 Poster: A snowHead
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The 'Respect The Mountain' campaign winds me up too from time to time, but not as much as the Tea Club's incessant drive to rewrite the truth.
"A new eco-friendly portable ashtray has been launched by the Ski Club of Great Britain" ???
So, different from this product that has been available since 2007 then...
http://www.natives.co.uk/tribe/issue3/p54BackCountry.pdf
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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iainm, is it any different to the little box my nana used from the '60s?
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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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Probably the most risible bit of that campaign was the mass production of thousands of pointless plastic wristbands. Because those aren't going to end up in landfill are they? 
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Why don't they just fence off underneath the lifts, and let people chuck whatever the hell they like off them? It's not polluting the water system to have a few fag butts and water bottles underneath a lift, then every few years they can send a few lifties with shovels to go and collect all the crap from a different lift each season. The cattle can have the rest of the mountain, just don't let them graze underneath the lifts.
Personally, I have a metal pocket ashtray that I was given free at a ski show a couple of years ago. It works. I don't believe in chucking fag ends off lifts, so end up pinching the (very biodegradable shredded plant leaves) end off them and then chucking the filter in the bin at the top of the lift when I forget it.
Now the real challenge is finding a lighter that will spark up a fag on a windy steep draglift with a couple of poles in one hand. Nearly set fire to myself a couple of times, only to finally light the fag about 20m from the end of the lift 
Ultimately, let's face it, snowsports and the infrastructure required to make it happen is pretty damned harmful by comparison to a pristine unpisted mountain with no people on it. Piste bashers chucking out a load of exhaust fumes, us dropping litter, shops and restaurants creating an eyesore and noise pollution, but by comparison to the number of mountains out there, I am pretty happy with a couple of hundred worldwide being used as ski resorts.
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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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Even better, they could have chutes down the side of the lift poles, with nice big baskets under your feet. As you go past one, lob any litter straight in there. End of the season eco warriors go and grab the big bags of litter from each pole.
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Monium, develop a ski pole that can be used as an ashtray - when it'ts full, tip it all into the bin and start again - bit like a hip flask walking stick thingy
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| iainm wrote: |
The 'Respect The Mountain' campaign winds me up too from time to time, but not as much as the Tea Club's incessant drive to rewrite the truth.
"A new eco-friendly portable ashtray has been launched by the Ski Club of Great Britain" ???
So, different from this product that has been available since 2007 then...
http://www.natives.co.uk/tribe/issue3/p54BackCountry.pdf |
Oh the humanity. 
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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| Monium, develop a ski pole that can be used as an ashtray - when it'ts full, tip it all into the bin and start again - bit like a hip flask walking stick thingy |
You don't even need to develop it, just cut a hole very slightly larger than a fag end in the top of the handle of an aluminium pole. That said, most of the Monium Engineering products are no more inventive than this, so perhaps there's legs on this one! It would take me months of skiing to fill up a ski pole, and if I had two, I could basically just fill them up and then scrap them.
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There are bins at the top of most lifts already. Just don't be a lazy dick. Job done.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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clarky999, exactly.
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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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clarky999, well said
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