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My uni trip is to Les Arcs this Xmas from the 11th of December, I thought that this was quite early and that good snow was unlikely. I know snowfall from year to year can change a lot but does anyone have any thoughts on the matter?
J.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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did a uni trip to Les Arcs around the same week a few years ago and there was little snow so I amused myself by breaking my arm on a muddy "piste", on the other hand the last few years you'd have been quids in. keep your fingers crossed and resign yourself to the lap of the gods. IIRC uni trips don't need great snow to be awesome fun.....
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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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the last few years you'd have been quids in.
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Well, last year you would (except that big chunks of the French Alps had such high winds/blizzards/avalanche risk that lifts were closed - IIRC there was a day when even travel by foot along the main road in Val D'Isere was not allowed). But the year before - 2007 - on 11 December it was dire. I recall there was just one lift open in the Courchevel valley, for example. It's a gamble - depends what your alternatives are.
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Last year the 1st week in LA was fab (apart from the Sunday arvo, when as Pam W rightly said the lifts were closed due to suprt high winds) . Empty pistes, cheap(er) lift passes and accommodation.
What's not too like? You'll probably get decent snow - they're planing on opening bits of the domain on the 5th Dec
Besides it's not like you're going for the skiing after all - based on state of most of the student groups I saw in the arpette last season
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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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If you can't ski the white run, ski the pink run.
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Well I am going for the skiing mainly with the obvious addition of student nightlife 
I mean I am going skiing at xmas with family anyway so I might just go for the student experience.
Thanks for the swift replies, Ta
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