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Whats your favorite blue run in the alps ?
I dont like red and black runs (because you cant go so fast and they are sometimes full of horrible moguls).
Mine is the Tomeusses in Val D'Isere 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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yag_si_HS, Welcome to snowHeads - stand by for incoming...... 
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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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yag_si_HS, that's an interesting sig. If you reverse the order, you immediately see a strange pattern.
SH_is_gay
Shurely shome mishtake?
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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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yag_si_HS, welcome to snowHeads! What the previous posters are probably getting at is the notion of going fast on blue runs. The point about blue runs is that they're for inexperienced and/or nervous skiers, who would not necessarily welcome people around them skiing very fast. Just a thought.
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under a new name, it's quite clever. So - is this a sock puppet or a genuine poster?
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| under a new name wrote: |
Shurely shome mishtake? |
Yeah, SH is plural so it should be are.
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Genuine poster here.. 
Whats wrong with going fast on blue runs ?
I thought greens were for beginners ?
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Well I am obviously not going to go fast on a mogul slope or steep black! 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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yag_si_HS, lots of resorts don't have a green classification. Don't worry - if you're completely in control and can stop on a sixpence behind an unpredictable beginner, you can go just as fast as you like.
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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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it's quite clever. So - is this a sock puppet or a genuine poster?
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neither - a spammer!
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Colin B, wot, 'cos of the sig?
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You know it makes sense.
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Yes and I would have thought that if you came from Bury St Edmunds you would probably be able to spell it!
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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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yag_si_HS, how do the Pontoons cope with fast blues?
I'd have thought a bit more width underfoot would help 
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Poster: A snowHead
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The Pontoons are great on a blue run.
Though I dont use any poles with them - poles just slow me down.
Anyone else find this ?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Saving them for the fishing I presume?
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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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Fishing is a good sport for summer
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| Hurtle wrote: |
| Colin B, wot, 'cos of the sig? |
Ive noted that you regularly make this mistake. It should actually be "what". 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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yag_si_HS, Spill the beans. Are you a puppet or an annoying dangerous skier? I would assume it would be the former.
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anything with Jenna Jameson in it really, she gets me off to a cracking start
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Ray Zorro,
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Ive noted that you regularly make this mistake. It should actually be "what".
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and 'Ive' needs an apostrophe unless I'm very much mistaken.
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| Shimmy Alcott wrote: |
| anything with Jenna Jameson in it really, she gets me off to a cracking start |
I'm yet to have the good fortune to get off with Jenna Jameson.
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Spyderman, Have you done any of her premiers?
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| ph wrote: |
| yag_si_HS, Spill the beans. Are you a puppet or an annoying dangerous skier? I would assume it would be the former. |
If it's the latter and he's a yob on the pistes, perhaps he might like to change his username to yob_yag...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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sloop, 
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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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Very funny!
Come on - I thought a smashing web site like this would be able to recommend some new blue runs for me to discover
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| yag_si_HS wrote: |
Very funny!
Come on - I thought a smashing web site like this would be able to recommend some new blue runs for me to discover |
Try EA Sports Winter Olympics 2010.
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You know it makes sense.
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But that is a computer game ?
I would prefer recommendations from some knowledgeable snowheads
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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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yag_era_HS,
If you are genuinely after blue runs to beat down at speed, I would suggest that you look for quiet resorts. Every commonly visited resort will have a plethora of blue runs , most of them very enjoyable in the right snow. If you want to attack them at speed go when they are empty, quiet resorts in low season should fulfill your needs adequately.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| yag_si_HS wrote: |
Genuine poster here..
Whats wrong with going fast on blue runs ?
I thought greens were for beginners ? |
Only in France, Spain and North America.
Other countries don't have green runs, and so blue covers everything from nursery slopes up to just below a red.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| yag_si_HS wrote: |
But that is a computer game ?
I would prefer recommendations from some knowledgeable snowheads |
lady's front bottom
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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 best Blue runs are the short ones that get you to the good stuff
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Bones, oh, I don't know, there are some which are lovely for their own sake - which for me must include good views and a decent length of run. Savoleyres (Verbier) springs to mind. I also remember skiing for miles on easy runs in Snowmass - and also saw a youngster who was skiing too fast hit a tree: he died.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I guess I only really use blue runs as a 'warm-up' or as a means of getting round the mountain to some nice red runs. I certainly do not use them as an excuse to go flat out and scare any less experienced slope users who might be there.
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I remember really liking the tree-lined blue down to Vallorcine at Le Tour (part of the Chamonix lift pass area), but that might be because I was proudly following the kids down it in their early days.
There are a couple of blues that were good fun at Engelberg - down from Jochpass. Lots of off/between piste opportunities too.
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Moraine in ValT, Plan Mugner above 1650, PisteL in ValD down to le Laisinant and the blue route down to La Daille are all cracking cruisers, and all wide enough to let the skis run without being dangerous about it. In general though blues are just links to bigger and better, to have one that's good fun is a bonus.
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Etive glades in Glencoe Scotland. When slightly icy underneath and a small soft coat on top to dampen it slightly it is great.
Nice load of ripples to absorb and you can get some serious speed up comfortably and safely. 
cheers
Bob
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Have to say still love the blue into La Tania, Fouyleres (sp) really great for rollers and normally very quiet 
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