 Poster: A snowHead
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Here's an original article: "51 things to do in ski towns when they're dead"
Now that might seem like a tall order and, indeed, when we get to numbers 10 to 15 the piste gets a bit thin:
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10. Play backgammon and chess
11. Learn curling
12. Play fantasy football
13. Play fantasy hockey
14. Play fantasy World Cup skiing (there has to be a league somewhere!)
15. Go wildlife/bird-watching |
As desperation sets in, numbers 37 to 42 could be useful:
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37. Climb a tree
38. Make hot chocolate
39. Watch football
40. Cut wood for the fireplace
41. Go bowling
42. Practice yoga |
Here are those 51 ideas in full, by Tom Boyd for Rocky Mountain News
"Pop into the crematorium" doesn't seem to be included.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sat 12-11-05 12:58; 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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Can you do these things in Aviemore?
I'd be hard pushed to do them in Milton Keynes.
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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 might need that list next weekend in Neustift... I've never been but I hardly expect its going to be busy!
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IanB, no way! Neustift is gorgeous - just get out there and enjoy the mountains. The Stubai is a really lovely ski glacier. I've got great memories of it - my wife learned to ski up there in late May, and it's got some worthwhile runs.
Will you be linking to the glacier via the post bus (at least I think that's what got me up there) or do you have some other transport?
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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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David Goldsmith, Spot on. IanB, neustift is one of thenicest places to go. It's very genuinesly friendly - no TOs to spoil it. The glacier ski-ing is excellent and the runs nearer the resort are quite entertaining too - I guess they'll be closed at the moment. Are you staying in neustift or at the Alpensport Mutterberg Hotel up by the glacier?
If you see Heini Messner on the piste, stop and get his autograph, and then say hello from Charlotte. Ditto if you go near the Ski School. I knew and instructor there called Leusl who is a really nice bloke - probably the director by now.
Stubaital is where I've been flooded out twice in one year (1987, year of the hurricane), lost a car and a caravan in the floods there. Rescued by helicopter twice!!  the people of Neustift and Stubaital couldn't have been more helpful - they're brilliant.
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No mention of joining a Ski-forum whilst on a three week break. Now i'm back at work seems all i do is talk plastic and feet. Bet i'm at the top of all your ' Who would you most like to around for dinner' lists, eh, eh, eh? 
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I'm hoping we'll have some of the blue sky's we've been getting here!