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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?
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flowa, Have a great time. 
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Thanks easiski  x
Just about to get on the coach. It's pleasingly cold in Moutiers. Def not Tshirt weather. brrrrrrr
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Hey flowa, where's our on-the-slopes update of which pistes you've skied and more particularly, the conditions?
Don't use it all up or we'll have none left for the EOSB 
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| flowa wrote: |
Pool has taken over from skiing in a clash of the titans between...
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Is he playing as well?
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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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flowa, Keep em coming!  any pix?
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You know it makes sense.
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Would love to post some pics but blackberry limits don't allow  .
It's dumping so fantastically. Unfortunately the goggles adaption seem only to work in cloud not precipitation so I'm back to my crappy goggles.
Have just skiied from Duex Lac lift to Peclet gondola and stopped 10 times.
JB is here now - delivered old goggles - phew and we're going to do Lacv Blanc: Tete Rond and Christine are shut, we suppose due to Avalanch risk. Though there is conflicting info in gondola so might get to do Tete Rond.
I hear the coffee calling.
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Aaaaahhhh, coffee. Blimey, we did have to take lac Blanc and it was extremely crowded. My visability was heaps better with 'proper' goggles but THE visability was pretty poor. Maybe it's the altitude, maybe it's my general fitness or maybe it's because these conditions sort the men from the boys but I'm knackered! 5 turns, rest, 5 turns, rest, and on. Jolly hard work.
:)There's so much snow everywhere
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Poster: A snowHead
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flowa, The 360 web cam looks a bit murky but I would swap places if I could. Are you staying on after Easter for the Eosb or are you returning to UK? I'm rather impressed with your international train setting lifestyle, I quite fancy giving it ago next season, will I need to invest in a Strawberry, I mean Blackberry, as life looks like more fun with one in hand. Enjoy lunch and the rest of your day and hope you get a second wind this afternoon and fly through the powder.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Cheers Headplant.
After coffee we dropped down to Duex Lac lift and traversed to Moraine Lift which had reopened. Moraine was much nicer than Lac Blanc but still knackering so we scooted back to the apartment for a spot of lunch. The snow is sublime but the visability, wind and driving snow does make for tricky skiing. We're going to take the afternoon slowly, skiing a run, having a drink (ooh, now there's an idea - maybe I'd relax more if I had a beer?) And then skiing another run, of course that does make it sound pretty flowing but the truth is that each run will be very slow going with the now increased rate to 10 turns, rest, 10 turns, rest routine governing things.
Can't wait for visability to clear tomorrow morning for a short while to go and have a propper play off piste .
There's so much snow already here and the forecast is for another 40cm between now and 7pm. Woohoo!
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flowa, very very jealous. How long are you out for?
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Last run of the day looms from the bar at the top of Plain Sud. It's been a variable day. After our break this morning we went down to Les Mens in the hope of getting over to Mottaret but no luck. So we boshed up the triple to drop down to the button/poma to head back to VT. It was very crowded in Les Mens whereas we've been able to avoid queues in VT. A quick bite of lunch at the apartment and back down to Deux Lac thinking we'd have a look at Moraine and Portette but a last minute change of mind took us down to Caron, as we saw it running. Sadly the Cime Caron was not so we opted for Moutiers to access Funitel Grand Fond and took Niverolles onto Fond and returned to town to take 3V1 to our current resting spot.
Coming up Moutiers the whole of the bank which is usually a narrowish black mogul field was tracked out - like I've never seen before - not a mm of powder was untouched from extreme left to right. I'm sure that Admin would have been responsible for 75% had he been here!
On piste things are pretty groomed and it is already hard packed in the lower part of town but still ab fab.
JB is heading for a bar showing some soccer game, so I'm foot loose and fancy free for a few hours. Any suggestions?
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Well thanks a bunch for all those amazing suggestions. In the end I opted for a few episodes of Curb. A great choice, if I do say so myself.
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Day 4 and we finally made it out of ValT. We headed straight for Mottaret where I got my boots adjusted, due to not finding any tools the right size at any of the stations.
Oops lunch has arrived. Back in a mo.
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Right, that was delicious but on with the show.
We met the boarders I'd met on the way out, TopBeefChief and Steve at the top of Pas du Lac and we all headed down Cruez into Courcheval. Without a piste map I can't tell you where we got to but we managed to meet up with Waiter and Kate who are doing a season in Mottaret after making fools of ouselves playing off-piste (well one of us, anyway) and we all pootled back to Mottaret for lunch, and here we are.
Snow on piste is sublime today. The run from the top of the triple gondola out of VT, I think it's called Mont de la Chambre, was phenominal. So soft, so beautifully groomed. Lovely.
Across Courcheval there is tons of fun but a little ice peaking through in spots. Nothing too bad at all.
Crumbs, it's time to think about what we can do before it's time to head back.
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Well indeed, Fenlandskier, especially if certain people insist on bulking themselves out in places!
Yeah, it's terrible here. Hating every minute. Wish I was back in London. ah, Not!
Day 5 dawned with clear skies and a plan to meet up with littleblue and do some practice off-piste. JohnnyBoy and I warmed up on Tete Rond and then Genepi to kill time til the appointed hour. All fabulous. Moraine was very crowded but we had Genepi to ourselves. 
Off-piste from these runs was strangely uninviting due to massive 'waves' in the powder formed I presume from a mixture of compression and wind. So we resisted the temptation to try anything until we met up with littleblue, who helpfully owns a shovel!
Due hour arrived and we set off for Portette lift, thankfully the queue had lessened dramatically from what we'd seen just an hour earlier. At the top we dived into the powder just below the lift. Still thigh deep and reasonably 'moveable' if a little lacking in steep.
Then a qick bosh across piste to the left (right from the lift) and into the steep and deep which was remarkably untracked. Well, suffice it to say that now we've muzzed it all no-one will want to bother! Sorry everybody. And back the frustration comes! grrrr. littleblue surfed it happily on her board while JohnnyBoy and I took it in turns to try and turn and fall and spend 5 mins or more digging ouselves out. We all eventually made it back to the piste but very knackered!
Then while skiing on piste I dug into an unseen bump and re-pulled a tendon in my right ankle'ish but higher area that's been playing up all trip for no obvious reason (along with my right gacstronimus!) and I had to ski down to the K&F to recover over a long lunch which I'm enjoying while writing this.
The others have gone to make the most of the day but I feel bound to retire as the pain is pretty bad and I had to ski the rest of the piste one-legged so my left leg isn't very happy.
We are hoping to meet up with TopBeefChief, Steve, Waiter and Kate again tomorrow so I think a sacrificial afternoon is justified.
Ttfn, as JohnnyBoy would say
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Poster: A snowHead
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flowa, Hope your leg heals soon. sounds like you had a gret trip (again!). enjoy lunch
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks holidayloverxx
It's time to try the skis again. Should be fine, just a coast into town for cash and then not much of a ski to the apartment.
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flowa, love reading your posts, keep them coming Sorry to hear about your leg - hope it mends v. soon.
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I like Genepi - never really understood why Genepi's always quiet, even when Moraine is busy...
Anyway - sounds excellent
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FAQ
I'm hankering to get back to the three valleys as it's the scene of one of greatest failures, I was in 1650 in 2004 and just couldn't get my ski legs together so I hope to return and slay a few ghosts sometime. Glad you are having fun and hope the day continues as it started.
It all sounds so good and I'm still stuck here. 
I've had some experience of wind blown crust, I took a fall on some not realising there was ice below the surface, I was black from my right palm to my ankle. 
As you are doing the one legged thing you may be interested to in the turning on one ski thread. 