 Poster: A snowHead
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went for the first time in March this year and got 2 weeks booked up dec2011 & late feb2012 for the coming season! Love it, money was the only thing stopping me going in previous years.
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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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17 years in January for me.
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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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kitenski, fantastic record!
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How about this one for regrets
1981 working in the Londoner in San Antonio Ibiza. Who comes in but the owner of the the Londoner in St Anton. We meet get on well he offers me a job for the winter season in his bar, but I can't ski!! don't worry about that I will teach you he replys. I will think about it is mine. Twenty years later I take my first ski holiday and have done about thirty weeks in ten years. Regret it? No I have Two great girls that I would not have had if I went to St Anton. But the Skiing would be better.
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davidof, what is the 10,000 rule? I think in terms of ski hours I have done probably done around 1,000 not 10,000 and most of those in the first 14 years of my skiing career.
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Since Easter 1976 when I first put skis on in Soll. Instantly hooked. Missed a few years when the boys were young although always went to a dry slope so I think I've put skis on every year since I started. My youngest son started at 3yrs 10months in Aviemore and, at 21, he's now better than me. Strangely my older son lost interest a few years back and he's the sportsman in the family - he ran a sub-17minute 5k earlier this year. They both tried boarding but didn't like it so at least there's some hope......
I aim to still be skiing at 75 so I can get a free GM pass 
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"God I feel such a novice!! downside=must be owed 30+ years of skiing, upside= straight ski's "what are they!?" 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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kitenski, fantastic record!
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Its a good list, but a fantastic record 
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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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Later starter at 50. Trying to make up with 5 weeks snowboarding a year.
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You know it makes sense.
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Started skiing aged 34 on Hillend in Edinburgh. First ski holiday abroad a few years later, Easter 1988 with our (then) young family. A friend said it would change our lives - and it did. The rep said our sons skied well and could be ski instructors when they grew up. I said they would get 'real jobs'. So many years on (and 89 ski holidays later for hubby and I) both sons are about to head out to France to work as instructors with New Gen again....
Is ski instructing a 'real' job?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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kitenski, Your ski list got me thinking about a list I used to keep and I've found it on an old website
http://www.waynos.co.uk/ski/stanton2001/Ski/ski_trip_list.htm
I gave up in 2000 and I clearly couldn't spell the name of my first ski resort very well.
In 2001 I did my first ski photo blog, updated daily from St Anton. This was way before the likes of flickr, anyone else doing this back before this date?. I did think of polishing up the website code and making it more available at the time but never got around to it. I seem to remember my digital camera got damaged after a few weeks and lost focus. So pretty poor quality pics but did include animated gifs, cutting edge! http://www.waynos.co.uk/ski/stanton2001/Ski/PhotoDiary.htm
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Poster: A snowHead
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waynos, Just 11 years of skiing to remember to update the list then 
Animated GIFS were indeed cutting edge, hasn't the world changed!!
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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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Apart from a few day in fridges my first skiing was in Norway in January 2005 at 46. Gone a bit mad since and racked up a total of 130 days.
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7 years for me, started at 36. Almost 15 weeks since then... you'd think I'd be better by now... 
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Schuss in Boots, you are - at drinking! 
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Just checked my list, and since we started in 1992 have racked up 567 skiing-days - plus regular use of artificial slopes. Never got to do a season though 
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Schuss in Boots, touchée! (And I hope you appreciate the pedantry.) 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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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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Started snowboarding in 2007 and have made five trips to the alps since then. Having a nipper in 2009 kind of put paid to the idea of boarding for several years but looks like me and the missus will be in France this december.
I'm 32 now, so not over the hill by any means, but when I read about kids in their late teens and early 20s doing seasons, I do get very jealous because I know it would have been something I would have loved to have done when I left uni. Still, you can't live regretting everything so I suppose I just take what comes and enjoy 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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First trip out - March 2008 (1wk), March 2009 (1wk); Dec 2010 (2wks); March 2011 (1wk); April 2011 (1wk) + lots of snowdome time
I cannot believe that I've only been skiing for 4 years - it seems like so much longer!!!
It's the first sport I've ever actually enjoyed and I think it's changed me as a person, it's certainly improved my physical confidence.
I'm hoping to get 3 weeks in this season.
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I hate these threads - having not had my first trip until January 2007, at 59 - they remind me how many years I have missed, but I am only 12 years away from a free ski pass !
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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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First trip was to Ellmau in March 1991 so 21st anniversary coming up. Never had the inclination before that and never not had the inclination since.
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