 Poster: A snowHead
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My first venture back to France for 25 years this year after 20 years of no skiing and going to Italy exclusively since starting again 8 years ago aged 36.
Anyways was getting a bit concerned about the lower slopes conditions in L2A but hopefully this weekend has sorted the base out for the rest of the 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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4 of us heading out end of Feb. Not skiied since Covid or been to L2A before so longest break we have had. Looking forward to getting back into it.
Looks like a new speed lift has been installed recently to get you to top in about 15mins with so Blue runs high up if conditions are not great lower down.
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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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Quiet thread.
Setting off on Friday to ski from Sunday. Not visited L2A before, but conditions look / sound decent?
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In L2A currently. Conditions are some of the best I've seen at this time of year... even Vallee Blanche is open and running. Some of the long flat sections are running slow and the wind/visibility has made things interesting, but having a great time.
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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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In L2A currently. Conditions are some of the best I've seen at this time of year... even Vallee Blanche is open and running. Some of the long flat sections are running slow and the wind/visibility has made things interesting, but having a great time.
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@Doofenschmirtz, yep, was here sane week last year. Was decent then, but snow cover & quality just now is wonderful.
Took the Venosc to Allemond bus yesterday to ski at AdH. This picture shows the seamless cover over at L2A as seen from the Sarenne ski run.
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Spent the past two weeks at LDA
Snowfall of 20-30cm on both weeks
Snow conditions fantastic
No queuing
Lovely boot top to knee deep powder last Tuesday
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I’m close to booking accommodation at L2A for the weekend of 18/19 April, as I’m pretty confident they’ll still have good conditions up top. But, anyone know if Fee sector will still be open by then?
I’m not expecting Vallée Blanche to be but when we went a couple of years ago around the same time Fee was shut and wasn’t sure if this was due to snow conditions or if they start closing down parts of the resort simply due to lack of demand.
Not the end of the world if only Toura, Signal, Puy Salie and the like were open (though would ideally need Belle Etoile, Cretes and Diable to be open as can walk to Belle Etoile from the accommodation I’m looking at).
Any and all advice appreciated. Oh and any clues on the new parking set up. Looks a faff.
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If I had the cash I would have stayed
Bit of rain down low this week but snow up high
Should be great for some time
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@bigtuboflard, we skied late last year in L2A due to Easter being very late and it was decent; everything below Super Diable/Belle Etoille technically shut (some of it skiable, lifts running though) and Fee area not lift served, but loads of snow elsewhere. I did wonder if the positioning of Easter had a bearing on things staying open that late - there was petty much zero snow on Valleee Blanche to keep that open anyway and only after a mega dump was there any snow for Fee, so guess it was a safety call.
We had a great time and TBH, even though I guesstimated that 30% of the domain was unskiable/closed, we still had enough snow and area to keep us occupied.
We stayed up near the Diable lift so it was a short walk but we did wander to Jandri3s one day and there was no queueing, despite 1600 students being in town for a big trip. Belle Etoille lift was running fine to get ski schools up the hill.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@bigtuboflard, I've skied L2A end of March/early April 4 or 5 times now & have never known it as snowy as this year. There was oodles of snow in Fee sector last week, oodles on Vallee Blanche, and there was oodles even on the run down to Mont-de-Lans at 1300m with just some mud on the road bridge at the end. Unless there's a really brutal thaw between now and then, I'd guess it'd be lack of demand rather than a dearth of snow that would get Fee closed.
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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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Thanks all, that reassures me that there will be at least as much open as my last trip there in April, and hopefully a bit more open besides. I’ll drop a report in here once in resort.
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