 Poster: A snowHead
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Chamonix weather forecast has rain/snow limit dropping down to 2000m and then to 1500m/1400m in next two days. Unfortunately it also forecasts milder weather to follow but very early days yet of course.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It's not the first, we got snowed on at 1800m a couple of weeks back while on the mtb's
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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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That's why I put the question mark, ise, since I don't have the benefit of being out in the Alps. You lucky sod! Even so, 1400m is an encouraging drop in the rain/snow altitude if the forecast proves correct.
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Not really lucky, it was freezing, 10m visibility, turned to rain at 1600m and we got cold and wet and the lift office decided I was day early to get my season pass.
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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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ise,
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we got cold and wet
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I simply cannot believe that you went out unprepared for the weather 
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well you don't expect that in late September - mostly it would be T shirts - I did a week's walking in the Alps last October and only put a light fleece on once or twice, on exposed spots. You can't carry the entire panoply of cold weather gear with you all the time! But my week's walking in mid October this year looks likely to be a bit chillier
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| I simply cannot believe that you went out unprepared |
Not normal to carry a transceiver and a shovel on a mountain bike 
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pam w,
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well you don't expect that in late September
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I was in the Swiss Alps in early September. When the sun went in, it got chilly, quickly. I took a HellyTech Shell, and I wore it  If I am in an alpine area in winter, I use winter kit obviously.
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Lot of rain last 24 hours in the Savoie, snowline crept down overnight, so a fair sprinkling of the white stuff visible from around 1700m at Arc 1600 early on - when the clouds lift ...
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kuwait_ian,
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Not normal to carry a transceiver and a shovel on a mountain bike
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You mean to say that ise, does'nt have a lightweight folding MTB shovel. I am even more
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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PG, now that Tignes is open can we look forward to firsthand reports on the state of the Grand Motte?
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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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rob@rar.org.uk, definitely will go up sometime this week, but I'm being a wimp and waiting for some decent weather 
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PG, nothing wrong with waiting for good weather, especially at the start of the season when there's seven months of skiing ahead of you!
How's the arm?
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