 Poster: A snowHead
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yeah, and who left all that snow on the hills? Been there for weeks, you'd have thought they'd have tidied it up by now.......
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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?
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Oh man
Another big dump on the way
But at the moment im house hunting
Sunday will be epic for anyone who can be out on the slopes.
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Just landed back from a fantastic week in Alpe d'huez. Conditions have been great and when we were picked upat 0500 this morning there was already a couple of cms of snow on the ground!
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Just returned after a great 'boys trip' week in ADH. Conditions on piste are as good as it gets at the moment and Friday nights snow and lower temperatures transformed some off piste which up to then had been generally crusty. Went down the Grand Sablat glacier on Thursday in sunshine but very variable snow, some nice light powder in the bowl at the very top then breakable crust and some icy conditions lower down but still a fun morning and excellent lunch at the auberge in Clavans. The Sarenne on Saturday morning had some nice light snow in the borders and the Col De Cluy was chopped up but good fun.
Back in 2 weeks, no sign of the snow letting up just yet 
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Any news from on the spot ?
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Is that quite narrow and turns a bit icy if there's no fresh? Just had a memory jog (should that read flashback?) from about 1995 
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Haha yeah thats exactly the place.
Blubird powder today. Just got home. Mini TR and some pics later 
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| Skola wrote: |
Haha yeah thats exactly the place.
Blubird powder today. Just got home. Mini TR and some pics later |
Rememver it will from last year - it was vitually blue sheeet ice with a slight dusting on top - horrid!
looks like it will be considerably nicer tomorrow
How's the Tunnel looking with all this fresh ?
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Some nice pics there, thanks for taking the time to put them up. Im sat with a G n T watching photos and Vids of my trip here 2 years ago. I cant wait now, im flying out Saturday so I stop looking at the snow frocast, its changing each time its updated but as I type its saying very cold and sunny most of next week with light winds and the chance of some light snow Monday & Tueday afternoon. Now that sounds about perfect to me. Im sure the forcast will have changed by the morning but it makes me feel good right now. 
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Bitterly cold with sunshine and light to moderate wind for the last few days and it seems seveal to come. Snow is holding up nicely but when the maximum temperature in an afternoon is -16 its pretty chilly!
more snow soon please
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Poster: A snowHead
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22cm forecast for Valentines day.
Im guessing the amount and date of the snowfall will change but looks like there is a significant snowfall due next week!
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| Skola wrote: |
22cm forecast for Valentines day.
Im guessing the amount and date of the snowfall will change but looks like there is a significant snowfall due next week! |
Brilliant! I come out on Saturday, so maybe they'll be some blue bird days for a warm up then powder central thereafter!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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So its our last day here in ADH, the first 3 days the snow was holding up great, High up on Tuesday was excelent but the wind that came in on Wednesday has removed what fresh snow there was. We witnessed some poor guy fall from near enough the top of tunnel to the first cliff yesterday. The moguls up there where wind blown into icy peaks and it was a nightmare (we gave it a miss after seeing what happend to him). He must have fell 200-300 metres like a rag doll, it was shocking to see. There was an ESF instructor on the piste at the time and a few others went to his aid. From what we could see he was knocked out cold on the way down but was sitting up after a while at the bottom. We didnt stay long enough to see if they had to Heli him away, but It would be a miracle if he wasnt.
For anyone comming out next week I hope some snow arrives for you, it very much needs it. I will post some pics when I get home.
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Yeah, to be honest the tunnel isn't a run I enjoy much - icy moguls/flat/icy moguls/flat/flat then its over. its a challenge but la sarenne to me is more enjoyable and interesting ... in fact I haven't done the tunnel yet this season.
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You were lucky to get up the Pic du Lac Blanc, the cable car is now broken and out of action until repairs and an inspection
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We managed to get up to Pic Blanc just twice last week, the first day up (Tuesday) the snow was the best we had all week. Both my mates tracked the sarenne on aiphone app and both clocked the run from top station to the restaurant at arround 6 miles, not the 10 that its reported to be. In all we had a fantastic week, the chalet Namika (in the altiport) was as nice as it was on our last stay two years ago and we also managed to cover loads of terrain. On one day we managed Highest point - lowest point - and both ends of the piste map in the same day.
Another suprising fact of that day was that the tracker app' had us skiing for only 2 hours and 2 minutes covering 31 miles of piste and we where out from 9.30am to last lift with about an hour for lunch.
It was bright and sunny for most of the time but fecking freezing, with temps ranging from -7 to -17c. Like I have said the snow was great untill the winds arrived on Tuesday pm, these continued into Wednesday fausing most of the lifts to remain closed for the best part of Wednesday. These winds stipped away any of the good snow that the cold temperatures had help to retain. Thursday and Friday remained sunny, very cold with very hard to icy snow.
So in all the first 3 days where great, but good vis' all week.
Snow is needed now tho'
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Snow is needed indeed and its disappeared from the snow forecasts 
At least its gonna get a little warmer towards midweek.
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Skola, Frikkin freezing today! We went up to the Sarenne via Marmottes and the snow was actually really good on piste, not expecting any off piste this week if the snow fails to arrive but tootling around on piste with the family is fine if a bit busy in places & sure beats work!
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anyone of the locals know when the lifts close this year? I am getting itchy for a late season trip and the weekends of 14/15 or 28/29 April look most practical (dodgy knee permitting...)
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I would say not to go on the closing weekend. I went a couple of years ago and the whole lift system shut down at around 2pm on the Sunday except for some of the resort lifts. Even the DMC closed. We did get a refund on our ticket for the last day. Christian Reverdel, the piste director, apologized but said they wanted to get everything shut down by Sunday evening. All the matting and safety netting removed etc so that the area was pretty much ready for the interseason.
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davidof, good to know. would not be a good result if i was doing something from Vaujany and relying on lifts to get back!
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You know it makes sense.
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| Arno wrote: |
| davidof, good to know. would not be a good result if i was doing something from Vaujany and relying on lifts to get back! |
I understand they want to start tidying things up but even the DMC stopped so we couldn't go as far as the 1ere troncon. The tourist board had assured us it would be open, as the piste director said "they should have asked me before putting out that kind of information".
Of course you can always have bad weather etc that can shut everything down so I guess it is just one of those things. I skied ADH last spring, it is a great ski area, and we will no doubt go up this spring, but not on closing weekend. Never again.
Val Thorens on closing day last year kept all the domain open until 5pm on closing Sunday.
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skitow, this year is setting up to be slightly better than last 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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skitow, I feel horrible looking at that first pic. Those will be sad days.
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Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere but sad to hear of the death of a skier this week who fell 40 metres through rocks trying to find the entrance to Coulour Fleur, spotted by skiers on the Dome Des Rousses lift and recovered by helicopter along with a friend on a snowboard who survived. Incomprehensible that anyone would be attempting that line with the state of the OP at the moment, they were holidaymakers staying in Vaujany for the week, very very sad.
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Temps up to around -3 this morning in Oz, cloudy and with some light snow blowing around, hopefully a bit more coming down higher up, now heading out to investigate!
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Nick D, sad news. complex terrain up there
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So........ light snow all day today & blowing up top, hasnt laid down much @ 1350, Maybe a little up top but just unpleasant really so giving it one last chance tomorrow then emigrating to Alpe Du Grand Serre & the less well known resorts mega thread!
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Sunshine
Set to go up to 2-3 degrees during the day with FL at the summit
Low wind
Nice and pleasant but....snow please.
They pisted the tunnel the other day, somehow. Didnt take long for the moguls to reform.
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Skola, I saw the piste basher going up there one afternoon last week while poling the traverse from the top of 2800, couldn't quite believe it, never seen it pisted before, apparently theres a new director of SATA who's trying some different ideas this season. I hear the snows deteriorating a bit? how are the queues now the Parisiens & Dutch have turned up?
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Nick D,
Do you mean right up the main slope to the drop-offs at the tunnel exit ? I have skied for many years in Alpe d'Huez and have never seen that done either. To be honest I am not so sure it is a very good idea anyway, for me the whole attraction of the run is that it has not been pisted.
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skitow, Yep right up under the entrance lip, looked like it was going to tip over!
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April to 10th April but I will have the mountain bike on standby, like last year 