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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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link to TGR Arno??
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Awesome! So jealous 
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sweet. hopefully can me some of that in the dolomites next week.
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Nice, you guys got much better snow than we have here at the moment.
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Very nice.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Lucky boys
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| papasmurf wrote: |
| sweet. hopefully can me some of that in the dolomites next week. |
You're not me by any chance are you?
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You know it makes sense.
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Oooooh that just looks like one big fat gnarly playground - I take it you had the place to yourselves?
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Gsyfreerider, pretty much.. you don't have to go far to get to these pics.
As we were only there 4 days and we wonderfully entertained as it was.....we had quite a few 'quests' that we just didn't get around to and they will be on the list again next time....might have to commit a week or so tho'..to get even close..
It hadn't snowed for 5 days incidently ....
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Poster: A snowHead
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.......Amazing, I love it when you find those shady couloirs and they still have cold smoke in them, I think you've well and truly sold the place to anyone who's seen these pics - doh!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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rob@rar, I am a big fan of places off the back and spent a nice 3 days there recently with BC....
It would be ridiculous to say there isn't great terrain to find in ALL the large French mega-resorts.. or anywhere else if you look hard enough...which is why I didn't say it...
My main gripe against them is these huge places need huge amounts of people..and they get them.
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| JT wrote: |
| My main gripe against them is these huge places need huge amounts of people..and they get them. |
They are certainly busy during school holiday periods, but I don't think they are excessively crowded at other times. Even on New Year's day I found fresh tracks all day with a very short traverse above Villaroger, and I can't imagine the NF Bellecote or the backside of the Aiguille Rouge ever get busy, even in Feb half term?
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I can't imagine the NF Bellecote or the backside of the Aiguille Rouge ever get busy, even in Feb half term?
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rob@rar, Of course they don't but the bottom lifts and pistes can be rammed... as they were when I was there in Jan...
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It's true - small resorts suck, best if no-one ever goes there 
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| JT wrote: |
| rob@rar, Of course they don't but the bottom lifts and pistes can be rammed... as they were when I was there in Jan... |
Where was it rammed in January? I can't remember having to queue for lifts at that time of year in Paradiski or the nearby big resorts.
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| kitenski wrote: |
| It's true - small resorts suck |
I don't think that, I enjoyed my visit to Val d'Annivers. Just trying to counter the anti-big resort snobbery that we get around here from time to time... 
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I go from 1 extreme to the other, Zinal with the boys, La Tania with the kids. Both resorts have their + and -'s.....
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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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| kitenski wrote: |
| I go from 1 extreme to the other, Zinal with the boys, La Tania with the kids. |
I'd bet if you switched to Zinal with the family and La Tania with the boys you'd find appropriate terrain to keep everyone happy.
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I've done plenty of off piste skiing around La Tania, and found great off piste days after a storm, however I wouldn't take the kids to Zinal. Not enough easy long runs for them, no easy trees for them to play in, & too many drag lifts.
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You know it makes sense.
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| kitenski wrote: |
| ... however I wouldn't take the kids to Zinal. Not enough easy long runs for them, no easy trees for them to play in, & too many drag lifts. |
I suppose that's right. I do recall commenting that there was a lack of easy terrain in Zinal & Grimentz. That makes me wonder who does ski in Val d'Annivers: it doesn't seem to get tracked out very quickly, so presumbably doesn't attract large numbers of hardcore skiers like Chamonix does; but equally it's not brilliant for family friendly skiing. Is there a large proportion of visitors to VdA who like steepish piste skiing, but not heading too far into the off-piste?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| kitenski wrote: |
| ... however I wouldn't take the kids to Zinal. Not enough easy long runs for them, no easy trees for them to play in, & too many drag lifts. |
I suppose that's right. I do recall commenting that there was a lack of easy terrain in Zinal & Grimentz. That makes me wonder who does ski in Val d'Annivers: it doesn't seem to get tracked out very quickly, so presumbably doesn't attract large numbers of hardcore skiers like Chamonix does; but equally it's not brilliant for family friendly skiing. Is there a large proportion of visitors to VdA who like steepish piste skiing, but not heading too far into the off-piste? |
There's plenty of piste skiing in a "traditional" euro resort, not mega-linked ski connurbation, sense. It would be brilliant for families who don't need to tick off every km of piste in the week and feel cheated if they have to repeat things. Germans seem to like it but its not 10km long blue runs. There's the 4 valleys next door if you want all that.
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rob@rar, Lifts you can get around to a degree... the home runs were packed. Now, you might end up at Grand Central Station and have a choice of lifts to escape on..providing you don't mind juggling these things but the congestion into these places can be fraught and I am not someone who gets worried about what I ski, so much...but masses of piste skiers concentrate the mind and even though I don't mind queues as such, hordes of ants do my brain in.. I just don't need it anymore.
Many pistes converging into one is a feature of the States and I didn't rate it there, ...and these lift hubs are a featrure of many French mega-reosrts and with these hubs come many pistes and many skers.
kitenski,
Personally, I think many long drag lifts are the saviour of the place, but I do say, personally...
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Is there a large proportion of visitors to VdA who like steepish piste skiing, but not heading too far into the off-piste?
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Maybe..... one of the most startling comments we heard was that the local Swiss....and by that I mean maybe Rhone Valley local...loved St Luc for the sun and piste skiing and put it only second to Cran Montana for the best skiing around.
Now, even with my limited knowledge of the area...and I mean limited.... that really made us laugh and it may well be the typical local mind-set..
And that is not the strangest thing I have come across.....
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Very nice indeed..Mega resort or mini resort, Spot X or Spot A(2) - Powder is Powder and its all good! 
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After the storm we are getting right now looks like I will be back there at the end of the week. 
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parlor, lucky you!
Well worth 15mins of skinning and traversing from the top of the Zinal freeride zone. Lots of nice lines accessible
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Arno,
Next year will have to see if we can get to the top and see what is over the other side.....
I think we will need a week..and I am up for that...
parlor, not f****** funny at all...
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JT, looks very nice indeed. I think you made a better call for the weekend break.
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OK...I'm SERIOUSLY offended....and you guys with the photos know why!!
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| rungsp wrote: |
| OK...I'm SERIOUSLY offended....and you guys with the photos know why!! |
I've seen a good one of you... think Kittenski has the link...
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rungsp,
I am not sure I have any skiing photos... and mine are long distance anyway so it might be hard to pick out you from Craig and Kitenski as you were all in black....
I still have a few to sort tho...but didn't take any in the PM...
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