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Paying a visit tp PSV - anybody got any tips, or where to head for the POW in this area?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Only been there for a day and stuck to the pistes. Plenty of nice tree skiing if the snow is good. Looks like lots of steep off piste off the top into the next bowl but it probably would need a taxi back. They are meant to be building a new chair from la balme which would make the off piste on that side easier to access. Not sure if its being built for the coming season though. I think I had read somewhere that there is some mellow off piste on the skier's right of the resort out towards Tournoux. I think it would be easy to get lost though!
Pelvoux-Vallouise is just a little up the road and I think is on the same ski pass and you get a day or two at serre chevalier too.
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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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We spent a day there when we were staying at Montgenevre.
here is a piste map. When we went the main face where all the lifts are had been blasted by the wind and was all crust (the same was true of most of Serre Chevalier). Our guide took us over into the next valley (Vallon de Narreyroux - on the right on the map)where the snow was better (powder in the gullys), and down along the bottom of it to the trees and 2 buildings. There we put on skins and climbed up to our left through trees to the ridge (right side of valley on map) and along the ridge to the tree line (took an hour and a bit). We then skied down in powder, mostly through trees into the Vallon d'Entraigues. From there we skated down along the path along the edge of the river till we hit houses. turning left we followed the cross country track to a lovely old village (must be Le Villard - I can't see another name on the map, where Luc Alphond the racer and his brother had set up a bar (there may have been rooms as well) with a micro brewery making REALLY good beers. Very well worth a visit, that bar. While we drank our guide hitched back to get his van. The trip was hard work but wonderful.
I don't know if this is any use to you (it looks as though you can get around to Puy again from that first valley - though I could be wrong. But really I think you would need a guide.
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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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Good Int - thanks. I hate wasting a day scraping around, I will save the guide for when I visit La Grave, up the Rd.
I hear that it is V quiet at night! any views?
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I loved Puy St Vincent, I've only been there once but it's definitely on my list of must go back to resorts. I wrote a blog post on Puy, more about the generic ski holiday than the skiing, but some may find it useful http://bit.ly/gv061
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La Grave is on the PSV 6 day or more lift pass.
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You used to get a better reduction with on theL Grave lift pass with a guide than with the other local reductions. I don't know if this is still the case.
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La Grave is not on the Serre Chevalier pass though, I wonder if that will change now Compagnie des Alpes own LDA lifts too.
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There's lifts you can't take a snowboard on. Stuck up arseholes. Off the back looks good but steep, definite avvy terrain so be careful if you head that way. Not sure how easy it'd be to get back to resort: you might have to dump a car and shuttle or take a cab.
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the Rocher Noir drag lift is 60 degrees in places and PSV doesnt attract enough brave souls to use it.
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I think you must mean 60% which is 31º and is very, very steep for a drag. (60º the snow would barely stick on the slope!)
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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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Happy days, I am driving down Christmas and NY , I was starting to doubt my decision, but as I first thought It will offer loads of options.
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snowball, I stand corrected. It is pretty steep though 
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You know it makes sense.
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There's lifts you can't take a snowboard on stuck up a*seholes.
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I should think not; sounds like a very uncomfortable ride. 
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It is little used as the Rocher Noir drag lift is 60 degrees in places and PSV doesnt attract enough brave souls to use it.
