 Poster: A snowHead
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The snow started to fall in the Hautes-Alpes a couple of weeks, ago. Now that it has stabilised a bit the touring season is officially open.
We headed up the pic des Chalanches, a good early season tour primarlily because any later in the season the road will be shut some 9km further down the valley adding, well 9km, of extra skinning to the tour (and 800m of climbing).
We did a couple of descents, first heading up to the col at 2539m on the Crete de Maravoise and then heading round to the 2779m pic des Chalanches.
The snow was fantastic, fluffy powder on a consistent base. And the weather, well its the Hautes-Alpes, so the weather was the standard blue skies.
Pics, full story and google earth map of the route on my blog here
http://alpinebreak.com/2008/photo/first-ski-tour-of-the-season/
Cheers
Phil
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| philingle wrote: |
And the weather, well its the Hautes-Alpes, so the weather was the standard blue skies.
Cheers
Phil |
I wish we had seen some of that typical weather this summer!!! I was thinking of moving to Bergen!
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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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philingle, beautiful pics, the snow looks wonderful. I always know winter's begun when you start to post 
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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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Like it..
nearly upon us...
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How do you access the video?
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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philingle, I don't suppose I could ask a favour of you ? Any chance I could get you to upload the GPX file (extracted from the GPS) and upload it to my GPX to KML converter to see how it fairs please ? I'm still working on the code ready for the new season and would like to get as many GPX tracks through the processor as possible to get it as accurate as possible.
http://www.chuffnuts.com/pistemaps
Thanks, and thanks to all the other 's that have uploaded their tracks and helped.
Si.
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philingle, very nice as usual
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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philingle, cool
davidof, Teenage kicks just rocks 
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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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fishslice, I had a go with your gpx->kml app. It works well. I like the little added features like showing where the max speed was reached and where the high point was. I think I will start using it regularly to convert my gpx's to kml. Nice work.
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| davidof wrote: |
| We could have waved to you yesterday, you had better conditions than us |
we could indeed. Nice video, it looks like you had pretty good conditions too, just a few more tracks over your way. Amazing number of tracks considering there are no lifts.
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You know it makes sense.
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davidof, Nice video, good quality too, is that filmed using the Samsung NV24 HD ? (It mentions only a "Samsung HD" camera on your web page)
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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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philingle, how's the knee?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Taking videos of skiers is like herding cats. No one wanted to stop and be filmed (too cold etc. - although it was really very mild). Now they are all complaining I didn't take more footage, frame shots better etc.
The camera is the Samsung HDX10 (I think). I bought it for $300 and it is quite good but the videos are a pig to edit and I have not come up with a good trans-coding option for Sony Vegas. Things like pans really up the data rate and cause havoc for a lot of video software. I wish I'd spent more money now as I think HD is the way to go. The one thing in the Samsung's favour is the frame rate of 60fps which makes for much better slow motion.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| spyderjon wrote: |
| philingle, how's the knee? |
Hi Jon, the knee is bomber, i'd say back to 100%, feels better than the other one now.
Cheers
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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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philingle, no problem, thanks for trying it. If you open up the "Tracks" and Summary Information" folders in the left pane (daily and total summaries) you should get to see some hyperlinks which display the total distances for each day/journey as a whole, and some elevation profiles for each run as well as daily and total profiles.
Si.
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