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Have just walked the entire length of Hampstead Heath and back, including its northern Extension. 15cm on upper slopes. Hundreds of people on Parliament Hill (over-rated and crowded). As well as the usual binbags, tin trays, snowboards, classic Davos-style wooden toboggan and man on touring skis:
- Estate Agent sign (plenty of redundant ones around at present)
- Upturned black recycling box lid (the variety with curved edges - quite promising)
- Ikea blue bag, with impromptu seat inside, being dragged along by an impressively committed Dad
Good plastic sleds were very scarce - showing how rare the event is. An Australian woman shouted "This has got to be a once-in-a-lifetime day!". Thrilling to see so many city kids enjoying what was surely a first for them - the chance to slide.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Any helmets in evidence, or was it a Goldsmith-approved devil-may-care woolly hat crowd?
Fertilizer bags were always the best, as I recall, more runs per bag before they tore.
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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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My friends and I once went sledging on some bog-standard plastic things bought from the Esso and to our delight found, in some nearby woods, a discarded car bonnet.
It made the best and most dangerous sledge, that I have ever seen.
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Mon 2-02-09 17:57; edited 1 time in total
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Excellent post, Dr David Jekyll Goldsmith! 
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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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Cunners, plenty of helmets evident on the Heath's Vanilla Path at night time, perportedly!
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Hey paulio, Another vote for the car bonnet. Ours was a light blue one from a Mk1 Ford Escort. Very fast (unlike the Ford Escort) but not much fun for anybody who got in our way halfway down the slope. Piste of choice was Farncombe Hill near Godalming.
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Red Fiesta ours was, I think.
Wooburn Green golf course was our chosen run.
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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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Dale Goldsmith, That causes my virus detector to go mad!
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Colin B, No warnings on AVG 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Dale Goldsmith, I'm using Avast (Virus/Worm reported). Sure I've been on there before though and not had a problem.
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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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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| Good plastic sleds were very scarce ..... |
I'm suprised at that. My children reported that the slopes of Savile Park (Halifax) were awash with them. Our garage holds two big plastic sleds and a number of those discs on a handle.
Nice story though, I presume the local council paid for your bus fare and hot bovril to do the report 
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Once used an old bath, and some plastic sheeting from around a palette of bricks.
Not at the same time, no.
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Poster: A snowHead
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paulio, that's such a terrible tragedy. My daughter went up on Dartmoor yesterday afternoon with some student friends for a slide and I got remotely worried.
On Hampstead Heath lots of kids were heading straight for trees.
Snow - and ice - have such effects on the human psyche and adrenaline. Walk on thin ice. Slide down snow on uncontrollable trays. People rarely appreciate how far and how fast they'll go. My godson had a nasty smash on a sled.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Not been sledging yet this year with the kids, best time sledging was in Meribel on a balcony curtain with a lod of drunk Germans!
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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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Any helis out there?
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How long till the Ban it Brigade put a stop to it all now that a 16 year old girl has died 'sledgeing'?
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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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I doubt any inquest nowadays would conclude with:
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But the inquest concluded that whatever was done in the way of improving warning signs there was no remedy against public stupidity. If water freezes over, people will pile on to it.
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An interesting review of the Regent's Park Skating Disaster http://timesonline.typepad.com/timesarchive/2009/02/the-regents-par.html
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