 Poster: A snowHead
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sideshow bobbers, did you do the 360 flip before you crashed in to him? 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yeah, these boarders are simply cluttering the Piste.
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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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sideshow bobbers,
If only more skiers and boarders where as nice after crashes! That is the kind of behaviour people would like to see more of instead of clattering into someone and then proceding to get up laugh and move on or abuse them when you are in the wrong!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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abc, the solution to that is to go back up the nearest lift - you have come down too early.
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abc, you should have been having a scoop at the top of the Plein Sud lift with the rest of us 
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abc, which trail merge was this? Near the toboggan rental place at the bottom of Cascades, or somewhere else?
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abc, it was a bit like 'wacky races' when trying to get to the last(ish) Plein Sud lift
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Don't stop and tie your shoe!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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is there any joy doing that?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| sideshow bobbers wrote: |
| is there any joy doing that? |
sideshow bobbers, I don't know if you noticed, but that's a start of a x-c skiing race. Notice the numbered bibs they're wearing...
I don't have the picture to show it. But if anyone watch the start of any "biggy" marathon races, it's MUCH worse than this. The runners have to walk for quite a while before they have room to actually run!
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sideshow bobbers, or were you asking about whether x-c was fun?
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You know it makes sense.
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i was talking about the x-c cause i did notice the bibs thanks
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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sideshow bobbers, I do find it fun. (not the racing part)
It also has that magical "glide" as any other snowsport, only the skier has to provide the "kick" to get the glide part going...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Bode Swiller, yet again you have me in stitches with the accuracy. Above Mottaret around 17th April, big bunch of I suspect seasonaires: guy gives his snowboard to his mate and sets off waddling away; 'where you going ?'. 'I gotta go take a f'in dump' (top of his voice).
He looked like he already had done. Jerk it off, dude.
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i think trecking to untouched powder is one thing, i spent a good 20 minutes scaling a cliff and was it worth it, hella yes, even tho i didnt land it but running UP hill is another
so abc, do you not buy lift passes then?
i snowboad for the thrill of going down the hill, it make life much easer aswell
if i wanted to waste my breath climbing up hills then i would go walking with rollerskates on 
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so abc, do you not buy lift passes then?
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No.
However, if the tracks are "groomed", someone has to pay for the grooming. There's usually a "trail fee", though generally a small fraction of a typical lift ticket.
On backcountry "routes", a group would usually take turn "breaking trail" so the memebers in the back gets to ski in the tracks set by the front member... No trail fees just sweat, and tranquility.
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Er ... what does that mean exactly, young man?
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| Lizzard wrote: |
Er ... what does that mean exactly, young man? |
Well, DUH...
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jacksonholerider, sorry, that's completely unenlightening.
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Well, it's the basis for a certain kind of Jamaican Jerk Chicken.
Subtle culinary and cultural reference, I know.
But now you know.
Y'Know?
mmm Red Stripe...(Jamaica's pilsner swill..)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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jacksonholerider, I've eaten plenty of jerk chicken (Jamaican cousins) and I don't recall any of it containing Red Stripe. Now explain what all that has to do with snowboarding habits?
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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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i honestly did not think boarders sat in the middle of the piste any more, except when the have taken a tumble and are having a rest for a few minutes before they get up again. Most I see now are quite thoughtful and sit to the edge of the piste.
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You know it makes sense.
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| rayscoops wrote: |
| i honestly did not think boarders sat in the middle of the piste any more, except when the have taken a tumble and are having a rest for a few minutes before they get up again. Most I see now are quite thoughtful and sit to the edge of the piste. |
Hee hee, unless we are sat in the pub mate! 
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| Now explain what all that has to do with snowboarding habits? |
Looks like good posture and riding stance, for a roasted chicken at least.
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Poster: A snowHead
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saxabar, riding stance looks half baked to me
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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That chicken has Moobs 
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puts a different slant on the choice between 'breast or leg' 
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| rayscoops wrote: |
| i honestly did not think boarders sat in the middle of the piste any more, except when the have taken a tumble and are having a rest for a few minutes before they get up again. Most I see now are quite thoughtful and sit to the edge of the piste. |
Oh think again! I encountered loads of them this season.
But I think your 'two' scenarios are somewhat related.
I have seen this course of events occur more than once: group of boarders, working their way down a piste; one gets ahead of the others either through bravado or inability to maintin control; goes over a lip, wipes it out of sight of their pals and then hurriedly assumes a 'chilled posture' to make it look like they've just sat down to take in the view. The others catch up and copy-cat to form a nice orderly line blocking the piste, just out of sight of slope users above.
When you fall in the middle of the piste, you don't 'have a few minutes rest' there, you get out of the way. And if you're just over a lip or in another risky place, you get out of the way damn quick!
The most recent time I encountered a boarder-blockade was the penultimate day of the EoSB when I left the Plein Sud lift and took the right-hand route round the lower lift stations: just over the lip at the narrowest point was a row of 4 or 5 boarders, dead central, blocking at least half the piste. Boy did they jump as I only-just-missed them
For balance though, although skiers don't tend to sit down on the piste a lot, what they're most guilty of is congregating in huge numbers where the piste narrows: members of various groups waiting for their fellows or just having a little chin-wag.
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I think we should all hug and 'JUST LET IT GO'
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Do I dislike/hate snowboarders? In general terms 'No, I don't' we are all on the mountain enjoying the snow. However, there is only oriental chappy on was boarding in VT the week were there that I wouldn't be sorry never to see again.
I was working predictable linked turns down 1/3rd of the width of the wide blue that ran past the snowpark on one of the steeper sections with my new found confidence. Something that I think in all the rule books I am entitled to do. I am told that the boarder lost control and then comprehensively took me out from behind leaving me very lucky not to suffer leg injuries from the edge of his board. The first I knew of it was a set of arms around my waist as he attempted to minimise things by catching me on the way down - I fell on him (serve him right). He did hang around until he was certain I was OK and indicated it was his fault, I don't know if he spoke English, but I think he understood that I wasn't happy although I believe all I told him was to look where he was going in no uncertain terms tone wise (but I don't think I resorted to swearing). I think my ski companion at the time would have decked him had I been hurt though. What I'm most teed off about was being cannoned into just as I was getting used to skiing at long last and feeling happier about it and also since returning I've noticed that the top coat on tails of my new skis is wrecked - I reckon it was this incident that did it - I expected wear and tear, but not this soon 
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Megamum, that sounds like what we call 'an accident'. It also sounds like he tried to minimise the damage, and then he apologised. What do you want, blood?
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Sorry Megamum, but from what you describe, I'm with Lizzard on this one - accidents happen.....and I am sure you would have been just as aggrieved if he were a skier, who have on occasion been known to fall over too, sometimes inconveniencing others as a result 
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people stop on pistes where it suits them, skiers at the top flat bit of pistes and on narrow places because they can simply pole away, boarders stop over the ridge of a piste so they can ride away. For every 'boarders sitting in the middle of the piste encounter' i can recount 10 such similar 'skiers blocking a narrow path' situation
But ........ all of this is just the way it is ..... boarders will stop in the middle of the piste because they can not pole away to the side, and skiers will stop at the top of pistes because they can pole away ........ so simply accept that this happens, stop moaning and get on with it
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