 Poster: A snowHead
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1993 Zermatt (how's that for a place to learn to ski?) 
1994 Alpe d'Huez
1995 Courchevel
1996 Canazei (Dolomites)
1997 Alpe d'Huez
1998 Lake Louise
1999 Flims
2000 Pila
2001 Zermatt
2002 Lech & Madonna di Campiglio
2003 Courchevel, La Plagne & Madonna di Campiglio
2004 Courchevel & Corvara (Dolomites)
2005 Corvara (broke ankle!)
2006 La Plagne/Les Arcs & ?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Cannot remember all the dates but in rough order:
Sappada, Italy
Pas de la Casa, Andorra
Valmorel
Meribel Mottaret (at least 8 times!)
Tignes * 2
Aviemore (Easter many years ago - hot sun, good snow!)
Breckenridge (2 days)
Morgins (Pds)
Verbier
Chamonix (3 times)
Les Deux Alpes
Megeve / St Gervais
Les Contamines
Val d'Isere
St Anton / Lech / Zurs
Heavenly / Squaw Valley (Lake Tahoe)
Have also visited Cerro Catedral in Argentina (which looked OK for a day or two in winter) but that was in their summer so does not count!
Favourite : Mottaret / 3 Valleys
Least Favourite : Portes du Soleil
Place I would like to go but have not yet : Zermatt
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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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tessaventer, maybe a question out of context in this thread, but how did you break an ankle skiing? In the tame cruisy 'blue land' that is Corvara at that???
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agavin, 'fraid so! The usual last run of the day and I wasn't looking where I was going, went off piste and stuck my ski tips in the snow over a ledge and Tom & jerry'd onto the piste! Just goes to show that not all accidents are at high speed...
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tessaventer, that's amazing! I would have thought the ski boot was pretty much like having a re-inforced ankle - must have been horrible getting the boot off 
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agavin, the surgeon back here told me I had a footballer's injury not a skier's injury... all very well but I was on the slopes when it happened! Also because not a lot of English spoken in those parts the doctor in Corvara thought I'd injured my knee and tried to wrench the boot off!  ouch
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In alphabetical order:
Alpes d'Huez
Arosa
Banff
Davos
Engelberg
Flims
Jackson Hole
Klosters
La Plagne
Lake Louise
Les Deux Alps
Les Orres
Montgenevre
Passo Tonale
Perisher Blue
Serre Chevalier
Serre Chevalier
St Anton
Stowe
Thredbo
Tignes
Tignes
Val Thorens
Wengen
Whistler
Oh, and Courchevel tomorrow!!! 
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Hi
Interested to see how many of you are so diverse!!
I have only skiied twice:
2003 Borovets - Bulgaria
2004 Borovets - Bulgaria
We were lucky re: snow conditions but having said that we haven't been anywhere else! We like Borovets as a resort and found the locals to be very friendly.
Only 13 days to go and we are off to Morzine and can't wait. Really looking forward to comparing the differences and seeing if the slight increase in cost is worth it.
Ellie 
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ajhainey, I have PM'd you about Slovenia, would appreciate some advice.
Cheers,
Ant
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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In reversere order
Dep Date Resort Days
22/01/06 Saas Fee 6
06/03/05 Les Menuires / Reberty 6.5
16/01/05 Courchevel 1650 6.5
29/02/04 Tignes 6.5
07/01/04 Avoriaz 4.5
09/03/03 Courchevel 1650 6.5
17/01/03 St Martin De Bellville 3
02/03/02 Val Thorens 6
14/01/02 Chamonix 4
07/01/01 Tignes 6 skiied thru Les Arcs on Tarentaise Tour
09/01/00 Tignes 6
06/03/99 Val Thorens 6
24/01/98 Tignes 8
20/12/97 Bad Hofgastein 6
Mar-97 Tignes 6
12/01/97 Mottaret 6
09/03/96 Courchevel 1650 6
13/01/96 Finkenberg (Mayerhofen) 6.5
Cairngorm?? 2
11/02/95 La Plagne 6 inc 1 day in Tignes / Val'd
14/01/95 Courchevel 1650 6
12/03/94 La Plagne 6
Cairngorm?? 2
23/01/94 Grindweld 6.5
17/01/93 Bad Hofgastein 6
25/01/92 Haus 6
28/01/91 Zell am See 6 inc Kaprun
14/01/90 Kirchberg 6 inc 2 days on Stubai Glacier
16/01/89 Oberau 6
Jan-88 Embach, nr Rauris 6
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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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Weeks, days, half days or at least skied through:-
Aviemore, Adelboden, Axamer Lizum
Borovets, Bormio
Courchevel, Courmayeur, Crans Montana
Doucy- Colombiere
El Tartar
Finkenberg
Hintertux
Igls
Jasper
Kaprun, Kaltenbach
Les Arcs, La Plagne, Lanesbach
Mayrhofen, Meribel, Madesimo
Nevis Range
Obergurgl
Passo Tonale
(Need a Q!)
Riffelalp
Soldeu, Soelden, Stubaier, Sestriere, Saux D'Oulx, St Anton, St Francoise de Longchamp
Tignes
Untergurgl
Val Thorens, Valmorel
Wengen
Xscape (Castleford)
(Need to go to Yllas!)
Zermatt, Zell am See
Also
Monte Baldo (Malcesine), Sierra Nevada and returns to Aviemore and Wengen in summer
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T-Dub, no G?? 
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You know it makes sense.
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Ah, yes, well spotted - Grindelwald.
That Q is going to bug me though...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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1970s Cairngorm, Glenshee (grew up close to Glenshee)
1980s Monte Baldo, Les Arcs, Tignes, Val d'Isere, Verbier, Vail, Cairngorm, Glenshee, Glencoe
1990s Arapahoe Basin, Courchevel, Meribel, Val d'Isere, Verbier, Cairngorm, Glenshee, Nevis Range
2000s Grindelwald, Champoluc, Cairngorm, Glenshee, Tamworth Snowdome, Montana Snowdome (Netherlands)
Favorite All Rounder: Verbier or Val d'Isere
Favorite Off Piste: Champlouc (Monte Rosa)
Due to go to St Anton next week and Zermatt in April, so these may change!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hi - just back from Le Seignus (L'Espace Lumiere, Southern French Alps),  and stayed in Chalet Vallons, owned by a Snowhead!, but also skied in
Andorra (twice)
Montgenevre
Passo Tonale
Schladming
Bardonecchia twice
Sauze D'oulx 
Borovets VERY cheap resort, but hotel/food/snow awful
Waidring twice
Thyon 2000 (desolate ski station in Nendaz area - great snow but dull, dull, dull!)
La Thuile
Les Carroz Lovely little Grand Massif village, good snow but tiny, pokey hotel with nothing but cheese on menu!
Mayrhofen - more times than I can remember and not just because of the gluhwein 
Zell am Ziller (ahhh, my first time ever - ski-ing that is)
Auffach (less said the better - bumped from booked resort of Waidring, by tour operator less than a month before going, to Auffach which had not one inch of snow) 
Chamonix
Val Thorens
There may be others but time and wine have eradicated the memory
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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stevew, now that's just showing off; are you a Virgo or what?!
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ADH 1993
La Plagne 1994
Val d' Sere, Chamonix & La Plage 1995
Verbier 1996
Morzine 1997
Courchevel 1998
Courchevel 1999
Val D'Sere 2003
ADH 2005
Courchevel 2006
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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andorra - soldeu 2000
Austria - St Michael im Lungau - 2002
bulgaria borovets - 2004
Norway - Voss 2005
Andorra - Soldeu 2005
2006 is Andorra - soldeu ( again!)
and Austria - Zell am Zee
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Learnt to ski in Bavaria, courtesy of the British Army on Nato planks ! The resorts of Oberstdorf and garmisch spring to mind as well as a week of cross country sking, the Hertz mountains in germany aswell , for a bit of combined Alpine and grass sking on the Royal Tank Regiments hired skis.
A bit of Nordic camping and skiing in some very cold arctic climes that I would prefer to forget.
Also,
Sameon, Flaine
Serre Cheviallier
Flaine
2 Alps
Alp de Heuz
Kitzbuhl
And sure there is somewhere i have forgot.
Boo
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tessaventer, no a gemini .. sorry don't "do" star signs so don't understand the reference ... a bit obessive I know but somewhile ago I got out all my old lift passes to work out how many days skiing I'd done and put them in excel so I just copied and pasted it in
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Here goes, not a comprehensive ski brochure that many of you have, but I have only been doing it for three and a half seasons!:
2002/3 - Serre Chavalier (6) <New Year  >
2004 - Claviere (5.5 - bad knee) <April>
2005 - Borovets (6) <Feb>
2005 - Sestriere (4)/Sauze d'Oulx (2) whilst staying in Bardonecchia <April>
2005 - Soldeu (6 - including skiing over to Pas and El Tarter etc.) <Xmas>
Also up-and-coming this season:
11th Feb - I'm off to Morzine for the week (£480 fully catered 'last' minute deal that I was quite happy with).
8th April - I set off on the joyous journey that is a coach trip to Meribel.
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skisimon, sounds like you had as good a New Year in Serre Che as we did.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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err let me think
Hopfgarten
Kitzbuhel
Flaine
La Plagne
Val D'Isere
Saint Saveur, Bromont, Mont Blanc (Quebec), Tremblant, Jay peak (awesome! for a small resort) (whilst contracted in Montreal)
Winnipeg (100' vertical ;-0)
Norquay
Nakiska
Lake Louise
Sunshine
Panorama
Fernie
Val Thorens
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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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In no particular order
Arinsal
Arabba
Borovets
Barege
Les Deux Alpes
Alpe d'Huez
Meribel
Val Thorens
Chatel
Flims
Passo Tonale/Madonna di Campiglio/Folgarida
La Plagne
Jasper
Chamonix
Gressoney
Pila
Flaine
St Jean D'Aulp
Montgenevre
Sauze d'Oux
Claviere
Mottaret - I think
For some reason I've never done Austria although Arabba is pretty Austrian.
Never had a bad time and always had skiiable conditions
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Hmm... Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Saalbach-Hinterglemm and Sheffield. Just getting into it but I've been spoilt for snow so far. Except in Sheffield, which also loses out by not having a double-barrel name. Maybe I can call it Sheffield-Doncaster-Nottingham like the 'Robin Hood' airport 
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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hibernia,
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| initially Italy but as I got more discerning it is now Switzerland and also like Austria. |
Funny that, as I got more discerning I've changed from Switzerland to Italy (and Austria)! We obviously go for different things in a skiing holiday.
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| tessaventer wrote: |
hibernia,
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| initially Italy but as I got more discerning it is now Switzerland and also like Austria. |
Funny that, as I got more discerning I've changed from Switzerland to Italy (and Austria)! We obviously go for different things in a skiing holiday. |
Well, for me, it was the quality and sheer number of hours work that the Austrian instructors put into it at Zell am Zee, on my 2nd trip. That is when I really learned technique.!!. In addition, although I do like Italy and especially the Dolomites area, the main problem with it is the sometimes abysmal snow record and as I tend to book many months in advance it is too much of a risk. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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In chonological (ish) order
San Valentino (Italy)
Zell-am-Ziller
Kranjska Gora
Mayrhofen
Solden
Ellmau
Kitzbuhl
Soll
St Johann im Tryol
Breckenridge
Arapahoe Basin
Keystone
Vail
Beaver Creek
Megeve
St Gervais
Chamonix
Argentière
Val d'Isere
Tignes
Courmayeur
Arinsal
Pas de la Casa
Banff
Lake Louise
Wengen
Murren
Grindlewald
Flaine
Les Gets
Morzine
Avoriaz
Courchevel
La Tania
Meribel
Val Thorens
and the most visited in that list, Les Gets (5 times), a good family resort
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2004 - Arosa, Flumserberg, Engelberg, Flims Laax
2005 - Flumserberg, St. Anton, Davos-Klosters, Saas Fe
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Sansman, welcome to snowheads s
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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2003 - Cervinia (Italy) - 1 week
2004 - Saalbach (Austria) - 1 week
2005 - Canazei (Italy) - 1 week
2005 - Soldeu (Andorra) - 1 week
2005/2006 - Notre Dame de Bellecombe (France) - all season!
I think I've been extremely lucky to manage to get such a wonderful traditional resort for my first season. Has anyone else been to Notre Dame? Beautiful Alpine village, massive newly-opened ski area, 99% French guests, very friendly locals, great opportunities to practice the language! It beats any of the larger purpose-built resorts hands down!
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Soldeu - 98
Nevis - 99 (weekender)
Borovets - 99
Livigno - 2000, 2002
Pas de la Casa - 2001
Sauze D'Oulx - 2001, 2002, 2005 (plus Sestriere in 01 & 02 - link closed 05)
Tignes - 2002 (Summer only)
Chamonix - 2003
Risoul - 2003 (plus Vars)
Val D'Isere - 2004 (plus a quick blast through Tignes)
Courchevel - 2004, 2005 (did bits of all of 3v's 04)
Serre Chevalier - 2005 (only for 3 days)
Passon Tonale - 2006 (v.briefly Ponte Di Legno)
Milton Keynes, Tamworth
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Kirchberg, Austria.
Livigno, Italy.
St Lary Soulan, France.
Poiana Brasov, Romania.
Jahorina, Bosnia.
Bjelesnica and Igman, Bosnia.
Zabljak, Montenegro.
Zolasin, Montenegro.
Pal/Arsinal, Andorra.
Le Tartar, Andorra.
Meribel, France.
Kitzbuhel. Austria.
Sierra Nevada. Spain.
Lillehammer. Norway.
Zell am See. Austria.
Chamonix. France.
Verbier. Switzerland.
Best - Kitzbuhel.
Worst - Kolasin.
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Venabu (twice)
Obergurgl
Livigno (thrice)
Macunaga - the most beautiful
Les Arcs
Val d'Isere
Verbier
Serre Chevalier (thrice)- My favourite
Meribel
Cervinia
Gressoney
St Martin de Belleville
Tignes
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| tessaventer wrote: |
| agavin, 'fraid so! The usual last run of the day and I wasn't looking where I was going, went off piste and stuck my ski tips in the snow over a ledge and Tom & jerry'd onto the piste! Just goes to show that not all accidents are at high speed... |
My heaviest fall was something very similar /ON PISTE/ going from a slap of ungroomed freshness to groomed at low speed near the top of the Läger chair in Wengen/Grindelwald. Fortunetely i got out of it with just a snowed up pair of goggles and a few secs of dizzyness.
Another nice one was a somewhat similar fall on Grande Motte (Tignes) where only a path 2 bullys wide was groomed at some point which i didn't notice so strayed in softness and went down with tips in the snow
Staying on piste and at low speed is no guarentee nothing will happen.. it may help, but its an extreme sport either way.
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Blimey. I'm kinda intimidated here....
La Plagne (February 2005, Revelation)
Val Thorens (April 2006, Confirmation)
La Rosiere (February 2007, Continuation )
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