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Ok wise ones, help please !
I've a Les Arcs season ticket and have pretty much kicked the back bottom out of it this winter and hung up my skis for the season. However I've a window of possibility for the 2nd / 3rd week of April. Is that just too late for any chance of quality skiing in Les Arcs ??? I was there last week and it was getting warmer, slushier and the odd mud patch popping up .....
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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 would have said that after the lifts shut for the summer was too late for most people although I've skied there in mid-June  . The snow may actually be better later in the season than now
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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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Thankyou for that and I know I could probably find this out quite easily, but do you know when the lifts close for the winter season ?
Cheers
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25th April, quite early for such a high resort, which is one reason Snowheads moved to Val Tho. for the EOSB.
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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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Do they start closing it on a run by run, lift by lift approach or just a straight forward "That's it, shut" kind of approach ? Thanks for being so helpful, I'm intruiged by the possibilities of late season skiing!
Cheers
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| The snow may actually be better later in the season than now |
It'd better be. It's deteriorating very fast all over at the moment, and though there's a bit of snow forecast for the end of this week, then it's getting warm again. Unless the weather changes very markedly it could be an early end to the season. 
I've just checked the temperature - at 1550m it's still well above freezing. It's not going to freeze tonight - for the second night in a row.
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The very first EOSB was in Les arcs. That year, everything was open on the first day. The next day certain runs were shut around 1800 / 1600 / PV. The next day, you could only ski back to the gondola midstation the one run each to 1800 / 1600. amd the day after that IIRC, the shut everything except the 2000 bowl. The following year, the 2000 bowl remained open a week after the main area. Conditions were ok when we skiied there - last skiing day for us that year was 30th april
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Thanks folks for all the info, and I'm gonna leave Les Arcs for Mid April and head to La Thuile. I skiied it last week and it had loads of snow. Where as Les Arcs was running short in places already so if it's staying warm at the moment then things could be erm muddy / grassy very shortly! Just as a point to mention La Rosiere had the low down black runs and the lower half of the Marmotte red run closed last week and according to our ski instructor they wouldn't re-open those this season unles something dramatic happened.
Cheers.
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jph123, it all depends on the current conditions. Right now although it has been raining it is likely to get cold again and snow later in the week. The forecasts here are not always very good due to the micro climate so you need to just wait and keep an eye on conditions. There is a good base higher up so even as it is now with rain and warm temps, I think it should be ok for the last week of the season. They say that most lifts will run as normal until the last day, then it all shuts and everyone goes home or on holiday until June and the summer season prep time starts. I would not want to be based in La Thuile, it is cut off from most places and to much walking for the good off piste, but have fun if you do go and please post how you find the conditions at the end of the season.
If you want to meet up whilst you are here send me a pm or read the details i post on the les arcs snow reports thread for meeting up.
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