 Poster: A snowHead
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| swiftoid wrote: |
| rob@rar wrote: |
| Boot heaters. |
Do you mean things to keep your feet warm while skiing or things to dry your boots after a day skiing? |
Heating elements with are fitted to your boot's footbeds, battery powered, to stop your feet getting cold while skiing. My touch of luxury, which has gradually become an essential.
Dry boots are a good start to the day, so I also have a heated boot bag and a air-blower thing for gloves or boots. Those are nice to have, but not essential.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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As @dp said, trigger s poles.
I love my trigger poles they’re amazing in the snowdome.
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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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| rob@rar wrote: |
| swiftoid wrote: |
| rob@rar wrote: |
| Boot heaters. |
Do you mean things to keep your feet warm while skiing or things to dry your boots after a day skiing? |
Heating elements with are fitted to your boot's footbeds, battery powered, to stop your feet getting cold while skiing. My touch of luxury, which has gradually become an essential.
Dry boots are a good start to the day, so I also have a heated boot bag and a air-blower thing for gloves or boots. Those are nice to have, but not essential. |
Thanks.
I guess I'm lucky in that I very, very seldom suffer from cold feet so have no need for something like that. I am interested in ways of drying my boots though. Normally I'd just sit them on a radiator but that's not possible if I'm sitting in my campervan in Scotland so I'm intrigued by the Drysure option @Weathercam mentioned. Has anybody else had success with these?
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| djf wrote: |
As @dp said, trigger s poles.
I love my trigger poles they’re amazing in the snowdome. |
Used to use them, but got increasingly frustrated with two problems: snow / ice getting inside the socket the trigger clips in to, and more importantly no way to lean on the straps when you rest on the poles while looking up the hill. So I ditched the Lekis and when back to a traditional strap.
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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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Airhorn for when I'm skiing past nervous newbies on a cattrack going mach schnell.
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@Dave of the Marmottes, 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Ski tracks app, Go Pro, thermos of Bovril, hip flask.
Last place I stopped had some nice expensive looking walkie talkies that you could borrow, took them out a couple of days and got no use out of them, probably not worth it for a casual skier.
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I've never understood why people take walkie talkies skiing, @SkiTsar.
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You know it makes sense.
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@dp, good for comms with people who struggle to use mobile phones, eg young children, technically challenged people.
Can’t always rely on mobile signal in mountains.
Got us out of many tricky situations over the years.
Also good at self service mountain restaurant. Gentleman holds prime table on terrace, relaxing in sun. Partner goes to counter, relays menu by walkie talkie to table-defending hero. He confirms order, impressing whole terrace full of people. Continues offering verbal encouragement by walkie talkie, as she struggles, in ski boots, with full tray of food/drinks to table.
I commend walkie talkies to the house 😉
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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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@swiftoid, I also own the Drysure dryers and have been impressed. They definitely do dry my boots and also, as a result, significantly reduce their 'aroma'! (The same company also makes smaller versions - thinking of getting some for my running shoes.)
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Gipfel, thanks!
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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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Hip Flask
Preferable full of a winter warming beverage.
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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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@Old Fartbag, @rob@rar, you know there's a school of thought that straps are for numpties* - you hardly see any guides / hard core free riders using them.
That said even when skiing steeps in trees I still like them when many I ski with don't use them / have them cut off.
* that will get you all going
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| foxtrotzulu wrote: |
| If you are going to France a bed that is longer than 5'8" is worth tucking into your suitcase as well. |
And if in Austria a saw to 'convert' the Austrian twin bed in to two proper singles - especially when the friend you're sharing with doesn't see anything wrong with sleeping in the buff in an Austrian twin.
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My 'lucky' Swiss watch that I found on the slopes one day.
Must be worth a grand or so
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@PeakyB, I think I'd be too self-conscious about looking like a plane spotter.
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| Whitters wrote: |
My 'lucky' Swiss watch that I found on the slopes one day.
Must be worth a grand or so |
Lucky you. Although if I found something of value on the slopes, I would assume someone else lost it accidentally and will want it back. And I would do my best to get it back to them (hand in to lift pass office/police). Its the only decent and honest thing to do, selfish and dishonest to do anything else. Even worse to boast about how you found and chose to keep someone else's £1000 watch). Hope you never lose anything yourself as you clearly have no expectation or hope that if found it would be returned to you.
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| PeakyB wrote: |
@dp...
Also good at self service mountain restaurant. Gentleman holds prime table on terrace, relaxing in sun. Partner goes to counter, relays menu by walkie talkie to table-defending hero. He confirms order, impressing whole terrace full of people. Continues offering verbal encouragement by walkie talkie, as she struggles, in ski boots, with full tray of food/drinks to table.
I commend walkie talkies to the house 😉 |
I'm now inspired to borrow the kids sponge bob square pants walkie talkies to save any bar faff ( on my part at least). However im not sure the call signs Sponge Bob to Patrick will be cool enough, what do you suggest Maverick to Goose or would iceman be better?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I don't ski any more having discovered a better way, but these are really useful generally:
https://eu.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_GB/skis/ski-strap-BD1021360000ALL1.html
Use them to bundle skis and poles together (that's why they don't chop the straps off the poles, you need those twisted around the tips). They're great for fixing things (as are tie wraps), but they're also handy for packing your boards with bubble wrap etc. And cinch one around each ankle to solve the apres issue described in another thread.
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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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| coops1967 wrote: |
Apart from boot dryers... and yes to the Hestra glove straps too... here's a great thingy I picked up in Whistler - especially useful for Hestra owners, as they don't have any wipers built in
adjustable velcro, strap it over your thumb
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I saw people with these in Whistler, on a retractable elastic. I think I did a little wee, then just wiped with my wiperless glove as always!
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You know it makes sense.
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@zikomo, i think he is joking as DP mentioned losing a £1000 swiss watch
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| @zikomo, i think he is joking as DP mentioned losing a £1000 swiss watch |
Yes thank you @holidayloverxx, maybe my sense of humour is too subtle and dark for some
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Poster: A snowHead
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Another +1 for the DrySure boot dryers.
Although I did manage to ‘blow-up’ an old pair in a French oven whilst, ahem, distracted. Don’t ask 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Our best ski gadgets? 4 old half litre plastic Badoit water bottles (other brands are available). Fill with hot water, slip one each into ski boot before loading up freezing car for 15 minute drive to slopes. Result - toasty malleable ski boots on arrival that we can actually get our feet into without (too much) swearing  .
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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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@betterinblack,
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I'm now inspired to borrow the kids sponge bob square pants walkie talkies to save any bar faff ( on my part at least). However im not sure the call signs Sponge Bob to Patrick will be cool enough, what do you suggest Maverick to Goose or would iceman be better?
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This usually works for me...'I want a [insert food & drink of choice] and I want it now, BY ORDER of the Peaky Blinders 
In my dreams.
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@Whitters, you'd be welcome to it. By the time it fell off I'd lost all love for it, the insurance paid for it, and I got something I preferred in the sales, for about £300 (by going Japanese). So I've now got a better watch, a G-Shock for skiing, and still about £600 to spend on blow and hookers.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@dp, ha ha....so every cloud, etc
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For £30 I've taken a punt on the drysure boot driers and will give them a test run next month in the PDS.
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Perhaps not a 'must have' - but a good gadget all the same.
http://www.theproggle.com/
I saw this referenced on this forum a year or two ago, and ordered one. It does the job it was designed to do, and attracted "I want one of those" comments from others on a recent trip.
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Couple of loops of Duct Tape round my pole, always handy.
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