 Poster: A snowHead
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With a major French national race taking place in Les Arcs yesterday following its transfer from Pra-Loup, a quick look at conditions in the southern French Alps shows just how bad the situation remains in some areas. Into February, and still no base to speak of. A majority of runs are open - just about - but with the French school holidays fast approaching, without some heavy falls over the next week or so, rock skis are advised!
LES ORRES snow depths - top: 60 cms - resort: 40 cms
lifts open: 17/23 - runs open: 20/34 (greens: 6/6, blues: 3/6, reds: 10/19, blacks: 1/3)
PRA-LOUP snow depths - top: 45 cms - resort: 20 cms
lifts open: 28/55 - runs open: 42/74 (greens: 10/15, blues: 12/22, reds: 20/32, blacks: 0/5)
MONTGENEVRE - snow depths - top: 65 cms - resort: 45 cms
lifts open: 22/40 - runs open: 34/70 (greens: 8/8, blues: 12/19, reds: 11/30, blacks: 3/14)
VARS - snow depths - top: 55 cms - resort: 45 cms
lifts open: 28/57 - runs open: 53/104 (greens: 17/17, blues: 22/40, reds: 13/37, blacks: 1 / 10)
SUPERDEVOLUY La Joue du Loup - snow depths - top: 80 cms - resort: 50 cms
lifts open: 23/29 - runs open: 54/60 - (greens: 15/16, blues: 23/23, reds: 13/16, blacks: 3/5)
SERRE CHEVALIER snow depths - top: 100 cms - resort: 40 cms
lifts open: 62/74 - runs open: 82/111 (greens: 23/23, blues: 28/30, reds: 27/43, blacks: 4/15)
Updated with today's Serre Che info....
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 3-02-05 10:51; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Indeed - last night I met up with a friend who's just returned from a week in Serre Chevalier. He doesn't do off piste but still neeed the bases rebuilding as they'd been scraped by so many rocks. He was rather annoyed as all the reports were coming in of massive snowfalls further north!
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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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If you take a broad sample of winters I think it's true to say that the southern Alps suffer more snow droughts than the northern Alps, but you get winters where much of the snow comes up from the Med and dumps on the Milky Way, Val d'Aosta, southern French Alps etc. Again it proves the advantage of booking ski hols on the basis of what's actually on the ground before the money is committed - if one's in the fortunate position of being able to do that.
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Pretty much the same story right down in Isola 2000...
ISOLA 2000
snow depths - top: 70 cms - resort: 47 cms
lifts open: 20/24 - runs open: 32/45 (greens: 7/7, blues: 17/20, reds: 7/14, blacks: 1/4)
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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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I don't know what our depths are, but the pistes are OK from 2,600 down. The upper pistes have suffered not from lack of snow (although it's not a good year), but from the wind pushing it all off again! 
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PRA-LOUP snow depths - top: 45 cms - resort: 20 cms
lifts open: 28/55 - runs open: 42/74 (greens: 10/15, blues: 12/22, reds: 20/32, blacks: 0/5)
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You probably have your ear closer to the ground than me but I understand that Pra Loup's snow making is out of action because it hasn't rained enough over the last few months to fill the reservoir. I always thought they used mains water when this happened but apparently not at Pra Loup - so the situation on the lower slopes is poorer than it need be.
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No, didn't know that. I wondered why things were a little better at Ste Anne and Le Sauze (2 blacks and a red closed) ...
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Surely reservoir water is what becomes mains water!davidof,
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snowball, Don't they have specific reservoirs for the snow cannons only?
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Most mains water is gravity fed, so it's hard to get a supply if you're at the top of the highest hill in the area 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Don't know what's happening in Serre Che, but unless they've had a sudden rethink, the snow depths have changed radically in the last 24 hours!! Now revised to:
SERRE CHEVALIER snow depths - top: 70 cms - resort: 20 cms
lifts open: 62/74 - runs open: 82/111 (greens: 23/23, blues: 28/30, reds: 27/43, blacks: 4/15)
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