 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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@Mjit, Verbier / Zermatt / Wengen / Saas Fee - maybe I've been spoilt! The order of sales was made up based on assumption and average humour rather than fact! Italy are 100% at the bottom of the 'big 4' Alpine order . .
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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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Does anyone have a picture? I just can't see it in my head - especially on a full chairlift - don't they get in the way of the person next to you? are they sticking out forwards?
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| skimummk wrote: |
| Does anyone have a picture? I just can't see it in my head - especially on a full chairlift - don't they get in the way of the person next to you? are they sticking out forwards? |
@Scarlet has already answered this, but yes, they stick out forwards. Mine are invariably tucked under my left thigh/buttock, and stick out more or less between my knees, pointing straight in front of me. It’s not uncomfortable in the slightest, even on an old, uncushioned, wooden-slatted chair, although I can see why people might think it would be.
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| JayRo wrote: |
| It’s not uncomfortable in the slightest, even on an old, uncushioned, wooden-slatted chair, although I can see why people might think it would be. |
Because our muscular thigh provides plenty of cushioning.
You do need to avoid the sit bone. But that’s not hard to do at all.
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Pole sitter here. Not all the time just if I need to do check my phone/eat/drink.
As for safety bar down… always around these parts. Some lifts seem to have had a warning alarm fitted. Once you get to a certain point, and the bar isn’t down, a sign starts flashing and an alarm goes off.
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I rarely stick poles under my bum. As someone else said, I might if I plan a mega faff. Normally sticking them under my arm or pressing them between my thigh and the safety bar is quicker and easier.
I've stopped using wrist straps on my gloves (or idiot bands as we like to call them in our house  ). Mainly because they are a bit of a faff but also because I'm not beyond the idiocy of forgetting to put them on then working on the assumption that they ARE on. Fortunately never done that on a lift! If I need to take a glove off on a lift I just jam it between my thighs which is abundantly secure given my thighs are quite chunky!
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Obviously you'll both decline a pole [on] flat bits  |
Actually I've never used a pole like that, so yes.
Those gentle souls offended by pole clicking would perhaps argue that to offer a pole is disrespectful, because the donor is suggesting I can't ride without their unsalted for help. But I know that's not the intent; it's not the internet.
If I was once to accept a pole, I'd never hear the end of it.
Some skiers I ride with make a point of offering me poles as a gentle p*** take.
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As a beginner snowboarder, not to mention terribly nice person, I used (when on skis) to offer boarders who looked like they were struggling a pole, across a flat bit at the top of a 5km blue "home run". Several accepted, usually till they got going, then let go and carried on with a cheery wave. I also once accepted a pole, in the same place, though from one of my own party (I was brought up not to accept unsolicited poles from strange men). 
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At what point do the pole-sitters extricate the poles, so as to avoid getting in a tangle on arrival? Whilst I admit to being fairly clumsy, I can envisage all kinds of entanglements, especially if, for whatever reason, the safety bar is late in going up.
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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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@Hurtle, hold between legs as the chair approaches, sit down with the handles just past the leg and pointy ends (technical description) pointing forward at either 10 or 2 o'clock, under left or right leg depending on which side the foot rest is on. When unloading just pull the poles forward when standing up and pushing off with other hand. It's really is not as complicated as some people make out.
I can say with a high level of certainty that none of the poles you see under chair lines escaped from under anyones leg.
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You know it makes sense.
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Oh I don't know - a 6-man ski-pole/bayonet charge may help clear out the exit of some lifts...
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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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@Richard_Sideways, good point, well argued
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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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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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I shouted “here comes the tow truck!”. She grabbed my pole and was gracefully towed up the remainder of the slight uphill. She admitted “that nice!”. And the next time we went there again, she just waited for the “tow truck” to come
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I think @abc, has been working on his erotic ski fan fiction again... maybe a rename if the offing here.
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hold between legs as the chair approaches, sit down with the handles just past the leg and pointy ends (technical description) pointing forward at either 10 or 2 o'clock, under left or right leg depending on which side the foot rest is on.
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plenty of lifts now have the foot rest between the legs, so it acts as a kid stop.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Richard_Sideways, @abc is female. 
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@Alastair Pink, So was EL James, and it didn't do her any harm... just emotionally scarred all those charity shops volunteers working the book section.
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It does look kinda cool but I know I'd eff it up.
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| andy wrote: |
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hold between legs as the chair approaches, sit down with the handles just past the leg and pointy ends (technical description) pointing forward at either 10 or 2 o'clock, under left or right leg depending on which side the foot rest is on.
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plenty of lifts now have the foot rest between the legs, so it acts as a kid stop. |
Those are parti ularly awkward for Boarders when they bend 90 degrees before leaving the station as the tail of the board is dragging awkwardly and the skiers on the lift don't understand why I don't want them to pull the bar down.
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| BoardieK wrote: |
| andy wrote: |
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hold between legs as the chair approaches, sit down with the handles just past the leg and pointy ends (technical description) pointing forward at either 10 or 2 o'clock, under left or right leg depending on which side the foot rest is on.
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plenty of lifts now have the foot rest between the legs, so it acts as a kid stop. |
Those are parti ularly awkward for Boarders when they bend 90 degrees before leaving the station as the tail of the board is dragging awkwardly and the skiers on the lift don't understand why I don't want them to pull the bar down. |
yes I've noticed that but I'm assure you are aware that the winter sport industry has really stopped giving a flying anything about snowboarders. I'm not saying that's right but I think it's largely true
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With one or two snowboarders per hundred skiers in that resort (St Luc) I'm sure you are right.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| jedster wrote: |
| BoardieK wrote: |
| andy wrote: |
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hold between legs as the chair approaches, sit down with the handles just past the leg and pointy ends (technical description) pointing forward at either 10 or 2 o'clock, under left or right leg depending on which side the foot rest is on.
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plenty of lifts now have the foot rest between the legs, so it acts as a kid stop. |
Those are parti ularly awkward for Boarders when they bend 90 degrees before leaving the station as the tail of the board is dragging awkwardly and the skiers on the lift don't understand why I don't want them to pull the bar down. |
yes I've noticed that but I'm sure you are aware that the winter sport industry has really stopped giving a flying anything about snowboarders. I'm not saying that's right but I think it's largely true |
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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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I’m fascinated that such a mundane question has yielded 3 pages of discussion! I’m also fascinated by the number of people who can’t seem to get from breakfast to lunch without eating…
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@Gordyjh, yes, it's remarkable that it provoked so much discussion. As the OP I was prompted to post after having seen the American comments on another FB group that "Everyone does this. I don’t want to be holding them whole time so I put them under my leg." and ""Never met a skier in my life who doesn’t sit on their poles." ,which somewhat surprised me.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
| @Gordyjh""Never met a skier in my life who doesn’t sit on their poles." ,which somewhat surprised me. |
Plausible explanations include for this, include "This person..."
Has never actually met a skier
Has never been skiing
Is confusing chair lifts with drag lifts (no, that one doesn't work because most people don't put their poles behind their bums)
Doesn't believe anyone who is a beginner, intermediate or child counts as a skier
Doesn't regard anyone who doesn't sit on their poles as a skier
Is, in fact, one of a small number of well-known snowHeads who like to start pointless arguments
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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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| tsgsh wrote: |
| Alastair Pink wrote: |
| @Gordyjh""Never met a skier in my life who doesn’t sit on their poles." ,which somewhat surprised me. |
Plausible explanations include for this, include "This person..."
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Is, in fact, one of a small number of well-known snowHeads who like to start pointless arguments
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Highly unlikely to be a snowHead as it was on another FB skiing group and as a I said previously is American (I'm aware that there are a few American sHs but not many).
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Poster: A snowHead
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It was not meant to be taken seriously, despite the lack of emojis
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Surely any discussion about ski poles is going to end up being quite pointed...
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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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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
| Surely any discussion about ski poles is going to end up being quite pointed... |
That's an acute comment....
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| skimummk wrote: |
| Does anyone have a picture? I just can't see it in my head - especially on a full chairlift - don't they get in the way of the person next to you? are they sticking out forwards? |
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| abc wrote: |
Sorry, that’s not a “powder basket”. |
Midfat basket then? Cos it definitely isn't a euro-slim piste basket. 
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| mgrolf wrote: |
| abc wrote: |
Sorry, that’s not a “powder basket”. |
Midfat basket then? Cos it definitely isn't a euro-slim piste basket. |
Less leki, more volkl!
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| mgrolf wrote: |
| abc wrote: |
Sorry, that’s not a “powder basket”. |
Midfat basket then? Cos it definitely isn't a euro-slim piste basket. |
I think it’s just a regular basket.
Unless you’re racing or carving super-g, there’s no advantage for those “euro-slim piste” basket.
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