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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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9 @ Sheffield ski village then a couple of trips a year since university (~15 years). My husband learnt at uni though and while I look a bit neater and might have an edge in drills or moguls, he's a better all rounder, especially off piste and he's faster than me down a slalom course, much to my annoyance! aj xx
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26 now 45 
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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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11. Anyone else raised on the Ackers slope in Birmingham? I know. I was a hard kid. Not because of the manky dry ski slope, but the locals who would come and nick anything that could be removed. It was a genuine gauntlet to run from the centre to the car at times.
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Nope for me it was the Tunbridge Wells slope that I learnt on before our first ski trip. Only enough to do a basic snow plough but that sufficient to get us quite quickly extracted from the group shuffling up and down a very short run and into the much more fun group.
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12 with School, for a week, then e3ffectively 20, from University onwards. A break at 30, as children came and we could not really afford it, then onwards again over the last 20 years. Now 56.Learnt in 'Lace up, leather ski boots' Not many can probably say that, - not that they would want to!
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First when I was 14 with school to Leysin, loved it but didn't get the opportunity again till 28. Been kicking myself ever since, doing my first season working as an instructor in Austria aged 52. Kids started at 3 & 6 didn't take them long to leave me behind!
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41 godammit. Wasn't much snow in Sydney and Perth when I was a kid.
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Learned to ski in a week over the summer in 1993 or 1994 when I was 10 or 11 on the Bellahouston dry slope in Glasgow, then didn't go skiing again until my brother and his now wife did a season in France in 2008/2009. Been at least once a year every year since and well and truly have the bug.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| NickyJ wrote: |
| Nope for me it was the Tunbridge Wells slope that I learnt on before our first ski trip. |
Me too - Eridge ?
Had three lessons and it rained every day - but like you, enabled me to move into a higher group and gained 3 or 4 days over the complete beginners on that first trip on the snow.
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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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Started on Churchill dry slope at 10, went on first snow trip with school to Ellmau 3 years later (1987). Couldn't afford to go again until 2003 and fell in love with it again. Went and did a season the following year (took a career break) and have skied at least 2 weeks a season every year since.
This year will be the first year skiing with my kids. My eldest is 4 and I can't wait for the proud moment I see her on skis.
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FastCarver74, my parents live in Congresbury so I skied (and snowboarded) at Churchill all the time.
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You know it makes sense.
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codyaitch, You give me hope 
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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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Learnt to ski when I was 12 at SSV, switched to snowbaording year later. Went once or twice a year until uni then has a few years break and have been once or twice a year since I started working.
Thinking I would like to get into ski touring but that it would be difficult to get as goon on skis as I am on a board - 96 skiing days at a rate of 2 week long trips a year is a lot of years!
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Poster: A snowHead
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12 or 13, I think. Learning young definitely helps, confidence etc comes much more easily. I've also been climbing for going on 10 years, and that is so deeply ingrained as to be almost innate.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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codyaitch, sorry not sure what you mean?
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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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31 for me. Cross country in Norway first couple of years, then downhill for a few years and now a snowboarder. Now been doing it for 23 years.
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37, that was 6 years ago. Love it 
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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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Started at 27, on dry slopes (Halifax and Harrogate) in preparation for a holiday at Embach near Rauris in Austria, been skiing every year since, mainly twice a year since 1994. Enjoy my skiing and reasonably competent but don't ever think I'll be an "expert".
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About 25. But very sporadically until 36 (20 years ago).
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Age 12. Skied every year since, except for a couple of years when I was a teenager, always trying to increase the number of weeks on snow as money and time allowed. Ski quite a lot now, and love it more than ever.
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