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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Whitegold wrote: |
Val d'Isere has postponed its opening:
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Summer skiing I presume, rather than their winter season?
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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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Val d'isere opened on the 23 june and is reporting great conditions... how long it remains open depends on the summer.
note the snow canons. A day's skiing costs 20 euros from 7am to 1pm.
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I would imagine that Engelberg has always had to be picky about when it opens for non-winter skiing.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Looks far too crowded for me.
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| davidof wrote: |
... note the snow canons ... |
Certainly did. You'd think that there would be no more graphic symbol of folly (as with covering glaciers with sheets) in the face of uncontrolled air pollution.
The world's glacial ski areas fiddle with snowguns while the planet burns.
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| ....The world's glacial ski areas fiddle with snowguns while the planet burns. |
Great soundbite. Sounds nice and total, and without exception. Not so.
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| By 1954, the glacier had disappeared from view from the church, but it reappeared in 1997. |
In the long term, the glacier is in retreat. Has been since the last ice age. Obviously, the wicked Kiwis were too keen to use SUVs in pre-historic times. 
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Better conditions and more skiing available on 24 June 2007 in Val d'Isere than on opening weekend of the 2006/07 season at the end of November.
Go figure 
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Have the French Alps been in our weather system for the last few weeks or the really hot southern European one?
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stevew, the Meteo France station at La Plagne recorded temperatures consistently below freezing for the first half of last week, but consistently above freezing over the last three or four days.
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We're a bit further south, but we had several days of quite chilly weather last week. The last couple of days have been much warmer though. Snowing hard on our glacier today. Just goes to show how you shouldn't believe what you read in many websites without checking doesn't it?
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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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| easiski wrote: |
| We're a bit further south, but we had several days of quite chilly weather last week. The last couple of days have been much warmer though. Snowing hard on our glacier today. |
a mixed summer was forecast by the peasants back at the start of June... looks like they are right.
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davidof, I saw your fascinating peasant thread. They do seem to have something.
OT: Love the RSS feed, BTW, now that I understand how to use it.
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You know it makes sense.
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| easiski wrote: |
| Just goes to show how you shouldn't believe what you read in many websites without checking doesn't it? |
Another variation on one of the "take-home" messages of last season. Of course no matter how many times it's been said it doesn't stop people who didn't see conditions saying how it's the end of skiing.
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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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While we're at it ..... in the last 15 years ( as far as I go back) I have not seen snow on the South-facing Alpes Maritime in mid-late June. It has been clearly visible from anywhere on the coast and the North-facing slopes obviously have more. Anyone who has flown over the Alps will have been surprised at the amount of 'white stuff' lying around.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Agenterre wrote: |
| While we're at it ..... in the last 15 years ( as far as I go back) I have not seen snow on the South-facing Alpes Maritime in mid-late June. |
which slopes? I mountain biked across a portion of the Alpes Maritimes last week and didn't see any snow of note.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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davidof, I'm amazed ... all the slopes ( above 1600m??) East of The Var , so the Mercantur all the way over to Limone. I flew over on Thursday am (28th) and still loads ( not sure how much 'snow of note' is ) and up until Tuesday ( last time I was on the coast) it was clearly visible on South-facing slopes.)
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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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| davidof wrote: |
Val d'isere opened on the 23 june and is reporting great conditions... how long it remains open depends on the summer.
note the snow canons. A day's skiing costs 20 euros from 7am to 1pm. |
Thanks for the update. Nice photo.
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| davidof wrote: |
... note the snow canons ... |
Certainly did. You'd think that there would be no more graphic symbol of folly (as with covering glaciers with sheets) in the face of uncontrolled air pollution.
The world's glacial ski areas fiddle with snowguns while the planet burns. |
The green fundamentalists are wrong.
Global warming is a natural phenomenon. It is not anthropogenic.
The world has been melting since the end of the last Ice Age, 15k years ago.
The world is slowly moving from an icehouse period to a greenhouse one. It has been trending that way for millions of years.
Humans are evolving to lose their body hair. Mother Nature has long been adapting us to cope with a warmer climate.
Vive les canons de neige.
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I took this photo on Monday 25th June standing at 2200 meters to the North-East of Nice. It looks north over the Mercantour national park. The summit in the foreground is the cime du diable at 2700 meters. I didn't take too many pictures because there was nothing particularly interesting (that I saw) snow wise from Digne to Limone to Nice, a couple of neve but nothing more.
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davidof, What can I say? No photos ... but definitely visible from A8 ( and from a boat the 22nd/23rd/early 24th) (presumably after precipitation that week) ... too windy to go out after 24th and my eyes know what ( and where) I see when flying! I'm not there now.. so can't look out of the 'round window'. 
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| Agenterre wrote: |
| davidof, What can I say? |
I'm not contradicting what you saw, I was just surprised. You had a better overview from the air.
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davidof, It's OK , I appreciate that; just gob-smacked at your photo taken on Monday, just not what I would have expected --- it doesn't even 'feel ' windy but IIRC there was a sahara-red ( s-easterly) blowing through ? ... maybe I've (finally) lost my marbles  BTW - which 'col' are you on? ( too embarrassed to guess!! )
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if it's any interest to you guys, I live in Val and we're having "unseasonally" wintry weather at the moment. This moring there was a dusting of new snow halfway down the Bellevarde so I guess the glacier's probabaly in pretty good shape. Haven't been up but the reports from others who have are good.
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sbd, welcome to snowHeads and snowy weather is always of interest! 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Whitegold wrote: |
| davidof wrote: |
Val d'isere opened on the 23 june and is reporting great conditions... how long it remains open depends on the summer.
note the snow canons. A day's skiing costs 20 euros from 7am to 1pm. |
Thanks for the update. Nice photo. |
Is there a website giving full details?
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You know it makes sense.
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This link to the tourist office's web site gives you a little bit of info about the summer skiing, opening times, prices etc...
http://www.valdisere.com/gb_ete/activite/activite/ski.php
There's nothing on it about the current snow conditions but there are a few webcams. The one of Bellevarde shows some of the new snow but obviously that's not Le Fornet where the summer skiing is. The Manchet one from the roof of Chalet Chardon is down at the moment as they're replacing the camera.
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