 Poster: A snowHead
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name of the piste?
which resort?
what grading is the piste?
I'll start
Tabuc, Serre Chevalier. Black.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Wed 2-09-09 13:30; 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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Mmm. Tricky. Depends on conditions. Maybe the Grand Couloir at Les Deux Alpes in good snow conditions. Black
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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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Marmotte, Les Gets, red.
oh edit, I have about four favourites but this is one of them...
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Pierre Blanches (7km long  )
La Plagne
Blue and Red
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Jerusalem
St Martin de Bellville
Red
Tete Ronde
Val Thorens
Blue
Epaule du Charvet (just to look back up from the bottom)
Val D'Isere
Black
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Jerusalem - St Martin-de-Belleville
Sarrenne - ADH
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Corbalanche, Lez-Carroz, Black.
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Jerusalem
St Martin de Bellville
Red
Suisses
Courchevel
Black
Sache
Tignes
Black
Peak To Creek
Whistler
Red
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Aiguille Rouge
Les Arcs
Black, then red
Great view from the top, 7km of fun, 2100m of vertical descent and a nice restaurant at the bottom 
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My mind doesn't really work this way. It's the same if someone asks me my favourite colour, favourite piece of music - favourite anything, I suppose. It depends on my mood: and the present looms much larger than the past.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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If the complete run is ever open when I am there, The Inferno (Black) from the top of the Schilthorn might qualify. The upper portions have quite delightful views.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Alpe d'Huez
Rousses -> Chalets -> les Travers -> Vaujanette
OK so it's not a single piste but they run into eachother pretty smoothly and are a great burn if you get them clear. recommend hanging around at the top of Rousses at the end of the day until ski patrol force you to ski down (this assumes you are staying in Vaujany)
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Well if you are doing favourite run of pistes together.
Mine has to be a choice of these two:
Yret (red) > Eychauda (blue) > tetras (blue) > Tabuc (black) Start point is the highest in Serre Chevalier at about 2700m with brilliant views of the Ecrin national park. The descent is over 1,000m back down to Monetier at 1500m.
Alternatively
Cibouit (black) > Tabuc (black) The cibouit is normally mogulled for the majority of its face. It starts at approx 2,500m and descends 1,000m.
The Tabuc piste is normally left ungroomed with a steep section with large moguls and has the feeling of being a very distance from the hustle and bustle of the lifts and ski resorts. Towards the end you cross a bridge in a narrow valley with views upto a glacier.
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You know it makes sense.
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| rob@rar wrote: |
Aiguille Rouge
Les Arcs
Black, then red
oGreat view from the top, 7km of fun, 2100m of vertical descent and a nice restaurant at the bottom |
Top of my wannadoooooo list
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Point de vue
Argentiere
Black
Maurice Milloz
St Gervais
Red
For the views and for a blast respectively.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Valfagehrjoch - Valgafehr
St. Anton
Red - Blue
First that comes to my mind, great for high speed carving.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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rob@rar, Frosty the Snowman, only skied it 3 or 4 times (all in one week) but the Aig Rouge is a stunning skiing mountain
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Parsenn at Klosters - fantastic run from top to village
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Bellette, Les Arcs, Red
Perfect for motoring down when groomed and empty - plus the bits on either side are quite good for in an 'intro too off-piste' kind of a way.
Didn't we do this topic earlier in the year?
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Agree with rob@rar,
Aiguille Rouge
Les Arcs
Black, then red
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Another vote for Jerusalem from me. 
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Despite all my best intentions, I have yet to ski Tabuc in Serre che. My favourite piste there is the Cucumelle red which links Monetier to Villeneuve. Favourite ever has to be the Aguille Rouge, although I nearly chickened out at the top.
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Marmottes
St Nicolas de Veroce
Red
and countless others in that neck of the woods.
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Mayrhofen.
Run 7.
Red.
Beautiful view from the top, hugely wide open for the first half, winds through the trees at the bottom (after skiing past a ski hut which always has comical oompah music blaring out) Plus it's a pretty long run, and never seems to get very busy.
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Actually, I meant
Nikkis Stadl, Ischgl, Austria.
That's my favourite place to get piste. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Not a piste but rather the back of the Cresta Youla in Coumayeur for its bowls, trees, gullies even the ski through the old empty buildings. Great apart from the 2km skate at the end.
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Triftji / Platten - Zermatt - Itinerary route, probably black turning to red. 1000m vertical of bumps, powder, views, endless variations of route possible. See the thread on knees though 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Stop the Brutal Grooming
But if I have to comment . 
Bushwacker Black Diamond Telluride, Colorado
Black Piste 10 Sonnenkopf , Austria
Big Horn Basin Black Diamond Norquay, Canada
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Poster: A snowHead
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Jockeys
La Tania
Black
And lots of others!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Dav, yup. Gerent is a great hill, and the black straight down the side of it is worth a go as well, as although it is straight, it is also narrow, mogulled, and technical in places.
Also the run from the top of Zauchensee back to Flachauwinkel in the Ski Amade - long, easy red for most of the way, but a scary black ski way at the top to keep you on your toes.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Good ones Christopher, . Have only managed Tabuc once in all our years at Serre Che - it is magical at the end though. [Am preferentially forgetting the cow sized moguls].
Lievre Blanc [as was, now Melezone]
Serre Che
Red
Nice twisty turny, lumpy, narrowish through the trees. And DEAD quiet, cos everyone is motorwaying down the easy bit of the black run [Luc Alphand] that goes alongside. I have truly seen my skiing evolve over the years on this little short piste.
Aiguille Rouge does come a close second [agree on the bottle testing start off Helen Beaumont, ]
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achilles, good point. Then it would be the Black Magic and Wizards off the far west T bar, Whakapapa NZ
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| ousekjarr wrote: |
Dav, yup. Gerent is a great hill, and the black straight down the side of it is worth a go as well, as although it is straight, it is also narrow, mogulled, and technical in places.
Also the run from the top of Zauchensee back to Flachauwinkel in the Ski Amade - long, easy red for most of the way, but a scary black ski way at the top to keep you on your toes. |
Yup it is a steep one, and usually ungroomed. I have looked at it, but usually whip round the blue and the kids kindly wait at the bottom for me after having caned the black.
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| Dav wrote: |
Mayrhofen.
Run 7.
Red.
Beautiful view from the top, hugely wide open for the first half, winds through the trees at the bottom (after skiing past a ski hut which always has comical oompah music blaring out) Plus it's a pretty long run, and never seems to get very busy. |
Was about to say the same run. Its pretty good to blast down. With a cheeky drink at the bottom. 
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Aiguille Rouge, swiftly followed by a Mutzig at la Ferme
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Nice to see the Aiguille Rouge getting the recognition it deserves
Another piste, although more accurately described as a natural fun zone, is Malgovert (red) in Les Arcs. Never pisted because the terrain is so hummocky and wild that you couldn't get a piste basher down it. It has a huge 'grin factor' especially in fresh snow. Loads of natural jumps, bumps, drop-offs, up 'n' downs, etc. Only drawback is that it's over too quickly, but you can finish Malgovert than head straight into the Mt Blanc forest for some tight skiing in the trees.
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Righto, is it winter yet?
What's that long sweepy red under the Derby Chair at Les Arcs? That's a beautiful bit of piste. The views, the immediate access to great tree fun bits, the short lift queue, the fact that pretty much everyone from mach 10 loonies to confident beginners can ski it and enjoy it.
Otherwise Star Trek/Waterfall, Sunshine Village: Single Black - my perfect breakfast.
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Cunners, that will be Belete, given an honourable mention by bertie bassett above. You're right about the tree skiing either side of it. Loads of short, fun pitches through the trees with no danger of getting lost, dropping off a cliff or getting hit by avalanches. Sweet
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FAQ
Usually fairly peaceful 