 Poster: A snowHead
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So - I got 2 weeks skiing nicely organised for next season - Steepish off-piste do at LDA in January, and the MSB. What to do for the third? My regular skiing buddy is coming along with me in January, but is tied up with a Freshtracks holiday later. The EOSB timing does not really suit this year (though it remains an outside possibility). Freshtracks are going to St Anton 29 March - good - haven't been there for 15 years. But every day is ski instruction (hmm I have enough coping with what easiski tells me to do) and the trip is expensive - bad.
So I may set out solo - which I can cope with, particulalry if I go to a resort with a SCGB rep) - but I wondered if anybody else was going to be out skiing at that time whom I could drop by for a chat /beer in the evening - and maybe ski with for the odd day. Could help me make up my mind where to go. At the moment I am toying with Saas Fee, the Dolomite area, or Val Despair - talk about a variety of options - I really need to concentrate my brain. Even the date is fluid at the moment.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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achilles, Easter Hols, watch out for prices.
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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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achilles, get in touch with snowhead queen sheba.
She runs a website for solo skiers.. www.pistepals.com it may give you a few ideas and/or meet some people to hit the slopes with when your usual buddies are otherwise engaged 
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Frosty the Snowman, good one. I had thought I would be clear - but looking here I see that's not so. Hmm. Could be the EOSB, after all.
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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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mrtoastie, thanks.
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achilles, is that starting from 29th? May be worth looking at Switzerland - our schools are between holidays then. We're likely to be in/around Laax sometime at the weekend I would expect
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brian
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eng_ch, that's good news ! Do school holidays vary by canton ?
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brian, it's Switzerland so I would expect so!  In fact I'm 99% certain they do. Your community's web site should have the school dates somewhere
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brian
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eng_ch, I expected so too, you made it sound national above. Anyway, "plan de scolarité" turns out to be the search term if anyone's interested and this year, the Valais takes its holidays as:
Lower Valais (French speaking bit): first week in Feb plus 18th - end of March.
Upper Valais (Oberwallis, the Switzerdeutsch types): 3rd week in Feb plus 18th - end of March.
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brian, our Gemeinde (I have a suspicion it differs within Zurich canton too) is 18-29 Feb then 21.4 to 2.5
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eng_ch, is Gemeinde a commune ? (Today's new thing safely learned  ).
btw, sorry for sidetracking your thread achilles.
ps. if you fancied the Anniviers, that'd be a very good week to go, it'll be very quiet.
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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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achilles, If you go to Val d Anniviers, look up Serg Lambert he lives there and now does his own thing. (I suspect you probably know him from Freshtracks)
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I'll be in La Ros that week with the family testing out the off piste 
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You know it makes sense.
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kitenski, after all the (ahem) discussion here about La Ros - I could be tempted to see what the fuss is about!
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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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achilles, Don't waste your money
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Poster: A snowHead
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achilles, Follow Frosty the Snowman's, sound advice 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| achilles wrote: |
| kitenski, after all the (ahem) discussion here about La Ros - I could be tempted to see what the fuss is about! |
That's the reason I'm going there
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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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kitenski, And here is me thinking it was to get some great ski school for the kids
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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achilles, Tignes
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achilles, I shall be at LDA that week with my daughter. However you were a bad influence on me this year. I'm sure easiski will organise some social occasions amongst whoever is there that week.
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Colin B, a bad influence? Little moi?
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