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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wayne, A cable car - Like the big thing that they jumped from in Where Eagles Dare
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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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Wayne, a small box in which people with rucksacks squash people like "under a new name".
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I'd use a photograph.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Right then, the lot of you Frosty the Snowman, hyweljenkins, Butterfly, go and stand in the corner.
And we don't want to their face, do we class ? go on you know what to do, face the wall.
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Wayne, A mode of transportation that takes skiers from a large que at the bottom of the hill to a large que at the top of the hill.
Tin can attached to a moving cable that transports people up mountains and steep terrain. Tend to smell of beer farts, Squashed snowheads and Cheese.
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Fattes13, go and join those 3 in the corner.
Does anyone have a real suggestion.
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Wed 10-03-10 11:43; edited 1 time in total
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A white knuckle ride, in a big metal box, suspended by a thin wire over an abyss, a drop into which would mean certain death.
Farting within the first 30 seconds of the ride starting is compulsory.
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How long/short do you want the description to be? And maybe start off sorting things out your own mind as
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is not a cable car, it's a bubble/gondola/egg (delete to taste).
A series of metal/fibreglass bubbles each the size of a small car which hangs from a moving cable. Each bubble has 6 seats, in two rows back to back so you sit facing outwards fore and aft through the windows, and has carriers on the outside for your skis. The bubbles are moved slowly through the top and bottom stations allowing you to get in and out, and then clamp to the cable to move at higher speed up the mountain.
But a picture is worth a thousand words.
And if you do want to talk about cable cars, remember that any Americans would know a cable car as a tram and a tram as a cable car.
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Tell them to Google "Cavalese".
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Wot butterfly said.
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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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Axsman, A Cable Car is, for me, 2 fixed cables on which 1 large cabin is slung below each cable. The 2 cars are connected by a drive cable that pulls one car up the fixed cable whilst lowering the other car down its cable... a bit like a lift and a counterweight in a building. The picture you posted is a of lots of smaller cabins that grip onto a moving cable.
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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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Axsman, the rails are the fixed cable and the drive cable runs under the road.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Hmmm ... depends how detailed you want the descripition to be. I usually find Wikipedia useful for this sort of stuff.
For example, to quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondola_lift
"A gondola lift is a type of aerial lift, often called a cable car, which consists of a loop of steel cable that is strung between two stations, sometimes over intermediate supporting towers. The cable is driven by a bullwheel in the terminal, which is connected to an engine or electric motor. Because of the proliferation of such systems in the Alpine regions of Europe, the French language name of Télécabine is also used in an English language context. Gondola lifts should not be confused with aerial tramways (where a cabin is suspended from a fixed cable and is pulled by another cable), which are also sometimes known as 'cable cars'."
(I hope I'm not breaking any rules / conventions by quoting another website!?)
But as others have said ... a piccy might be the way forward.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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A swinging box of death. I am not a fan of cable cars and turn a very strange colour on the Valluga in St Anton.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Nadenoodlee, well TBF there are very few cable accidents resulting in fatalties. You are probably at far more risk of death in your car on the motorway.
However 'swinging box of vomit' does I think have some basis in fact. 
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Frosty the Snowman, I love the comment "Aiguille du Midi can be scary when its calm/clear up there. I'd have to check my shorts after this ride!" 
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Was standing on Plan Midi once when I heard a gasp from all around. I looked up to see that something had put on the anchors and the fast descending cable car suddenly wasn't. It swung forward so much that the body of the car was pressed firmly into the cables!
So, yes, it can be scary.
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I wouldn't describe it technically to a first timer - reading those posts made me feel a bit sick
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Its a fast easy way to accend the mountain unless you suffer from acrophobia(fear of heights), claustrophobia(fear of enclosed spaces), fatsophobia(fear of being sat on by an obese individual), nokiaphobia(fear of having to listen to loud cell phone conversations), velcrophobia(fear of becoming fastened to someone else´s pocket flaps), or autoparkasphysxiation( fear of being smothered by your own down filled ski jacket).
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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 have to stand in the middle where I cant see anything and have to be surrounded by very tall scandinavian or Austrian hotties (with backpacks) and have my ipod on full with something happy and soothing.
My worst experience ever was the bubble up from Tignes Le Lac, it stopped over the lake bit and stupid French man was bouncing about making it bounce up and down bleeeurrghh I cried alot and wouldnt let go of the bar in the middle.
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| to be surrounded by very tall scandinavian or Austrian hotties (with backpacks) |
Backpacks are you sure - you'll get into bother with some people ??
Anyway have used this
the lift from the town is a large cable car (with easy to get into cabins) all the way up to the mid-station
that'll have to do.
Finished that page for now - will go back to it before it's done.
Trying to write the contact us form with server-side PHP now (so the spam bots don't get me  )
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You know it makes sense.
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Wayne, everyone seems to have backpacks in St A and shovels!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Nadenoodlee,
I was in St Albans the other week and didn't see anyone with a shovel
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Poster: A snowHead
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DAB, well worked out
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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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A large metal container with windows and often small seats around the edge which can be stood or sat in. Said container is suspended on a long arm and clamped to a moving cable which is moved by a pair of winches and supported above the ground on metal pylons over which the cable passes on a series of cogs. The containers can swing to a certain degree depending on loading, weather and proximity to the pylons that they are passing over.
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Wayne, that page, as in the link from your sig, refers to sections of a black being over 60 degrees. Do you really mean that? There're only a handful of people in the world who can ski 60+ degrees. OK, if it's only for a metre or two, but is that really a realistic gradient - or just a statement a tabloid would just about get away with.
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| GrahamN wrote: |
| Wayne, that page, as in the link from your sig, refers to sections of a black being over 60 degrees. Do you really mean that? There're only a handful of people in the world who can ski 60+ degrees. OK, if it's only for a metre or two, but is that really a realistic gradient - or just a statement a tabloid would just about get away with. |
I always tell people when they ask me if they should do those runs that if you fall you're going to keep sliding and pick up speed. Mind you, most people I see going down the steep bits are just side slipping
One of the most popular cafes on the slopes is half way down Nera Marilleve piste (black 60' in the middle for about 70m). There is a cheer goes up when someone starts to slide and it keeps going till they stop.
Really childish and I, as a professional, do not condone such behaviour
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Wayne, Looking at the dolomites for next years lads trip. Do you do singles? (x 4).
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| Wayne wrote: |
Right then, the lot of you Frosty the Snowman, hyweljenkins, Butterfly, go and stand in the corner.
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Do you trust us all in the same corner?
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Wayne, Looks good, I shall have to go to Folgarida one day as I have heard many good reports. What is the off-piste like?
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| (black 60' in the middle for about 70m) |
I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no way will you have that on a piste (assuming you've mistyped ' for degrees, which is what is on your webpages). The majority of skiers would die on such a section, not just start a more or less controlled slide to the bottom. I'd buy 60% = 31 degrees, which is a reasonable black gradient. The steepest black in the Alps is always considered to be the Harikiri in Mayrhofen, which is 38 degrees.
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FAQ
. Whereas what you describe is a fast 6 person gondola - a good thing 