 Poster: A snowHead
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Is the Paradiski off-piste guide book still available? Anyone know where I can get one?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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At the end of last season there were copies available in the book/music store next to the SuperU in Bourg St Maurice. Apparently it is also available for sale in the Les Arcs online shop but that's new I think, and I'm not entirely sure whether it is up and running.
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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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snowball,
PM BernardC, he has done quite a lot around there.
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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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snowball,
I bought the 3 Vallees version last year from Decathlon and would assume they have the same for Paradiski.
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Thanks all - The Amazon I saw when I looked before (I think it says its actually not available and they don't know if it will be in the future).
Don't know why I didn't think to ask BernardC, I was just emailing him.
Last edited by You'll need to Register first of course. on Thu 4-10-07 13:39; edited 1 time in total
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Just ordered it from the Les Arcs shop. Thanks rob@rar,
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| snowball wrote: |
| Just ordered it from the Les Arcs shop. Thanks rob@rar, |
Be interested in how long it takes to get to you. It's a lovely book, even if it's only used as a 'coffee table' adornment 
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I certainly won't be just using it as a coffee table book. I am doing a holiday based in Bourg St Maurice this next season and though we will be with a guide for 6 days, the first 2 will be on our own. I know Tignes/Val d'Isere off piste well but not the Paradiski. I'm hoping it will suggest places to explore. On the other hand we may meet up with BernardC, so it may not be necessary now... but another year, perhaps.
Meanwhile the other 2 holidays this season will be Engelberg, and the holiday I put in the Trips section (looking for an SCGB Gold standard skier) based in Montgenevre, skiing the Milky Way area and perhaps Serre Chevalier.
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snowball, I think it will be very useful for that. It includes routes in both Les Arcs and La Plagne, and each route seems well described, including access, hazards which need consideration, etc. Where it differs from other off-piste guidebooks I've seen is that it has some wonderful photography around the domain. I have a copy in my place in Les Arcs and I often browse through it admiring the skills of skiers who are way more competent than I will ever by. Even if I had those skills I'm not sure I would have the bottle to go with them...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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hi snowball,
When are you in Engelberg? I'm out there 29th Feb until 3rd March.
I reckon you'll like skiing Paradiski, we hired a guide for a day, but found plenty of other great stuff on our own, I think it's reputation as an intermediates ski area keeps the off piste less tracked out than Val D'Isere, Chamonix etc etc
regards,
Greg
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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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We will be in Engelberg 14 - 22 March with guide Fredi Krummenacher.
From Bourg we plan to ski St Foy and probably Val d'Isere and perhaps even La Rosierre as well. Is there anything worth skiing at La Rosierre? 
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snowball,
will let you know how Rutor is.....
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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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ok guys I said it sits on my coffee table but it is not a coffee table book! It gets used for sure! We leave it there for our friends to admire and dream!
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Poster: A snowHead
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BernardC, yes, we must ski together.
I've got the book now. Lovely pictures and inspirational, but the descriptions are vague compared with other similar books - and some very very vague (the majority not enough detail to do the route if you've never done it before). Also it is too big to put in a back-pack (or even a Ryanair suitcase).
Still, I now see it is a wonderful area - I can't think why I kept going back to Val d'Isere but never stayed in these resorts.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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| Mouth wrote: |
| ok guys I said it sits on my coffee table but it is not a coffee table book! It gets used for sure! We leave it there for our friends to admire and dream! |
It is a very nice coffee table 
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I looked at the Les Arcs part last night with a 1:25,000 map. I must say I fancy the Pointe du Four couloir (at the end of the ridge to the right of the comborciere piste, facing Arc 2000) - route 32 in the book with photo opposite. Is that one you know, BernardC?
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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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If you're talking about the book of "Les clés du paradiski" the author is Didier Givois, and they have 3 books of "Les clés..." (the keys.....) about paradiski (the original and the first one), and the one about 3 vallées, and the last (available from the past month) about Espace killy.
All of them you can find it in his website: www.givois.com
are they really useful?? I was thinking in doing a present to my brother and I'm not sure which kind of guide are they......
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