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| coldrainsnow wrote: |
| How's the snow at Grand Montets? I was up at Flaine yesterday and it was raining up until about 2000m, and some of the wettest powder i've ever seen over that to the top. Lots of snow, but impossibly heavy. Wondering if it got any lighter up high at GM. |
Epically good at GM. particularly gullies and dips above 2200m where it seems bottomless.
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Top of Bochard first thing felt like hard work, lots of heavy snow and bad vis. Found some nice snow around Retour Pendant so did a few laps of that as it got tracked out. Sun came out by lunch, did some laps of Herse and Bochard, variable but mostly quite good, I think a bit of sun softening was good for the Bochard area. Predictably quite chopped up and starting to get a bit slushy lower down by the end of the day.
Excited to get further from the pistes with the guide starting tomorrow, lots of people heading up on skins from Herse and Bochard this afternoon. Currently warm and sunny in the valley.
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@drewclarke, pm sent.
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Loads of fresh snow at Le Tour today, quite heavy but still lots of fun to be had. FL seems to have been much lower than the weekend which is good. Highlight was some seriously deep stuff in the trees off the Vallorcine side of Posettes, skins and guide definitely required though.
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@coldrainsnow, uhhhh, "powder" isn't wet ...
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@coldrainsnow, uhhhh, "powder" isn't wet ...
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haha I realize that, the oxymoronism was implied. Is that a word? 
"Cement" would have saved some keystrokes I guess.
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Snowing again at a reasonable rate in Argentiere now
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@coldrainsnow, I would not like to comment 
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Grand Montets along with most of the inhabitants of the Chamonix valley today, absolutely mega. Knee deep in a lot of places and lighter than the previous snow. Great week so far!
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I think we can all agree that the powder is quite dry right now.
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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.
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@PortSki, le tour looks totally fine, Grands Montets still has little powder pockets, apparently ... Les Houches, uh, not so much ...
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You know it makes sense.
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Has anyone been up Le Tour or Les Houches recently please?
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I came down from col de balme today and le tour was getting slushy by noon already, especially the bottom half. It was 18 degrees in Cham this afternoon! South facing stuff is getting roasted all day long. I guess it is officially now the second half of March.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@coldrainsnow, so only a bit over seasonal norms? Also are you sure it was 18C? Hasn't been that warm in town all week, not forecast and certainly not that even in the sun on the other side in Checrouit...
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Poster: A snowHead
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@under a new name, not sure why you keep trolling me, just trying to give information on the thread. My bergfex says it was 17 degrees today - I was walking around town in a t-shirt, and my car thermometer definitely said 18 about 14:00.
but yeah, you're probably right. nowhere near that warm! skiing at Le tour will be great next Thursday.
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Cold untracked actual powder to be had up the Periades glacier if you can drag yourself up there. Stay right over lookers right where there is most shade.
Had a look up the North West Face of the Aiguille de Toule before, which was not so unmissable.
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@coldrainsnow, truly I'm not trying to! The infoclimat data appears to be sourced from the MeteoFrance site, so I'll totally accept that.
It was ~8C when we wandered out at 19:50 ... 
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End of trip for me, very warm indeed when leaving the valley. Pistes as you would expect, very firm in the mornings and slushy in the afternoons. North facing off-piste still holding some nice snow if you can escape the tracks. Our guide even found us fresh tracks yesterday though it did involve 700m vertical of skinning & walking! Overall the gamble was absolutely worth it, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday were fantastic  .
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@DonSheaf, glad you did, you never regret rolling the dice in my experience
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@BobinCH, que?
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| under a new name wrote: |
| @BobinCH, que? |
It’s positively criminal to have been skiing bumps last Thursday 
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Ah, they only skied the bumps to get to the stashes beyond but the bumps were apparently lovely 
But of course it had mostly been skied out ...
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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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So, what's the snow like in Chamonix at the mo?
Did it get anything recent?
Thinking of popping out there 2-3rd April.
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You know it makes sense.
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it's getting some but snowline 2,000-2,200 apparently.
That said, there’s heaps of base up Grands Montets. Pierre a Ric maybe less so?
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@crosbie, skied the Gross Rognon variant of the Vallee Blanche yesterday midday in 2 foot of fresh snow higher up. And some fresh snow down to the Mer de Glace.
Plenty of snow in all the resorts to see them through until the season close. The quality of the snow you encounter will depend on the weather between now and when you arrive. But snow there will be.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| HammondR wrote: |
| @crosbie, skied the Gross Rognon variant of the Vallee Blanche yesterday midday in 2 foot of fresh snow higher up. And some fresh snow down to the Mer de Glace. |
Very nice.
Still 50:50 regarding a visit to Cham, but it'll depend on weather over the next few days.
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Brevent extended (partial) opening for a week. Not sure I’ve ever seen that happen !!
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@under a new name, I received that email. Funny though, seems to exclude where one would really like to open; Cornu. I suppose it provides some nice skiing.
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Maybe those lifts and runs are safest to secure in sunny spring weather.
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@HammondR, and maybe also possibly limited secouriste staff?
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Grands Montets raining at Plan Joran, snowing at Marmottons. Snow is a bit sticky. Pistes in good shape.
All the areas closed today briefly due to risk from a thunderstorm.
Forecasts are for high winds, falling 0°C isotherm and heavy snow, 120cm over Saturday at altitude.
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Grands Montets raining at Plan Joran, snowing at Marmottons. Snow is a bit sticky. Pistes in good shape. Very quiet.
All the areas closed today briefly due to risk from a thunderstorm.
Forecasts are for high winds, falling 0°C isotherm and heavy snow, 120cm over Saturday at altitude.
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@jrussell88, there was certainly thunder in town
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Question for you all:
Heading to Courmayeur today (don't ask, it must be that we like skiing in the rain).
Our normal Easter m.o. would be to head to Giacomo's (is it really called 'The Old House' or something) to eat sat in the sun with everyone else. Other than that the places I've gone have been more along the lines of 'spoiling yourself with a really nice lunch' type.
That's not going to happen today, but my daughter wants to take her friend to eat pasta on the slopes in Italy (and I don't want to spend a firtune).
So where can anyone recommend for us to get fed, dry out, and warm up?
Thanks for any help.
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