 Poster: A snowHead
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just been looking at the upcoming weather for the ski welt as we fly out this weekend and I see its going to be kecking warm!! 17/18 degrees on sat sunday and between 5-9 for the rest of the week..
now i know that there is 80-220cm of snow on the hill so it should survive while were there but at what point do you consider it sping skiiing temps...double figures? and at what point do you begin to worry??
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Brilliant, t-shirt & shades skiing. We had temps in the teens in the Dolomites last Feb. This year it was in the minus teens. Best thing to do is look out of the window in the morning. I usually start to worry on the way home, with work the next day. It'll be fine, enjoy 
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at what point do you begin to worry??
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when the grass shows through.
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If there's still snow don't worry.
It's really quite nice skiing in a t-shirt when it's warm. OK the snow will be less than perfect, making it harder work but it's quite fun dealing with all the mounds of sugary stuff that have been pushed up.
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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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rock hard icy pistes or nice forgiving snow if you time your aspect right
solid or lovely slushy moguls?
spring corn or breakable crust?
I know what I prefer 
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Hit 15c in Sella Ronda when I was there 10 days ago, no problem apart from feeling like I was skiing in an oven.
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at what point do you begin to worry??
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when the grass shows through. |
It's when the grass turns to mud you need to worry.
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It hit 15º when I was in Cervina almost 2 weeks ago. Advantages are that you only need a light t-shirt under your ski jacket, no thermals, no hat and you're still way too hot. Visibility is fantastic and you can't help feeling good when the sun is shining. This disadvantage is the effect it has on the snow. Even somewhere high like Cervinia was big piles of sugary slush by the afternoon. The mornings were icy and hard packed and much much better. So plan to do the bulk of the skiing in the morning, have a nice long lunch and be prepared for the horrible wet stuff in the afternoon. Oh and remember the factor 50!
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And let's not forget it is also possible to have a change in the weather - I've skied in some stupidly cold and snowy weather late easter before
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was bloody roasting on my final day in Mayrhofen two days ago and that was only 10 degrees... forecast higher temps
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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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kitenski, +1
Slush is great fun, you get to wash your face while you ski 
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kitenski, in fairness it didn't freak me out so much this season. I'm generally a bit fitter and skiing better. But I still don't like slush, it's too slow and and I'm so heavy I just always seem to sink, there's no 'blasting through' it's more a case of 'digging myself out'. Give me icy hardpack any day...
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You know it makes sense.
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Well, I am all worried about going to Pila at the end of the month - looks as if the weather is just going to get warmer and warmer and no snow for when I go.
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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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jb1970, you already have a thread of people telling you to stop worrying. STOP WORRYING! There WILL be snow. At Pila you can't ski back to the town anyway, and the snow will be fine up the mountain.
Late March skiing is wonderful! Hard-packed in the morning, slushy by late afternoon - which means early to the bar for beers on the terrace in the warm sunshine.
No layers needed, just plenty of suncream. Far more plesant than December/January skiing when it's fricking freezing.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Anyone going skiing in the Alps in the next month should take their swimming gear, hiking boots and sun protectors.
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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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Anyone going skiing in the Alps in the next month should take their swimming gear, hiking boots and sun protectors
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 there is still plenty of snow in most places (162cm at village level in Les Saisies which is a lot more than there was at the top at any time last year) and over 2m at 2000m. All pistes open. And I'm sure the same will be true of loads of places. Certainly it's "spring conditions" but spring conditions can be very pleasant.
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| Whitegold wrote: |
| Anyone going skiing in the Alps in the next month should take their swimming gear, hiking boots and sun protectors. |
Utter garbage as usual.
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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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Hold on!
What's going on?
It's spring...and...we have... Springlike conditions!
How totally...
Normal.
Move on folks, nothing of interest here...
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Looks like I'm off to Val T 7th April.........don't care what the snow conditions will be like. I know we are going to have fun
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It's spring...and...we have... Springlike conditions!
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I must admit that I think of mid-March as optimum ski time - usually plenty of snow, the school hols are over, days longer but not too warm. The only reason I'm not in the Alps enjoying this wonderful sunshine is because I have to stick around and be a granny.
However, temperatures have been well above average for a while now (as they are here in England - I haven't had my central heating on for days and days and the place is full of people in shorts).
Fortunately, however, in much of the northern and eastern Alps, this warmer-and-drier-than-usual Spring followed a snowier-and-colder-than-normal early Winter. So everything's fine. Statistics being what they are, this will probably go down in the records as a very average sort of season, despite having been nothing of the sort, really.
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