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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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long weekend in tignes?
I think its open till the 3rd
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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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WiRED, How about Zermatt or Saas Fee, or both they're not far apart and have year round glacier skiing. Stubai and Hintertux in Austria are also possibilities.
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WiRED, Try Chamonix, I am sure the Grands Montets are open through May ( it used to be!! ) North facing and high. Short hop from GVA too.
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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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WiRED, Sunshine Village, Banff doesn't usually close until late May.
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WiRED, Have a look at Kaprun (or Zell am See) in Austria too - the glacier on the Kitzsteinhorn there is open all year and there's a 3-day spring party on the slopes which starts on the 1st May: with cheesy Euro-pop & dance music, free equipment tests & loads of high-altitude Austrian-style apres madness.
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I'd suggest grands montets if you want a proper ski hill. Otherwise start looking at resorts that offer glacial summer skiing e.g. les desux alpes, tignes, zermatt, etc. If it were me though i wouldn't bother with a glacial summer slope as they're generally relatively small & don't offer an awful lot of interest for more than a day or two unless you plan on jibbing in a park or pipe for a week.
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Ok, there are some interesting places for me to look into. I'm surprised that so many resorts in the Alps are still open, although if it is just going to be a few runs on a glacier, I'd probably prefer to look at other options. Banff could be interesting too. Sorry daehwons, I don't think a long weekend is going to cut it. Thanks for the pointers though - I'm off to do some research now  ,
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WiRED, Hintertux. Period.
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Les Deux Alpes?
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pam w, I don't think you can in May. It closes on 25th April I believe then opens up again in mid-June for summer skiing. Someone better informed than me like easiski will be along I expect.
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try MK or Tamworth, actually think Hemel maybe open by then! 
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Seriously, Hemel is about 20 minutes from here. I have considered it as an "emergency" option if I can't get away for a full week
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You know it makes sense.
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The Espace Killy and all of its links are open until 4th May, as is Val Thorens.
Grand Montets at Chamonix is open until 11th May. We've skiied all 3 areas on Mayday weekend in the past 3 years and had great conditions (powder some years) and deserted slopes. We're off to Val T and Chamonix again on 3rd may this year - can't wait!
You can expect to ski the (anything but small) 5000ft drop from the top of the cable car in Tignes back to the village until at least the end of May.
Austrian glaciers are also worth a look and you could take in two or three in a week without too much hassle if you are prepared to hire a car. For the trip you could fly to Munich, Salzburg, Friedrichshafen or Zurich and ski at Hintertux, Soelden, Stubai, Pitztal, Kaunertal or Kaprun. All are worth a trip and you can count on great conditions in May.
They are all easily accessible from the motorway that runs east to west through Austria and, if you plan your trip carefully, you could reach another glacier area after skiing. We did a 2 night trip at Whit last year and flew to Munich. We then skiied Hintertux on the Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday. After skiing on Sunday we drove 1.5 hours to Neustift in the Stubai valley and skiied the Stubai glacier on the Monday - a great trip!
You wouldn't need to book accommodation as it's easy enough to turn up at that time of the year and knock on doors (or visit the tourist office) to get fixed up at bargain B & B's. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Les Deux Alpes......
From the website: www.2alpes.com
Winter: From 29/11/08 to 25/04/09
Summer: Opening of the glacier from June 14th to August 30th 2008, from 7h00 to 12h30.
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In the states A-basin (Arapahoe Basin) in Colorado stays open well into June (and some years all the way to July 4th). I was there last May during Memorial Day weekend in the US and it snowed!
Mt. Hood in Oregon stays open all Summer. So skiing there in May you should be able to find good snow. I would say Hood and A-basin are you to best bets for US skiing in May.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Norway: the opening day for Stryn is towards the end of May.
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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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WiRED, There should still be a lot of km still available at Hintertux. I went there the end of May a couple of years back and had fresh snow and great conditions. I wouldn't hesitate to go there again in May (or even June).
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There seem to be a few votes for Hintertux. Ok, I'm checking that out first.
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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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WiRED
Hintertux will have about 30 or 40km of pistes open at most; Espace Killy will have about 50% of its area open - ie 125km  of pistes.
Any contest??
Or for complete novelty value......Riksgransen in northern Sweden is open until the end of May. It is 250km inside the Arctic Circle - which means that in May: conditions will be more winter-like than anywhere else in Europe; it will be 24 hr daylight at that time of year - the ski lifts are open until after midnight for skiing in broad daylight under the midnight sun. Just come back from there - a great (smallish) area with lots of steep off piste easily accessed from the lifts.
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Riksgransen
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2nd of May will be my last day of well deserved holidays in Levi, Finland  I hope snow conditions will be still great at that time, so hopefully I can get some skiing after being on snow since end of October, but mostly shooting skiing and getting only about 20 days of real skiing, not just sliding down the WC course.
Other then that, you still have quite few glaciers in Austria and Switzerland. My favorite place, especially because it's just 100km away is Molltaler glacier.
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WiRED, hi wired - im going on the second of april - any ecommendations for good bars?
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| WiRED, hi wired - im going on the second of april - any ecommendations for good bars? |
i think val thorens offers a snow guarantee into may
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| nick0861 wrote: |
| nick0861 wrote: |
| WiRED, hi wired - im going on the second of april - any recommendations for good bars? |
i think val thorens offers a snow guarantee into may |
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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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nick0861, I didn't actually get to many bars on this trip. The so-called credit crunch seems to have affected people to the point where almost everyone stayed in the chalet and drank the supplied wine, or bought stuff in from the local Spar. If you're staying in Plagne Centre however, I do (vaguely) recall having some fairly good times 2 years ago in a few of the bars in the main shopping area. One called No 'Blm seems to ring some bells as having live music 3 or 4 nights a week. Scotty's also has live music but when I was there it had no atmosphere whatsoever.
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