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At least 10cms overnight and still tipping it down now. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sat at work this morning, I got a call from my uncle who was having a morning coffee at the top of the Red Eggs. Lots of snow but viz not great. Sounds like its been a good week for snow though with yesterday being the highlight.
22 days to go!
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Extra day off for bad weather, hurrah and indeed w00t! Knee deep powder all over the pistes. Pity I spent most of the day the wrong way up. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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easiski, Hi easiski..... keeping my eye on your updates, enjoying the photos!!
Saving for a wedding, but think Iv managed to talk H into a trip next year!!... Enjoyed L2A tremendously, cant see any reason not to visit again...... I'll be calling on your services at some point, im sure!!
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PaulW, Glad to hear it! Quite right - you can't let the wedding stop your skiing!
As mentioned above, shedloads of the white stuff falling all day long - very bad viz especially later in the day when the fog descended on the Cretes. My gloves were soaking and then froze!!  Nice snow, but it'll be better tomorrow. It's stopped now.
Pix: top of the little green run from Champamé to Petite Aiguille; Mont de Lans; a neighbour's car when I came home.
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easiski, Looks brilliant!!!!!!!!!!! hope you have loads more, 3 weeks to go 
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easiski.... i have been following your weather updates. i'll be arriving later today (saturday) and here's hoping the weather will be better this coming week
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well it was lovely and sunny this morning but very cold again (we all wish it would make up it's mind). Hours of backbreaking shovelling later it's snowing again, albeit not very hard!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Today was really quite pleasant, in spite of a brisk wind higher up. The top of the two man Cretes chair was a bit chilly, but only the top and the rest was lovely and warm. Down in the village in the afternoon it was positively boiling (probably above 0degs!). It had snowed another couple of inches overnight, and the fresh was very pleasant.
Pix looking over to Auris from the first corner of the Chemin des Demoiselles and also looking through the fence there to the huge hole on the other side of it.
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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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Fair bit of snow overnight, difficult to tell how much without getting out there though - several cms though. Brightening up a bit now and not too cold, but wind again at altitude.
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Tipped it down all day, mostly incredibly heavily. couldn't see much even in the village. I did all lessons down here as it was clear the viz would be nil at Cretes and above! The new snow is very heavy and gluggy (nice technical term), hopefully it will improve tomorrow, but it's still pelting now. At least it wasn't cold.
Pix of morning; afternoon (where's the town gone?) and the snow on the silver birch outside my house!
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You know it makes sense.
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Butterfly, Ioda has been good lately, and doesn't mind the snow, but tends not to spend so much time outside when it's actually either snowing or -20!
Lovely weather this morning once the snow had stopped and I had first tracks down the Grand Cretes with 10 cms of powder on the piste - lovely. Obviously the snow got pisted quickly by the many skiers, but I made a mistake of trying to ski the Grande Pente at around 13.30 The snow was more than knee deep and so heavy you couldn't move, so I had to go over to the Valentin which was not nice really. Silly me - should have gone Posettes. 
It snowed again hard mid-late afternoon, but has now stopped and isn't particularly cold.
Pic of the weather coming in today, and a stunning sky that I had lost from Sunday.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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easiski, the forecast is for quite a bit of rain lower down over the next week or so and quite mild.
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Richard E, The rain turned to snow overnight, so we'll see what the conditions are like when I get up the mountain later.
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Well, today was very windy which was a shame, but not cold. there was about 10cms or more of very wet snow in the village this morning, and watching people skiing Rachas it was obviously quite good but very deep indeed (at least mid-thigh). The day was very in and out, but apart from the wind was OK. We had heavy snow showers but it's now colder and the fresh snow that's fallen in the last few hours has been very silky.
for the first time in 18 years (AFAIK) the navettes were stopped this morning - very slick frozen roads apparently which were too slick for only rear chains! Of course my students were stuck at the far end of town with small children ... bah! Got there in the end though, because I'm a nice person and didn't hold them to their published time.
2 pix from the top of the grand Cretes chair of pretty views, and a photo of the road towards mine showing how much snow there is at the side of the road.
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Rain and very high winds all night. Obviously we were on the edge of the storm, but it was still pretty impressive.
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Today started very badly after the storm in the night. It was pouring! It get ease off into showers during the morning but was still wet and unpleasant. Eventually (about 14.00) it started to clear up a bit, and eventually we saw some blue sky - whoopeee!
the snow was, not surprisingly, very wet and heavy low down, but I didn't venture off the nursery slopes today, so I have no idea about higher up. If it freezes tonight (it was a bit colder later int he day) it'll be dreadful first thing, but I shall be on the Cretes so hopefully it'll be OK up there. More then.
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Today was lovely. Although it did cloud over a bit in the afternoon, it was high light cloud so the viz was still very good. The snow, of course, was very hard in the village and on the cretes too. I don't know how high you had to go to find softer snow, but I heard that Bellecombe was still crispy. We're expecting another nice day tomorrow before the snow comes back. 
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What a beautiful day today. It's been sunny and relatively mild (-14 on the glacier), and the snow above 2,500m is just wonderful. Unfortunately the snow below this point is now really quite hard and there are positively icy patches around. Of course this is only to be expected after the rain and the re-freeze. There was about 3 cms of fresh on the mountain and so the off piste parts of the glacier were very nice for my 1st steps to off piste ladies.
It's very hard underneath though, and I would be worried on some slopes about potential slides if a skier/boarder breaks through the crust. There have been huge avalanches everywhere, many of them natural over on the Ecrins, but the local ones have mostly been 'provoked'.
Unfortunately I forgot my camera this morning and the phone was having a hissy fit about photos, so here's one of the mountain from outside my house. Also one of my man-made stream to let the melt water run off my road. Note the thickness of the solid ice on the road.
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We had snow on snow today! It started just as I left home about 09.45, and continued all day quite hard, but with fine flakes. During the time I was on the Cretes it laid down about 5 cms or maybe a bit more of nice powdery silky stuff on the hard piste. Of course we're all a bit sick of it, and where the road was almost clear near my house it's now covered in snow again - too much shovelling thank you!
In point of fact though, after the recent rain we do need a decent dump to cover the harder snow that had appeared, and the end of the week is supposed to be sunny.
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This morning was quite OK above about 2,000m in the morning. It was cloudy, but the visibility both distance and definition was fine. there was a monster fog in the village - and it's still there! Sadly there didn't appear to have been any snow during the night, but it started again around 12.30. It looked as though it was closing in higher up, but it wasn't cold and it was quite still.
snow on the Cretes, Descente, Demoiselles and bottom of Valentin was very good, as was the off piste snow between the Diable and the Descente. We found about 15cms on a very smooth hard base there.
Pic from the bottom of the Vallons chair looking up at the Tete Moute and the SuperDiable chairlift.
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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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easiski, Thanks for the pictures, hope the snow keeps coming, not long for me to wait now
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fragy, 2 weeks to wait for me! There still isn't a suitable "boing boing" smiley!
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This morning was quite OK above about 2,000m in the morning.
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There was no telling them that though. No madam, I'm afraid I can't refund a day of your seven-day pass because you don't like the weather. No, it isn't 'unskiable' - all the lifts are open and people are skiing. Yes I know it's foggy. No, I'm still not going to give you any refund.
Some irate chap called one of my colleagues a 'pute' the other day, loudly and in the middle of the main ticket office beccause she wouldn't give his daughter a discount pass without her student card. Bloody Parisians, can't wait for them to go home.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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easiski, I reckon the sunshine is holding off until we get there in two weeks... 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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 Sack the Juggler, We had lots of sunshine today. Sadly, we also had lots of Northerly wind and very cold temps. the snow was good everywhere, but it was really a war of attrition.
Wind slabs are forming and the pisteurs closed the Serre Palas and then the Envers du Signal. They let us through though and we were the only 3 people on the whole of the Breche - nice! A short off piste to the side of the Grand Creux, followed by a leisurely descent of the Gours, enjoying the views and the more sheltered spot finished us at the Cretes for choccy.
I then made a huge mistake coming down by trying the Posettes - ouch! Very nasty frozen lumps and ruts under lovely powder. The trouble was you couldn't see most of them and the legs took a huge pounding even doing one turn at a time. Bottom of Valentin was nice though, and with the wind behind the traverse across to the Diable side was accomplished in record time.
I took 4 pix from the middle of Breche here's one showing the Toura/Lac Noir area. I will post the panorama on my blog - not worth posting here as it will be too small.
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Lizzard, I have Parisians staying in my apartment this week, I am waiting with bated breath for the end of the week, apparently they were very demanding when they arrived, and asked to be let in early, but not a word of thanks to my apartment cleaner for being there to clean so early Usual arrival time is 3pm, and it was only possible as previous guests were leaving early. S had to be there at 7.30am to have the apartment ready.
Week before we had Parisians too, but they couldn't have been nicer, and are booking for next year.
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Helen Beaumont, last week's people were fine on the whole but this week they have been rude, grumpy and apparently incapable of having any kind of a good time.
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Thought I'd better start looking in on this thread, half term out of of the way and only 3 weeks before we leave for LDA.
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easiski, where is les posettes? I can't see it on the piste map.
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Richard E, it's not a piste.
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Lizzard, is it an off piste area next to the valentin?
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Richard E, it looks like a random piece of hillside to me, frankly.
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