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Alan Craggs, very clever, and you managed to fool Ian H!.
This is of course the new chairlift at at Scott Base in Antarctica, replacing the old tow rope .
(Val Thorens is much bleaker).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The link over to Orelle involves a bit of a walk back
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Not when I did it! Started shuffling uphill through that little gully when the wind got up from behind. I just spread my arms out and I shot uphill, slaloming around those poor sods tying to ski down against the wind towards Orelle 
OK, then I cheated further & nipped off down the black rather than going back to the blue.
You mentioned Bar de la Marine. I guess you went to the self service area. The restaurant area is worthwhile for a long lunch (esp when it's raining), proper food, proper table service, and, if you are so inclined, the most expensive wine I have ever seen on a menu - €795. This was 2 years ago, about £500 at the time. We went for a slightly more modest Cote du Rhone.
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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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One of the best things about Val Thorens is the fabulous ski over to my most favourite restaurant on any mountain ever - the Cap Horn above Courchevel 1850. A lovely (not cheap) long lunch where even the waiters and waitresses look like models, and then another good run back to Val Thorens.
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I so agree about the Cap Horn. The waiters cruise about in white tracksuits with shades and are really friendly. It's 1850 prices of course, but we shared a massive Moules Frites for €15 and it is a great setting just above the Altiport. An experience.
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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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Here are some piccies from our little trip, featuring a number of snowHeads, sorry about the quality - they are from a single use camera, scanned in by Boots during processing...
Pictures from Val Thorens
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Nice shots, the quality's fine. Any more to come?
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Ian Hopkinson, Great pickies. I forgive you for the ghastly pic of me coz you have got Tom in typical pose!
As PG says: we want more! (My camera caput  )
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I do have a whole pile more from my disposable and my digital camera, but I didn't want to bore snowHeads with endless snaps or put up less flattering ones of myself or Mrs H - actually I'm already in trouble for the one of Mrs H  ! I'll see if I can rummage out some more this evening...
I got some fine ones of an Alpine Chough which decided to hop around on our balcony on the last day.
I should have got one of PG and family, but there you go...
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Ian Hopkinson,
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| I should have got one of PG and family, but there you go |
That's what I was worried about.... 
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The Cap Horn is wonderful, but when we went it was too early to eat. Still, sat outside in the sun with a few nice drinks
Anyone been to the Bel Air at 1650? Went there and was tempted by something called an Iceberg (or poss Island).
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I've added a couple more photos to the set above...these two off the digital camera...
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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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If you go down to Val T today, you're sure of a wonderful time
And those that think that the season is over are in for a big surprise
For the temperatures low and snows pouring down:
Nearly a metre this coming weekend
So now's the time the clever skier has his last trip.
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Wonder how much pf VT they plan to open next week? There's been some light snow up at VD today, not a great deal, and very windy (south-easterlies)... but might give Espace Killy a go tomorrow, then head for VT on Monday for a final fix.... Never eaten at the 'Cap Horn', after all the excellent reports, I'm tempted!
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You know it makes sense.
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DAVID F - mmm, the Bel Air, my favourite restaurant this season ... maybe you are thinking of the 'ile flottante', meringuey things floating in a sea of creme anglaise? - look very yummy directly in vision as you walk through the door - never got that far though!
Cap Horn - have only ever had dreadful food and service there although I appreciate that's at odds with its reputation. On which subject, there is an apocryphal tale of the Russian mafiosi whose girlfriends, after a long and liquid lunch, entertained the punters by performing an impromptu striptease ...
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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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poma, that swings it for me, to hell with the food.... photos to follow Monday night.....
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Poster: A snowHead
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PG, use your phone to take the pickies and you hopefully wont be spotted. Taking pickies of naked Russian mafiosi molls may result in removal of one or two body parts.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Jonpim, true, the telephoto lens might be a bit of a giveaway.... maybe if I claimed to be the latest Chelsea signing....
(Yeah ok, still, I don't have to say what as, do I)
(I nearly wrote that under some circumstances I would be quite prepared to donate a body part, but.... )
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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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http://www.pistehors.com/comments/A227_0_1_0_C/
Interesting, I hadn't read this before going, but 'Dutch Week' (final week of season) certainly sums it up. A bar owner I spoke to suggested the Dutch weren't the most extravagant of visitors!.... The marquee next to the 'front de neige' was heaving with bodies, a Dutch group playing every night, drinks were flowing freely, and no doubt cheaply, compared to local bar prices (I couldn't get served because I didn't have any 'tickets', whatever they are, possibly provided by the TO). Though who can blame them, at least this way people who might not otherwise be able to afford a skiing holiday get to spend their week on the snow...
The Dutch boarders on the slopes seemed to greatly outnumber the skiers... never noticed this before.... impressed by their standard of skiing/boarding, seemed to be few beginners...
Hwever not impressed by the hotel, poor service, freezing cold, then radiator turns itself on (no adjustment valve, no way of turning it off) in the middle of the night and I woke up in what felt like a sauna. Wanted to pay my bill at 7.40 but "c'est pas possible", receptionist didn't start work until 8. Asked to leave a couple of bags in reception, "pas possible". Attitude problem, wouldn't go back again (les 3 Vallées***).
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PG, maybe you stayed at wrong hotel. IanH I think found his OK, and other friends at 3Valleys Hotel also impressed.
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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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It might just have been an end of season thing, they seemed to be a bit understaffed .... still, it's the first time I've come across a radiator you can't turn on or off! Once stayed in a hotel in Les Orres on the first day of the season, the heating refused to come back on after the summer break... (the Hotel 'Ancolie'). But they went out of their way to make up for the inconvenience. I'd recommend it, ideal place to stay in Les Orres, right on the 'front de neige', owners from Calais if I remember right. (Today's useless bit of information  ).
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