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any advice on how good they are likely to be?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Depends entirely on the snow gods. I was in Val d'Isere in the first week of December last year and it snowed buckets. I skied there for a couple of days in mid-December in the previous season and it was thin and icy (although better than many places). If you can be flexible about where you go maybe it would be better to just book your flights for a pre-Christmas trip then head to whichever area is reporting the best conditions.
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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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we were there 8th december last year, dumped for 4 days solid.....!
going again the 13th-20th this december and hoping it is same again 
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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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A few of us are going to Tignes on the 10th Dec for a few days and I expect about 60-70 % of the area to be open..and hard pack snow. Any more than that will be a bonus., imv If we get what they had last year, I'll be in heaven
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Go to Tignes. It has a skiable glacier. So there will always be atleast a few lifts open.
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here in tignes normally the most of the pistes are covered artifically at a minimum, last few years good natural snow too. offical opening of espace killy is end of november and they recently have managed approx 75% of pistes open by then.
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I'd choose Tignes over Val Thorens in mid-December. As Whitegold says, it has the glacier if all else fails and with any luck you'll have a range of varied runs available. I spent an early December week in Tignes in a not-very-good snow year, and there was plenty available.
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I reckon there's not much to choose between the two in terms of snow - 2 of the highest ski resorts in Europe afterall - but I'd go for VT in mid December because on the week beginning 13th Dec the resort hosts skier / boarderweek. I was reading about it recently and it sounds awesome - basically a massive freestyle festival with slope side live music thrown in. There are some good package deals on lift passes and accommodation available from the resort's official website.
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Powder Monkey, Sounds like it will be busy when we're there then!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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nick0861, I'd probably say Tignes, as there is always the glacier, and quite a lot of artificial snow coverage. We went mid December last year and there was loads of snow and Espace Killy was really very well skiable with routes to Val d'Isere open all the time we were there. They had opened 100% of the pistes on the last day we were there (last to open was Aiguille Percee). We're going again on 13th December and staying for Christmas, so I'm hoping it will have good snow!
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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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No idea but I'd book late and head lower at that time of year.
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I've been mid-Dec to Tignes since 2003
2003 - very good
2004 - very very poor
2005 - ok but thin cover
2006 - good
2007 - excellent
2008 - ???
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You know it makes sense.
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Espace killy (Tignes/Val) is virtually snowsure from opening to close...and beyond. I suppose simply being "snowsure" doesn't at all speak to the conditions you'll encounter, but at least you can regularly count on a bunch of terrain being open at the very least. Kind of have a feeling about this winter....its gonna dump pow all season long!
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