Poster: A snowHead
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Frosty the Snowman,
47d, 11h, 23m and 43s to the PSB
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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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47d, 11h, 17m and 23s to the PSB
Keep up man
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boredsurfin wrote: |
I guess the slowest lift in the world (Les Arcs Plan Bois) will be heading that way as well |
You have obvioulsy not been on Vega in La Plagne. Made the old Plan Bois feel like a Bugatti Veyron. Vega is an old 2 person chair and is over 250 chairs on it. Trust me I have watch everyone go past veryyyyyyyyyyy slowly.
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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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gwaelod, Yes. It is sickening to see old blokes on skins overtake underneath. The 1st time I rode it I had to keep checking for a pulse.
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pam w wrote: |
My grand-daughter is 3 ("and a half"). Last week they stayed with us and amongst other things she did cooking with me and had several sessions learning to row a rubber dinghy, as well as endless hours of stories. Her mum was still fretting that she "should" have been at her pre-school sessions! |
sorry - thread hijack!
loved this...
When at primary school and right up to 4th year (GCSE's) my mum would take me out of school in mid June so we could do lots of fun stuff together through the summer!
If I become a parent I suspect I will be a 'bad' parent that does similar
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gwaelod that'll be these chairs then It is still in daily use and serves 3 purposes. 1. to remind us old folk of how it use to be (esp. the whack on the calf muscle as it sweeps you up) 2. To emphasise how fast the rest of the lifts are. 3 Acces to some excellent off piste and often powder.
The Vega chair potters along at 2.1 m/s shifting 1200 persons an hour. In comparison the Arpette 8 man chair hammers along at 5.5 m/s and shifts 3600 persons an hour (Stats from RG's site) hthtmlml
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Wed 12-09-07 14:29; edited 4 times in total
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boredsurfin wrote: |
To emphasise how fast the rest of the lifts are |
Certainly does that . Make me even contemplate Nordic skiing as a recreational sport.
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There is a six-seater Doppelmayr fast-speed chairlift (!) somewhere in the background.
(Jasna-Chopok, Slovakia, December 2005)
OMG, sometimes it takes 40-45 mins to get to this lift.
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kerekip, I'd take up chess and retire from skiing if that was a queue I had to endure too often!
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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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seem to recall quite a wait at the bottom of the Silverettabhn in Ischgl......
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You know it makes sense.
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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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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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Guvnor wrote: |
seem to recall quite a wait at the bottom of the Silverettabhn in Ischgl...... |
Still do, mate. Can be avoided if you arrive before 10.
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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've queued for nearly an hour at the Cime de Caron in VT. That was in March. Been since in January and virtually got straight on .. lesson learned, I now know how long the Mickey Mouse queues take to snake around the fences. Having said that skiing in France in Jan last year in Tignes never came across a single queue other than for the GM funicular and that's really just waiting for it to cycle around. Serre Chevaliar in Feb lots of queues but none really horrific, fast 6 mans each queues! End of March Avoriaz - no queues at all - ski onto the lifts - but c**p weather kept away the fair weather skiiers.
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stevew,
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I've queued for nearly an hour at the Cime de Caron in VT
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Me too. Ditto for Les Grands Montets in Argentiere. Worth it, though, in both cases.
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Hurtle, can't remember how long for Les Grands Montets but seem to recall we had to get a pre-timed ticket so it wasn't that long.
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stevew, I've twice found myself, aux Grands Montets, in that irritating period of time when the lifties reckon that there aren't QUITE enough people around to operate the pre-timed ticket system. It can, it seems, get pretty bad before they do.
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boredsurfin, you need to get over to 2000 and Pre St Esprit for the slowest lift...
When the queue is backed out of the taped area, it is quicker (and this is NOT exaggerating, we have done it on a number of occasions) to wander over to the road, and catch the bus up the hill. Despite the faffing at the top stop, you are back on the slopes in better than even time. With a bus every 30 mins, you'd be very unlucky to take longer at the bus stop + 5 mins travel time, versus queuing for the 3 seat, 15 min lift journey.
Plan Bois going this year is good, but I can't WAIT for St Esprit to go too. Combourciere, of the same era... well AFAI am concerned, that can stay, as it discourages the unknowing, and leaves that end of the resort empty for the regulars!
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Glad I am not stuck in this lift queue. Makes our moans seem rasther trivial
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being a tad claustraphobic that story is a nightmare!!!
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Scarlet Pimpernel wrote: |
Guvnor wrote: |
seem to recall quite a wait at the bottom of the Silverettabhn in Ischgl...... |
Still do, mate. Can be avoided if you arrive before 10. |
Better to walk to the Fimbabahn IMO. Especially now it's being replaced this year by a faster 8 man heated gondala.
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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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Scarlet Pimpernel, we've waited a long time there too if we've been unlucky (badly planned) enough to hit it at ski school time. Weird though because almost all of the other lifts in the area are modern, fast and big with hardly any queues at all, so the SB is a bit of an unexpected weak link.
The one time we hit it with no queues, we wanted to ski the deserted pistes back down to the valley when they were all freshly groomed, so we got off at the mid-station and blasted right the way to the village, only we went a bit too fast, because when we arrived at the SB, our liftpasses wouldn't go through the scanner as they were flagged as being reused too often (i.e. as if we had chucked them to a mate in the back of the queue thus avoiding paying)! So lesson to us, ski slower , or don't get off at the mid-station .
We got a stern interrogation from the lifty who only seemed to relent and believe us when we pointed out H's pseudo grey hair (black hair with lots of snow in it) from his brief headstand in some deep powder, unachieveable by virtually any other method.
Happy sliding
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