 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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| stanton wrote: |
| Ban Helmets! |
P*ss off! 
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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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rasmanisar,
Why are Helnet wearers so Deaf & devoid or sideways vision?
Now you P*ss off and think about it ir maybe you just dont want to think about it?????.....
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| stanton wrote: |
rasmanisar,
Why are Helnet wearers so Deaf & devoid or sideways vision?
Now you P*ss off and think about it ir maybe you just dont want to think about it?????..... |
They aren't. I can only refer you to my prior comment.
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Brilliant, another helmet thread on snowheads. 
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red 27, my nephew, aged about 7, wiped out an ESF instructor who was standing in front of a class of kids, pontificating. Nothing but his pride was hurt and it gave the kids a good laff. My sister skied past on the other side of the piste, shook her head and pretended she didn't know the lad.
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On the Bus down Valley tonight a Pistenhilfe said to me Helmets had made his & colleagues life a hell of a lot busier.
Collsions he said,he never known so many over the Xnas/NY holidays it was never used to b like this & I been working in Stanzertal overr 30yrs.
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Cum hoc sed non propter hoc
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pam w, erm, I think you could be casting pearls before swine there. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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pam w, Ah I see - this is why you now always pick up (lone male?) ESF hitchers - guilt by proxy
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I've seen collisions, and I've been skied over or forced into emergency manouvers but far more often I've seen unassisted injuries and the worst injuries we've had yet were done in a lift queue and on a dry slope (self inflicted). So while it's frightening and infuriating to be taken out, I'm sure the bigger risk to life and limbs is our own skiing skill and ability to adjust to the conditions. Although I guess the more cautious/skilled you are yourself, the less this is true for you as an individual....
That said I wouldn't mind more active patrolling like you get on dry slopes, especially for hometime and blue runs, I guess they just don't have the patrollers to do it though....Once or twice with my own groups I've wished someone would stop them and say 'hey you are being an ass' so it wasn't always me being the killjoy
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You know it makes sense.
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pam w, if you ever pick up stanton or the goldsmith chap please head butt them for me 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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The Flying Gooseberry, errr, you changed your handle then?
pam w, I have not picked up a hitchhiker since the spider incident.
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Poster: A snowHead
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under a new name, I have not cared to find out what the spider incident was.
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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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The Flying Gooseberry, sorry to have missed you over the hols. Am now totally into skating XC. Later in season?
I feel a spider incident thread coming on... Maybe after a last holiday glass of wine before the regime?
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I feel a spider incident thread coming on...
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I shan't read it. 
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The Flying Gooseberry, you won't have been to see The Hobbit then I guess.
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under a new name, I'm impressed with the skating. I was doing classical all last week and I was struck by the extremely fine gluteals of the skaters, as they passed me. There were two classes of skaters learning at the same time - one more advanced than the other but they all looked pretty good to me. I think I've left it too late and will stick to classique. Do you wear Lycra?
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pam w, another arachnophobe?
Hells Bells, co-RRECT! 
under a new name, doing any Bashes?
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The Flying Gooseberry, there was enough spidery stuff in there to make me certain that I am not arachnophobic in the slightest.
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| rob@rar at 14:13 wrote: |
| ... no more from me on this. |
| rob@rar at 17:05 wrote: |
| I've only seen two serious collisions ... |
Which was the serious post?
Sorry, but if no one has any serious suggestions for reducing collisions I'm flouncing.
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| Has not-comedy Goldsmitheo flounceo'd off(eo)? |
Not quite - I was working tonight in a live performance venue with near-naked women colliding in transparent pools of water, suspended above the audience's heads. No one wore helmets. I'm definitely flouncing if nothing sensible happens here.
Collision therapy: http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/fuerzabruta
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| Fuerzabruta is an event where worlds collide ... |
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Comedy Goldsmith, To**er
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| MJS wrote: |
| Comedy Goldsmith, To**er |
According to the snowHeads search database, that's your first contribution to this forum since 4 April 2013. Would "economical with words" be a fair description of your output?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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This was your previous contribution on 4 April 2013.
If only all agreements could be expressed in a single word. Congratulations (genuinely).
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MJS, 'tosser' gets through the profanity filter no problem.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| MJS, 'tosser' gets through the profanity filter no problem. |
Good. Let's see if it allows "pancake".
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Comedy Goldsmith wrote: |
Sorry, but if no one has any serious suggestions for reducing collisions I'm flouncing.
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With less than 7% of injuries coming from collisions, I think efforts would be better served in reducing the incidence of injuries in other areas first.
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Poster: A snowHead
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feef, I'd start with pipe and park. And rodelbahns.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Comedy Goldsmith wrote: |
| MJS wrote: |
| Comedy Goldsmith, To**er |
According to the snowHeads search database, that's your first contribution to this forum since 4 April 2013. Would "economical with words" be a fair description of your output? |
Yep!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Comedy Goldsmith, in all honesty what I posted was perhaps a tad harsh but you do typify the worst kind of pontificating Brit. Sorry
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MJS, I don't know, perhaps that's a workable scenario. Please don't think that I'm having a go at all skiers who ski quickly, I'm not, I do it myself when I feel comfortable. As I said it's a subjective view, but I genuinely believe home time accidents have increased.
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mozwold, didn't take your post as having a go. I agree that there are too many dangerous skiers out there. I take lessons every ski trip because I love to improve my skiing. I would love a world where reds and blacks were populated by skiers capable of 'skiing' them as oppose to getting down them but realise this is not the case. I shall continue skiing as fast as possible on empty pistes and finding a way to have fun safely when there are folk around. Drills and excersises can make a green run fun!
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"We" aren't going to do anything. Individually you can do everything you can to use situational awareness to ensure you aren't the victim, and if the choice is overcrowded WROD or not skiing, perhaps choose not skiing or at least waiting for gaps in traffic.
Oh and let everyone you see being a c u next tuesday know what you think of them
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The fact that these are clearly very competent skiers makes it all the more reprehensible.
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I recall a judge in the US taking the same view when sentencing an expert skier who had crashed into, and killed, an English girl.
The reason I have seen so few collision, in a lot of skiing, is that I avoid the most dangerous times and ski in a quiet area (with no package tour Brits - I rather agree with some of the suggestions that they are particularly dangerous). I feel the risk, in these circumstances, is low. The fact that I was injured in one of the very few collisions which happen doesn't alter my perception of the risk and I have little doubt that my biggest risk, by far, is damaging a knee ligament in a fall caused entirely by my own efforts.
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The Flying Gooseberry, no. I'm not an arachnophobe. Just don't want to hear some scary tale which might dissuade me from picking up the next pisteur I see hitching up a cold road in the dark.
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and that was also a hit and run. Flat green path just off a lift, so no time to get much momentum. Person before that was my brother on about day 2 of skiing. Skied right over the tops of my skis, practicing snowplough turns. Mind you, I've also skied right over someone else's skis too, but that was to avoid a pile up coming off a lift 
