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Hi everyone,
I was wondering if you ski with your phone with you, and if so how do you protect it? It makes sense logically as I would want to take some videos and pictures and also for safety- but I don't want my new phone getting smashed up! My jacket here: http://oakleyvault.com/product/uptown-jacket does not have any chest pockets only ones around the waist, which is a shame.
Thanks
Jack 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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New jacket 
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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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Don't fall over
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Mine just goes in the pocket on my trousers.
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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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Don't land on it! I just ski with mine in an inside jacket pocket and it's not been dinged yet despite crashing pretty hard skiing and rolling a car on the way skiing.
As a more sensible answer a lot of house insurance policies cover phones, computers and the like outside the house so just get it named on that.
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haha would rather not get a new jacket as only just bought this one! neck pouch could work well actually, I was also considering one of those big bulky cases?
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Well as it's a shell, you can put your phone under all the layers you're going to have to wear.
Or bum bag/money belt type thingy
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Cricket box
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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get a tougher phone
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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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Inside jacket pocket, its survived countless ski tumbles and a few days doing foredeck on a racing yacht in force 6 and 7 gusting more in there!
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Ski trouser pocket...never seems to get mangled there.
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You know it makes sense.
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I've a Griffin Survivor case for my phone. Would recommend.
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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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Coat pocket, no extra protection, no problems as yet other than I usually seem to get a bit of condensation on the screen.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Inside jacket pocket for me too. If trouser pocket, not with anything else - snapped a lift pass a few years back having it in trouser pocket with a key when I fell, so image a phone would have suffered too. Wrap it in your hat in your pocket to give some padding? Obviously your hat won't be on your head as you're wearing a helmet...
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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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Would putting the phone inside a sandwich bag in my jacket pocket work? My jacket is a 20k mm waterproof soft shell i think is this enough to protect the phone from water damage?
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JackSkier, yeah i do that when i go cycling if i think it's going to rain. Works a treat.
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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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I have a otterbox defender case for my phone and intend to put it in a ziplock bag and I'll probably put it in an inside pocket.
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My Galaxy S3 is wrapped in a Case Mate Tough case. It makes the slim device quite bulky but it has been dropped, kicked, sat on, and all other sorts of abuse but it is still in perfect working order.
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JackSkier, losing the thing, for example out of an unzipped pocket, or trying to use it on a lift, is probably the worst risk. Any fall in which a phone in your pocket, in a protective case, got damaged would probably leave you with greater worries than the state of your phone.
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inside jacket pocket, had loads of crashes and never damaged the phone (or had the phone damage me).
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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My phone just goes in one of the side pockets of my jacket - its not a very fragile phone though as although only a year old its the type that you open up to answer, and it doesn't do anything fancy like taking photos. Bought specifically for use in France and for skiing.
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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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I tend to ski with my skis. The phone is not very stable at speed...
Oh. I see what you did there.
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Mine goes in a side pocket of my jacket. I've never been worried about it. I guess that might be different if it was new and expensive!
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You know it makes sense.
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pam w, +1. Never worried about my phone. Put it inside pocket and forget about it. Safe and sound even when I fall over/stack it completely.
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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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Take phone and shove it in your pocket.
Sometimes I fall over, sometimes on plastic slopes, and probably faster than most, but I've never broken a phone or a camera on or off piste. Yeah, sometimes I ride in conditions which can be quite wet.
Gear needs to be used, not mollycoddled.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Phone in trouser pocket, never bashed it, but it does get a little bit of condensation sometimes. The only disaster I've had is when a phone died after a ski trip and they said it was water damage. The only thing I can think of is that it got wet when I used it when it was snowing.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Mine always goes in jacket pocket. I had more problems with it getting damp from sweat than being bashed.
My new one is waterproof (Sony Z1)
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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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Most of the time I don't get my phone out of its cosy pocket and some of the time it's left in the apartment. It doesn't lead a hard life. 
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Trouser pocket. I don't have a compact camera. My iPhone takes an ok holiday snap. Never had a problem.
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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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| pam w wrote: |
| JackSkier, losing the thing, for example out of an unzipped pocket, or trying to use it on a lift, is probably the worst risk. Any fall in which a phone in your pocket, in a protective case, got damaged would probably leave you with greater worries than the state of your phone. |
My comedy size Samsung note 2 has a hard shell case. I carried it in an inside pocket. ..till I bruised a rib at Christmas. So to those who say they've fallen countless times without hurting themselves I'd ssy it depends how you land. Back to a bum bag for me on my last trip.
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i went skiing once with someone who took their phone when out skiing, he was a manager of a business, and his phone was ringing every 5 mins, and of course he had to answer it, i got really fed up with this and we had a huge argument, i told him he was on holiday and should leave work at home, and that if he cant trust his staff to cope without him then he shouldnt have a holiday, he just told me to mind my own business and **** off, so i did, i dont mind people taking phones out in case of emergencies and for photos, but how can you enjoy skiing if your constantly answering the phone and worried about things back home.
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Motorola defy; shockproof, waterproof plus otter case
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I've got a shiny new expensive phone. I shove it in my trouser pocket. If it breaks, it's done a pretty decent job protecting my hip/leg.
I class myself as more important than my phone.
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| i went skiing once with someone who took their phone when out skiing, he was a manager of a business, and his phone was ringing every 5 mins, and of course he had to answer it, i got really fed up with this and we had a huge argument, i told him he was on holiday and should leave work at home, and that if he cant trust his staff to cope without him then he shouldnt have a holiday, he just told me to mind my own business and **** off, so i did. |
I'd have told you to **** off as well
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