 Poster: A snowHead
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Just came across a skiing program while surfing through the hundreds of useless channels we have. It’s seems to be made for Discovery but being shown Travel & Living. It’s on Monday nights at 9pm, called Ski Patrol (though I caught it on a Saturday night!). The episode I just watched was teaching people to ski off piste in powder up to their waists in St Anton. Made me very envious as I could never even dream of doing that!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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sharon1953, fat skis help a lot. Try powder skiing on a slope that's not too steep, with big floaty skis ... and you might surprise yourself!
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sharon1953,
What makes you think that all off-piste gradients are worse than blue/red. David Goldsmith is right you only have to be able to link turns on a decent gradient to be able to cope so its not so far away in terms of dreams. Of course, the stuff they show on TV may well be a million miles way from most of us but it isn't true that its all like that...
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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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JT, ah but you see I have no desire to seek out that which is unknown. I like to ski on nearly flat, wide open, pisted runs, that the bashers have flattened to carpet texture - don't get me wrong, I love skiing, think about it all year, save for it all year, but when I get there I am terrified, and I've been 8 times now! But I am quite happy to ski within my comfort zone, stopping for lots of cups of coffee with my friend, and drink one or two Glüweins at the end of the day!!! The others in the group like to cover as much of the mountains as they can, and I enjoy listeining to their stories, but I "know my limits" and that's what keeps me safe and happy. If I thought I had to "cope" with a decent gradient then it would stop being fun and become someone else's challenge - I have nothing to prove at my age 
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sharon1953,
Thats ok but you are the one who mentioned dreams...
If is not what you want to do, no problem ar all as far as I'm concerned. I gave up long ago trying to cajole people. Its their holiday too..!!
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sharon1953, if that's what makes you happy then go for it. Freshly groomed corduroy is one of the most underrated skiing pleasures IMO. I would say that there is a very good reason why people go on about skiing powder though, one of them is that if you fall in deep powder then it doesn't hurt at all, apart from damaged pride.
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Kramer, Yup - like falling into a giant fluffy mattress - well - a mattress that is cold and gets up your nose and in your ears hehehe
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Kramer, Well I did go off piste once by accident, made the mistake of taking a ski off so I could get up, and my leg sunk up to my waist, getting back out was a site to behold - now I know why they wear snow shoes!!
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Kramer,
It's not the falling in powder thats the problem for me its the standing up again and trying to put your ski back on usually takes me about half a year
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sharon1953, i saw that program which was quite intersting up until they decided to go swimming, they are all lard a r s e s !
didnt look quite so cool then.
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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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Royal, lol, yes I agree, I thought they would have to be really fit to do all that skiing, and yet when they stripped off some of them wobbled like jelly - makes me wonder why I worry so much and spend so much time in the gym before I go!JT, Just because I can't do it, don't need to do it, and have no intentions of trying, doesn't mean it wouldn't be dreamy to actually do! I can see how exhilarating sky diving must be, but would never want to try it!!!
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FAQ
But I take your word for it re the wide skis 
