Messages posted by : AllyG
Thanks Far Queue, So - you look a bit like your avatar then ... :D :D |
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Thanks Ise, Well, I did say I wasn't a geographer! What's 'ablation' mean? And how old is the youngest glacier? Ally |
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Sm4sh, I am no sort of geographer, or geologist, but as far as I know a glacier is a large mass of ice which doesn't melt during the summer and has been around for a very long time (I should imagine since the last ice age whenever that was in the place where the glacier is). The last ice age in Britain was about ten thousand years ago, but the ice has all melted now, although glaciers have made a major contribution to the shape and geology of Britan today (because glaciers move and gouge out valleys and carry material with them which they later drop etc. etc.). What I noticed when I was ski-ing on the glacier at Tignes is that the ice is very hard (too hard to dig your ski edges into) and a very pretty sort of blue-green colour). Normally, ski-ing in the winter I don't think one sees the glacial ice on the piste because it's all covered in snow. This is a photo of the glacial ice at Tignes in October. If you click on it, it should get bigger. Ally  |
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Claire's OH's witty remark is down to only 3 stars now, how interesting. The website must be constantly averaging everyone's star input. If I gave it 5 stars now (only I never rate anyone's post), maybe it would go back up to 4? I wonder how many people have to vote to make the star rating change? Eljay, I think that would be a very expensive coffee table :wink: Tino, I haven't notice any snowboard bashing here. There was a bit of bashing of those short skis on another thread, but not here (unless I'm too thick to see it of course). And maybe if you're worried about your snowboard getting bashed, you should get a rental version next time. Ise reckons that rented skis are much tougher, and perhaps the same applies to snowboards? :D :D Ally |
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Sm4sh, I think that Australia, for example, has their winter and summer the other way around to us, so I suppose the best time to ski there would be in our summer. And I rather think it was a 94% chance of enough snow to ski on in Borovets for your new date :D. If a resort has pistes on a glacier, then I think there will always be some snow to ski on, because it will always be cold enough for the artificial snow machines to make snow. We were ski-ing at the end of October at Tignes, on the glacier, and there was no snow anywhere else (pretty much) apart from on the glacier. The glacier is open for ski-ing during the summer, so you can swim and sail on the lake, and ski only a few yards away. However, the problem with snow-sure very high ski resorts is that sometimes the weather is no good and you can't ski at all, or only ski in very unpleasant conditions - like thick fog, very high winds, a blizzard, or extreme cold. And sometimes they shut the lifts because of the cold or the wind (we were in Val Thorens two years ago in January and they shut every single lift for a day because it was so windy), or because of very heavy snow. In the lower resorts they usually have trees and there is more protection from the wind. Ally |
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All right, you total show-off! :D I can just get my ski trousers on, but I can't move much in them, so I have to lose half a stone in 3 weeks, or buy more trousers :roll: ATOO, I usually go to London, the night before, on the train, so my journey is split into two halves, and it's not quite so exciting/stressful and I can usually sleep okay. All we have to do the next day is go on the underground a few stops to St Pancras and get on the Eurostar direct. Hence if I forget a vital item in my packing, I have another chance to buy a replacement in London (unless it's my passport of course!). Ally |
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I think that probably quite a few French resorts would be ski in, ski out, if you picked accommodation in the right place, and went at the right time (because some of the lower runs close early and late in the season).
I have been to La Rosiere and I should say that the Les Eucherts area counts as ski in - ski out. La Rosiere is good for kids, has a pretty good snow record, and the ski area on the Italian side is quite challenging. The only disadvantage is that if the weather is bad they shut the link to La Thuile and you are confined to the La Rosiere side. Ally |
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I can only see 4, where's the other one gone? |
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