 Poster: A snowHead
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ok peeps - need help again. You might remember my hubbie tried very hard to kill me in Val D'Isere/Tignes by taking me down Silene....
Well we're off to Zermatt in a couple of weeks. Can anyone tell me which are the "easy" blacks - and which I should say "no way" to.
You could be saving a marriage
(I managed Epaule du charvet; face and le foret ok - think it was the massive moguls on Silene that did me in) 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Black no 16 from Furgg down is 'easy'.
It is also a route home and it gets very crowded at the end of the day.
That is the reason for the grading rather than steepness.
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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 black - 1a (think this is the national) just off 1a from Blauherd, I found challenging (though I am just starting to explore blacks), but I didn't think it had any hidden nasties (put it this way, I did it 3 times). It joins onto 1b/1c which takes you all the way back down to Zermatt past the Olympia bar and a vin chaud. A nice way home and if the light is fading, all of Zermatt twinkles beneath you.
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thanks guys
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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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I agree with Latchigo and Beverley!
Black from Furgg to Furi is only black because it can get a bit 'worn' and does get very busy, no nasty surprises on it.
1a is the National and is steep but very wide, through the trees and usually has good snow.
Apart from those there are only a couple of others I think one very short one off Hornli (unpopular T bar!) and one from Areoleid to Furi. Haven't done either of these but I think they are ok.
I would say that the only ones to really avoid would be the former blacks off Stockhorn i.e. the infamous Trifji bumps! Though these have all been regraded as yellow 'downhill ski runs' for this year.
IMO the worst place on the whole of the 3 mountains is on run 20b Matterhornpiste which is a very easy and scenic red. The problem is that there is one steep and narrow section about 2 thirds of the way down the run. When we were there in Feb it had a large area of sheet ice (blue and glinting!!) at the top, was mogulled in the middle and was always chock full of people picking their way down the middle and wiping out! Made it very hard to negotiate!
You will know it when you find it!
Have fun, wish I was coming back 
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Tenuous link I know but here goes:-
I had the misfortune of sharing a T bar in Zermatt 17 years ago with a very large and as it turned out racist South African. I struck up a conversation with him based around the tension and violence in his home country. He said " theres no tension or trouble with the blacks, we just shoot them!!!!"
I waited for a nasty bit of the T bar journey and pushed the Fitzwilliam off.
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Well done, Ken. You obviously frisked him for firearms first, from the sound of it.
Anyway, I'll pass the story on to Nelson Mandela next time I see him.
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Nice work Ken, very funny too 
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Fitzwilliam!!! Where did that come from?
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