"MoonMan" wrote in message
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Matt T wrote:
On 23 Apr, 11:19, "Roger Moss"
wrote:
This season has certainly had its ups and downs but we've had little
to
complain about at the tail-end. The Southern Alps have done
particularly
well, and I'd have been off before now to Serre Che or Montgenèvre
if I were
located closer (sigh).

However, it looks like conditions are still really good down in
Piau-Engaly,
at 1800-2600m the highest of the ski areas in the French
Pyrenées:http://www.piau-engaly.com/spip.php?...-_Tsd_Pic.html

Bonus-time, then :0)

There's a lot of great ski-time lost due to the need to close a
season (staffing, etc.) while conditions often remain perfectly
good. In Canada,
where snowfalls are truly Collossal, they say that 'people just stop
coming,
and start to do other things...'

RMwww.mountainpassions.com- an Online Magazine with Altitude

Indeed - every year around this time I start to hear rumours about
'running the lifts longer' because the snow's still great, and every
year I point out that maybe they don't know so much about the french
attitude to work and employment. When STGM say the 11th May you can
guarantee that some of the chairs will be off the wires by 5:15pm that
day.


'Kite-skiing, anyone?'

The kite-school guys at the Col du Lauteret reckon you (meaning 'they') can
gain all the altitude you need to ski independently of lifts - given a
decent blow, as it were... http://www.snowkiteair.com/

RM
www.mountainpassions.com - an Online Magazine with Altitude