 Poster: A snowHead
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Does anyone know if the Glacier will be open for this winter after the fire.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The latest estimate, as of last night, was "early January".
Things going according to plan, was speaking to someone working on the site. All damaged/burnt equipment/buildings stripped or demolished, reconstruction about to get under way...
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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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But in my somewhat limited experience of LP (4 or 5 visits), they don't always open the glacier area even when the lifts are OK and the weather is good. I've never been able to figure out the 'logic' of when the Glacier is opened. I'd always assumed they were saving it for the summer - but it never opened this year even before the fire damage.
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kuwait_ian, I was about to say - yes it did open because I was on it - but then I realised that you ment over this summer. I was up there at the end of March.
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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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Was open when I was there first week Jan last season. Best decent (in fact nearly the only) snow in resort. bug of a hike to get to it tho.... Which rather explains why the lifts accessing it are often closed in poor weather.
Having skied it, I can see why the slopes/lifts to it are often closed even in good weather - it's not *that* big to start with (c.f, say, Tignes), and it attracted a LOT of attention while I was there. I imagine that under normal conditions it could get skied out and ruined very quickly even during winter but for, er hem, the strategic resort "management" of it.
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Manda, I think you've cracked it. They open it in winter only when there is little snow elsewhere. If there is plenty of scope, then they seem to keep it closed. Mostly. Maybe ??
lampbus, yes that's what I meant. Sorry my post wasn't worded too well.
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