 Poster: A snowHead
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One of mine is instructors in the fast lanes who conveniently forget about the alternate 'filter in' rule with the normal queue, don't bother telling their pupils, and the too-polite tourists who let a dozen of the instructor's angelic-looking  charges push in front of them as a result...
Any other suggestions?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This doesn't happen in Scotland. Instructors, millionaires, paupers and royalty queue as one.
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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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The infuriating combination of half loaded lifts and long queues...
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My pet hates it when we go skiing! She often tries to pack herself by getting in the suitcase..........
My pet hate is flat light. I'm so much braver when the sun is out.
I also hate walking with skis on. I'm just too old for that sort of exertion.
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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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People who are happy to leave their skis outside the restaurant/bar but insist on bringing their poles in with them. Why do they do that?
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Busy, over crowded pistes and suvival of the fittest lift queues.
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David Goldsmith, Surely there's a slow lane for the English 
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The sound of base against rock...
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AB Ski, I couldn't have put it better myself!
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Davis Steven, yes- think that must be the worst, just thinking about the sound that my edges make when they make contact with rock makes me cringe.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Would-be Herminators in the blue/green approaches to resort. Groups of near-beginners that are stuck, sliding uncontrollably, falling over, generally blocking the way down narrow reds and blacks they should never have gone near.
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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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Chair lifts that stop a lot.
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In addition to the suggestions already listed:
1) Fag ends in the snow
2) The scrums for the gondola
3) Pomas that try to lift you into the air (well, pomas in general, to be honest)
4) Anyone who is unnecessarily loud on the slopes (mobile phones / screaming to mates etc.)
5) The return flight back 
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You know it makes sense.
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B****y T-Bars! I HATE them.
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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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Heavy rain at 3000m this last January of all months. A real downer.
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Poster: A snowHead
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People who insist on stopping in the middle of the piste, especially in big groups. And it's not only darksiders who are guilty.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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And anything who litters the mountain; especially discarded water bottles - dangerous as well as unsightly.
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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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Red Dave, related to your last post, in late April as the snow starts to disappear off-piste lower down, the sight from the chairlift of a trail of rubbish underneath as you're on your way up...
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Arrogant rich-kid types, and drunks, in lift queues.
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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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On the subject of drunks (etc)... completely insensitive and moronic drunks shouting and screaming in the street outside poorly sound-insulated buildings full of families with kids trying to sleep. People who stomp through the corridors of your hotel at 3 in the morning talking at the tops of their voices.
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Grass in the middle of the slopes.
telford_mike, I do that! I've had poles stolen before and that sure can ruin a day on the slopes.
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People who pick up their skis and swing them over their shoulder without looking who's behind!
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...and on that subject... people who carry their skis in those straps (from another thread) then forget that they now need space to turn when walking along.
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People who stand on your carefully looked after skis with their rentals in the queues.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| PG wrote: |
| People who stand on your carefully looked after skis with their rentals in the queues. |
...people whose heel bindings are too tight for you to pop them after they've just stood on your skis with their rentals.
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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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I certainly wouldn't nominate gerbils as pet hates. I'm rather fond of them.
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Busloads of screeching, boozing pikeys - raise prices! 
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You know it makes sense.
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Waiting at the airport carosel, wondering if my luggage made it.
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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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Wear The Fox Hat commented,
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...people whose heel bindings are too tight for you to pop them after they've just stood on your skis with their rentals.
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... Still, there's some comfort in the knowledge that their bindings might not release next time they take a fall 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Poeple who cant be arsed to rack their lovely skis when having a break and just leave them lying exactly where they took them off, turning the area into an obstacle course. The same people will the voice their displeasure when anyone goes within a foot of the said skis.
I just love sking over them in my rentals!!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| ...and on that subject... people who carry their skis in those straps (from another thread) then forget that they now need space to turn when walking along. |
People who don't use those straps who forget they need even more space to turn when walkiing along. 
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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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oh dear. What a wound up bunch we are.
My pet hate. People who take their partners onto slopes too hard for them and the ensuing slanging matches. You know the poor sole stranded is scared witless (hee hee)
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| Robbie wrote: |
oh dear. What a wound up bunch we are.
My pet hate. People who take their partners onto slopes too hard for them and the ensuing slanging matches. You know the poor sole stranded is scared witless (hee hee) |
I heard a screaming match in the Grand Massif the other week, some English family, the wife was screaming at the husband incoherently about him telling her how to ski (apparently he shouldn't have been) and how her skiing had gone back 5 years. Seemed like a nice start to a good day out for them
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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 once skiied in a group with a german couple, and the wife was not a happy bunny. When she finlaly made it out of a rather trying tree run, she went up to her husband and started beating him really hard with her poles. They then both skiied off still screaming at each other - and we never saw then again. 
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That's rarely caused by the slope being too hard. I went down a blue with my girlfriend and she berated me all the way down that it was too hard (it wasn't, she did it fine). The next day she went with a ski lesson down the same slope and was fine and enjoyed it.
I think it's like having a family member or partner taking a learner driver out.
That said we were fine skiing together later in the week.
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I find the best way round this is to go off and ski separately for an hour or two in the morning. I can go off and do the bits that I want to do, then skiing together for the rest of the day, I can just practice technique (MINE - not her's) while we ski down greens and easy blues.
I think the arguments start because you feel you're being held back and not getting the most out of your skiing day. If you've already been off and done the exciting bits, the pressure has been taken off the rest of the day.
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Yes that was his fault that time, and pretty stupid.
I took down her a piste that was easier than many more she'd done before. That said, it was also the first day of the holiday, and it was more difficult than the blues that she'd done in Cervinia the year before, so it may have been surprise more than anything. She couldn't believe it was a blue - it was the first time I'd been down it too, and I had to keep showing her the piste map.
I think we'd both forgotten what blues at other resorts can be like compared to Cervinia - but as she'd been down reds it shouldn't have been a problem - and indeed it wasn't. However, anyone passing us might have thought we were about to have a big fall-out (we didn't).
So anyway, my point is that it can seem a lot worse than it is.
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Well, my german would have ended the day badly bruised, she really laid into him wiht her poles!! I think the poles got bent!
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