 Poster: A snowHead
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DavidS, go on, you know you want it.....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Manda, tell me you're trolling - please.
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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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Manda, Sorry but i think that is the most unworkable idea i have ever heard of. driving licences dont keep idiots off the roads so why should they make people behave on piste.... would never ever work
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Manda, Ski teachers the world over would thank you for all the extra business, but it would be unworkable. 
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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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Frosty the Snowman, hmm. I see at least two interpretations to 'pole clicking':
"Hello there - just letting you know I'm here so I don't surprise you"
"HEY - get out of my way you pillock"
I know which one I mean when I do it - and that's what I assume when others do it to me 
I call it courtesy & I also thank people as I pass.
Also, the point about skiing the edge of the piste - isn't it nicer and safer for most beginners if more advanced skiiers use the very edge? They usually don't want to complete their turn 3 inches from a 60' drop!!
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| If you can't stop in time to avoid anyone materialising (from nowhere) in your path, you ain't in adequate control. |
Within limits. I've heard of people popping onto the piste from in the trees etc.
Just as in a car - you don't drive assuming people can emerge from manhole covers do you?
PS Back from a few days in Siver near Verbiers - it was fantastic having just 6 of us on the piste! Of course the last day was crowded and we got to observe much of the abov (in my case I came over the brow and the ski instructor demonstrated a 'skis parallel' downhill drop into a weighted edged/carved turn across the piste - all without a backward glance!)
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lbt,
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Also, the point about skiing the edge of the piste - isn't it nicer and safer for most beginners if more advanced skiiers use the very edge? They usually don't want to complete their turn 3 inches from a 60' drop!!
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I agree entirely - I remember when I was a beginner being intimidated a little by better skiers shooting down the very edge of the piste but then, I didn't want to go anywhere near it so I was glad that they were using it rather than trying to get past me on the bit I was using (especially on narrow roads).
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