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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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chaletglacier, easiski, Good info. Cool pix. Thx.
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Butterfly, Hope you have a great time 
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Butterfly, Have a great time... show us video 
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Butterfly, Really looking forward to hearing about your lessons with easiski. Have a brill time, l know you will. 
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easiski,
Wow, june...!!!!
Look forward to hearing how Butterfly gets on...
Arno, got any ideas to pop out in the autumn..??
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easiski, All sounds good but it must get awfully busy up there. Do the race teams get priority when
queuing for lifts or do they wait their turns with everyone else ? Sorry to repeat this banal Q. maybe l
imagine the total ski area to be far smaller than it is. 
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clare mcbride,
I think it is 200 hectares/ 500 acres which is pretty big!!!
(1 hectare is 100m * 100m)
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clare mcbride, NO THEY DON'T It's not all that busy - I haven't been trying to keep peeps out of shots, they're all up on their training lanes most of the time, so no problem unless you use one of those lifts (Muretouse, Dome Nord). If you keep away from them it's fine. Dome Sud can be busy, and a bun fight because lots of them are working on technique (core skills for those who insist on 'catch-phrases'), and they're pushy little beggars. If you remember from when you were here there are 2 main drags on the glacier (Puy Salié north and south) and then another higher one (Lauze). There were other lifts that weren't working then (summer lifts, Dome sud & nord, Muretouse, Soreiller). That covers the whole Dome area, then there's Roche Mantel and Signal down the side of the glacier opposite where you come out of the Jandri Express. There's a red run 'Dome' which goes between the two and the Echines des Chevres also spans the gap and the space. We don't normally ski the Echines in summer, but the snow bridges are still very strong at the moment. There are a red and a blue between the top of the signal and the bottom of the roche mantel lifts. There's a chairlift (Jandri 4) that is just below the resto on the way down (doesn't work often in winter). It is the biggest skiable glacier in europe - it's huge.
Priority is only for private lessons of 4 or fewer pupils with an instructor, just like winter. The French team get priority, but no-one else.
Butterfly has arrived safely and got her skis, we're a go tomorrow morning.
too hot by half today, but Lizzard will be pleased - washing was drying in about 1 hour. 
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Butterfly, Have a great time, sure you will.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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It's another lovely hot, sunny day today. We went up around 09.30, cup of coffee and started to ski about 10.30. The Roche Mantel was nicely soggy by then, and Butterfly did very well, gradually loosening up as we went on. Mr Butterfly toodled around à pied in the sunshine.  After the lesson I popped up on the T bar and over to the park to take pix for jeu d'esprit.
first pic is looking down onto the 'pro' part of the park with the big airs below, second photo is looking across from the same point over to the smaller jumps and some of the rails etc.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Then I took a pic from below the big air of one guy going off it, and the next of the jump after the big airs (which are also quite big) 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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To finish here's a pic of the two half pipes. The bigger one was closed, but the smaller still in use at 12.45.
The Butterflies went down on the Jandri Express but I skied down. Mountain bikers have pretty much wrecked the piste now with deep tyre grooves everywhere, but instead of following the piste (the snow was well soggy) I went down on the right of the pic here, just poping off the path. You can see how much snow is up there by the depth on the path - the base of it is the stoney part you can see under the snow. Actually it was quite nice, and everywhere you can avoid the bike tracks is still fine. The snow is very wet and slow, of course, but quite pleasant.
I'm not sure if I'll bother to ski down again as, although it's quite nice out of the bike tracks, it's quite hard to avoid them all - hell and dam*ation! 
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easiski,
The snow look great ... 
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… so does the sky
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yet again it is hot and sunny. there was obviously a good re-freeze last night as we got up the mountain a bit earlier today and the Puy Salié looked very firm at 10.00. We skied down though to Roche Mantel and Signal which were soggy and soggier! However Butterfly did well, after having a 'moment' she got her focus back and finished off down the little bit from the path off Signal down to the Funicular which, in spite of nice snow is actually quite steep. I wanted to go round, but she decided that it would be OK and she managed to hold her form very well - excellent.
I took both pics from the same spot just off the Signal (yes - Butterfly did go off piste), one looking down and the other looking up.
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Merci easiski, much appreciated !<p>
Comments from the "pro" (and I merely quote, so pls forgive me ): "the pipe looks shitty, but the tables look fun" !
BTW, are there any rails ?
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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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Oh yeah ! ..... He's HUGE ... I mean Tanner Hall ... fully pro and presumably send by his sponsor, perhaps for filming ? - He's here @ Hood right now for the Windells camps.
(Thanks for the info BTW - this will impress my 'pro' seriously and give your park an enormous boost on the "bragging scale" (and in addition a lot of free advertising on the Newschooler's scene), i.e. - "so sick man, Tanner Hall was there - sweeeeeeet !")
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Gosh - I actually got myself together today! Warm and sunny again, with a bit more re-freeze than yesterday. Around 09.45 the Roche Mantel was softening up in the middle, but still slightly hard up on the bank on the right. However, Signal (being lower) was softer, and Butterfly managed the off piste bit that freaked her out the other day very well, and here's a pic of her near the bottom of Signal. Later we went up in the funicular and over to Puy Salié, did her first T bar on Dome Sud and skied back down very well. The run included going over a couple of snow walls. There's another pic of the first part of the glacier from the resto terrace. BTW, in case anyone is wondering, that's only half the run you can see.
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We'll be getting a heatwave over the weekend with 40°C+ and skiing will still continue of course, but we're outta here ..... sweeeeeeeeeet !
Easiski: does everyone have a nice, serious 'raccoon-face' overthere ?
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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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Warm and sunny again today, although with the odd light cloud drifting around on the glacier. It was chillier (only 4 deg at 08.00), but the temp must have dropped late at night as the re-freeze wasn't any better than yesterday. We skied the Roche Mantel and then off piste of the Signal on the bottom of the Echines des Chevres, so about half way along I took a photo looking up at it. There were still plenty skiing it, and although the snow looked rough it was very pleasant to ski. The red from the top of Signal to the bottom of Roche Mantel was quite soft, but otherwise OK. We watched a guy skiing down the Breche as we were coming down and it looked quite nice although you clearly have to choose your route, and at one point you have to de-ski and walk across the road - but you had to do that at the same point last year on the first day of the season!
The unfortunate thing is that the hot weather is set to continue for some days yet at least, so a little bit cooler would be good.
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easiski, : Yep, exactly the same overhere ... thanks btw for your prompt responses and great updates !
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easiski,
Lovely pics
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johnboy, thanks. Sunny again today, I'm off early. 
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Butterfly, glad to hear you had fun
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Butterfly, Thanks.
Very hot again yesterday and sunny (is this getting boring?) pic from the top of the Signal chair looking over to the Puy Salie area.
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