 Poster: A snowHead
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PowderHound171, Welcome to Snowheads !!
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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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Sam does a 360. The lifts from La Rosiere to La Thuile last year lifted him off the ground for about 50m. By the end of the week he had learned how to control the swing and turn right around so that he was facing forwards again before he touched down.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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FenlandSkier, How do I get permission to look at your photos?
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Hi all - first time posting. As with others, drag lifts are the bane of my life. Having developed a reputation for falling off in my early years, I approach each drag with a sense of foreboding and it comes as a blessed relief to reach the end. 
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halfhand, Welcome to  . You will find many here that share your view of the evil drag lift!
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If you're teleing you can tele uphill to keep with the purist aspect of the sport and pretend you're earning your turns. However its actually too knackering after a while & is just as sad as slaloming.
Re the slalomers out there I'm sure you'd change your mind after some **** has bounced the cable off and you've had a 500ft bootpack to get out of a bowl at the end of the day.
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I've spent years toying with the idea of spinning around on a flatter bit and going up backwards after I saw a French guy do it on the LDA glacier. Still toying.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Caspar,
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If new to resort, I will probably be checking the piste map. Otherwise, I'll quite often collect poles deliberately planted by others for their friends to pick up but whose friends have been unable to do so .
If bored (usually occurs after about 3 seconds) I will sometimes sing and maybe dance a bit.
A friend of mine has actually been known to fall asleep on drag lifts
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Do I know you?
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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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In a slightly earlier existence I used to really enjoy a smoke. Given up now though so that's another pleasure denied.
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hold on
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You know it makes sense.
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carled,
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| (Foret I & II?) twin drags that start at Serre Che at about 2100m just after the bubble up from the main village (1400) last year because they're such evil lifts. Lightning fast start followed by stupidly steep gradient and a nice 60 degree turn halfway up on an adverse camber, followed by crossing a busy run from the chairlift to one side and ending with a ridiculously steep pitch right up at the top. |
I can't say I had a problem with that lift, but it seems to be a general thing that all the drag lifts in Serre Che are dodgy. There is one at the bottom of the mountain (Mickey) which lifts you off the snow at the beginning :s
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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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I contemplate what effect a drag lift has on a snowboarders sperm count. 
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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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Mamcoz, so he says... 
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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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When staying in Cervinia but skiing in Zermatt I rather brilliantly managed to miss the last cable car back to the border... my only option was to take the 4km drag... about halfway up I spotted a huge (about 20 euros) of dropped change on the floor... my miser side wanted me to leap off and collect the money but then I'd have lost another 100 boarding in Zermatt for the night... damn!  On that particular ride my one and only thought was "oh my god do NOT fall off".
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I'm with jedster: there's always that sign that means "No Slalom". So I just have to slalom. I try to get out as wide as I can, but it always seems some other guy has managed to go wider.
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Wearing my serious hat for a moment, it is sensible to adhere to the"No Slalom" rule. Going out to the side of the track puts a sideways load onto the cable as it goes over the pulley wheels for which it was not designed, which could cause it to detach from the wheel, or in extreme cases the cable could snap (and the effect of a torn steel cable possibly whipping across a skier's face is not pleasant to contemplate  ). Even if you are responsible for only stalling the lift you will not be popular!
Last edited by You need to Login to know who's really who. on Mon 5-12-05 19:25; edited 2 times in total
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Caspar,
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Perhaps you have seen me on a drag lift singing things like "fat-bottomed girls" whilst playing air guitar on my ski poles
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Whilst wearing your cow head of course 
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snowbunny, But of course! I am a SnowCow, after all.
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In view of posts in another thread, another thing I will do on lifts in future is avoid snowbunny,
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Caspar, I don't really deserve that comment . I'm really 
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snowbunny, Hmmm. I believe you. But then, would you really want to share a drag lft with someone?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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snowbunny, Further to your question
I detest drag lifts with a passion. Some, although seemingly relatively minor in decline and distance, turn out to be big momma long steep hell rides, presenting you with many a difficulty along the way (ie- ice or mahusive bumps)
If you can handle any of the above ^ you use this time wisely. It is imperative to ring your friends back in England, telling them what a wonderful time you're having in Courcheval with daddy's plastic, and how rotten it is that they couldn't come with you..  hehe....
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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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Caspar,
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snowbunny, Hmmm. I believe you. But then, would you really want to share a drag lft with someone?
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I would share a draglift with you, I'm only little, and then you would understand that I don't deserve my reputation. I will not carry your skis however 
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You know it makes sense.
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Caspar,
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So, are we talking T-bar or button
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Well, as I don't know you too well, T bar, then if you upset me, I can push you off 
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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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snowbunny, You smooth-talker. Obviously, I would do my utmost to ensure that I wouldn't upset you.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Caspar, Don't bank on it, I'm quite fond of my personal space on lifts
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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snowbunny, That's assuming I haven't pushed you off first
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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,
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snowbunny, That's assuming I haven't pushed you off first
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Men, they are all the same, bullies at heart 
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snowbunny, So, let me get this straight - if you threaten to push me off the lift, it's okay, but if I joke about the same thing then I'm a bully.
Obviously, I don't ever expect to understand the fairer sex but sometimes it does make it a bit tricky 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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