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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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So far, only thing that can ruin my ski day are illness and injuries (including family member).
All other things can be dealt with and skiing continues.
Granted, bad condition or lifts not running can prevent that too. But those are “environmental” issues outside of our control.
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| Being told you are not at the level doing a BASI course? |
Or the condition too treacherous for one’s own ability and/or safety tolerance.
But we don’t typically think of those as “ruin” our ski day. Just unpleasant enough to not bother, or choose not to push on.
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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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No injuries I'm afraid, more a personal one, and not just the entire day.
Finding out on the first morning that your friend, who you haven't seen for years, and is returning to skiing after a sizeable break from the sport, suddenly expects you to be their free guide, instructor, mentor, map reader, interpreter, etc, entertain them at lunch/apres/evening meals/etc, and constantly criticises your choice of kit, resorts, ski runs, menu choices, etc.
So that'll be a solo trip in Lech booked for 2025 then.
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| Few things ruin your day, or your ski season more than your hubby breaking his neck on the first afternoon of a 2 week trip |
...Or wife suffering a tibial plateau break in Japan. Rescue/evacuation to hospital taking 5hrs and the language barrier turned it into even more of a nightmare. I reported on it on here at the time (Feb '23).
Update: After two operations, and ongoing physio and rehab, we finally have light at the end of a long and dark tunnel  After seven or eight months of her knee not bending properly (hence the second op in Dec. 2023), Mrs MA was recently signed off by her specialist; is up to 1000ft climbing on a mountain bike; and has been advised that skiing is a goer once leg/knee muscles that haven't been used for over a year are strengthened.
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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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Good news MA 
On a much less serious note I was going to say having an Appendicitis and then surgery two weeks before my only ski trip this year.
Headed out with my walking gear accepting that I wouldn’t be able to ski. By chance met an old friend at the airport that I hadn’t seen for 15 years. Happens to be a consultant and Professor of Gastroenterology. He rang a surgeon friend who advised that if my gut didn’t hurt and I was sensible, I would be able to ski! Result and Thankyou!
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| MajorQ wrote: |
Finding out on the first morning that your friend, who you haven't seen for years, and is returning to skiing after a sizeable break from the sport, suddenly expects you to be their free guide, instructor, mentor, map reader, interpreter, etc, entertain them at lunch/apres/evening meals/etc, and constantly criticises your choice of kit, resorts, ski runs, menu choices, etc.
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You have my sympathy. 
But you left out equipment consultant! What length/width of skis, boot fitting, goggle or glasses, gloves or mitten… 
(Or worse, on slope ski handyman to make emergency repair on outdated gear that falls apart the moment they touch snow! Been there, done that. Once was enough)
When I returned to ski after a decade off, I KNEW I needed some help to get back into it. I booked a local instructor to take care of both updating my equipment and my technique to effectively use those equipments. Though to be fair, by that point of my life, I was entirely disconnect from skiing so no longer know of anyone else who skis. So I couldn’t possibly burden myself to any of my long lost friends.
But I was the victim of one of my date who showed up with outdated equipment that constantly fall apart at various points. It tested my emergency repair skill and equipment stash (I tour back then so carried some such emergency supplies, but it was more specific to my own equipment rather than general repair)
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Already posted in another thread that there should be a law against it, but a dreadful Welsh Rarebit for lunch has ruined mine.
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| MajorQ wrote: |
| Finding out on the first morning that your friend, who you haven't seen for years, and is returning to skiing after a sizeable break from the sport, suddenly expects you to be their free guide, instructor, mentor, map reader, interpreter, etc, entertain them at lunch/apres/evening meals/etc, and constantly criticises your choice of kit, resorts, ski runs, menu choices, etc. |
I don't so much mind being the routefinder/map reader for certain smaller groups, but only for friends/people I want to ski with. Also if I'm being left to do more organising/directing then I'll probably take some liberties or expect something in return...especially when it comes to ordering
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EoSB 2017, Early in the week I received a call from the NH knee specialist in the UK after he'd seen my MRI scans to tell me that I really shouldn't be skiing with the damage done to my knees. What really ruined my week was continuing to ski anyway (the guiding was so good!), Thursday afternoon I could only really load bear on the right leg so one leg skied home, and come Friday I couldn't get my boots on at all as my whole lower legs had swollen up too much.
Sillious Soddus is my latin name I believe.
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I think I'm missing out here....
Things have gone wrong of course, such as breaking my wifes leg on the evening before we set off for Austria*.
But I count these as challanges and we always end up enjoying the holiday in the end.
* Saw off some friends who were moving to take over a pub in Alderney, so too much alchohol had to get demolished.
Then realised it was a school day tomorrow and had to get the baby sitter home.
Almighty drunken rush back to get the baby sitter home, ended up crushing my dear wifes knee up against the garage door by engaging 1st rather than reverse.
The skis and sledge were still on the roof of the car when I took her into A&E at 5am.
Just a two day delay setting off while we waited to see the consultant who said that as it was Austria, she may as well go.
I can't remember any ill effects about the trip though.
We are still married, but she tries her best to avoid ski holidays with me.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@DrLawn, that's a really, really, good one!
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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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@Origen,apart from the admission of drink driving
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Rupturing my Achilles just before ski holiday taking my two kids. Had to travel out on crutches so they didn't miss out on their holiday. At least the apartment got cleaned!
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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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Oops..duplicate post...deleted
Last edited by Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name: on Sun 28-04-24 23:13; edited 1 time in total
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Poster: A snowHead
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I thought you had the condoms.
Feck
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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No problems here thankfully that a book and a beer have not easily solved. The latter being a solution to most problems.
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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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But not all, as DrLawn’s wife can attest.
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@Orange200, Surely it is the perfect (only?!) solution to a bust leg?!
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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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After about a dozen attempts a mate failed his Eurotest by. 0.01 sec and they wouldn't give it to him... Darkened room for several months..
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What has ruined your entire 1½ seasons?
A global pandemic 
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Cheers @Peter S. Glad to hear you still got to ski 
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Binding mount (imperceptibly) coming out of my ski. Spent best part of day trying to figure out why I couldn’t ski anymore.
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First day in Soldeu a few years ago. I slipped on some icy decking coming out of a cafe and went full on Mellman with legs and arms all over the place.
Later that night while i was crossing the road, on a crossing, a German in an Audi decided it was the time to reverse out of his parking space. I was a little socially relaxed and managed to style it out but he thought better of hanging around and drove off at speed. I never found out if he wanted his rear windscreen wiper back (it was all I could grab to stop me falling over). That set the scene as early the next morning I woke up and while getting ready I sneezed and put my back into spasm. No more skiing for me that week!
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Various gear issues and forgetting newly bought kit occasionally.
But the biggest one was having bought “new” boots about six months prior to a trip for our youngest which fitted then, only to find in the carpark at the bottom of the bubbles on the first day that they apparently didn’t fit anymore. No amount of gnashing of teeth, wrenching, easing or cajoling could get them on to the user’s satisfaction. So nothing for it but to rent, luckily there was a shop at the carpark who seemed fairly competent. But the new boots then provided, albeit more “comfortable” were bigger shell wise and so were at the extreme of the bindings movement, too much to my eye so had to get these redrilled as well that evening.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Ouch! If a jobs worth doing…
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Getting avalanched - sure fire way to ruin your morning and end the day early....
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You know it makes sense.
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Actually when my group were avalanched the few who still had kit skied on. Mind you, although I was carried about 300 metres I wasn't buried. I suppose if I had been that would have been rather different. (breathed in a lot of snow, though, and had to cough up a chunk of ice before I could breathe).
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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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So called friend saying they had booked this years trip for France
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Poster: A snowHead
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Turning up for the 6.20 Gatwick-Turin flight (having ‘awoken’ at 3am, and cabbing across London) only to be told that ‘sorry, that flight’s tomorrow’.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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So called friend saying they had booked this years trip for France
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Did they not invite you? Or did they tell you you had to go somewhere else.
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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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Or did they simply fail to book?
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@johnE, @snowball, sounds to me as though he just doesn't like France. Or am I just an over-sensitive francophile?
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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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| Turning up for the 6.20 Gatwick-Turin flight (having ‘awoken’ at 3am, and cabbing across London) only to be told that ‘sorry, that flight’s tomorrow’. |
Better than them saying it was yesterday!
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