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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| RachelQ wrote: |
| There's a very long civilized not overlooked gondola that goes back up from les Brevieres ..... |
Sometimes we can be given just too little information.
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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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Caspar, have you never met Paul Mason, ?? he's an animal 
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Blow a tune on my mouth organ, sometimes the national anthem of whoever Im on with - God Save the Queen and Deutchland Uber Alles (Ode To Joy) are my favourites. The Marseillaise is trickier.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Blow a tune on my mouth organ
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Speaking of which doess remind me of an experience a good friend of mine had on a chiarlift in la PLagne.
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Snowbird, So I gather. But what kind? 
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Frosty the Snowman, are you sure it was a good friend ????
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Chat mostly, often in bad french to confused looking brits. Like the other diabetics here I have also done a fair number of blood glucose tests , and then usually gobbled fudge/mars bars/mentos to get me back to a sensible state before the next mad leg burn blast .
Ogling the "knickers tree" in vail was always a good laugh - I am sure there is some kind of game you could play regarding how many types you recognised 
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So, most snowheads do get out something when on a chairlift:
Hip flask, insulin syringe and glucose meter, chocolate bars, ciggies, ski pole rifle, and tongue have all been mentioned.
But the only thing anyone has admitted to dropping is a “stinker”.
Are snowheads really so careful? (or lucky)?
And I have to ask - what is the Knicker Tree?
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A friend of mine in StAnton this year managed to pull the mouthpiece from the end of his Camelback tube. In the ensuing panic, a fair amount of water spurted down the front of his jacket. By the time he got off the lift, the whole front of his jacket was ice. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Paul Mason, If it had been me it would have been my first post on SnowHeads.
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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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| Jonpim wrote: |
So, most snowheads do get out something when on a chairlift:
Hip flask, insulin syringe and glucose meter, chocolate bars, ciggies, ski pole rifle, and tongue have all been mentioned.
But the only thing anyone has admitted to dropping is a “stinker”.
Are snowheads really so careful? (or lucky)?
And I have to ask - what is the Knicker Tree? |
Jonpim, I am afraid to say I have dropped the odd sweetie wrapper, and I managed to drop my first lift pass abroad out of a gondola in Flaine in 84. So I do drop litter ( hangs head in shame) but I try not to ( cold fingers don't always help).
There was ( in 97 or 98 when I went ) a tree down in one of the back bowls in vail covered in all sorts of lacey and frilly ladies underwear. Not sure the purpose  but it kept me amused ( small mind ) and my wife annoyed as I suggested items to her every time we took the chair that went over it.
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Nothing to do with Tom Jones then?
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You know it makes sense.
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| Jonpim wrote: |
| Nothing to do with Tom Jones then? |
I didn't see him there - would it be unusual to see him skiing there??  . I also never noticed/had the guts to ask if any of the women we met in restaurants/ on chairs were "going commando" !
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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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The lure of google was too strong to resist - the story is here Not all litter thrown from chairs is "bad" 
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Poster: A snowHead
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I have to confess to having dropped a glove once... in the last few yards before getting to the top of a chair. I thought it was gone for good, but a friend in the lift behind told me it had landed a few feet away from the plunge down the cliff face so I intrepidly waded across the (bloody deep!) snow under the lift to retrieve it. little realising that the ground underneath the snow was loose scree and very stony. Had a few (with hindsight) comedy wobbles on the edge of a rather nasty 30ft drop as I retrieved the glove, much to the amusement of the people passing above my head flinging down (mostly) good natured abuse...
Talking of abuse from chairlifts above, why is it that all spectacular falls I do always happen immediately underneath crowded chairlifts and never on the nice quiet pistes away from the madding crowds...?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Talking of abuse from chairlifts above, why is it that all spectacular falls I do always happen immediately underneath crowded chairlifts and never on the nice quiet pistes away from the madding crowds...?
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It's a known fact that gravity is actually stronger under or near chairlifts and restaurants. You are therefore more likely to crash in these places. There is also the added effect of bored people on lifts simply willing you to fall. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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re bubble antics - when I worked my ski season, two our ski guides (male and female who were an item) were caught by guests making amorous use of a long bubble journey. They were sacked! It was a real shame because they were good people
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Re: Lingerie in the trees.
I've seen this decorative art form somewhere else in the US/Canada - may have been Panorama or Stowe, is it common in the US?
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jedster, I presume that was in the USA - in France they would have been given medal.
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jedster, how amorous would that be?
My boss when I saisonniered had worked for Bladon Lines previously. They were forbidden any amorous contact whatsoever. Like, how realistic is that? "You're going to be a chalet girl and you can't have any cuddles".
Unlikely.
More oddly, the BL corporate rules didn't forbid burning all the chalet furniture for warmth when the central heating failed. Just as well really...
Anyway, I believe Mount Snow (VT) has similar undergarment foliage. As does Whistler. And Blackcomb.
I think it's a North American, "Look we really can do apres ski!", effort.
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I usually have a swig of water, or a nibble on a mars bar. Either that or just enjoy the view
Oh, and try and get some feeling back in me legs and feet, being the athletic kinda guy that I am 
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I usually sit as standing, hanging, lounging etc would be a bit unstable. 
While I sit, I look at the view, other skiers and weld quality on the pylons.
And the odd passing sticker advert. We did sticker sticking on a previous thread . . .
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As well fiddling with myself - Goggles, gloves and the like... I also take in the suroundings. Normally advertising on the slopes realy annoys me but one ad for Evian in Meribel (La Tournette I think) had a picture of the bottle and the headline:
"Welcome to our factory." Class!
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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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lampbus, I quite often check the quality of the welding - although I have no qualifications to do so !?!?
My stepson is a welder at Swan Hunter if that counts ?
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Paul Mason, I know what bad welding looks like - I watch it cooling through the mask and think 'that went well' - then I take the mask off . . . 
I now leave it up to those with the required skill and experience.
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You know it makes sense.
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are those pics from Vail, carled??
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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We normally do three things:
1. Comment on the last run and why the bunch of geniuses we nearly mowed down were stood in the middle of the piste.
2. Play guess the amount of bubbles/cars on the lift - by a fairly haphazard method of counting how many we see coming down and multiplying it by two. Along the way we comment on how worrying it is that the chairs are in by no means numerical order and how likely that is to mean that at one point they all just fell off the cable..
3. Dismount with ease and then watch our snowboarder friends either a) make a pigs ear of it - invariably taking each otehr out in the process or b) fill the next half an hour with tightening and retightening of bindings!
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There is of course only one thing to really do on a chair lift .... bad renditions of cheesy songs !
If you've ever heard the strains of Janis Joplins 'Mercedes Benz' song, chances are it was me or one of my pals !
I have to admit to dropping a glove once in la Plagne - I have the so-called 'idiot strings' on my gloves and make a great play about how great they are and how I don't run the risk of losing a glove when I am on a lift.. blah blah blah..
More fool me... the stick i got when I'd forgotten to put the strings on a let go of my glove as normal ...... doh !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Richie_S, remeber chortling to myself seeing a french dad surounded by his french kids singing the full version of 'always look on the bright side of life'.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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"Moo" people
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Caspar, I hope you don't strawberry moo people ala Cravendale
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| Nick L wrote: |
| He now sits beautifully still |
Is that because he's not thawed out?
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Mrs Z lost a ski on a chair. She jumped on and somehow a ski detached as she sat down. She panicked a bit wondering what she was going to do at the other end with only 1 ski. Fortunately I was on the chair in front so could shout at the liftie at the top that he had a potential problem on his hands arriving. In the end Mrs Z just stayed on the chair and then had to lifted off. Her ski followed up a couple of chairs later.
At Hopfgarten, because it is south facing, you often can't ski down and one particular year we always had to take the couple of chairs back at the end of each day. The chairs had racks on the arms to take your skis. Except one didn't and as I put my skis on it and sat back to relax, I saw my skis tumbling to the ground below. Whoops 
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My better half lost his board on a chairlift... as we pulled the bar down he caught his heel on the footrest which undid his flow bindings and wahey off flew that board. Luckily it was Plan des Main lift in Meribel valley which does not go over any piste. It happened about 20m from the start and the baord just rolled on down and lifties kindly put it on a chairlift all by itself to the top.
Needless to say we check our bindings as we mount chairs these days....
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Mouth, Let that be a lesson. Don't buy flows!
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