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Tete Ronde is a favourite in ValT. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Renard, les arcs
Can be quite busy if peak ski school time but it's a great run for confidence building, riding switch or just jibbing round the edges...
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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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Ray Zorro, wrote
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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),
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I agree - really enjoyed that one.
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Or lots of the reds in Dolomites (well, all of them in terms of them being blue).
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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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Combe a Florets on the way down to Les Lindarets...
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| Hurtle wrote: |
| 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. |
That was the first full length run I ever did - and at that time had only had two hours of lessons on a dry slope, then a morning skiing without lessons on the short "Piste Bleue" at the end of the road where the Savroleyres gondola starts (I was staying in a chalet in the middle of that piste, had arrived on Saturday, and proper lessons didn't start until the Monday morning).
I skied it a couple more times later in the week, and I do remember it as a very enjoyable run.
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Hopefully someone else who was also on this year's and last year's SHBBs and who has a better memory than me will remember the name of that ace blue that goes from where the go-go bar is which we must have done about 7 times on the trot... Big grin factor.
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La Plagne - the one that goes through a tunnel - can't remember the name. Eventually becomes Les Laines down into Belle Plagne. It has a couple of bits where you really do just have to schuss and go for it to avoid walks. But the rest of the run is great. Mostly wide enough to accomodate all grades of skiers at differing speeds - but the more skilled are generally considerate enough to keep the speed down.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| geepee wrote: |
| Tete Ronde is a favourite in ValT. |
Another vote for Tete Ronde!
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You know it makes sense.
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Plein Sud after a beer or three in the Plein Sud/Folie Douce  No need to turn
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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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The top 2/3 of Pluviometre in - VT, Tete Ronde - VT, Moraine VT, Grand Lac - Les Men, Le blue from Mid Station into St MArtin (last run on empty slope)... hmm I see a 3v theme here.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Pista 2, Folgarida. A glorious run back to resort with a fantastic piste-side hotel doing food a few hundred metres before the bottom that's not marked on the map, so it's fairly quiet - even when the main food stops are full-to-bursting 
Dubaian - that's les Inversens IIRC
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Tue 13-07-10 10:42; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Folieres into La Tania, and - although it's designated a green, parts are blue - Marvel in Morillon 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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TallTone, that's the one. TVM
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Sideshow_Bob, but it used to be called Inversens 
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Favourite blue run ever has to be the one down to the bar in Arabba that we ended up in in the evenings on the Birthday Bash (although unfortunately the name escapes me and I can't find the name on the piste map), sure someone else can remember though?). Great run with a GS type 'secret' turning off the side, termed by the Birthday Bashers as 'testosterone alley'. Must have done that run about 7 or 8 times each evening, until they wouldn't run the chairlift back up anymore, good times The obsession with skiing down as quickly as possible even ended up with one instance of edging and waxing skis at the top prior to the last run down. Pretty much the pre-cursor to flat-line Friday (which in the end was all talk and never actually happened on the EoSB)
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I cannot believe people are condoning skiing at speed on 'Blue' runs? Surely the very nature of a 'Blue' slope means that there may be inexperienced skiers, or even children, skiing them at leisure.
And as for skiing after drinking alcohol, as suggested above, I am shocked, no, appalled, that people seem to support this.
What about the children? Will somebody please think of the children?
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The Voice of Reason, this was skiing before drinking alcohol, before we went to the bar. Plus it was a quiet slope, esp the bit at the side and pretty empty by the end of the day, there were no children about.
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(Batman_123, maybe my ironic slipped past without you noticing?)
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The Voice of Reason, Skiing should be done fast if you like it that way.
Why should you be restricted to a crawl because you have gone on a black run and cant handle it. Surely it is better to be on a blue where you are comfortable and can control your speed and then have the max fun by going fast.
Where I ski (glencoe) I can look down the Etive glades and see that there is only 1 person within 300m of me. I think it is safe to then go at speed in these conditions.
However, on a blue in Norway that is mobbed, I would not do that.
Golden rule. Go at the right speed for the conditions and the terrain. You cant generalise.
Cheers
Bob
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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If its safe to go fast on a blue... do it. I find it more dangerous when you get people on Reds and Blacks who clearly cant handle it. The wannabe red runners are the worse as generally overconfident and showing off.
My favorite BLUE RUN is ACUREUIL in Risoul. Fantastic run home and never busy, tree lined and wide with fantastic off piste through the trees. Plenty for all the family to do together.
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You know it makes sense.
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2b in obertauern.. not very long but a great way to start the day, and if your the first up there i can see no reason at all for not trying to attain supersonic speeds
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Poster: A snowHead
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Straightlining the M25 in Verbier, but only when it's closed
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Dantercepies left.
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How come everyone else can talk about straightlining blues but when i post about it i get told off?
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Chopping in and around the trees on Critters and New Critters at Mammoth Mt, the whole Chair 12 area is one of my favourite spots - mini powder bowl at the top, tree runs and an ancient chairlift means nobody's there most of the time. Perhaps the 2 feet of fresh overnight and a bluebird day i rode it on help the memory too...
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ph,
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Now it is a bit different at X Mas this year I was much like you. I almost schussed the whole length but got stuck in traffic just before the tunnel
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But when you do get right through it's a great feeling and you always stop to enjoy the moment,
when of course you should keep going and schuss right on down into Belecote 
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OOoooo no. Now I really want to ski 
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Shimmy Alcott, Tignes glacier is open
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Boredsurfing, have you skied a glacier? Is it worth it? I always think I would feel a bit cheated.
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FAQ
. I imagine it would be a bit dull now that I'm (a little) more accomplished on skis but I remember it fondly as the start of my obsession with snow.
