 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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| bertie bassett wrote: |
anyone on those silly 'bike' type things that you stand on and have handlebars...
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Some people have to use them because of health issues. sharon1953 being one of those.
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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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| horizon wrote: |
The only thing I do hate is behaviour dangerous to others. |
Couldn't agree more!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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The Offspring? IS that a special Montalbert spring under the chair that helps you get off after lunch 
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Frosty the Snowman, Yep, it also schreeches c'mon dad as it drags you to your ski's 
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Prats that fanny about in the off ramp area of a chairlift, putting on pole straps, waiting for their mates, reading a piste map, adjusting back packs, fastening burst trouser press-studs etc etc. DO IT SOMEWHERE EFFING ELSE YOU DOZY TOSSERS |
Best to look at the piste map on the way up... Had a slight disagreement with OH when he refused to look at the piste map before a piste junction, when on the way back at the recommended last leaving time from an area, with me in the middle of my first week in winter. Led to me struggling down my first black piste! as we'd gone the wrong way and either would have to go back and probably miss the last lift back to our valley, walk up a narrowish red (not exactly safe) or ski down a short but busy black piste. Wouldn't have happened if he'd've looked (or let me stop to look) at the piste map on exiting the lift!
Trouser press studs isn't an issue for me (ass and thigh size is more determining than waist for trouser purchasing decisions) and I don't use a rucksack, so the only time I have to adjust equipment/wait in this zone is (a) deciding what to do about dropped ski pole which I stood on getting onto the lift  many thanks to the kind soul who brought it up for me or (b) navigational problems where signposting is rubbish. Of course the number of people hanging about is increased by having to wait for friends when you've gone up in dribs and drabs with other people (or the ski school!)
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People who fart in gondolas (theres always one on the transarc)
people who block the run-out of chairlifts.
people who stand on the back of my board in lift queues.
drunken people (on skis or boards)
Those snowblade things!!!!
Moguls.
The most hated thing of all ... really has nearly driven me to violence ...
people who ride past you in groups when you are painstakingly going safely one at a time on steep off piste.
tux
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Randomsabreur, surely you would check the map BEFORE getting on a chairlift. Otherwise, how would you know the terrain at the top was suitable
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People hopelessly out of their depth on a given piste
People who ski too fast
People who ski too slow
People who are better than me
Anyone who can telemark well. No need for that, that's just showing off.
Thick slush
Hard crusty off-piste
Falling under the charlift
Queues: for a lift, at the bar, for food, for toilets, for the check-in
The gits that got to the fresh snow before me
Lifts that keep stopping
The Sun, the Moon and everything in between
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Skiers riding over the back of my board or sticking their poles on it in lift queues, it's not a feckin rental.
Lines of skiers doing follow the leader from one side of the piste right to the other (making it really hard to pass safely).
Out of control skiers or boarders.
Skiers who don't think about a boarders blind spot.
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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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Oh yeah, and Johhny Foreigners who don't learn to speak english in their own country.
I am fed up of having to shout loudly at waiters " Oi mush deux bier pour favour " whilst giving a V sign at some lazy French waiter who could not be bothered to take English O Level when he was at school.
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You know it makes sense.
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Check at the bottom shows that there is suitable terrain. Checking at the top happens when you've not fancied the piste you've just looked at on the way up (presence of large moguls on blue for instance) and you're looking for other options. It also happens when the directional signs seem not to tally with the piece of paper you have in your hand and the route you had in your mind and you have to work out that to get to the piste you thought you were aiming at, you actually have to do 200 metres down a different one before turning right.
Or what you thought was a piste down, is actually the wrong way up a piste (directional arrows/contour lines would be useful on a piste map!)
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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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Folks who think it's ok to have a whole t-bar to themselves despite the 40 deep queue behind them (scotland skiing), snowballs to the head when attempting to stay on is fine as is just joining them on it and ignoring the moans of said morons.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Mostly i ski a lot on my own & off piste so other people don't bother me so much as i adjust my skiing to suit the conditions whether that be a 45+ degree couloir or a crowed blue at the end of the day.
However 2 things in particular really get me. First is people who stop below rollovers. last year i nearly killed a french skier luckily i speed checked before the rollover as i'm quite paranoid about them so was going slow enough to make evasive maneuvres to avoid him. Basically his mates, about 8 of them so they took up a fair amount of room, stood in the centre of the piste at the top of the rollover. When i went around them he was lying down directly on the blind side of the rollover just on the line you had to take to avoid his mates. Mostly it's snowboarders who sit down in the worst places but you do sometimes get skiers doing it too.
The other thing that's not on the piste that really winds me up is snowboarders sideslipping couloirs they're not good enough to ski. I mostly find it's english snowboarders, though not exclusively that do this. There's nothing more frustrating to come up to a couloir on a powder day to find it's been side slip stripped clean. It's one thing not getting the first tracks another to find it's been stripped from people biting off more than they can chew.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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People who think they are a better person than you because they ski better than you,
Board tools who don't attach their board to their leg, then let in fly off... you jump out the way because it is doing 60mph and they shout at you for not stopping it.
Small children in catsuits who believe the queues don't apply to them.
Littering scum
Stuck up brits who think they are better than you because they earn more money.
Stuck up brits who think they are better than you because they married someone who earns more money.
Park rats who mock anyone without twin tips.
Anyone who buys race skis at full price so they can snow plough down red runs.
School teachers stuck on a power trip who think they can tell you how to ski and instruct because they know everything ever.
Anyone who runs over the backs of my skis.
out of control skiers and bladers going straight down the piste screaming "nnnneeeeooooowwwwwww" (fortunatly boarders can't do this as the snowboard has a great talent for killing these people off quick"
ESF instructors who believe they are descended from the almighty
Plastic spastics (dry-slope skiers) who explain that skidding is failing
Lifties who shout at the beginners who fall of the drag lift -(i fall off it sometimes, leave them alone)
Instructors who refuse to listen to other peoples advice
People on ski forums who argue to the death something they just made up bthat is obviously wrong..........its true "before the internet, the village idiot stayed in the village"
French food and drink prices in resort
Angry skiers who shout at beginners for getting in their way or slowing them down for 10 seconds on the lift (think london commuter + Roadrage + a bucket load of testosterone)
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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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and both of frank4short, 's.....
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dulcamara, maybe skiing's not for you!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Idiots who take off at speed over blind rollers without a clue who or what is on the other side 
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dulcamara, and breadth out....
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I really don't understand this one about people stopped under rollovers. Perhaps I'm paranoid but when I get to rollovers I imagine a child who fell on the blind side and I just slow down, or cut across towards an area where I can see more.
Yes if I do see someone just sitting there I sometimes go and explain that it's not a good idea, as very fast skiers or boarders could hit them.
dulcamara, three quarters of that was tongue-in-cheek, right? (in which case 666 did it better!)
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horizon, I always speed check before rollovers as i'm massively paranoid of killing someone one day by hitting one at speed with my ski going square into a person. However be that as it may it does not excuse the behaviour of people deliberately stopping directly below them. Especially if they're on the clear ski line whether this be as i described earlier having to ski around some people in the centre of the piste to find out there's someone below the roller to the side of them or just someone stopped below the line of sight in the centre of the piste. Even if you fall on a roller unless you're injured you should always try to get yourself out of the way as soon as possible as it's an inherently dangerous place to be.
In saying all of the above jumping rollers at speed is amazing fun. I just make sure if i'm going to do it i have a spotter on the roller making sure the landing & run out are clear.
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horizon, tongue in cheek?
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frank4short, I take your point and I agree that jumping rollers safely is fun. I guess it's a difference of reaction, having slowed down anyway I care little whether someone is or isn't in fact sitting under the rollover.
(One can of course ski very close to them in control and spray them with snow!)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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please note... I have few to no problems with skiing... just a lot of people who do it!!!!
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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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Frosty the Snowman, i'll tell you what i learned real quick amigo....to watch any good skier and try to emulate what they did.....to do exactly as my instructor instructed me to do.... and to shutthefcukup and not say a word until i knew what i was (a) doing; and (b) talking about...........
okbye
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| snowpatrol wrote: |
Frosty the Snowman, .... and to shutthefcukup and not say a word until i knew what i was (a) doing; and (b) talking about...........
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such a shame you forgot how to do that one 
okfcukoff
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You know it makes sense.
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Idiots panicking and lifting the chair bar halfway up a lift journey and hitting me with it in the face, then blaming me for not paying attention when I shout at them?! It really doesn't take long to lift the bar if you leave it later
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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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Ipods being used whilst skiing or boarding (bit dangerous me thinks...) whilst wearing idiotic-looking. giant sized headphones over a ski hat.
I bet they think they look great (sorry, "cool....")
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Poster: A snowHead
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why do people get upset about
| dulcamara wrote: |
| Anyone who runs over the backs of my skis |
So your top sheets get a bit scratched - what's the problem? if it's a bun fight in the lift line then these things happen...
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sun 15-11-09 23:29; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| tuxpoo wrote: |
The most hated thing of all ... really has nearly driven me to violence ...
people who ride past you in groups when you are painstakingly going safely one at a time on steep off piste.
tux |
Yup, totally agree with that one.
As for the rest of it, the more I've been out there the more complacent I've become.
bertie bassett, Yes - the 'bottoms' are scratched up enough, what's a few more on the top? They're normally covered in snow anyway!
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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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GROOMING 
Stop the Brutal Grooming.
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| allanm wrote: |
| tuxpoo wrote: |
The most hated thing of all ... really has nearly driven me to violence ...
people who ride past you in groups when you are painstakingly going safely one at a time on steep off piste.
tux |
Yup, totally agree with that one.
As for the rest of it, the more I've been out there the more complacent I've become.
bertie bassett, Yes - the 'bottoms' are scratched up enough, what's a few more on the top? They're normally covered in snow anyway! |
I can't say about off piste as I am no expert although it is a lot more difficult to get into a rythm if the place is trashed even from my limited experience.
As for people standing on others skis in lift queues and the like, I have to also agree with that. Skis/Boards are going to get scratched up. All the better for them not getting nicked as far as I am concerned!!!!!
That is not to say I deliberately go about skiing/standing on other people's skis mind you (I do my utmost not too), but the nature of ski queues it is an unfortunate by product.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Butterfly wrote: |
| People who take high speed short cuts through marked beginner areas, treating the novices there as exceedingly inconvenient obstacles. An area above Peisey-Vallandry was bad for that with a well used rat-run traversing the otherwise enclosed "zone débutant". |
Inconvient obstacles, No...
Slalom Gates ! 
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Idiots in fancy dress, hate it !!!
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Retards who are oblivious to the dangers of snow parks and that kickers are viewing points.
Bladers
Over protective parents who think its safer to block the whole ski run. Rather than letting people pass.
People who do not stop on the side of piste
Hoorays who must be deaf as in order to hear themselves they are so loud the whole mountain can hear.
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Rocker, just listen to yourself and work out what's annoying.
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Tourists and holidaymakers who trash the place.
Seasonaires & Residents who think they own the place.
Lifties who think they run the place.
Locals who do really own the place.
Anyone else on the slope but me and friends, and there are no friends on a powder day.
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