 Poster: A snowHead
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Headplant, no pics of the windrift. Camera isn't advanced enough to get a good shot from the lifts.
Sage advice about watching the locals.
We've just come down Moraine which is bitterly cold with a small but icey wind blowing up the valley right into your face. The ride up the lift showed exposed rock from the snow crested mounds of yesterday. As if more evidence of just how blow'y it was last night was needed, as we reached the end of the lift we could see the glacier to the left of Col fully exposed and, indeed Col is shut!
The massive compressed waves of powder have all been filled in and the unskied areas now resemble gently ripling water. Though in other parts it's like white water breaking with the hard snow crystals all bunched together in long swerving lines. Such amazing contrasts.
Another rest stop is being taken basking in the glorious sunshine at the K&F.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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flowa, hope you had a good afternoon and hope the trip home is not too arduous. See you in less than four weeks... somewhere or other 
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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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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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See you soon NickL
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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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flowa, Great pics - really whetting the appetite! johnnyboy is really looking like a "man 'o' the mountains" isn't he 
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Headplant, shame you can't go - you'll have longer to break in those new boots though.....
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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holidayloverxx, Very unset that I can't go. So looking forward to the karaoke, the race, the fartbagday and meeting the rest of the snowheads characters. Have a few beers for me. I have me fingers crossed for next season.
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Headplant, so sorry that you can't make it. I'll try and post similarly while at the EoSB but it's harder to do so in a larger group, as I found at the MSB.
Yes, I did go straight to the office from the Eurostar yesterday. A quick change in the loos and a 'French shower' and I knuckled straight down to work. Or at least I tried to. You see, I acquired a very obvious ski-tan on Tuesday in the unexpectedly glorious, sunny weather and even today my face is bright red - well, except for the contrasting white eyes - so I had to endure about 20mins of having the mickel taken out of me by, clearly, jealous, colleauges. There were a few bemused smirks in the canteen at lunch too. Oh well, lucky my Kiwi'ness doesn't allow for too much shame.
Oh my goodness, you think that looks like a lot'o'snow? That's properly pisted! The light was so bad on the days inbetween that we couldn't even take pictures!!! They just didn't make sense, you couldn't see any contrast in the landscape at all. There was a bit of video of me up to my thighs on-piste on one of the snow days but it was sacrificed to make more room in the memory.... sorry.
holidayloverxx, he really does, doesn't he! 
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Just my luck look at all that snow. 
Anyway hope the leg recovers, speak to you soon. HP
