northernsoulboy, Your fault for using Ryanair. Anyone who's been on Snowheads for any time at all knows you should never use them. What's more, Fascinating Aida agree with me:
Planets? I did a season in MACS0647-JD. Bloody Ryanair sent my kit to IC 1101, but luckily there was an Intersport there. I didn't get the skis I paid for, but that's a different story.
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?
gatecrasher wrote:
northernsoulboy wrote:
Planets? I did a season in MACS0647-JD. Bloody Ryanair sent my kit to IC 1101, but luckily there was an Intersport there. I didn't get the skis I paid for, but that's a different story.
Interesting that he's not offering advice on red pistes in la Plagne...
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
johnnyh wrote:
I do remember meeting Scott and Rob from Inside Out for the first time in real life and being surprised that they could actually ski! <~~ well they could get down the slope at Hemel, maybe they'd struggle on a blind corner on hard red!!
The fearsome lefthander at Mt Tamworth is a real struggle for me. I'm still working up to blind corners on reds...
From what I've seen it doesn't take SnowHeads to encourage people to ski out of their safety zone in either Les Arcs or La Plagne. I've seen technique that should be confined to tough blues exhibited at the summit of Aguille Rouge. Point is, it's not the responsibility of these muppets to avoid the rest of us but those with better control to avoid them. OP, if you headed into a blind corner at speed then you deserve all you get, m8. Could have been a boulder on the piste or a fallen skier of greater ability than you that tripped you up - skill don't enter into it.
Snowcrazy's the daddy on SnowHeads when to comes to Parisdiski and he can ski, on yes. I don't ski as well as him but I can hold my own. Most of the other's I have seen seem pretty fair and I know at least one is 2/3 of the way to qualifying as a ski instructor (if they have not done so already).
Rule 5 - with knobs on.
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
rob@rar, havent risked that in years after a nasty moment in 1998 when it was a little icy. Still have nightmares
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I don't have anything meaningful to contribute but want to keep this thread alive until OP comes back to explain who or what he crashed into, and more importantly, the causative link between the mystery unnamed Walter Mittie and his injury.
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Rosa Klebb was very red indeed.... you just gotta read rather than watch!
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monkey wrote:
I don't have anything meaningful to contribute but want to keep this thread alive until OP comes back to explain who or what he crashed into, and more importantly, the causative link between the mystery unnamed Walter Mittie and his injury.
The OP does seem a bit... unusual.
64 years old, renewing season passes left right and centre but unable to work out how to get to Courchevel or (pedantry apologies) spell it, or how to book a shared transfer to the airport, and mithering himself incoherently about some advice he may or may not have been given, and should not have needed, by someone he met in a chalet (or read on here), while condemning everyone else as 'useless woodentops'.
Keith - if you bomb round blind corners and smash into people, you're the one who should be dealt with, not the snow plougher.
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RattytheSnowRat, I think his knob fell off . . . you know, the sort of injury you get when blasting a blind left red My inner TGR is bubbling up
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
It was me...I'm Spartacus!
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
This thread reminds me that someone was telling me that last year in L2A when the lower slopes were roped off with a huge sign saying "Expert Skiers Only" he stopped to check if a woman sitting on the edge of the piste, obviously struggling, was okay and asked didn't she see the sign? She told him she was an expert as it was her second week and she'd had lessons!
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
No... I am Spartacus!
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Hate to be a pedant, but it's Walter Mitty, not Mittie.
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WayneC, I prefer the signs in the US with a prominent skull & crossbones and a warning that death and serious injury may occur - doesn't stop numpties loading chairs from which there is no pisted way down or throwing themselves down steep 500ft mogul fields.
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I've seen technique that should be confined to tough blues exhibited at the summit of Aguille Rouge.
RattytheSnowRat, I hope that wasn't me Yes, I took the top very cautiously taking the very narrow cat-track next to the drop off very cautiously due to its aspect rather than the steep bit from the top, and I might have taken longer than many at the many mounded funnel bit that followed very quickly, but I didn't do so bad for me.
In response to the OP I think they should return and explain further, it sounds like they were at fault, and they shouldn't be tarring everyone with the same brush. Many folks on here know their limitations as I demonstrate above.
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?
Masque, hence strapping a few on, I have a feeling it's not a 'one off' where he's concerned.
....only a few weeks ago, I stuffed a Mars up my backside
FIFY proper like
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
At least he had enough insurance to cover the financial loss.
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After all it is free
cagey wrote:
In the last month or so I have met,stayed in the same chalet and skiied with a few of the reporters on this site.
Walter Mitties all of them,I know I am not very good but by comparrison they are useless woodentops the lot of them yet they pretend to be good and give such stupid info, why do people do this.
A very likable chap, at the moment is giving info about a popular French area ,he couldn't safely attempt a gentle blue, all excuses but his info was dangerous, what to do.
Why don't people admit their limitations, I know the answer but perhaps if a fine system were introduced dependant on ability then perhaps people like me wouldn't be back in the UK 6 weeks early nursing an injury because of a prat on a hard red snowploughing on a blind corner.
Hey ho
Happies
Keith
Were you wearing a helmet?
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No, he is one.
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Filthyphil30k, Hang onna sec . . !
There comes a time in all men's lives when we move from virile ski god to curmudgeonly old git . . . give the man the grace to have accepted his place in the World order . . . though he does seem to have embraced it rather wholeheartedly.
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Masque wrote:
Chamcham wrote:
....only a few weeks ago, I stuffed a Mars up my backside
FIFY proper like
That wasn't a Mars it was a careless Wispa (c G Michael)
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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.
Ooh goodie! Hang on a mo while I go stock up on popcorn...
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
fatbob, They melt too quickly . . .
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
rob@rar wrote:
Hate to be a pedant, but it's Walter Mitty, not Mittie.
Some of us may be Walter Mittys, however the OP is coming across as more Walter Matthau..
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Вugger! I'm not supposed to know that . . . purely apocryphal I'll have you know
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Poster: A snowHead
Still trying to picture the scene.
If the OP was hit by a snowplougher who belted round a blind corner then he's vindicated.
If the OP was following then, it's a scenario I've been in before, not laudable, but familiar. Hot shot goes wooshing off, follow him/her, wedeln whee!, moguls whoopee! steep bit zooom! narrow bit with blind corner massive plough brake from front runner and you've got a choice of collision, try to outbrake, crash off the piste or go round on a nasty steep bit and into terrain you weren't expecting too fast and on a bad line.
Anyway, rule 15 applies.
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Touchguru, very good!
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?
Quote:
In the last month or so I have met,stayed in the same chalet and skiied with a few of the reporters on this site.
Walter Mitties all of them,I know I am not very good but by comparrison they are useless woodentops the lot of them yet they pretend to be good and give such stupid info
This is a forum populated largely by one week a year holidaymakers whose enthusiasm pretty much outstrips their skiing ability. I don't remember any of them claiming otherwise either. They're out to have fun, not provide you with a service. Admittedly the forum is awash with stupid advice about all sorts of things, but then so is the average conversation down the pub. So what?
So do I. I'm a 3 and a half weeks a year holidaymaker whose enthusiasm pretty much outstrips my skiing ability.
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
You should definitely stop posting here and go over to the Teton Gravity Research forums, you won't have the same problems with woodentop reporters there.
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After all it is free
narc, I like TGR, they're so . . . so . . . 'cuddly and life affirming'. So much more welcoming than us buttwipes.
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Chamcham, You may have skied the backside of Mars but have you ever tried Uranus?
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Is it even possible to 'belt' when you're snowploughing? Could this be a new Olympic sport?
FAQ
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Interesting that he's not offering advice on red pistes in la Plagne...
My inner TGR is bubbling up 
Yes, I took the top very cautiously taking the very narrow cat-track next to the drop off very cautiously due to its aspect rather than the steep bit from the top, and I might have taken longer than many at the many mounded funnel bit that followed very quickly, but I didn't do so bad for me. 
