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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I have one on my dressing table it wears Laderhozen and dances and sings. The dogs hates it 
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Only time I've ever seen one was in Hintertux last April. There were dozens of them all lounging around sunbathing!
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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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My baby son cuddles one every night in bed.
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Spotted some in the supermarket next to the Bovril.
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stewart woodward, never seen a marmotte before April.
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Took this picture last May in Austria at 2500m
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My eldest son has an evil Marmotte called Maramaduke who likes Marmalade.
does this count?
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Plenty to be seen in La Foux in Southern Alps last week ...................... no pics but we did see them on one particular lift every time we went up ................... I'm now glad I know what they are !!!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Like Paulio, I saw lots of them in Tux - in July.
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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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Can't offer any marmots, but I saw a fox today while I was going up in the Venosc lift. He was trotting about in the snow, presumably doing foxy things.
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I got this one 
I also saw a few foxy things in "the Pub" last night...
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You know it makes sense.
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I have never yet seen one!
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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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I've only seen marmots in the summer. I can thoroughly recommend marmot stew, BTW; very strong flvour, although there's not a lot of meat on your average marmot.
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Poster: A snowHead
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richmond, you need to feed them up a bit.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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richmond, I am lead to believe that you either love it or hate it....or is that Marmite?
In Australia, do they have Vegemottes?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Saw loads in the Espace Killy last year in w/c 21st April but none this trip -15th March to 29th March. However as this was probably due to the prodigious snowfalls and the lovely cool temperatures preserving it all, I am quite happy with the trade off
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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They're all in bed, asleep.
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Like the policemen.
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The first Marmotte of the sesson was spotted under the Palafour lift yesterday by one of our instructors.
It probably had a quick look at all the snow and decided to go back to bed 
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Saw one under a chair lift think it was last March. My son drew our attention to a, "bear" crawling over the rocks; it was of course a marmot, and he will never live it down
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Saw lots of marmots today - first time this season.  They were to the right of the Palafour lift and also some going up the Col de Fresse chair.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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stewart woodward, You obviously missed the post, but last week a marmotte ran across the Valentin piste right in between the skiers and snowboarders! I was shocked! We've also seen one marmotte just off the the right of the petit cretes chair. He's been moving around a lot in the snowfield. Last night I was watching 2 on the Grand Pente (they can't have been rocks as they were moving). Also seen 2 of them playing or fighting below the Jandri Express. they're so easy to spot against the snow - much easier than in summer. 
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The 3Vallees marmottes are starting to wake up now, me and johnnyboy spotted 7 marmottes today around Mottarett. The first was under the Plan des Mains chair beside Mont Vallon, this marmotte was so alarmingly large it looked like it may have feasted on the wife&kids... The others were under the Pas du Lac gondola, 2 marmotte holes fairly close together with 6 little furries sitting out admiring the view. And JohntheSwede has just reported seeing a big marmotte out for a walk in the snow under the Roc des 3Marches gondola in Les Menuires.
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You know it makes sense.
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littleblue,
I think I must have seen the same Marmotte this morning under the Plan des Mains chair and it was a whoppa! We also saw three more, all this morning around Mont Vallon and the Mures Rouges chair. They are definitely waking up and looking quite lively.
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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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stewart woodward, that week in Tignes, the ESF instructor that I was with spotted his first of the season just off Piste 'H' near Val Claret (was the Thursday, I think). He seemed genuinely excited.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Following euangoneskiing up the deux-lacs chair in VT last week there came an outstretched pointing arm to the left with a long cry of "mmaaaarrrrmoooooooooottes". And so I had my first ever sighting of a pair!
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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 saw this strange-coloured one coming up out of it's hole last Thursday
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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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| Butterfly wrote: |
| Following euangoneskiing up the deux-lacs chair in VT last week there came an outstretched pointing arm to the left with a long cry of "mmaaaarrrrmoooooooooottes". And so I had my first ever sighting of a pair! |
I saw one of the 2 Lacs pair as well, on Thursday afternoon.
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As per the Tignes snow report thread, we saw one under the palafour lift (off to the left) on fri 18th april...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Had my first sighting of marmottes in Tignes this weekend. They were all over the place.
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Marmottes spotted in Val d'Isere last week - cute little buggas.
As for using chair lifts, there was one queing quietly to the side of the Marmotte chair lift ... he was there all day ... didn't move much though ... come to think of it he didn;t move at all! 
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Not fast enough to get photos. But we saw 2 of them on the slope below while riding the gondola up from Mottarett to Saulier.
While interesting to see, I have mixed feeling about seeing nature's habitant on ski slopes. It means we invaded their home while they're sleeping.
Nobody like to wake up in the morning only to find one's home is suddenly in the middle of a busy motorway. I suspect the marmottes don't appreciate all the skier/boarder traffic right in the middle of their homes either.
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abc,
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Nobody like to wake up in the morning only to find one's home is suddenly in the middle of a busy motorway. I suspect the marmottes don't appreciate all the skier/boarder traffic right in the middle of their homes either.
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I'm not sure they mind too much, in the summer even in the places where there are a lot of walkers cylists etc. the marmottes seem to thrive and be pretty blase about human activity.
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abc,
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Nobody like to wake up in the morning only to find one's home is suddenly in the middle of a busy motorway. I suspect the marmottes don't appreciate all the skier/boarder traffic right in the middle of their homes either.
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I'm not sure they mind too much, in the summer even in the places where there are a lot of walkers cylists etc. the marmottes seem to thrive and be pretty blase about human activity. |
You maybe right, T-bar. On the other hand, walkers and cyclists don't blast around at 50 miles per hour either. And are you sure there're as many walkers as there're skiers?
Marmottes are preys, I believe. So they're probably used to dodging predetors like fox (or whatever other marmottes eating animals). But very few animals move as fast as downhill skiers. So the poor marmottes might get quite confused as to who they must dodge... 
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I've heard that they do not taste good. Can anyone vouch for that?
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