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@Red Leon, Sadly, no. I'd quite like to meet Masque - I always imagine him as a cross between Hunter S. Thompson and Catweezle...
I would apologise to @WaterSymbol for high-jacking this thread but it does seem like quite a good example of SH thread life.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Richard_Sideways, That sounds a bit harsh on Catweazle.
I reckon this thread contains all thats good about SH except for an argument about helmets
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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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@robapplegate, I tried ... 
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Hi,
Echo #1 - Welcome. 
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I have never went skiing or snowboarding,
I hope I don't end up looking TOO bad. |
As someone who's learned to both ski and snowboard in the last fifteen years, ... unless you're the next Bode Miller ... there's good news ... and there's bad news ...
The bad news is ... 'fraid you're going to be absolute crap ... 
The good news is ... everyone (except people like Bode Miller  ) was crap three days after being an absolute beginner. As long as you have, and retain, the most important attribute - a sense of humour that does not fail under any circumstances - you can only get better ... 
Echo #2 - Get lessons.
Ime, as you've only got three days, I'd strongly advise against trying both skiing and snowboarding for one day each. Unless you've got pot-loads of money, a lesson is likely to be two hours max. and, if you're in a group, actual teaching time will be much less. The idea is you then spend the rest of the day practising what you learned in the lesson and go back the following day for another lesson to learn some more. With what you're thinking of doing, you risk coming away after three days not having grasped what makes ordinary human beings put themselves through hell (and deny it afterwards ) to be skiers and snowboarders. This advice is based on actual experience - I did originally try to do snowboarding based on a single lesson; that I then learned to ski and then came back to learn to snowboard and like both is due to several consecutive strokes of luck, lack of any one could've turned me back off any of it. 
If you were to pick one or the other:-
. The basics - speed control, turns, lifts - are easier to master on skis, but there's more to learn afterwards.
. The basics are harder on a snowboard (and I had the benefit of skiing experience when I put more than one lesson into learning  ), I'm not sure you'll get 'em all in three days, but getting better is more about doing the basics faster and more smoothly.
Hth.
Regards,
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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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@ALQ, I did notice
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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I didn't get to go because my mother woke up last Wednesday in extreme pain, and when she went to the emergency room, we found she had an ovarian cyst. The trip is now postponed.
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@WaterSymbol, That's a shame, hope your mum is on the mend and you'll get your chance again soon.
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@WaterSymbol, oh bummer - can you get to an indoor slope instead ???
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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@WaterSymbol, Hope it works out OK for your mum and that you get a chance to ski soon.
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@robapplegate, +1
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