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A day or two. I smile on both, unless I don't.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Since we bought a place its been 25-30 days made up of 3 longish weeks and a long weekend. That's about the limit I can manage within my holiday allowance while still having time for a proper summer holiday or doing more weekends. Summer holiday is non-negotiable for my wife and to be honest more weekends would become too tiring for the kids given homework, their other activities etc.
I expect we will base ourselves in the Alps for the winter when the kids leave home and/or I retire.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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we are currently between weeks 9 and 10. I have a normal 9-5 job, plus a bit of flexi-time.
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I'm impressed!
Mind you - stretching the definition of normal to get 9-10 weeks off in a normal job!
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| under a new name wrote: |
This year has been a little disappointing on weather at the weekends so I haven't counted. |
Shitty weather on around2/3rd of the weekends, one of the joys of working in the alps is you realize the best weather is always during the week.
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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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maybe 70-80 I guess, probably do about another 10-15 in cham and on summer glaciers before the start of next season 
gona try and get a couple of days on snow every month this year....
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Learnt to ski on plastic in the 1980's and started skiing in Scotland as many weekends as possible, including taking pupils from the school where I taught. First trip abroad at Easter 1989 and the family had to go back and summer ski in Tignes that year. Continued fitting in 1 week Christmas/New Year and 1 week Easter plus summer skiing each year for many years. Then added a week of school ski trip (did that for 20 years) and long weekends. When I started judging freestyle that was extra long weekends and now as I am retired I get about 6 weeks each winter somewhere abroad, probably 1.5 - 2 weeks of that will be 'work skiing' i.e. judging so the actual time skiing is limited to before and after the competition. Still fit in the odd day in Scotland (live in Edinburgh) when snow and weather are good mid-week.
I haven't been on plastic since I retired 7 years ago although I can see Hillend from my house. I was at Hillend almost every week during school terms running the school ski club for over 20 years so can give that a miss...
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| Mike Pow wrote: |
For 8 of the past 10 winters it's been around 100 days on Hokkaido, with the odd day in the Brecon Beacons pre- and post-Hokkaido if I'm lucky.
Instructing pays for that skiing.
This season my girlfriend Nerys couldn't make it out to Japan, so I came home early and skied with her and skied solo in Europe.
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5 days in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales
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How on earth did you manage that this season?
I didn't think we had any days with enough snow lying to be worth trying to ski on. Although we could see some on the tops, I never thought it was that deep.
We only had one morning with any lying snow where we are, and it is very unusual to have that little.
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Not enough this season due to work and weather, I guess around 50 days? Will ski around another 10 days before the end of this season (late June), then probably another 10 or so in the Autumn depending on conditions. Only had 3 or 4 proper powder days this season though.
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Mrs MA and I both work full time but generally get 30-45 days on snow between November glacier skiing in the Alps and June ski touring in Scotland. We supplement that with summer skiing (not included in our winter total) - usually in Tignes but we've also lashed out on a couple of southern hemisphere winter trips (Chile and Australia) in past years.
We'll ski anywhere and wherever we can - we're very easily pleased so boost our number of days with trips to the Scotland and the (ahem) resorts of the North Pennines.
Our record was 61 days in the bumper winter of 2012-13 - we managed 19 days in the Pennines and 16 in Scotland that season - from early Nov ski touring at Glenshee to ski touring the Ciste Gully at Cairngorm on 30th June.
This winter we're up to 36 days (inc 9 powder days  ) - with more Scotland skiing to come, hopefully into June:
- Alps - 14 days
- BC Rockies - 10 days
- North Pennines - 4 days
- Scotland - 8 days
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| alex_heney wrote: |
| Mike Pow wrote: |
For 8 of the past 10 winters it's been around 100 days on Hokkaido, with the odd day in the Brecon Beacons pre- and post-Hokkaido if I'm lucky.
Instructing pays for that skiing.
This season my girlfriend Nerys couldn't make it out to Japan, so I came home early and skied with her and skied solo in Europe.
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5 days in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales
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How on earth did you manage that this season?
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Didn't you see the Brecon thread?
Take a look and form your own opinion.
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=121689
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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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Xmas & New Year weeks
Feb half term
First week of Easter
2 x 3 day week3ends
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One week per year, very occasionally 2
Constraint is a mixture of holiday allowance (5-weeks), funding and holidays with family at other times of year. As such will typically be:
Summer - 2 weeks
Easter/Xmas - 1 week skiing
May/Feb/Oct half-terms - long weekends in UK
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You know it makes sense.
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I'm amazed at how many of you get so many days in!
I should also add that when we do go up the hill it's only for three or so hours.
I dread it when friends come out and they want to ski all the hours of the day!
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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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| davidof wrote: |
| alex_heney wrote: |
| Mike Pow wrote: |
For 8 of the past 10 winters it's been around 100 days on Hokkaido, with the odd day in the Brecon Beacons pre- and post-Hokkaido if I'm lucky.
Instructing pays for that skiing.
This season my girlfriend Nerys couldn't make it out to Japan, so I came home early and skied with her and skied solo in Europe.
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5 days in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales
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How on earth did you manage that this season?
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Didn't you see the Brecon thread?
Take a look and form your own opinion.
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=121689 |
No, I missed that. I'll have a look at it later (can't see the photos in work).
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Poster: A snowHead
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| alex_heney wrote: |
| davidof wrote: |
| alex_heney wrote: |
| Mike Pow wrote: |
For 8 of the past 10 winters it's been around 100 days on Hokkaido, with the odd day in the Brecon Beacons pre- and post-Hokkaido if I'm lucky.
Instructing pays for that skiing.
This season my girlfriend Nerys couldn't make it out to Japan, so I came home early and skied with her and skied solo in Europe.
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5 days in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales
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How on earth did you manage that this season?
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Didn't you see the Brecon thread?
Take a look and form your own opinion.
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=121689 |
No, I missed that. I'll have a look at it later (can't see the photos in work). |
There are some videos too, I'm sure you'll find them interesting. I can't see that stuff at work either but I'm sick at home today.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Three weeks or so and have been steady at that from the time I learned to ski at age 30. I was lucky enough to be able to hit all the major European resorts.
Now at 68 and retired on a sailboat in the Eastern Caribbean I still ski for 3 weeks based either in Salt lake City or Summit County Colorado.
I hope to keep going as long as my knees allow.
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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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| davidof wrote: |
| under a new name wrote: |
This year has been a little disappointing on weather at the weekends so I haven't counted. |
Shitty weather on around2/3rd of the weekends, one of the joys of working in the alps is you realize the best weather is always during the week. |
Also this season we did get snow on three or was it four Saturday's which caused a fair amount of mayhem - and Sat's being a transfer day meant that resort was quieter than usual 
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| jedster wrote: |
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we are currently between weeks 9 and 10. I have a normal 9-5 job, plus a bit of flexi-time.
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I'm impressed!
Mind you - stretching the definition of normal to get 9-10 weeks off in a normal job! |
I did say it was exceptional circumstances this year. I only skied one day last year (crap day on the glacier) due to hip surgery. The time off work associated with the surgery meant I accumulated leave. So I am continuing to cash it in this year. Normally it is around 7 weeks in France and a few days in Glencoe.
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| Weathercam wrote: |
Also this season we did get snow on three or was it four Saturday's which caused a fair amount of mayhem - and Sat's being a transfer day meant that resort was quieter than usual |
but not just snow but a lot of low cloud, mixed weather, poor viz, Grenoble has poorer winter weather in general than Briançon. In the winter of 2015, 331 hours of sun compared to 525 for Briançon.
Personally, skiing in fog or a whiteout, no thanks, not if I can help it.
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| davidof wrote: |
| ............Personally, skiing in fog or a whiteout, no thanks, not if I can help it............. |
+1 on that though will ski the trees when it's snowing, and seemed to do a lot of that this season!
OH is even worse in that she does not like skiing when it's snowing!
So I keep telling her not much point in considering Japan 
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| Weathercam wrote: |
+1 on that though will ski the trees when it's snowing, and seemed to do a lot of that this season!
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Yes trees, fair enough. Just looking at the photo album, if we hadn't gone out in some indifferent weather we would hardly have skied at all!
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipMf6YLrT_VLTnvpT_qxnAheXiexjiCHqsT5Z48r
but no whiteouts, I've skied enough, even in the trees .
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Managed 18 days this season, which was as much as funds/time off work allowed. Will aim to match that next season but depends on whether I can get away at Christmas again or not. Christmas Day falling on a transfer day might be what spoils it as I suspect package deals and rentals will be extended to 10 days instead and the price will go up.
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12 days Alps
3 dayslake district
4 days north Pennines
2 days Glencoe
Fairly poor given that Raise has managed 40 days this year and Glencoe has had another excellent year. Unfortunately sometimes, life gets in the way of skiing. 
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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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...actually I have a second take on this thread...
....how often do you ski...
...for about 10 mins before I go to sleep every night, doing a bit of imagined skiing, concentrating on a bit of technique...
...and the same if I wake too early or in the middle of the night.
It's not too mad to do this, it's part of keeping the technique together even when not on the hill.
http://www.brianmac.co.uk/imagery.htm
some may class it as hocus pocus but it's quite well established in sports as varied as tennis and F1
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Been an absolute disaster this year.
Did the ski test at CFe then nothing for a few months till a couple of hours at CFe ( still have most of the vouchers I got at the ski show ).
Very lucky I did not book on a bash as no way I could have gone, and just hoping eyesight is ok for 2-3 days at Kaprun beginning of June, if not it is going to be really depressing.
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You know it makes sense.
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| davidof wrote: |
| alex_heney wrote: |
| davidof wrote: |
| alex_heney wrote: |
| Mike Pow wrote: |
For 8 of the past 10 winters it's been around 100 days on Hokkaido, with the odd day in the Brecon Beacons pre- and post-Hokkaido if I'm lucky.
Instructing pays for that skiing.
This season my girlfriend Nerys couldn't make it out to Japan, so I came home early and skied with her and skied solo in Europe.
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5 days in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales
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How on earth did you manage that this season?
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Didn't you see the Brecon thread?
Take a look and form your own opinion.
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=121689 |
No, I missed that. I'll have a look at it later (can't see the photos in work). |
There are some videos too, I'm sure you'll find them interesting. I can't see that stuff at work either but I'm sick at home today. |
Definitely interesting.
A bit beyond my ability, skiing that gully.
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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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| valais2 wrote: |
...actually I have a second take on this thread...
....how often do you ski...
...for about 10 mins before I go to sleep every night, doing a bit of imagined skiing, concentrating on a bit of technique...
...and the same if I wake too early or in the middle of the night.
It's not too mad to do this, it's part of keeping the technique together even when not on the hill.
http://www.brianmac.co.uk/imagery.htm
some may class it as hocus pocus but it's quite well established in sports as varied as tennis and F1 |
I totally agree and I think ski racers were early adopters of this visualisation method. We even used it in race training at Rossendale dry slope back in the mid 80s! A bit OT now, but I introduced this method to our F1 drivers too about 10 years ago and they found it useful too. It makes sense as it's your brain that controls all your real physical movements anyway.
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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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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Well played
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Been a poor year for me this year, only 22 days, it's usually more. Two (separate) weeks family holidays, one week SOPiB, one long weekend, and one day on Pen-y-fan. Had to cancel another long weekend due to family illness, or it would have been five days more. In answer to faithsdaddy's question - I manage it by storing up all my annual leave for the winter, and for long weekends I take two days off work for four days of skiing, booking flights and accommodation well in advance to get the best deals.
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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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I've sort of settled into a routine last few years. Thanksgiving long weekend in TAOS (thats late november:).
Christmas week TAOS.
SHBB week arabba feb
Another week arabba late march.
Closing weekend TAOS mid april.
Some years can add a few days in utah.
The ski hills of new jersey and pensylvania are only a 2 hour drive - but a bit depressing to ski.
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| gazzaredcruiser wrote: |
How on earth these guys ski for 20, 30 or 40+ days is beyond me.
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You've just got to work hard to make it happen if it matters enough to you. 10 years ago we were falling into the rut of a single 1 or 2 week trip per year and after a great 10 day trip to Whistler in 2006 I just snapped and said that no way was this anywhere near enough skiing for a whole season! So we bought our own apartment and make a big effort to use it as much as we can around our normal everyday lives in the UK. With 2 small kids, at the moment we usually just do a straight 4 week trip to Canada mid March through to Easter. But going to try getting a couple of extra weeks at Christmas this year now the girls are getting more into it. 6 weeks per season has always been our goal and that feels more like it for me. It helps a lot running our own business and we do get a little bit of work done remotely while out there. When I was employed it was pretty much unacceptable to get more than 2 weeks off consecutively and they used to sulk if I did that twice over the winter. F@*% all that life!
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| uktrailmonster wrote: |
| It helps a lot running our own business |
That's the way to do it.
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| uktrailmonster wrote: |
| When I was employed it was pretty much unacceptable to get more than 2 weeks off consecutively and they used to sulk if I did that twice over the winter. F@*% all that life! |
And yet it's perfectly acceptable for half the company to take time off at half term or during the summer holidays! I always point that out to people when they moan about how much holiday I have, when they're all doing things with the kids I'm the one holding the fort!
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Averaging a shade over 2 weeks a year since starting 14 years ago. Really need to do something about getting that up a bit.
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| SnoodyMcFlude wrote: |
| uktrailmonster wrote: |
| When I was employed it was pretty much unacceptable to get more than 2 weeks off consecutively and they used to sulk if I did that twice over the winter. F@*% all that life! |
And yet it's perfectly acceptable for half the company to take time off at half term or during the summer holidays! I always point that out to people when they moan about how much holiday I have, when they're all doing things with the kids I'm the one holding the fort! |
Exactly, it's just that in the "real" world most employers simply cannot get their head around any kind of holiday that lasts for more than 2 weeks, regardless of the circumstances.
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