 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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Chembulak in Kazakhstan in 2007... Lots of potential, but when I was there it was definitely out of Borat The Ski Instructor. Also Greenwich park and Chislehurst Golf Course
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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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The chap who skied down the escalator at a London underground station (was it Angel?) will take some beating.
Mind you the cave skiing mentioned earlier in this thread is pretty bizarre too.
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The other weird (but incredibly beautiful) place I've skied is Le Massif in Quebec. It's a sort of upside down resort. The approach road goes uphill and the car park is at the top of the slopes and you ski down from there with great views of the St Lawrence river covered in ice. It looks as if the pistes are going right down to the river's edge! (they don't actually, they stop about a hundred yards short  ).
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@Sarge McSarge, did you hike to the crater? Weird looking down at the crater lake. I missed the eruption by a year, skiing there in '94. A 4.5 mag. earthquake was exciting though, to me if not to the locals!
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Oh I've glissaded from the rim of Popocatepetl. Rather wish I'd sought out the place that rented BigFoots that some people (possibly Germans who has brought their own) used
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Nowhere interesting yet, but I have been scoping various areas around Exeter in case we get some snow this winter 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@skimastaah, about 24 years ago there was an attempt to set up real snow ski slope near Denholm, based around what was a tree nursery, not surprisingly selling Xmas trees at the appropriate time. I had some contact with the family making the attempt, some of who at the time were trying to get the ESC Club Instructor qualification at the time.
I did at one time attempt telemark turns on XC skis down a steep snow covered bank behind my house in Sheffield - the barbed wire fence at the bottom concentrated my mind.
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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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I've skied in a lot of places around the world, some less known than others. But for straight weirdness, this is mine... on a mate's farm in Lincolnshire, we skied down a pile of grain in a big shed! It actually, kind of, worked.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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I learnt to ski near castleside, Consett, Co Durham
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@MagSeven, Wheat on Earth are you talking about 
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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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@MagSeven, looks like you're laying thresh tracks.
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Corn snow?
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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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Red Hill, Somerset. Quite gnarly 50m of vertical.
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A pile of Coal slag in Scranton PA
Sand dunes in Rossniger Wales
Snow patch on MT Washington in NH in August
Slate tip in Llanberis Wales
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Hi all! My first ski experience was in tiny ski resort Orlovka which is in Kyrgystan.. Don't think that anyone here has ever been there or even heard of it!
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Parbold hill near Wigan, Lancashire.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Bella2015 wrote: |
| Hi all! My first ski experience was in tiny ski resort Orlovka which is in Kyrgystan.. Don't think that anyone here has ever been there or even heard of it! |
I cycled right past there in July this year!
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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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@MagSeven, no way! This place still exists?!!! I was there last in 1992, I was 12!
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I learnt to ski near castleside, Consett, Co Durham
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+1 - went through lots of gloves back then....
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You know it makes sense.
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About 10 years ago. Down the lane outside my house 300m at about 1:10, then through open farmers field gate and then 3 other land locked fields through opened gates until met stream at the bottom, long walk back, got it on video somewhere. Farmer neighbour thought it was highly amusing.
Also for those who know St Anton - Once also got off a post bus about 7pm at Rauz, staying in Stuben after a planned heavy après session in St Anton a few (too many years ago). We'd met some Greek guys on our bus (as you do) who said they were also staying in Stuben at our hotel. We got off the bus and it was snowing like crazy, and we headed down under the tunnel and down the piste with head torches ablaze, we were getting pounded all the way down with snow being shot from above by the Afsinag highways ploughs chuting snow off the Arlberg Pass from above. I remarked half way down that we'd lost the Greeks.....never turned up despite waiting ages. Got our hotel, still no sign. 20 mins later they turned up - they'd decided to ski the road home (around the switchbacks dodging cars and snow ploughs) and had had the scare of their lives......crazy guys, they didn't see the danger even when we explained that those spinning snow blades don't wait for no-one!
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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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In New Cross in SE London - down Telegraph Hill to be exact. Apres was at the Rosemary Branch on Lewisham Way. Never forget the locals faces as I walked in dressed in full ski gear, wearing ski boots and carrying skis and poles. Classic.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Warren Wood, Buckhurst Hill, Essex..... it took about 30 seconds to get down the hill !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| snowbandit wrote: |
| Parbold hill near Wigan, Lancashire. |
Obviously a lot of West Lancs ski experience. Not bad for one of the flattest places in the country.( and obviously greatest rugby team in the world)
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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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Really? I lived there for about 12 years and never knew. I'm only down the road now, so would have a crack. Where is it?
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I've skied Shibden Park, Halifax
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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At home! In Kent - being towed round field by tractor!
More water skiing than snow skiing!
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