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 Poster: A snowHead
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Yep - and apparently they still do. I went twice in 95/96 to Austria and Andorra - took 10 years to go again but worth the wait.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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My school did, but I never went on one. We did family hols instead, usually in term time - they were less bothered back then 
I do wonder what I missed out 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 way... horrible sucky cheap poor comprehensive - filled with chavs who think skiing is for snobs.
Only trip we had was a 3 day trip to the french battlefields of world war 1 and 2 - I wasn't allowed to go owing to 'behavioural problems' humph so why did they let all the chavs go??!?!?! And never gave me the chance???!?!?!
Meh, at college now, probably won't be much better lol
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Yes...way back in 1975 I went in term time to Maurach in Austria, cost £115. First taste of a proper hotel. Hated the skiing - as much dowm to the fact my dad insisted that I'd be fine in a pair of jeans and a windcheater as anything else but tried it again about 10 years later and well, here I am!
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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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School offerred one every year, although I only went on one as it always seemed to clash with something else (D of E, Scouts). Shame, was told they were all a riot, apart from the one I went on when snow was at a premium. As in, there was none. Walking holiday, basically. Cesana in the Milky Way - very un-milky. I remember trying to show off to my school mates (I was a rotten 15 year old) only to faceplant into a spruce tree right in front of a busy terrace lined with peers and teachers. Still cool... 
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Yoda,  where's the blowing kisses smilie when you want one?!!
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My comprehensive ran two trips a year, at New Year & Easter. I went to Schruns in Austria, Easter 1981. £180 all in.
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brian
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Yes, to Cairngorm on Sundays when there was enough snow. Our school minibus couldn't go above 50mph, so we had to leave at 5.30am. Transport and day ticket was about a tenner iirc, my paper round covered it. Chips at Dunkeld on the way home, happy days 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I went to school just outside Aberdeen, in the early 80s. Our school used to run two 6weeks sessions upto Glenshee, on a Saturday.
Like BRIAN, it was an early start and we got to stop at the bakers in Ballater for sausage rolls on the way and at the chippie in Aboyne on the way home.
There was also the trip to Europe too. Crans Montana in 1983
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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 voted no because our school ran a 6th form trip up until I was about third year, then stopped it, then resumed it two years after I left  Not that my folks could have afforded it anyway....
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You know it makes sense.
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As none of my family skis, I actually got hooked on skiing from the very first school trip I went on. I remember it even to this day. We went to Zell Am Zee and it was amazing. It absolutely changed my life.
It is a shame that not all schools offer these trips but it is down to the individual teachers to start the initiative and to take time out to escort the kids out there. The Snowlife Schools Tour does a great job of bringing skiing and snowboarding into the schools and introducing it to children who may not otherwise have thought about it.
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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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Yes, I was lucky. I went to Cults Academy Aberdeen - 1978-1984. School trips to europe and glenshee were regularly run, year in year out, by a heroic band of enthusiastic teachers. Mr Lee an art teacher took me on my first trip to the Lecht in 1979, The bus cost around £1 and my tow ticket around £2 - chips in Banchory 30p! happy days. I remember one early 80's winter where I skied 20 days at glenshee and cairngorm on school weekend trips - roll on the next ice age. Interesting with regards to the "rich kids" take on skiing down south. Although cults had a high per capita income, the school roll was around 900 and sometimes 2 x 50 seater coaches were run on weekends so over 10% of the school were regular skiers. I paid all my own skiing costs out of saturday/weekday evening job / potato picking and odd job money - but Aberdeen then had a huge an dvibrant 2nd hand equipment scene ( even a 2nd hand ski shop for a while) and your own gear was relatively cheap to come by.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Yes went with school 1971 and 1974. First trip was certainly with leather ski boots second trip aged 14 got absolutely plastered on schnapps and set fire to hotel room!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The school offered ski holidays and my parents were willing to fund it.
However, my images of snow was that it soon turned to slush. My images of skiiing was broken limbs and posher folks. I could not see myself skiing on a regular basis. So what was the point of going on the ski holiday in the first place ? I suppose I hoped by foregoing skiing trips I could call in other favours. I also turned down a trip to Rome on the basis that it would be too religious.
A Summer holiday was not always an annual event. Most people did not have Winter holidays in those days. If the school had offered a sight seeing trip to Europe I would have been up for that. I had never been outside GB/Ireland at that age. Air travel was very glamorous back then - especially to an eleven/twelve year old.
I felt quite privileged at secondary school. There were less than 50 pupils in a class and the school had indoor toilets. Junior school had outdoor toilets. They had thoughtfully provided a bench on the other side of the boys toilet, so the bigger boys always had a chance to clear the wall and p*ss on the kids who had not yet realised the dangers of sitting on the bench.
Junior school also had bars to swing on in the playground. If you fell it was on hard concrete. A tinker kid called McDonough, who always seemed to wear wellies to school used to hang upside down by his insteps from a six foot high bar. None of the playground assistants ever said anything about it.
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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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Yes,
Junior school - several days at hillend (10-20) all year and one trip to Aviemore in the easter term. (Thanks to Mr Blackstock)
Senior school - 2 or 3 trips to highlands plus an alpine trip per year. (Thanks to Phil Meadows)
Edit: to thank teachers
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When I was in school long long ago............my school offered a weekly ski "day trip". The price was $10.00/usd for the lift ticket.
These days I volunteer at the school to see to it that the ski program keeps going. I offer the school kids a chance to ski for the same low cost that was offered to me. $10.00/day
To get the moms skiing, I have negotiated a deal with the ski resort to offer them a FREE lift ticket if they are with an attending student.
This program has gotten a lot of kids and moms on the slopes who may not otherwise get a chance to ski/snowboard.(can't forget the snowboarding little devils)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Yes, two trips a year, one for the younger kids and one for 5th and 6th form.
Took me all year to save from my part time job to pay for the trips. My first trip in '82 cost £165 all inclusive.
The '84 trip to Les Arcs I can still remember watching our instructor Dave Beattie (now BASI 1) falling down a mogul field much to our amusement. The other memory from that trip was apologising to a headmistress from another school for being caught in the girls rooms at night.
School trips 
My comprehensive school has a dry slope and produced many very good skiers, several who have gone on to have careers in skiing, instructing, managing dry slopes or working in ski resorts.
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At school till 1976. Fortunate enough to have two trips with school thnx to parents, even though money was tight.
First to Aviemore (Feb 1973), 3-4 days £27.50! Stayed in Newtonmore, weather foul, very wet. Pre Gortex, Army \ Navy quality gear + wet = misery. So-called drying room overloaded, they had to hang clothes in corridors. Still recall putting back on cold and damp gear from previous day. In a group of 20, two broken legs, one a compound. lad on tbar, tip of ski went through picket fence and snap! It was a horror story!  All day lessons, packed lunch (yuk), equipment was prehistoric, leather boots, wierd bindings. Excellent!?
Second was France, near Les Houches, (Feb 1974) think £65.00 1 week. First time on real snow, I'd never experienced cold like it! I knew I wanted more! Coach from Manchester to Luton. Coach never turned up, remember a mad dash in black taxi cabs to airport for early am flight. Minor injuries, one broken wrist, nothing major. Equipment was ahead of Aviemore trip, and this time had proper jacket but very cold, frozen hands and feet. Strange food in packed lunches and at night, ideal for food fight not for eating. The teachers must have had a real difficult time keeping us under control and safe. Teacher who organised trips left, so no more after '74.
Learned:
Dont like the wet.
Do like snow. 
No such thing as bad weather just the wrong clothes!
French girls!  Will say no more!
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Yes - tried to do a ski trip once a year, but it didn't always happen. Unfortunately I never went as it was too expensive - and boy did I moan about it!!!!
We also had options for our PE lesson in 4th and 5th year - and one term it was lessons on the local dry ski slope...
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FAQ
No wonder you were put off, poor you ! 
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). The major foreign excursions were huge exchanges to twinned schools in places in France and Germany - which seemed a bit of a dead loss to me. My excursions were a much smaller French exchange (just 4 of us) organised by our French teacher, and a 'character-building' week's trip class to a derelict farmhouse in Wales in a wet spring 