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Bois Croizelin
Montalbert
Red
Les Etroits
La Plagne
Black
mont de la guerre
La Plagne to Champagny
Red
les Crozats
La Plagne
Black
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Züser Tali
Lech
Red
(for the scenery)
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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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sorry - Zürs
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I can only remember the pistes in Passo Tonale, Kitzbühel and Courmayeur as they are the only resorts I have been to in the last 8 years.
So favourites for each resort as follows:
Passo Tonale: Alpino (red)
Kitzbühel: 23 (black)
Courmayeur: Youla > Gabba > Internazionale (red)
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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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Too hard just for one run.
Here's a few.
Renard (top pitch) - Chatel
Chamossiere - Morzine
Hearse (the bumps) - Grands Montets
High Rustler - Alta
That nice couloir with the sketchy entrance - Blackcomb
The Tiger - Glenshee
(How could I forget -) Crot - Avoriaz - or, at least, the funky route under the Crot chair
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Probably no way I can remember my favourite or even decide on one after so many different places.
<3 Aiguille Rouge though.
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MarjMJ, Helen Beaumont, The Tabuc was signposted closed off all week when I was there. However we asked my sisters ESF instructor why it was closed. She said that we were ok to go down it and it was fine. It was more than worth it and yes the moguls were pretty hefty  .
Haven't been down the Lievre Blanc. The Cucumelle is pretty special. I've been told the pistes around the Aiguillette Chairlift are pretty good reds, but have yet been able to check them out.
I hoping to go to Serre Chevalier in Janaury so I'll try that then, and Les Arcs in March for the first time so I'll have to give the Aiguille Rouge ago. When I've been at the top of the Col de Petit St Bernard in the summer I've always looked over in that direction and thought WOW.
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| under a new name wrote: |
Too hard just for one run.
High Rustler - Alta
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Closing day this winter, probably the craziest on mountain party I have ever been part of, and the ski down at 9pm is.. slightly more epic than usual!
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Foyleres
La Tania
Blue
Just love all the rollers
Les Sache
Tignes
Black
Combe Vallon
Meribel
Red
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Serpentine in Flaine, blue, is also great fun if it's quiet and you've still got your legs.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Armera
Valloire
Blue
Beer Belly
Red Mountain
Black Diamond
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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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| Cunners wrote: |
| Otherwise Star Trek/Waterfall, Sunshine Village: Single Black - my perfect breakfast. |
Waterfall? Are you sure?
For me it is at Lake Louise,
Fallen Angel-->Split Rock.
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| Lou wrote: |
| Serpentine in Flaine, blue, is also great fun if it's quiet and you've still got your legs. |
That the one that runs down form the top? I remember one classic late afternoon with some mates when thee was no one esl around an we belted down there at Mach 1. Well quite fast, anyway  Lovely run. Great views. Thanks for that - you've reminded me what a great area that is.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Cunners wrote: |
| Otherwise Star Trek/Waterfall, Sunshine Village: Single Black - my perfect breakfast. |
Waterfall? Are you sure?
For me it is at Lake Louise,
Fallen Angel-->Split Rock. |
Star Trek is the good bit, but there's some satisfaction about hurtling straight down waterfall afterwards before going for a coffee
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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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Knot Chutes - Anaconda Glades - Bootleg Glades, Fernie They're a bit crap at grooming it though.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Having finally persuaded best friend to book a chalet in Les Arcs (yay!) I'm pleased to see so many thumbs up for the Aiguille Rouge.
I tend to get a lot of runs all jumbled up in my mind, and don't remember one run to the next, although there was a little fluffy bit between pistes (names long since forgotten in my head) in La Plagne that holds a lot of fond memories for me - long before I became a 'skier' and was merely a survivor, we dared each other to jump off a little lip there into deep snow and photographed each other falling face first into the deep soft snow. Happy days!
My favourite run is not one piste, and it probably wouldn't feature in anyone else's list of best runs, but it is special to me because of the days I've had there. It's Llebre (a red) in Soldeu - my old route home. My brother, husband and I used to race each other down it as fast as we could and whoever was down first bought the drinks. The last bit you had to chose between the main blue run or run the gaunlet with the rookie snowboarders on the bottom bit of Avet (a black). It wasn't the piste that was so good as the memories. *sigh*
I also like Mirador in Grau Roig, Andorra. It means 'view' in Spanish, and a view is what you get! It used to be a red, but inexplicably became a black a couple of years ago.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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STOP THE BRUTAL GROOMING 
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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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Ahorn Abfarht, Mayrhofen
Ventina - Cervinia
Schwarz Pfanne - Hintertux
Reds 7 & 81 - Ischgl
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A choice of two for me.
Either the Hidden Valley run to Armentarola in the Dolomites (Red), or run 1 down to Hochfugen in the Zillertal (Red).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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My favourite would be along the lines of Arno's linking but I would choose Tunnel - Chocards - Dome - Rousses - Chalets - La Fare at Alpe D/Vaujany.
For challenge, probably Corbets at Jackson.
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Four O'Clock Run
Breckenridge
Blue (equivalent)
Aguille Rouge
Les Arcs
Black / Red
Why aren't I there now? 
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Currie bowl, Fernie.
Especially Concussion/Toms, running out the natural half pipe lower in the bowl.
John.
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Christopher,
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I've been told the pistes around the Aiguillette Chairlift are pretty good reds, but have yet been able to check them out.
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Oh yes, they certainly are. The Aiguillette right by the chairlift exit is fairly steep to start off with, then turns into a great sweeping run through the larches. You get great views up towards the Galibier too from the top, and the Etudes run is the easier start option. All very peaceful. We usually spend a half day there at least, as there is so much variety in terms of pitch of terrain on piste [and that is not counting all the tree skiing you can have too, though you have to be careful as some bits are protected, and other bits are, well, classic 'pylon' territory.]. Always quiet, and when the rest of the resort feels skiied out, it can be blimming good snow.
The lievre blanc doesn't exist anymore - it used to go from the top of the Chantemerle gondola all the way to Serre Ratier, but has been erased/renamed over time. The bit I like is at the below junction of the Luc Alphand and Stade heading towards Aravet and the drag lift at Champcella.
Amending...
Etudes
Red
Serre Che.
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Theres a red and a black above Col Fosco in the alta badia part of the sella that I love..they're always empty and you can really let you inner hooligan out. Theres plenty others but can't remember them off hand
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Christopher, it's nearly always shown as closed, that's not my reason for not skiing it, I'm a wuss when it comes to moguls. If I could see them from a chairlift I would be OK, but the thought of heading down there and being scared witless does not appeal.
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Courchevel - Combe pylones & Grand couloir
Both good fun with the bonus of a nice café at the bottom with a lift straight back up
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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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Arbis, Les Gets/Morzine, Red.
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A long time since I skied pistes much, but I used to like:
Grand Couloir - Courchevel - (black when I skied it, but now an itinerary I think)
Sache - Tignes (black, though really only the last 1/3 is black),
the Villaroger run from the Aiguille Rouge - Les Arcs (black, though the top half is really red - I'm not sure which people mean by the Aiguille Rouge run - there are several good black ones starting there, though the direct red to the cable car isn't that interesting).
I don't know if itineraries are counted (some good ones in St Anton and Verbier)
More recently Expert chutes and Alta Chutes - Jackson Hole (double black but would be off-piste in Europe)
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You know it makes sense.
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papasmurf,
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Theres a red and a black above Col Fosco in the alta badia part of the sella that I love..they're always empty and you can really let you inner hooligan out. Theres plenty others but can't remember them off hand
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Id forgotten about that one, it's fabulous !
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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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Hidden Valley, Mt Laguzuoi, nr Cortina, red
Trifi bumps, Zermatt, black
Mugengrat-Tali, Zurs, red
Savages gulley, Raise, red/black
Meall Odhar to Tom Dearg, Glenshee, blue
Piste Perdue, Val D'isere, part green/part cave 
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Poster: A snowHead
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le tunnel in Alpe d'Huez. Not really a piste as such but a marked track, but fantastic.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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papasmurf, The black run above Colfosco must be the widest black run in the Alps but as say is great for giving it the gun !
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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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I 2nd Le Tunnel - for a buzz
I 3rd Sache - great fun
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Ahorn abfahrt - Mayrhofen - Reddish (full-blown terror)
Ok/Orange - Val d'isere - Red (superb at top speed)
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Flypaper - Glencoe - Steep Black (for about 80 metres!)
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If you can join pistes
Top to bottom at Glencoe by virtually any of the pistes is good but I will go spring run to plateau to left of the chair (No idea what it is called)
For a single piste the run from the top of St Luc all the way to the bottom on a red is varied long and beautiful but I have only done it twice and cannot remember its name.
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Helen Beaumont,
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I'm a wuss when it comes to moguls. If I could see them from a chairlift I would be OK, but the thought of heading down there and being scared witless does not appeal.
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You should give it a go when the snow's good, the moguls can get quite big but it is not particularly steep anywhere (Much less so than Isolee for example). It is also one of the most scenic runs in serre che, you feel more away from itall than on any other piste.
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| Sideshow_Bob wrote: |
| Anywhere that's not full of gapers/punters..... |
Which rules out the Tunnel at ADH.
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| achilles wrote: |
| Sideshow_Bob wrote: |
| Anywhere that's not full of gapers/punters..... |
Which rules out the Tunnel at ADH. |
So true. I was one of them. 
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