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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Pretty much everywhere in the Alps starts to shut-up shop by mid April. Very few resorts still open by the end of the month.
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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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Snowheads End of Season Bash ends 27th April (but Val Thorens is as high as it gets), so 2 months sounds more like it.
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Tignes closes on the 11th may 2013, so 10 weeks to go 
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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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Very few resorts still open by the end of the month.
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but quite a lot open until well into April. Les Saisies is fully open till 5 April and partly till 19th. Crystal just want people to buy their holidays, pronto.
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moffatross, it's probably more a case of them trying to drive their revenue up sooner rather than later. Fear tactics are incredibly effective on consumers (and voters).
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moffatross, depends if whether you consider "just over a month" to be two months. Their marketing department clearly thinks so. Luckily, I intend on paying for next season's holidays in "just over 10 months" which using the maths above I consider to be at least 11 months. I am sure their credit department will not think the same way their marketing department does.
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I was looking at Crystal for Easter next season and despite they didn't offer any departures beyond the 5th April. So for Crystal irrespective of when the resort close they don't offer any ski holidays beyond then.
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It's usually driven by how Easter falls. The thinking by the resorts is that once Easter is past their European clients will head for the beach.
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But next season it is quite late so we are going out on the 13th April and flying back on Easter Sunday which is why it really surprised that Crystal weren't offering that week.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Marketing...making you rush to put your hand in your pocket if you've nothing booked...
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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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NickyJ, by mid April most people in Europe seem to have stopped thinking about skiing - even when the snow is still good, resorts are deserted. And of course the snow often isn't very good by then. In France the sports shops will have been full of tents and beach stuff for weeks by Easter next year.
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Oh FFS, that's one reason why my bookings fall off a cliff after easter, just as the spring skiing is getting lovely.
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You know it makes sense.
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I've lost track but isn't Easter early this year?
Most think of the season ending after Easter weeks.
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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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It was a rhetorical question regarding Crystal's somewhat deliberately misleading email really, but even so, it seems that the Alps are mostly wasted on the Europeans. Warm Spring skiing on granular snow is up there with sunny mid-winter freshies in my opinion. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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I intend to be enjoying those conditions, especially as I'll have had two months off with injury. Granular snow - lush. But that elephant-snot sticky stuff? No. I'm going to try Zardoz Notwax if I hit any this year.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| moffatross wrote: |
| It was a rhetorical question regarding Crystal's somewhat deliberately misleading email really, but even so, it seems that the Alps are mostly wasted on the Europeans. Warm Spring skiing on granular snow is up there with sunny mid-winter freshies in my opinion. |
+1, but that's what skins are for
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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pam w, you want to try hitting that sticky ***t on tele kit  What's worse it scratches your face badly and invariable tastes vile.
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you want to try hitting that sticky ***t on tele kit
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no, I don't think I do, thanks all the same. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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moffatross, Well my next trip to the dolomites is in two weeks time, but the last one for the season is in nine weeks time - 27th April to 5th May (and that is in Austria where everything is low altitude and it doesn't snow  ) Well, it's the Stubai glacier actually, with skiing from 3200 to 2300 metres.
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moffatross, is your glass half full or half empty?
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Crystal need a crystal ball, because this is total balls.
Some of my best skiing ever has been in the closing days of April. One winter in Les Arcs I skied the entire system, without hitting a rock, with thick cover down to 1600m, on 28 April.
Tip: almost all of Zermatt's lift system will be open until 21 April. With the unusual amount of snow on all the main slopes, this is where I'd head for a late-season blast.
As noted above, Scotland can be brilliant into early May. And then, for the adventurous, maybe head for the Arctic Circle and Sweden's most northerly ski resort Riksgransen, in Lapland. Unforgettable.
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| moffatross wrote: |
| the Alps are mostly wasted on the Europeans. |
Last time I checked Scotland was still in Europe, mind you maybe not for too much longer.
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moffatross, maybe crystal are finishing their Scottish flights in one month, but that won't stop you
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waynos, you never know, when they get their independnce they might even join euro!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Typical of Crystal.
They are a ski holiday company....which is somewhat different from a being a skiing or snow enthusiast 
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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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waynos, you never know, when they get their independnce they might even join euro!
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Or even the EU
Many TO close their ski season early so that they can re allocate the charter aircraft to sunny resorts for the summer season. Their season finishes early not the ski season is what they meant to say.
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Just past the half-way point here
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You know it makes sense.
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i'm just hoping the snow holds out well into april, out for 2 weeks from 28th March....fingers crossed
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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skinutter, where are you going?
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Poster: A snowHead
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lol...oh you know me, we'll be in Notre D d B and using the car to hop up to Saisies etc. In theory (following wind etc..) should be the first year all 4 of us will be on the slopes together finally.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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skinutter, fingers crossed it works out.... I'll be there then. Until 7 April with big and complicated family party (I have arranged over €750 of ski lessons....) then from 9th onward on my own - would be nice to see you.
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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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Be great to catch up if you are about...will be in touch...hope party planning goes well!
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A friend of mine is looking to go out 4/5 April. I had suggested Ischgl or St A/Lech. Travel agent said he should avoid Austria that late in the season
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Ski Sundays finished ergo the season must be over.
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my kitten will be very disappointed next Sunday
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Va Thorens is also open until 10th May. Not booking out the apartment beyond end april though.
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