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anyone got anything to report?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I can report that I am watching the web cams hourly.....
Looks like a couple of added cm yesterday and little confidence of much more before we arrive there on Sunday (20th)
As I will be back in the office tomorrow morning I expect to increase my web cam gazing frequency to about all the time, or possibly constant. 
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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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..and now the Tourist Office website has spent the day off line.
This is not helping.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Cannons going all over the shop - the resorts are doing their best to get the maximum open for the weekend. We skied in Les Saisies yesterday - though there's very little open yet. Very, very, thin cover on the pistes with no cannons - the ones we skied yesterday generally have the best cover in the resort, but the snow on them was bare minimal. I was suprised they were open at all, but they have the ideal aspect - east facing. South facing slopes with no cannons don't have much chance at our altitude (1600 - 2000m) I fear. But everything up at this level is white, because the last couple of centimetres of snow (which I think fell on Sunday - we arrived Sunday evening) has not melted at all, it's so cold. Looking very pretty, with every tree covered in white after quite a lot of freezing fog.
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pam w, Glad you made it safely - missed you at the soiree this year! O well, one thing's for sure - there's not a lot we can do about it except enjoy being in the mountains again and hopefully at some stage there will be more of the white stuff during the next week.
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Not much snow at all low down here in LGB and what there is is skied out. There's no way you could ski down to the resort and the Joyere Sector is closed (which is a shame as we were going to go for a practice with the kids after lessons).
Having said that it's currently snowing.
Having said that it's forecast to rain on Wednesday.
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Raining in town at the moment and that lovely snow that fell yesterday afternoon is all slush.
Will have to see what awaits us higher up.
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Higs, We were staying in Chinaillon 19th - 26th. Reading the horror stories about the tunnel and the fact that so many easyjet flights were cancelled on the 18th and 19th we are still counting ourselves extremely lucky to have got away on our flight to Geneva first thing on the 19th.
The Joyere Section only opened up the last couple of days we were there and was very bald really - but the compensation was that higher up, the Annes sector opened up on Boxing Day and there was some lovely skiing to be had there on our last day. Hopefully you will find it the same if you go over there. Even when it had been raining at resort level (like Christmas Eve!) we managed to find some nice areas a bit higher up so hope you do too. Going back on 23rd Jan so will be watching the weather forecasts with a keen eye!
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Good conditions generally today in Chinaillon... Pistes had quite a few 'firm' patches low down but way more snow than I expected for the altitude (the good old 'Aravis effect')...
Still some nice soft snow to be had in the Freeride zone off Lachat, and down the Black run (Lachat?) though some scrapy patches/rocks/grass in places...
Also skiers left of Gypaete still had some soft snow around the avalanche bariers hard left (usual warnings apply..), and we had an interesting run heading down the south side of Lachat with a bit of steep grass skiing to access some awesome powder before the path out to the Duche chair..
Car park & restaurants seemed v.busy today, but pistes/queues were fairly quiet on the whole... happy days...
Possibly a couple of pics to follow..
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We had an enjoyable week skiing some pretty poor conditions last week. To be honest, if we lived there, we'd have skied Thursday and maybe a couple of the mornings. But we'd driven two days to get there for a week and we were damn well going to enjoy it. So we did.
Not surprised things are better now though - it snowed a fair bit on Friday night and people were using chains to get off the campsite when we left on Sat morning.
We're back again for Easter so I'll check in to the thread again mid-March and have a look.
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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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offpisteskiing, Back of Lachat to Duche sounds fun. I know the path you mean but do you go straight south off the top or traverse east or west to start with? I thought there were some cliffs on the south side of lachat. Hope to see your pics soon
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Anyone got anything to report?
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You know it makes sense.
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I live in Manigod, which is one of the main La Clusaz ski areas, I was out yesterday and skied Manigod, Etale, Aiguille and Balme. There is no shortage of snow (at the top there is 270cms) it is though pretty hard everywhere but generally not icy and I had a fantastic time on my grand slalom skis as the pistes are not busy and beautifully groomed which meant I could really get some speed up and pull some G!! 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Quick report of today's conditions. I skied the Etale sector of La Clusaz. Conditions similar to my last post, the snow is holding up very well the base is firm but not icy and is easy to get a good edge. Minus 6 first thing minus 2 at 3pm. It was mostly a beautiful clear sunny day but there were a few clouds in the afternoon and a few snow flurries in the late afternoon at the top.
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Ta for the report - we arrive Le Grand Bornand on the 28th so hoping the snow hangs around for another couple of weeks yet.
We were there for Easter a couple of years ago and it was superb - fresh snow most nights, sunshine every day.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I have skied in la Clusaz on the last day of the season for the last 10 years and have skied to the bottom of the La Blame lifts every year, I don't think you have to worry about a lack of snow. Hope you have a great time in Grand Bo.
Easter is often superb here - ski in the morning when the snow is harder and board in the afternoon when it softens up!! Or as you say take advantage of the off piste in the powder dumps that we often get during April. And of course not forgetting lunch time to sit outside a restaurant and soak up the sun.
It's good living in paradise.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Great day skiing in La Balme today, sunny and not many people around. Pistes pretty hard packed but no ice, no problem getting an edge. Found some really great spring snow in the off piste later in the day.
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Interesting watching the truckloads of snow being brought in by road last week.
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Truckloads of snow? Must be expensive.
When we went to La clusaz back in March 2001 there was hardly any snow at the bottom of the pistes so it was hard to ski from area to area - seem to remember skiing on grass at the bottom of the croix fry area. It was also raining in the town. Is this typical weather at La Clusaz resort level or were we very unluckly? Maybe 2001 was a bad year for snow. I would like to ski there again but with better conditions.
La clusaz seems to have a lot of fans on snow heads so I assume other people have been there with better snow conditions.
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Any update?
Looking at the weather sites it all looks a bit warm and slushy this week.
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Mrs Higs reports that, despite the rather green view from the chalet, the snow is good when you get up there - better than it was at New Year. Reckons it could be soft by this afternoon though. I'm in chalet with poorly son watching Alladin. Will swap over at lunchtime and enjoy my slush-about regardless. Looking forward to son feeling better tomorrow and more snow (and lower temps) over the week.
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Thanks for the update - keep us posted Higs - due in Chinaillon on Saturday...... 
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it was harsh to call it slush on Monday pm but it was definitely spring snow with the odd ski stopper. This am was good too but about lunchtime the heavy snow started so we skiied 'til 1, had lunch, picked the kids up and called it a day. More snow forecast overnight and a bit tomorrow with temps dropping through the week. Chinaillon should be fine Sat - we skied down to the bottom of the Gettiers and Floria lifts today on good snow.
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Gesterday ... Great snow, zero queues, good visibility and free beer.
Ok, I lied about the beer.
And the visibility.
Today... More of the same really. There's a foot of fresh snow on and off piste and it is forecast to clear up by midday.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Been watching it on the web cams - great timing for me. Just hope we get some sun too - got to go back to work with a tan.
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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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Typical. Sun comes out just as we get phone call to say daughter's broken her leg.
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Higs,  Oh dear, poor kid. Hope she's OK.
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You know it makes sense.
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Simply superb today. Great snow under blue skies. My last ski of the season. Mrs Higs will be out tomorrow with unbroken daughter. For anyone here next week I hope you get good weather because you've got the snow.
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Great snow under blue skies
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Yes, couldn't be bettered. And here, at any rate, the slopes were almost entirely deserted. Even given my rather timid approach to powder skiing - needing to stay near the piste for rapid escape if necessary - I had no problem finding untracked snow. For those of a more adventurous disposition it would have been incredible.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Got to LGB on Saturday, cloudy but good snow. Snowed a lot on Sunday which meant Monday was superb. Best I've skiied for a while. Icy start to a very sunny Tuesday however everything's warming up and it's rainy today and forecast the same for tomorrow. Looking at Snow-Forecast the freezing levels are way up so it's not going to get better any time soon. Should be enough snow for us this week - fingers crossed.
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