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Wish I could have gone myself... this is what it was like up there yesterday...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Argh - getting impatient now 
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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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I just hope it stays like that for when I get there in March 
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Fantastic
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PG, That's looking very dry and fluffy, wonderful pic 
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I've got a good feeling about this season 
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Looks good, and quiet too. Thanks for the photo.
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If it looks like that on Saturday 24th December I will be one happy And if it's like that all the way down to Le Brevier I will be even happier.
CP
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I hope it stays like that till 9 Dec! A big improvement that would be over last year! 
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David Murdoch, I was there last November at it was fine up on the Grand Motte - what happened to the snow after I left? The GS photos in my snowMedia ablbum (click on the 'Me!' link in my signature) were all taken on that piste (3500). If anything, there was rather too much snow for my liking.
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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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i arrived in tignes last april for a week at easter.. my friends had got there two days before and conditions were pretty crud.. on my drive there it was raining all the way through france which meant only one thing higher up.. i arrived in la breviere? down in the valley where u can see the picture on the dam, just as the snow stopped .. for the next week we could ski all the way bk down into town except for the last day where you had to walk a couple of patches on the road back down .. (or not if you had hired your gear  ).. soemtimes it is better to be lucky than good !
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You know it makes sense.
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PG, brilliant pic, thanks PG - off there in 3 weeks - that pic is now circulating amongst very excited pals
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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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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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rob@rar.org.uk, Or would that be a cable car decablement ??
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I've been to the Espace more times than I can remember, and I've never been in that cable car...
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| I've been to the Espace more times than I can remember, and I've never been in that cable car... |
I think I've only been up it once when the entire resort is open. It can get very cold at 3,600m so I don't think there is a compelling reason to use the cable car when the entire domain is open (although the views from the top cable car station are spectacular).
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The glacier today - cracks beginnning to show...
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PG - Thanks for posting all of your great pictures. Where exactly was the above one taken? I have skied Tignes and the glacier area so just wondering where that huge crack is located.
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oh er.....who's got the pollyfilla?
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good new though. snow-forecast shows freezing levels down to sea level by the weekend. surely thats good news.
pudders
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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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benpudney, yes, but the forecast here doesn't seem to indicate a lot of precipitation falling on the French Alps for the next couple of weeks (Austria, on the other hand, looks very promising).
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ummm very interesting. as long as its started by the time i leave for my season on dec4th i will be fine. just could do with seeing some white stuff on the mountains via the webcm
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You know it makes sense.
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benpudney, are you in Tignes, or somewhere else?
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actually courcevel for training but hopefully tignes for the season
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Poster: A snowHead
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benpudney, nice, have a great season.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Adrian, roughly here:
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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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Thanks PG. I have skiied along that ridge, with a guide, a few times. About three years ago there was plenty of snow and we skiied easily on the piste-side face then crossed over above the yellow dot and down the other face. It was so good we did it twice one day!
Last winter was more interesting as the crevasses were much more visible. Some between the piste and the ridge. The big horizontal crevase in the shaded area (or one of its friends) above was mostly snow covered where we skiied. I thing we stayed near the ridge until below that crevase.
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pg, How much is open at the moment and what are the conditions like?
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Only the glacier area, down as far as Rosolin and the nordic area, no further. The snowpark is taking shape but slowly, not enough snow. Top part of Leisse prepared and looks ok, but not open yet and not about to. Conditions cold, perfect for race training, narrow free skiing areas holding up well but only because of lack of tourists - last Friday, a public holiday, they were soon scraped bare.
Clouds building up as I left not long after midday today, very cold. Very cloudy now in Bourg, raining slightly.
First thing at Val Claret still little sign of snow cannons working - just some token, rather sad looking small piles of the white stuff under the Lanches.
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The snow cannons have been running all day today.
There wasn't much snow overnight though.
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i will be in tignes this afternoon, for a quick weekends skiing. Stoppign with RAF guys in le lac, and maybe catch up with some of you on the hill. txt +447801 716200 if you want to get hold of me.
gotta go catch flight now!
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Greetings from the Grand Motte. Fabulous blue sky, not much wind and not too cold. It's a bit busy with ski clubs, but the kids should be back in school tomorrow. Lots of ice and hard pack: good for gates, but not much else. My new GS skis are awesome - definetly a good buy!
Paul: I tried to say hello on the Rosolin piste, but you weren't around (I said hello to your coach instead).
Race training starts tomorrow. Too many good skiers in my group, so I'mgoing to look a bit of a muppet  !
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Snow-forecast is looking a bit more hopeful for the end of next week. About time too.
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