 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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Pink stripes looked the business in the 80s!! 
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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.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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roga, You were impossibly cute....wonderful piccies!
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^^^ +1 
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queen bodecia, shall i take that as a compliment!!!
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so is DAB now kooky???
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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kooky, most definitely! 
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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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queen bodecia, roga very very very good
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You know it makes sense.
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queen bodecia, gorgeous!
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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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| skimottaret wrote: |
| so is DAB now kooky??? |
Yes.
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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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Sorry no pics - Fox Talbot was still working on it.
1st time on skis was at Glenshee late '60s. Lace up boots, cable bindings, wooden skis, sh i t snow conditions, poor weather, didn't learn much. Amazing really I didn't jack it in there and then. Second wasn't really on snow. The big outdoor slope in Edinburgh at Hillend. Dry slope thumb !!! Altho' I skied it once with some snow on it - seriously fast then.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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[quote="Dubaian"]1st time on skis was at Glenshee late '60s. Lace up boots, cable bindings, wooden skis, sh i t snow conditions, poor weather, didn't learn much./quote]
Sounds like a day I had at Glenshee last season 
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| betterinblack wrote: |
Dude looking cool, are they walkman headphones round your neck? |
Walkman Mk1, still got it, in original case, piece of history, couldn't throw it away.
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Second time, six weeks after the first............Montgenevre '97.
Can't get it to be more than a thumbnail, doh!
Anyway, try pinning the tail on the donkey (Pre boarding, natch).
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oops, tried to fix for you BCjohnny, but cathy's pipped me to the post!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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cathy, ding ding.........
We have a winner.
sherlock235, thanks
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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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| Dubaian wrote: |
| Sorry no pics - Fox Talbot was still working on it. |
LOL, surely not
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| 1st time on skis was at Glenshee late '60s. Lace up boots, cable bindings, wooden skis, sh i t snow conditions, poor weather, didn't learn much. Amazing really I didn't jack it in there and then. |
Sounds familiar although I don't remember that much about my first skiing at Cairngorm when I was 6 my dad's diary suggests conditions were less than ideal that Xmas week at Cairngorm and I spent some of it at the old Aviemore dry slope rather than braving the hill!
When I started going regularly with my school, by then we lived close enough to Cairngorm to do it every weekend in the season, I was lent kit by the school which must have dated back to the 60s. Gawd it was awful with cable bindings and leather boots being de rigeur, the leather boots had buckles though rather than laces so all mod cons there! I remember being amazed at the kit (owned) that the older kids who were good enough to go race training had - cool plastic boots and step in bindings and as for their clothes, well lets just say it contrasted immensely with the cagoul, balaclava and baggy waterproof over trousers I had! Sadly I don't have any pictures from that era as far as I can ascertain, would be good for a laugh though!
And that brings me onto ...
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| Second wasn't really on snow. The big outdoor slope in Edinburgh at Hillend. Dry slope thumb !!! |
Ouch, you didn't have much luck eh!
Mind you Hillend was the nemesis for my first pair of new (as opposed to second hand) skis 
Having got rather fed up with the ancient school equipment I managed over time to upgrade with second hand, but far newer kit until the point a few years later when I'd saved up enough money working over the summer holidays to buy a brand new pair of Rossignols, boy did I love them. Being desperate to try them out I grabbed some time on the Hillend slope when we spent a few days in Edinburgh one August. This was in the days before they'd installed sprinklers and guess what, after a few runs down the slope I started to smell a hot plasticy smell and when I realised on investigating it was my bases melting I did the worst possible thing and poured cold water over them - aaargh, this made them worse and created a rippled pattern right down the melted area and effectively ruined the skis! Not good and no matter how much p-tex I tried to use to get them right again they never recovered! It's a wonder I still ski on the dry really but these days I'm pretty careful if I'm using my better pair of race skis and smother them with extra hard wax before every excursion, that and the fact that sprinklers make a hell of a difference has saved me from a repeat performance with the melting bases!
So, in the spirit of this thread, here's a picture of me at Hillend that very summer (not sure if this was before or after the melted bases but I guess I probably looked even more sulky after it happened!):
Just goes to show that even cute toddlers can grow into sulky teenagers doesn't it
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You know it makes sense.
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| cathy wrote: |
| BCjohnny, I would love you to be third from right |
| BCjohnny wrote: |
cathy, ding ding.........
We have a winner. |
Fantastic!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Missed this thread over the summer, so it has been a superb lunch hour for me perusing these. Will have a did through the pix and see if I can find anything suitably amusing.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I looked (and skied) like a god in 1988, and I continue to look and ski like a god now. Well, these days it's more like Buddha if the truth be known....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Dubaian Sounds like we may be of a similar era: I started in my late teens at Glenshee in the mid 60s, in lace up leather boots and cable bindings, in the days when the Butchart's T-bar was triangular. with a dog leg on the way up. No photos of that era, my only skiing photo is below, taken in the early 70s on a BA ski club training week at Zell am See. Note the early plastic Koflach boots, which had a plastic shell with a leather flap on the front to which the clips attached (probably also helped keep melting snow out). Looking at the photo for the first time in years, I realise now why friends nicknamed me "sparrowlegs."
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The Voice of Reason, pictures ot it didn't happen.
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to add to my first ever scottish pic on page 1, I just remembered my first monoboard experience on a hot spring day (march 1991) in Puy St Vincent I believe...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| kitenski wrote: |
| to add to my first ever scottish pic on page 1, I just remembered my first monoboard experience on a hot spring day (march 1991) in Puy St Vincent I believe... |
Wow impressive, was never brave enough to try one of those but you look good!
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Zero-G, he is but a mere figment of his own imagination
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kitenski, very sweet mono board steeze.. i have yet to see a mono board at hemel..
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kooky, it's like hearing voices when there's no one there.
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oh have not laughed so much in a long time! I now have visions of my c&a ensemble c.1981 aged...mmm hang on if I am 29 now, that would make me zero then wouldn't it!
anyway, am going to devote sometime to scanning in said pics. And probably a LOT more time locating them....
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