 Poster: A snowHead
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Greetings from SCUK =]
We're all off to L2A this year, although it appears to be a massive, and freestyle styled resort,
then theres the few of us who enjoy a nice relaxing ride offpiste/powder/pistyness
Snowangel advised me to give your forum a post and see if you could help us =]
Whats the freeriding in L2A like?
Generally, are the powder runs not too steep?
How busy is it in term time? [January 26th we go]
Thanks!!
Lou =]
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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SuperKettle, dead as a doornail (relatively speaking) that week.
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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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Ooh, sounds good =] Do le frenchies not like taking time off work then?
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SuperKettle, the French are a sociable bunch and like to go on holiday all together at once. We get quite a lot of weekenders, but generally it will be fairly quiet that week.
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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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Awsome thanks =]
Any advice on offpiste/powder? theres a lil group of us that wanna get some decent freeriding done without dying from going to La Grave
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SuperKettle,  It's not actually obligatory to die in La Grave - there are plenty of guides who will take you over there and not throw you down a crevasse. The resort also runs an avalanche awareness course consisting of lecture/film session on a Monday evening followed by playing with transceivers etc and an afternoon's guided off-piste on Tuesday - all very good value, given that it's free.
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Easiski is the one to ask (she lives and teaches there) - you could PM her if she doesn't see this soon.
I gather there is some good off-piste there but La Grave which is semi-linked to it is THE place for it. None is easy but some is moderate and there is stuff as steep as you can take it (and really you need a guide for it because there are lots of cliffs you can go over before we even consider avalanche danger!
But in that case you'd be better off staying La Grave.
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Mon 5-11-07 14:52; edited 1 time in total
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Awsome thanks, i'll give her a PM =] Cheers for the advice, hopefully the weather will be good
Whats it usually like at the end of January? I know theres snow pretty much all summer on the glacier, but does around January get good?
When i was in Italy, march, end of march was the time to be due to the location, im not too knowledged about the french snow conditions =] thanks again
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For La Grave I reckon later is better since the place is very rocky (I think the resort opens later than most), but, again, ask Easiski.
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