 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You will hate it. No point going. You are wasting your money.
I however would love it, please send me your tickets 
Is it pricey...... about the same as most decent french resorts, in other words...yes
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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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Depends on what basis your accomodation is, S/C, b/b, 50/50. chalet.
6 tequilla beers in a night club would set you back about £30. It depends on where you eat & drink. Prices in bars are about same as a posey town centr bar over here. Dont know how many clubs but we did 3 in a night (not my idea), some decent bars, people tend to find ine they like and frequent it a lot.
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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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Is it a big place what will the sking be like (the end of January)
We are staying in Self Catering accomodation.
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Anyone know the Chardonnay couloir? (You have to be quick to catch it with new snow!).
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dave_wick Tignes IMHO is one of the top 10 resorts in the world, it will suit all grades of skiers. Try cooking yourself a few days to save on dosh. My best day ever was at Tignes. if its a nice sunny day and you like cruising, then mid morning get yourself to the top of La Grande Motte (highest point in Tignes) and ski from and catching only a couple of lifts up, drop nearly 2000 metres, down into Tignes les Brevieres for lunch at the restuarant at the bottom of the piste. FAN BLEEDIN TASTIC enjoy.
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Yes Frosty the Snowman, that long run all the way down to Tignes les Brevieres for lunch is brillliant. There used to be a black route down (I don't know if it's still there, it was a long time ago) that was really steep and narrow, and did you need a long cold drink when you eventually got to the bottom!
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Frosty the Snowman,  yes, very nearly 2000m drop 3456m to 1550m.
Where is the Chardonnay couloir snowball?
I've skiied there quite a bit but never know the names of anything.
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RachelQ, I expect u are thinking of the Sache?
Ha, there, I do know some names 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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That rings a bell u, is it still one of the routes down?
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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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Yes, Gregory was very very proud to have skiied it last year. "I skied the second longest black run in the world!" he told anyone who would listen.
All ambition, he was hoping to bag 'the longest black run in the world' this season.
We tried to find which the longest was through a thread here on snowHeads but the ensuing discussion got very confusing.
I think, the final conclusion was that technically it was a run in Alpe d'Huez but that it really wasn't worthy of a black rating throughout most of its length.
So I suppose that makes the Sache even more special
It's definitely one of the greatest pistes in my book.
Mme.Brain and Ayesha took the Blue/Red route down and met us in Les Brevieres for chips and hot chocolate - what could be better?
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| for chips and hot chocolate - what could be better? |
I was thinking more of a long cold beer!
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You know it makes sense.
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snowball, Yes, I,ve skied the couloir, but I think it is actually called Chadonnet. In fact, if my memory serves me correctly (it was during the 93/94 Season I skied it) there were two couloirs there, a lower one that was fairly easy to access and another that was a bit trickier to get to and was rather more difficult. Both give access to a nice open bowl.
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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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Non non non.... a huge bowl of the local special that sits in your guts like a pallet of bricks. Creamy sliced potatoes with bacon & onions, baked in an oven.... Might be badly wrong, but think its called Tartiflette (or something like). Anyhow a excellent choice for self caterers as you dont need to eat for 2 days afterwards
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Poster: A snowHead
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I was thinking more of a long cold beer!
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Well obviously I suggested that to Gregory but he was most insistent about the Hot Chocolate
But John Scott, where is it?
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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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Aaaah, thanks PG! No, not skied that... yet
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Now you're talking Frosty, Tartiflette, the best lunchtime fuel you can get.
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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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Not for me, I'm afraid! The French equivalent of "death by chocolate" cake...... Takes at least 3 days to digest. Probably lowers your centre of gravity by a couple of inches though so might help with skiing technique
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PG, Can provide very useful "wind assitance" however especially when taken with beer
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Yes, that's the one, though the link itself agrees with me and spells it Chardonnet.
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David@traxvax, surely that traditional french dish, Spag Bol, is the best lunchtime fuel?
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At the risk of being pedantic here, the link only half agrees with your initial post which called it
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I cant wait !
Anyone got any photos or links with some decent pictures ????
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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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dave_wick, as a sideline, if you really are from Wick, how do you travel?, ....flights etc
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You know it makes sense.
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| David@traxvax wrote: |
| Not for me. I agree with www.skipass.com - in Tartiflette we trust. |
Having firstly been served it by a local in Davos, then used it in self-catering in Laax last season, I can only recommend Aelpi-maccaroni (one of many ways of spelling it). There's More calories in one plate of that than in Arabian oil fields. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| dave_wick, as a sideline, if you really are from Wick, how do you travel?, ....flights etc |
We have to drive to Inverness which takes around 2 hours then the train to Edinburgh which takes around 3 hours then fly to Geneva !!!
No hassel!!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Tartiflette!! I'm with PG, on this one. Three days digestion makes me think your digestive tract is pretty good. I would be stuffed for most of the holiday.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Roy Hockley, PG, Wusses!. dave_wick, me thinks however, could have tartiflette for brekky and still be first up the hill
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