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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Me me me to Avoriaz!! Top tip on 30th on the piste - make sure you celebrate fully on the night of your birthday and not the night before.... 
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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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I'll be taking the long and winding road up to Alpe d'Huez I should imagine.
Happy 30th Lucie - the best way to spend a birthday!
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Not quite - we do go to Fernie next weekend for a fotrnight though, and *fingers corssed* my new pocket rockets should arrive before then too 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Just booked a couple of days off work .....
I'm going to Kitzbuel tomorrow, skiing Thurs & Fri.
Sat skiing depends on how much I have to drink Fri night with an English group of skiing and boarders. (Should I hold a glass of pims in one hand and a fatty roll up in the other?)
If the snow is really good (and I get Domestic Management permission) then I might stay till Sunday.
Happy 30th Lucie.
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Lucie and dolphingirl are giving me ideas for my 30th. 
I'm off next weekend, so anyone skiing this weekend, could you make a few turns for me?
Oh, and happy birthday SB!
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Thu 4-03-04 20:14; edited 1 time in total
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Me! Squealing like a stuck pig (whatever that means!). Up at 3am, Gatwick by 5am (I will be the one shouting at a 4yr old dragging a green case!). We fly at 7am and the snow is awaiting...... 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Fruity, where are you off to?
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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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Im going to Pas! I'll be at Gatwick at 5am no doubt in the wrong que for half an hour before realising and stomping off to the correct one
so excited i might just burst!
 Its my friends 18th when were out there- Will obviously force her to ski with fairy wings and tassles on the day!
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| Nadenoodlee wrote: |
| Its my friends 18th when were out there- Will obviously force her to ski with fairy wings and tassles on the day! |
So, do you mean you're not going to make her dress up more than usual for the day?
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You know it makes sense.
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Can't wait - I'm off to Alpe D'huez on Saturday. The snow's looking okay, but I've been checking the snow reports several times a day in the hope that an unexpected dump is forecast for just before I get there! I'm sooo excited I'm already wondering whether I can get a long weekend in at Easter....
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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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The aim of the game will clearly be humiliation!
At least we dont wear those bloomin "on the piste tour 2004" tshirts
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Poster: A snowHead
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Now feeling seriously inadequate, so will go to MK on sunday pm and blast the zone for an hour or 2 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Austin, what time?
Maybe get a crowd of us up there for the first snowHeads gathering
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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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Am off week on Sat, but only to Bulgaria for a cheep extra week away. HOpe its ok, not been before. Taking a friend to teach her to ski. 
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Sorry. Hi. Am new to snowheads, have come over from SC site.
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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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Off the top of my head, around 4ish ?
I think they close the slope around 6 for grooming... last time I hit it on a Sunday pm, it was as quiet as I've ever seen the place.
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Hiya RObbie- Bulgaria should be a laugh- ive heard rumours the Vodkas only 30p a shot = excellent, and the skiings not bad either
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Thanks for that. Got so many comments just about the rotten food, and nothing else!
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Ahh the foods not that bad- I mean its not classic french cooking etc but who cares- I live off takeaway and supernoodles when im skiing anyway- have a good time!
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| Fruity wrote: |
Squealing like a stuck pig (whatever that means!). |
Fruity, the origin of this phrase is obscure. It may well mean just what it says on the label: a poor pig stuck somewhere (say, half-way through gap in fence) is squealing to get free.
The original phrase seems to be "bleeding like a stuck pig", and refers to how they were killed (in similar manner to Halal): held or hung up by the back feet and their throats "stuck" with a knife.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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now i feel really guilty for having a bacon sandwich
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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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Cheers, Jonpim, just put me off my dinner
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I'm off to St Anton for a week on Sunday.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Lucie wrote: |
A ski holiday is a ski holiday, how bad can it be? |
Lucie, maybe not bad, but can be not as good as hoped: four of us are flying out to Courmayeur on Thursday night to tackle the Vallee Blanche before we get too old. We have been looking forward to this all year. For the last few weeks the weather has been marvelous: sun and clear blue skies. But now if you look at the weather on http://www.meteo.fr/e_index.html you will Sod's Law in action: rain and clouds arrive Friday morning and no doubt will stay until Sunday afternoon when we return. So it goes....
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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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There are three things that can prevent a vallee Blanche run, that I can think of (well, three things that have prevented me in the past):
1) Too much snow (avalanche danger)
2) Too little snow (crevasse and ice danger)
3) High winds (the lifts close)
The Val d'Aosta website has a weather report too:
http://www.regione.vda.it/protezione_civile/meteo/default_f.asp
I've been told - and seen - that the weather on both sides of the MB range can be very different. One rule of thumb I was told was that if it snows on one side, it won't be on the other (though I can remember one instance when this was definitely wrong ).
Good luck, I hope the weather holds out. I'm really hoping to do it again myself, sometime - preferrably when there's snow down to Chamonix so I don't have to walk down from the glacier.
Have fun everyone else, too.
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Thanks Skanky: you've cheered me up a bit.
There is one other reason for not doing the Vallee Blanche. David who is organising this trip went to Chamonix 2 years ago to do the run, but when he saw the walk along the ridge at the top, he got back in the cable-car and came back down! Hence he has got us going to Courmayeur this time: no nasty ridge walk.
Apologies to Nadenoodlee and Maggi: didn't mean to ruin your supper.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Us too! We are off to Courchevel, long weekend, taking friends for their first 'taster'!
Just really praying for the weather...really wanted blue skies for them.
Everywhere I look I seem to get different information...where is the best place for the weather forecasts?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Not going till the 14th March. The wait is getting really unbearable now.
Have a great Birthday Lucie.
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going skiing ? It's the weekend, it's winter... are you insane ? Of course I'm going skiing, not sure where though although the local paper had a coupon for a discount round the Gruyere stations
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Off to Meribel, but will be venturing into the other valleys quite a lot I imagine.
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| Fruity, where are you off to? |
Got caught posting actually Foxy! Boss walked in!
We are off to Italy, Passo Tonale, near Madonna with the big boobies or whatever its called.
Flying Saturday, arr at Bergamo at 1050 I think, 2.5 hr transfer so should get equip sorted in the afternoon so no hassle at ski shop with skis on the Sunday.
CANNOT WAIT! Our family looks like that idiot family on the French Disney advert (all up at 3am with their coats on) saying how excited they all are.
Fx
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[quote="Nadenoodlee"]Im going to Pas! I'll be at Gatwick at 5am no doubt in the wrong que for half an hour before realising and stomping off to the correct one
See u at Gatwick then, thats our check in time too!!!!
What are we all gonna wear to make it obvious then!!!!!!
Snowheads first proper gettogether at Gatwick!!!!!!
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Fruity and Nadenoodlee,
Over on SCGB site Helena Dillon is posting on the "Best Age for kids to Start"(and in "Off to Italy on 6th March" forum). She is going to Passo Tonale with 4 year old child and hubby. Maybe one of you is Helena. Anyway, I' ve suggested she get in touch with you.
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