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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er... should we expect this year's pictures at some stage for 'contrast'?
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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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red 27, presumably around 8/9 April?
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Should be interesting!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Colin B, Fingers crossed for conditions like the first this year!
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2007 was not great, 2008 was very good (but Easter was very early) and 2009 was pretty good. Haven't got the same shot for those although I had the same apartment.
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kitenski wrote: |
All those folk panicking about warm temps, this was last year.
Saulire 9th April 2011 (I think)
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3 1/2 weeks is a long time in sports.
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red 27 wrote: |
er... should we expect this year's pictures at some stage for 'contrast'? |
Good point.
Most of the lower resorts (return to valley runs) are going to really suffer over the next week or so with the higher temps in the valleys. Sunday's midday forecast valley temp for ski Amade is +13 deg c !
Even in VT resort at 2,300m, it's forecast to be +3 deg c.
Hey, it's spring, these are the conditions to expect! Sun cream, spring snow and slushy in the valleys!
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April recollections from the past 4 years of doing seasons (Tarentaise):
2008 - Very, very good. Good base and cold weather + snow with epic powder riding still available as the lifts were closing for the summer!
2009 - Fine. Great snow base, but dry and very mild throughout April.
2010 - Good. Base was fine and a proper winter snowstorm over Easter weekend gave great conditions - rapidly turned back to Spring afterwards though.
2011 - Let us never speak of it again.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The run to Arc 1800
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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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Amazingly though, they kept the run to Monty open in La Plagne right til the end of the season, iirc!
Many resorts were looking scarily green at the end of March last year, this year will be fine.
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Boris, ah yes. It finished just over the next drop. Well you could go a bit further (a few metres) if you wanted to annoy the golfers
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You know it makes sense.
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Boris, Is that now or last year
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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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Ricklovesthepowder, take a guess, one year has had amazing amounts of snow, one didn't...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Hey, it's spring, these are the conditions to expect!
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not really. Temperatures have been above, or well above, average for much of the last month and, apart from a short blip, forecast to remain well above average for a bit.
Fortunately, many places had a well above average load of snow before the warm weather set in.
So, all rather unusual, actually, but adds up to a reasonable prospect for the next few weeks.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Boris wrote: |
The run to Arc 1800 |
I remember that well. I went out for a run and forgot I was in a ski resort, that was until I nearly got run over by a piste basher that was working on a strip of snow about 5 metres wide!
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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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That's my old man up there, having his sandwich in Les Houches.
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Ricklovesthepowder, Last Easter - I'm seriously hoping this Easter will be better!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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