 Poster: A snowHead
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We stopped of with Jake in Landgraaf after a trip to Saas Fee, staying over night in the Hotel thats on site. The place is huge and pretty impressive, and being some 500m long with two main pistes and a permanent park. The slope doesn't seem to as steep as the UK domes, but the snow was in very good condition. The place was very cold -5 I could have done with an extra layer, (t shirt and jacket is always enough for at MK) There was a huge icey patch at the bottom of one of the slopes about 30m. This was due to the european race squads using that side of the slope.
Etiquette was poor with a bad standard of teaching, I don't think I saw an intstucter and it looked like a lot of people were self taught or taught buy their friends. From time to time I had to keep my cool, being knocked into on quite a few occassions.
Anyway I made a video of Jake, but you guys can see the size of the place from the video.
3 of us staying in the Hotel cost me 150 Euros for bed, breakfast and an evening meal, the lift pass was 22 Euros (I think) for 4 hours that included a discount for staying in the hotel. Jakes pass for the day was around 20 euros.
All in all a great day out, its arround 180 miles from Calais so it could be done in a day trip.
Here's the video http://video.mpora.com/watch/lHDLTGKm5/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks for posting. It looks huge and well worth a visit, is it expensive ?
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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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Looks a cool place, is that the one thats near Maastricht as well?? I have heard of that one and it looks pretty impressive. Might have to get a trip down there one day 
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I had only been telling my parents about this place a couple of days ago, but I hadn't seen inside before - it is collossal in comparison with MK. I wonder if we could fill a coach and go from Harwich/Felixstone (can never remember which on the passenger ferries go from), or from Dover through the tunnel. My kids French class used to go to France through the tunnel with a coach from Chelmsford and with a full coach it only used to work out at £20 a ticket (though that was before the recent Diesel price hikes).
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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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Megamum, if you organise it, I'll come (weekends only)
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I don't mind looking into it when I get a few moments - just to see if its a possibility - I wonder how much a coach is? I guess I could ask Fords at Althorne for an estimate - I guess you can charter a coach to go on an ad hoc trip - I've never so much as got close to organising anything along these lines. If anyone here has more experience or runs a coach company I'd appreciate any pointers.
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Welkom bij Holland
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steve-terry, "the lift pass was 22 Euros (I think) for 4 hours that included a discount for staying in the hotel."
Even if that is discounted it seems very good value compared to Xscape at £29 for 2 hours 
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That looks great!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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if the price is right, i'm interested
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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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Libertine, vote on the other thread
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It is indeed impressive.
I've been running weekend training sessions there for the last 2 summers. Having the hotel on site this year makes things much easier. CEM hasbeen on one of these.
As a group or ski team, they offer pretty good deals.
During the summer, half of one piste is water injected for race training but this still leaves a vast area for free skiing.
As for doing it as a daytrip, I wouldn't recommend it. It's only 3 hours form Calais but a day inside can be quite draining with no natural light, making the journey home a real chore. I would recommend at least an overnight stay.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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I have just returned back from an overnight trip to Landgraaf (27th/28th).
Very impressive slope, makes MK seem like a nursery area. Snow condition excellent due to low temperature, much colder than I anticipated.
Great slope, good price, food reasonable, hotel comfortable worth a visit for a decent summer snow fix.
BUT BEWARE
Landgraaf ski hire do NOT adjust hire skis according to the DIN scale they just hand out skis.
The first day one of the kids I was with had skis with different din settings 4 and 6
The very pleasant and helpful member of staff imformed me due to the tight limits on staff numbers, they do not adjust bindings to the individual hirer of the skis.
There were not even screwdrivers readily available to adjust them myself.
To get the approximately correct din settings for the three kids I was with consisted of swapping of skis until found a pair with a more suitable DIN 
All the dry slopes and snow slopes in the UK and all hire shops abroad that I have used in the past ten years adjust the DIN to the individual skier I thought it was an European norm.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Dunk, that's unbelievable, and reckless, and dangerous.
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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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I have just returned back from an overnight trip to Landgraaf (27th/28th).
Very impressive slope, makes MK seem like a nursery area. Snow condition excellent due to low temperature, much colder than I anticipated.
Great slope, good price, food reasonable, hotel comfortable worth a visit for a decent summer snow fix.
BUT BEWARE
Landgraaf ski hire do NOT adjust hire skis according to the DIN scale they just hand out skis.
The first day one of the kids I was with had skis with different din settings 4 and 6
The very pleasant and helpful member of staff imformed me due to the tight limits on staff numbers, they do not adjust bindings to the individual hirer of the skis.
There were not even screwdrivers readily available to adjust them myself.
To get the approximately correct din settings for the three kids I was with consisted of swapping of skis until found a pair with a more suitable DIN
All the dry slopes and snow slopes in the UK and all hire shops abroad that I have used in the past ten years adjust the DIN to the individual skier I thought it was an European norm. |
You want to Ski or what?
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stanton, sort the formatting out - otherwise the post is pants
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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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stanton, I can ski, but some people without the experience I have, may hurt themselves by using UNSAFE equipment.
As I said great slope,
but beware!
I do not understand where you are coming from, unless you have a complete disregard for clients safety?
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holidayloverxx, was annoying me too, so I sorted it 
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In my humble opinion their hire equipment is rubbish, not well cared for and all.
Behaviour of people on the slope: extremely dangerous, and this was 'low season'
At peak times in winter apparently they have up to 1400 people in the hall
The hall itself is great, but there is room for improvement all around. The snow becomes very loose in some places, while an icy centre develops during the afternoon. Can't imagine what it will be like in high season....
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Am probably going there in a couple of weeks. I can't figure out the pricing structure on their website at all!
Room for improvement there too, then!
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Just back from there. No complaints.
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They're not responding to my emails about lessons and pricing. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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paulio, call them, they mostly speak good English
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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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slikedges, yep, going to do just that 'real soon'.
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