 Poster: A snowHead
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The Gorm has a bigger prob with runaway boards as the 'main uplift' is the train so boards get carried up the stairs and put on the top of the slope Its from this point that the issue with runaways is biggest.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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TotallyBoard, Try being hit by a runaway board, see how comfortable that is 
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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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Kel, like I said I've never even seen one let alone been hit by one. If some people are too stupid to stay in control their board then fine they should wear a leash but personally I find them uneccesary and annoying. Why should I have to put myself out because of someone else's stupidity?
kevindonkleywood, these boards are put down flat on their bases? Then education about how to put your board down might help some. A load of people crammed on to a train with elastic leashes attached would be a recipe for boards in the face etc.
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Actually there would be a way of getting a leash that was safe with both carry and ride, a shortish leash with a double clip on one end that would clip to some sort of cuff, two cuffs one at wrist and one on leg would mean you could be clipped to one or other at any one time and could actually be momentarily clipped to both whilst taking board on or off, this is teh sort of system used when working at very high levels on things like radio masts, though there you need a strong harness rather than an elasticated cuff
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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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'tis easy - pay some top gnarly bearded dude to wear a leash in the latest cliff hucking extravaganza, and hey presto! All the baggy panted ones clamber over themselves to get leashed up.......
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There was a good reason for inventing ski brakes, modern safety bindings bought less risk to the skier but resulted in increasing numbers of people injured by released skis, thus some clever fellow came up with the ski brake, a simple (and most importantly) cheap device that would slow or even stop skis on all but the most hostile of slopes.
Snowboards don't have the same likelihood of coming off unintentionally as their bindings are not designed to release like a skis, therefore the biggest danger of loosing a board is when taking it off or (more likely) putting it on thus the use of a leash
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D G Orf, or you could just stop people being oafs. The people that put their boards down on their bases are likely to be the same people that forget to clip your new leash on.
If I see people putting their boards down on their bases I tend to have a quiet word about how stupid they're being and how dangerous it is.
There is no substitute for using your brain
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TotallyBoard,
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There is no substitute for using your brain
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Oh I agree, probably the same idiots that do that are the one that lie down for some weed in the middle of the piste... One can only hope Darwinism will play its part eventually
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Guys if it's gone back to 1995 you might do better to warn people of upcoming natural disasters than to rehash this argument.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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D G Orf, as I said earlier my leash was so fiddly that it was harder to get done up than my bindings and thus more risky (I had to put my foot in my binding in order to put it on). I don't get on with the longer leashes for reasons explained earlier, but I don't let my board get away from me because I'm not a moron (it doesn't have a life of it's own, I'm pretty good at predicting what it's going to do, apart from when I'm on it  ).
I've seen plenty of crashes and accidents on the mountain but as I said have never seen a runaway snowboard (maybe there's scores of snowboarders throwing their kit down the hill and I'm not observant enough).
I keep a leash in my pocket in case of over enthusiastic lifties but have never had to use it.
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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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D G Orf, oh do please FRO with that cliche, on my last 2 trips it was skiers standing in a line across the brow of the hills that was the main problem rather than snowboarders. There's idiots in both sports, I think you're suffering from something called confirmation bias.
Yeah we're all dope smoking morons who are a danger to every other mountain user and should be shot at dawn, happy now?
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TotallyBoard, that is the point though - I do put my board down 'bindings first', but then my ski buddies put their skis down 'bases first' next to it but do not seem to have an issue, so is the issue a board thing really?. I bought a short leash once and like you it was harder to put on (impossible with big mitts/gloves) than my bindings
I have seen two run-away boards, one from the piste that hurtled in to the off piste (Whistler female) and one which came hurtling out of the off piste, crossed the piste and then finally came to a stop off piste again (Chamonix - male)
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You know it makes sense.
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rayscoops, is it a board issue or an education issue? I was never told, but my common sense made me put my board down on the non-slidy bit from the first day I started riding. Something in the FIS stating that you are responsible for your snowsports equipment and any injury it causes if it gets away from you, would IMO be more use than the poxy shoelace leashes.
The FIS rules don't seem to be held in high regard by a lot of skiers and/or snowboarders judging by the amount of times I got pulled out on by people not looking up the hill and by a skier going faster than he was capable of and taking out my 5yo daughter.
I would guess that the people who most need leashes on their snowboards are the ones least likely to know the FIS rules in the first place. Maybe rules that leashes must be provided (and use of explained) with all rental boards might be a good idea. It might be an idea for rental shops to stress that boards should be put 'bindings down' and to explain why. I'd guess that rental shops doing these 2 things would all but negate the need for the FIS to make leashes compulsary for all snowboarders.
Personally I don't want or need a leash on my board.
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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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TotallyBoard, agreed
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Poster: A snowHead
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TotallyBoard, having seen a grand total of two unaccompanied boards on the hill in nearly 15 full seasons, I'd suggest the only 'issue' here is why none of these allegedly gainfully employed snowheads has nothing better to do than post drivel on the interweb. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Bring back jeans and gaiters 
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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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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I have of course voluntarily and deliberately however initiated runaway boards on a few occasions...
of course the only endangerment was to squirrels plus scratches to myself as I waded into thickets to recvoer them after my strop
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