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You know what helps me to get through this difficult time of waiting for my first ski holiday? Sitting in my armchair with a ski mag, a nice hot cup of chocolate (or wine, but cold), and christmas music!!!! soooo excited 
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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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Have you tried sitting on a chairlift? You can sometimes buy old ones and hang them off the living room ceiling if it's strong enough.
If it isn't strong enough, the ceiling comes down like an avalanche.
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Mon 9-10-06 13:35; edited 1 time in total
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robert_dorling, you could give a snowdome a go as well 
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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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robert_dorling, I've got a gondola cabin you can have for the right price. You'll have to arrange shipping from southern France.
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... or Venice
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I've never understood why they're called 'gondolas'. Bubbles and eggs I can understand.
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I think it's because Venetian skiers used to carry their equipment by canal.
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laundryman, no idea but I thought "telecabine" was a bit too poncey for this site.
It's actually identical to this (complete with ski racks and the same colour) but is in my garden not hanging from a cable:
Wikipedia
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ben wright, ....surely they must have missed it eventually........ 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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BernardC, the chap in the red jacket was a bit confused for a while.
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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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ben wright, I use 'gondola' too, along with all the other variations. IF Mrs L were to allow me to buy a gondola, it would be in that colour!
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| ben wright wrote: |
| It's actually identical to this (complete with ski racks and the same colour) but is in my garden not hanging from a cable. |
Ah, you have a gondola tree. Does it fall off in autumn?
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You know it makes sense.
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Does it stem from a time when they might have been open topped? E.g. open-topped cars were called gondolas, and the name became more generalised? A gondola is a name for an open-topped transport (probably from the Venetion boats) esp. on railways.
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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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skanky, good theory! There's a curious bucket-like lift at Flaine.
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Poster: A snowHead
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laundryman, if anyone knows some history of lifts, they might be able to shed some light on it (partly because there's no roof). 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David Goldsmith, no but sometimes it shrivels up in cold weather.
laundryman, do you mean a telebenne? Like this one on www.amorzine.com
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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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do you mean a telebenne?
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Those things have always sent a shiver down my spine, they look far too medieval, like some weird torture thing, but hey if they take you the right way up the mountain...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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martski, they move at about the same speed as continental drift. There's one up at La Foux but luckily there are a couple of chairs that you can take to get to roughly the same place and although the top of the 'benne is in the building that the gondola up to the top goes from it's still quicker to take one of the chairs and ski back down to the gondola station.
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As well as Flaine, there are some open ones in a group of 6 (I think) on the way down the mountain from VT. Maybe Les Menuires?
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RachelQ, yes, they cross over the road in Les Menuires - not sure the name of the lift - croisette or reberty I think.
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When I first started skiing, gondolas had a roof but no windows but you sat down in them. You were enclosed by a basic metal shell.
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| When I first started skiing, gondolas had a roof but no windows but you sat down in them. You were enclosed by a basic metal shell. |
..... and dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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There is another telebenne high on the mountain in Alagna (unless they changed it in the last 2 years)
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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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| laundryman wrote: |
| skanky, good theory! There's a curious bucket-like lift at Flaine. |
When I was in Flaine a few years ago, the holiday rep referred to these as "yogurt pots", which I think is a good descriptive name
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Alastair Pink, 'Yogurt Pots' must be 'Generic' then...!
They have relations at Peisey Nancroix in Paradiski.....
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You know it makes sense.
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They have them going through the town at Alpe d'Huez, although a bit bigger than the ones pictured
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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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laundryman, as a very noviec skier, I fell off the back of those yougurt pots as I tried to get on.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Helen, .......your untimely departure from the 'pot' has conjured up a very 'Inspector Cluseau type image' ......
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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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BernardC,
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.......your untimely departure from the 'pot' has conjured up a very 'Inspector Cluseau type image' ......
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"not now Kato can you not see i am falling from a yoghurt pot? "
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If anyone wants to purchase a used gondola a bit nearer to home, the Heights of Abraham lift at Matlock Bath has updated theirs. When I was there back in the summer, the old ones were lying around in the car-park apparently unloved.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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That's a very high office pielot, you must be very fit climbing all those stairs each day.
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pielot, are you an astronaut?
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Or perhaps some form of deity?
Maybe you are the one that can finaly answer all the 'what will conditions be like on xx/xx/2006' questions.
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plus ça change 
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