Poster: A snowHead
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I guess this follows from the favourite runs thread.
I suggest the perfect run would need the following:
1. A steep start so you get a bit of a scare at the top.
2. A reasonable degree of flatness so I can get some speed up.
3. Just enough steepness to scare me and make me feel brave.
4. A bend you can tank round on your edges, but not blind so you can see the boarders sitting on the apex and cut inside them.
5. Hardish icy snow for predictability.
6. Some rocky scenery to be dramatic.
7. A nice surprise of some kind, perhaps a bank of snow to jump off.
8 A few trees a polite distance from the piste.
9. No narrow bits.
10. A friendly bar at the bottom.
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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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Good idea. I love stall turns up the side.
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Apart from a quick lift back up and very few others knowing about it, I think you've about covered the requirements.
I'll take 50 linked please, in a traditional mountain village with easy access by air/train.
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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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No. 5???
See my sig.
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Could we also please arrange for several hours of crisp bright sunshine a day and a fresh dump of snow every night?
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by the way, homphomp, that is my 'counterargument from design'. If God really existed, he would have arranged things so that it only snowed at night and it was bright and sunny during the day.
Sorry for the thread hijack. To keep it mildly on topic...did God design that perfect run and place it anywhere you know of?
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Chris Bish, Try the Lauberhorn run, a steep ish start, several nice bends, fairly wide for most of the run, mid part goes past trees, there's a speed gun part way down, several flatish glides, a steep finish with plenty of run out and Bars at both top and bottom plus it's often fairly hard packed and has a jump near the top
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Dunno. But if you we're going to design a piste, it would be completly different to an off-piste run.
Don't want no stinking powder on my high speed piste.
Just lovely, smooth, gently undulating creamy coudrouy.
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Oh please, the overnight snow needs to have been patted down by the time we get to this wonderful piste.....by the way, it needs to be secret - not marked on any piste map, so that only Snowheads can use it - don't want it to become so popular that it gets too busy to have fun on!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Can we have a "No Boarders" sign at the top?
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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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Sorry, no. My perfect piste is going to be inclusive. I'd even let freemasons use it.
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You know it makes sense.
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Can we also make it a hike from the top of a lift?
That way, only people prepared to make an effort will go in, and you won't just get guys going - let's try down here to see if we can get down to the mid-mountain restaurant for our Pimms...
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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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Definitely no bumps.
Maybe there needs to be some sort of adjuster at the top so each person can select, sort of a la carte, what particular variations they want.
One man's boring is another man's terrifying.
I think my run is blue/red.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Wear The Fox Hat, I repeat my inclusive point. Even Pimms drinkers welcome.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I just don't want it to be busy, or have skiers stopped in the middle, when they could be at the edge.
Mine would be Black powder to start, then a red bit, then a few bumps, followed by a pisted black run out (with a lot of tree options all the way down)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Wear The Fox Hat, now that's my sort of run!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Definitely need some bumps in there somewhere. Howabout a really wide bit (steep too) where one side of the piste has huge moguls, with the other side perfectly flat? In the middle, some normal-sized bumps, but the idea is you can choose your line.
Oh, and some of the moguls would be evenly spaced for those of us who can't quite pick our line yet!!
The most important thing though is the method of returning you to the top! We need a nice 3+km run that is served by stupidly high-speed twelve-seater chairlifts. That runs until sunset. I like the bit about keeping it quiet, but rather than making it a hike, howabout just putting it in a small resort that no-one knows about? That is on the doorstep of a convenient airport?
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The chairlifts are important. Not overhead so no-one can laugh at me wiping out on Jonpim's bumps and jumps.
Am I the only person who's game for any run in private but plays it safe in the full public gaze?
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I'm sure you're not Jonny Jones, but I'm the opposite: a terrible show-off. My only real ski injury (torn lateral ligament of knee) was caused by showing off under a chair lift at Glenshee. The dreaded Scottish Porridge did for me.
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homphomp, no, you need it on piste to practice on.
Well I do.
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You definitely need rollers - they're great fun (unless you don't carry enough speed into them - as if!)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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masopa, don't do walking anymore....used to when I was too frightened to let go - but not anymore. Watch out for me whizzing past you on this perfect piste....wheeeee!!!
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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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Don't worry homphomp, I'll see you coming - I'll be the one skiing it backwards on my left ski, whilst giving my right ski a quick edge sharpen.
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