to go somewhere hot and do b****r all except for eat, drink, sleep and read trashy novels!!!!!
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R32, July 14th-27th,
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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 know R32 - but if I go there I will end up doing lots of activities because I can't help myself - will be up early to get on the glacier and then i'll end up on a mountain bike or something in the afternoon!
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Lizzard, we've got a via ferrata opening up in the Lakes this summer, and a few friends and I fancy having a go, since we won't be getting to the Dolomites this summer, which is where I *really* want to go.
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Julieanne, Just curious - why would you think you couldn't live all year in LDA? That's a bit what you implied. 2,200 of us do just that! We are NOT a purpose-built "ski station" (and the weather is better than in the Haute Savoie and the people are much friendlier!!!! (looking for huffing smilie)
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pam w, Well, the plan is to have a go and see how I get on. I've come very close before now in Mayrhofen, Austri, when I went up the top to scope it out and I was full of confidence and couldn't wait to have a go. Standing at the edge I looked down and, obviously, it was a long long way down to the valley floor. That was okay though, I was expecting that. Whe I watched the next guy go over the edge he shot UP the same distance again on the thermals and at that point I sat down and reviewed the situation  Talking to people who have done it though and it sounds like one of those things that just has to be done at some point!! So, in the Alps in July for a couple of weeks and hopefully, fongers crossed, I'll give it a bash!
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