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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Would love to be a clown today, Alas not over there yet. Fourteen more days and I may be a "clown" with extral long shoes
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ise, I've seem the French Army climbing on skins (poor b***ers!) but no clowns! What's the snow like in the Grand Massif. Off there in 10 days (not that I'm counting or anything )?
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Chris Reed, it was pretty funny, we were trying to work if these people had a really good sense of humour and on what level the joke was on. I'd taken a couple of guys from work over to the Grand Massif and we were stood just above Flaine admiring the architecture when 10 clowns came past on 'blades, it's was one of the funniest things I've seen for a long time. So, I can safely say, after research, we can confirm that 100% of all clowns on the slopes are on blades
The snow's not too good, it's a little colder today but the coverage is pretty critical. I'll post some photos on my blog this evening but if you look on it now you'll see a photo of one of the top lifts at Flaine left above the snow line. There's not been sufficient snow to fill the fissures and holes in the Flaine bowl itself and it'll take a lot of snow to make them safe. A few cm just won't do it although it would freshen up the rest of the domain nicely.
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They weren't so happy when they finished and went to drive home. They all piled into the car which promptly made a loud bang and fell apart.
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ise, some years back I was in Italy with little snow and the best decision was to go and rent some blades and clown around on them.
Any modest piste becomes a big top with a pair of those on!
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They were probably German or Austrian. I don't think that I've ever skied in Germany or Austria without seeing some berk in a glitter wig, face paint and silly clothes on the slopes. Around Faschings, it's wall to wall pointless outfits. Why people should imagine that putting on silly clothes makes them amusing, I can't imagine; perhaps they don't, of course, and do it for some other, weirder, reason.
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richmond, no certainly they were French. Odd day all round really, the clowns turned up at the restaurant at lunch along with a brass band group who blasted out "stand by me" and "dancing queen" amongst others. Bizarre really
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ise, are you sure your colleagues hadn't slipped an illicit substance into your morning coffee? Blading clowns and Abba-playing brass bands gives "ski trip" a whole new meaning!
BTW, the photos seem to have disappeared fom your blog.
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rob@rar.org.uk, not again That happened before, I'll host them somewhere else I think.
It was funny though, one of the guys was from the US and had never skied in Europe before so it was a laugh.
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Chris Reed, when I was last in Flaine we saw the French army training every day. They used to skin up the mountains and ride down in the chairs because their officers wouldn't let them have he pleasure of skiing down.
Or so we thought. Eventually came the day when we saw them finally ski down. Now they may have been exhausted and they probably were. But looking at their technique I would say they that the instructors had not actually spent anytime training the ranks to ski down. BUt they were ordered to ski down as fast as possible.
I leave it to your imagination to develop a picture of carnage on a ski hill the like of which I have never seen befoe or since. Imagine rugby on ice and you'll get the general idea. With skis. And poles. And another hill to skin up afterwards. Aaahhh conscription.
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You know it makes sense.
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Chris Reed, when I was last in Flaine we saw the French army training every day. They used to skin up the mountains and ride down in the chairs because their officers wouldn't let them have he pleasure of skiing down. |
Interesting, I presume they were armed then?
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ise, they were lethal enough on their own. Actually, I now remember that the carnage was multiplied by the fallers from the old drag lift with two right-angled turns that was compulsory if you wanted to return to Flaine from Samoens without the use of a helicopter or taxi. That old thing used to spew out 30% of its passengers - half of which ended up colliding with the French army.
It was a great place to sit with a picnic and a flask of soup and watch the day's events unfold.
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I was curious being as the lift company don't allow people to ride down on the chairs anywhere in the Grand Massif. I guessed if they were armed they'd have been able to just hijack the lifts
I assume it must have been a long time back if there was a drag between Samoens and Flaine though.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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January 1999 it was. Seems like 6 years ago. Have you met a legionnaire? I imagine the lift companies paid the army to ride down.
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They're a bit violent. If the army want to ride down - they ride down
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Santa Claus went passed me today in Pas De La Casa.
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Paul Mason, oh that's just so witty and ironic isn't it? Why do ladies' front bottoms wear Santa hats and outfits halfway into January and think it's a bit funny? Pathetic or what .....
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Getting back on track then.
Just because someone has seen some clowns on snowblades, is it reasonable to assume that all clowns snowblade, or more importantly, may we assert that everyone on 'blades are clowns?
Question for a corollary, do all muppets snowblade too?
I would have thought so, in all cases.
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Here's one for the future: Clones on snow blades.
I think we'll save that for next winter.
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David Murdoch, to assume that everyone on snowblades are either muppets or clowns is akin to suggesting that everyone from Chelsea are stuck-up pompous ar!es but I would't want to make that analogy.
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David Murdoch, very reasonable points.
We are able to assert that based on a sample of slope users last Sunday in Grand Massif all clowns had snow blades and that no skiers or boarders were clowns. We also know that at least some bladers are clowns. Clearly more research is needed on this important issue
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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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I've noticed that clowns have huge feet. Do they have a lot of difficulty finding ski boots?
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I thought the blades themselves were the clowns feet in this case
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You know it makes sense.
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chris, you'll be a snowblader then?
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David M, everyone who skis are bladers too or can be. As I do both I feel in a position to qualify the fact that skiing and blading are fantastic hobbies, with different advantages and dis-advantages.
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Poster: A snowHead
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The big dis-advantage of blading is knowing that at some time on the piste you will get a custard-pie in the face!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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chris, Very, very funny. Not entirely sure why but I giggled nonetheless.
Serious question then, you have piqued my curiousity.
What do you get from blading that you don't get from skiing? Especially in the light that my bird's just bought a pair of 150cm slalom skis.
I mean, 150cm, hardly much longer than a blade? They are a hoot to ski on though.
Before you mention parks though, OK, I will admit that you need twin tips. But what does the short length get you? And, on piste?
Cheers
DM
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As clowns have traditionally skied on big feet it was a natural progression that they should move to blades.
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David M, I have trouble on icy slopes with skis but on blades it is much easier to dig in. Moguls and very bumpy pistes become great fun on blades as you have the choice to ride over or around them so can travel much faster than skis. Light weight and easier manoeuvrebility adds up to less fatigue so you can ride longer. On the downside, they are rubbish off-piste and at very high speed skis feels more stable. Although skis cost more to wax it costs less than facepaint!
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