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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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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Don't remember, I think it was 1971 for me too...at age 6...
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I was a late starter.....remember my first week vividly, all week on the nursery slope, last day ski instructor took me on a "proper" green run, scared me witless - had to be taken to the pub to recover! I was still so scared on my second week that I pretended to be a complete beginner and went back on the nursery slope for a week! Can't say I remember it fondly....now I'm just an addict!
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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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1959, Kitzbuhel, aged 6. Lucky to have a dad who was into skiing. Absolute magic to me at that age. A huge snowy playground, like a dream world. Leather lace-up boots (inner and outer laces for each boot), wooden skis. And very strict Austrian ski instructors who had you side-stepping for days before you sniffed a ski lift!
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Andalo, Italy. 1977 was 12. Loved it.
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Late starter too, in 1986 at Glenshee spent most of the day on a slope by the car park learning to go in a straight line without falling over. Went down Sunnyside the next Saturday and was hooked. Spent most Saturdays that season at Glenshee - it was one of the few good ones!
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Was in Sestriere and had gone down the Nursery slopes a few times and decided to be a little more adventurous and skiied? around the swimming pool only to find that it didn't take me back to the bottom lift but by then I was committed........................
Ended up, after half an hour on my back bottom, in a village not knowing where I was until one of the group started looking for me and found me in a bar having a drink feeling like Shacklton and looking like Kermit
Couldn't work out why the Piste map didn't have arrows to tell you which way was down!
Still can't really.
Still I found the Bar!
Happy days
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Very late starter - 2000, managed to scam a free corporate skiing holiday with my previous employer. Funny thing was I didn't even work for them when it was organised! I claimed it would be beneficial to me to "fit in" with my peers. HR bought it hook, line and sinker. Wicked few days learning to ski in Chamonix with private tuition 9-4, so definitely worth going!!
Had a few more of those jaunts before the bottom fell out of the M&A market...
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Dec 2003! Went to Val d'Isere with worst lessons ever I learnt more in 2 lessons on a dry slope than a week over there. But I'm stilll hooked and hoping to go again some day
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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11 - The Lecht
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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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Even less glam, plastic dry slope at Ploughcroft in Halifax.
Sunday morning, November, grey and drizzle, cold, windy, didn't want to go.
LOVED IT!
That would be around 1985/6 I think. Rear entry boots and long straight skiis.
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2000 - Cervinia aged 27.
Spent most of the first day in tears!!!
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You know it makes sense.
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April 21st ? 1989 at Caringorm - it had snowed like crazy and everyone else could ski who I was with ( I had had a couple of dry slope lessons !) and I just had to keep up although I can remember crying on the run that goes down from the ptarmigan to the bottom bit of the cas !!!!!!!!! Also looked like Michelin man in borrowed sally's and jacket with my Pj's underneath
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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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Late starter also. 1986 aged 32 in Arinsal. group of 6 first-timers, all did 6 hour course on dry slope before we went. Scottish instructor in Arinsal (Andy) had us all over the mountain by the third day - well and truly hooked. Once or two trips a season ever since.
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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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1991, aged 15 in Gstaad. Nice place to start an addiction! I spent the next 3 years pleading with my Dad to let me go on the next trip!
David Goldsmith: You will not be happy to know that I had to take a chair lift before I'd even skiied on snow to get to a mid station as there was no snow below that level. It wasn't pretty getting off I can tell you but I managed enough control (thanks to dry slope skiing) to avoid people. However, the remainder of the day was spent side stepping up the slope courtesey of our very strict Swiss instructor who drilled us. David, the side step is alive and well (at least it was 3 years ago) in the Ski Welt when my husband learnt. Two days on the nursery slopes, second day using the button lift, before setting foot on a gondola to mid station. The instructor was young too.
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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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1997, age 27, la Thuile, with a bunch of Rugby and Hockey palyers... still got the hangover. Hooked though. Been at least once every year since.
Never work out how much you've spent on skiing BTW...
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Sunday 7/9/1997 - Mount Hutt - New Zealand
Up at 6, after landing at Christchurch the night before - seeing a snow report of fresh snow at the check-in desk of the hostel and booked on a bus before we'd even paid for the room!
Sense of excitement driving to the mountains - then getting very nervous putting on the boots and skis, and finally feeling elated at snowploughing down the nursery slope.
Hooked forever now I think
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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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Early nineties (date, not age!) in Sportinia, Sauze. Little old Italian instructor who had us on nursery slope for 3 days then said he would take us "up the mountain" next day where we would encounter a "little bit of a red run". Half the class didn't show for the rest of the week! I still hear him now, in my head, every skiing holiday. "Maggeeeee, don't turrrrn yourrrr shoulderrrrrrs!"
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A bit of a late starter (at 40) in 1997 in Pas de la Casa with some workmates, after several dry slope sessions so could do basic parallel turns. A great place to learn ~ plenty wide open space as I remember. Loved to blurred blue / white / blue as I fell over, luckily no damage done. A great week with lots of sunshine, lessons in the mornings and out with the big boys in the afternoons. Loved every minute and hooked ever since.
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Nubs Nob, Michigan, 1971, too! Red wooden Fischer skis, Cubco bindings, Raichle leather/plastic buckle boots. Ahhhhhh.....
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ssh, there's a resort called Nubs Nob.
Where's Benny Hill when you need him?
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marc gledhill, I said "Michigan." I don't know if I'd call anything there a "resort." It was certainly a simpler time when "Nub" named his small ski hill a "Nob". See their web site for the current version. Much larger than it was in 1971, but the owner (Dorrie) used to ski it at the age of 70 with her labs bounding behind her...
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Febuary 1994 aged 14, in Aviemore with my school and I went there every year until I left school in 1996. The experience that got me truely hooked was the first time I went down the White Lady.
I still remember my first experience with T-Bars (shudders), then again I was useless on button lifts back then as well.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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My friend said she quite enjoyed her first button lift experience!! Say no more
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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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this could suddenly turn into the best thread ever
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No more details I'm afraid andy b!
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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All the women I go away with like button lifts too...
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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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December 1977 Cairgorm. On a pair of "Veilhamers" (I can't remember how to spell it) Skis made in Avimore - Who can remember them?
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Just worked out the correct spelling - Vielhaber Skis - Took a bit of finding - Went Bust in 1984
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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MK Snowdome - December 2000 - a small, lurching, out of control little pile of skiers...
Westendorf - January 2001 - not much snow on the day we arrived but good snow falls over the next couple of days. I learn not to look at my skis whilst ski=ing by turning my attention to the instructors luxurious moustache!
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1995 - Queenstown, New Zealand. We were students, no money - so had to live on super-noodles and stay in the local youth hostel. The worst thing I remember was skiing in jeans and a pac-a-mac. We were still completely hooked and have skiied every year since!
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Maurach, Austria - '82. Went on the 6th Form ski trip because both the girls I fancied were going. Unfortunately they'd skied before and I was imprisoned away from them on the nursery slope for the week.
I'd always make sure I was the first of the group down so I could sneek back up the lift and be the last down too. It paid off: the following year I jumped a group to catch up!
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1976 aged 4 at Aviemore - screamed most of the time apparently.. my parents after 2 seasons of this decided that Europe was the answer!
I too had little leather ski boot lined in fur - very comfortable.
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2002 in Scheffau, Austria
definatley a late starter!
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Nice to know there a some others with L-plates on!
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