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Can anyone give me some good ideas of where to ski in the middle of April please? Will check the web cams and snow reports but could do with some ideas. Cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Lapland.
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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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anywhere with good snow.
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MFC, we've been going to Val Thorens in the second week of Easter (which drifts from early to late April) for the last few years and skiing has been fine at Val Thorens with all the resort runs open; going soft in the afternoon with poorer conditions in the lower resorts of the 3 valleys with some run closures.
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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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Lech will be a good bet as will Val D'Isere, Zermatt, Cervinia and Are in Sweden. Lech prob the most pleasant and they have over 3 m at the top at the moment so as long as they dont get a carribean heat wave it should stay pretty good until mid/late April.
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Any village above 1800m is good.
Try Val Thorens, Val d'Isere and Tignes.
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At the rate things are going Scotland!!!
I do not jest!
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Thats wehere im heading on thurs pm, not been since '99
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Obertauern, Obergurgl, Zermatt, Cervina, Val Thorens, Val d'Isere, Tignes. I think any resort over 1800m will be OK for the rest of the season if what's promised arrives this weekend.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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MFC, We always have excellent late skiing. It's not necessary for the village to be over 1800m - just the skiing!
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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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Lapland is great for ski-ing in mid April 
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We are doing some £99 and £79 three day special offers in Tignes including transfers, limited space left - PM if you would like some details.
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You know it makes sense.
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MFC, I've been skiing Easter since 1992. Never had a bad time. Started with Nendaz, moved over to Verbier, then on to La Plagne, Val Thorens and Whistler. Also managed day trips to Courmayeur, Chamonix and Les Contamines. As mentioned above: as long as there is skiing above 1800m you should be fine. Many years we were skiing right down to 1250m.
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Saas Fee, skiing from 1800 - 3500m, nice village, normally some good April deals to be had as well.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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just had almost a metre of snow in La Rosiere and it's set to continue for at least 3 days according to the Meteo, at this rate we'll still be skiing in June!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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There has been alot of late snow in the Pyrenees the last few years (last week of resort opening last year saw 1.2m of fresh snow), and its snowing here now... Wierd.
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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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MFC, with the big dumps of snow we've been having, and look like having for the next week, there will be a very good base for April. But even with loads of snow depth (as there was two years ago after mammoth March snows) you can still expect spring conditions in mid April except at the highest altitudes. But spring conditions are very pleasant!
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| Joanne Mountainsun wrote: |
| We are doing some £99 and £79 three day special offers in Tignes including transfers, limited space left - PM if you would like some details. |
Can you PM me details please as I havent a clue how to PM you. Cheers
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Cheers.... How did you do it?
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thefatcontroller, yes and it's still snowing, over 3 metres at altitude and 1.6 metres in the village.
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| David@traxvax wrote: |
| just had almost a metre of snow in La Rosiere and it's set to continue for at least 3 days according to the Meteo, at this rate we'll still be skiing in June! |
What is the latest you have skied in a resort without a glacier?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Whistler has had a great season, still cold now and we are getting some awesome dumps (30 yesterday and another 10 or so tonight) of light high quality snow. So I presume we will have fun spring skiing all through April and May. We close early June for the 'winter' season and end of July is the end of the 'summer' skiing.
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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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MFC, Go high but go soon. You may wish to consider the  EoSB 19th April - 26th April at Val Thorens. if you are quick....
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ski-finder, May 5th in Val d'Isere, we could ski in La Rosiere well into May but all the saisonaires leave the last week in April for their summer jobs. The Col de Petit St Bernard doesn't open until late May/early June and the police shut the road so that skiers can jump the road, one year the depth of snow alongside the road was 9 metres, that was on the 10th June!
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