 Poster: A snowHead
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I was just thinking to myself - i wonder how long i'll stay in touch with the poeple I met on holiday for?
I still speak to a couple of people I met 3 years ago - any one beat that? or is it "what goes on on holiday stays on holiday?"
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It depends I think. We've done the address swop thing and promptly never ever contacted them again.
Equally we met 2 couples in Ski school about 12 years ago and met them again purely by accident going to the same resort as us at the same time, the year after. We always swop cards and notes although we've never actually skiied with them again.
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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 was sitting beside a guy on a flight to Denver a few years back. I was going to Breckenridge, he was going to Vail. He was name-dropping a friend of mine who lived in Vail, but I said nothing.
The next year I was flying out to Denver, and he ends up sitting beside me again. Later in the year I was skiing with my friend from Vail, and asked if he knew this guy. Turns out he had crashed on my friend's sofa for a week.
A year later I was over in England on business (I was living in Belfast at the time), I stayed on for a weekend, and went up to Milton Keynes to ski. And he was there. I've met him once since then.
Apart from that, yes, I have kept in touch with people I've met on holiday, but not that often
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We met some people about 10 years ago skiing in Gressoney in Italy. We ski with them every year and I'd say they were probably our closest friends, when we met we lived not so far from them in the UK. Now they come and ski with us and visit in the summer and we visit whenever we're in the UK. We probably speak on the phone a couple of time a month as well.
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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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At the end of my last ski trip, someone send round an email list for us all to swop addresses & she has actually emailed a copy of it to all of us. I've swopped a couple of emails with one of the guys we skied with everyday, but only cos he filmed us skiing a lot & I want a copy of it!
I can't say I ever really stay in touch with anyone I've met on holiday, other than a girl from Selby I met when I was 13. We still send Christmas cards
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While sitting on the plane at Gatwick my wife spotted two blokes we met in the same chalet the previous year. It turned out they were staying in the chalet next door. We skied a few times and met for dinner one night. Unfortunately didn’t get round to swapping details. We do keep an eye out for them at the airport though.
On another occasion while in the 3 valleys I spotted a trio I met the previous year, only had time to say hello really but incredibly bumped into them again two days later. (Of all the places in all the 3V and all that). We swapped mobile numbers and met up a few times later in the week. In addition while out with the wife one day on the last lift up, as she got off at station 2 b****r me they turn up again and get in the same gondola (what are the odds on that?) and had another hour skiing some runs they had sussed out earlier. Don’t talk much but on my birthday last November at Xscape in MK I got a call from them asking if we were up for a trip to Italy. Would have gone but were already committed with another group.
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Yes, they all live in the same village as myself, or in the nearby villages...tee hee
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I meet loads of people on holiday, but after an hour or so they stop talking to me and start fidgeting nervously. Then when I see them later they always seem to be in a rush and can't talk.
Even when I come home and stand outside their home at night waiting to talk to them I can never seem to catch their attention.
Some people are strange aren't they. 
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Thu 1-04-04 17:27; edited 1 time in total
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Ahhh so it was you marc gledhill!! Can you stop it please- you're scaring the cat 
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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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... and Bengal tigers don't scare easily!
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Well someone I met last week is here now - see how long they stay I suppose 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Met my wife on holiday in lauterbrunnen about 13 years ago 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Unless Marc is a slightly overweight, middle aged woman, then no it wasn't him. Or perhaps (s)he is using a pseudonym as well.
It's like circles within circles.
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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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Kramer, IT'S YOU - wondered where you'd gone!
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Still good friends with a number of people I've met on ski holidays: I'm now married to one of them and another was my best man.
I'm bak now, by the way, two weeks skiing then four days internet blackout (hone *and* work!) imposed by the fire in Manchester
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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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nbt, thought you'd been quiet - where did you go ski=ing?
University internet connection held up but had to resort to dialup at home for a couple of days 
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Been to Fernie in Canada
ONly have dial-up at home - the phone line was down until around 9pm last night
I've just given u ptrying to catch up after 6 pages of the ski instructor thread:(
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How was Fernie nbt, ?
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Not nearly enough new snow 
We had a fab place to stay in, and there was good snow cover - some excellent spring skiing on the warmer days. They had snow then rain juts before we arrived so at first it was groomers only, but as the week progressed the off-piste opened u pbit by bit as it warmed up (and got rained on).
I'll be writing up a full report soon, and reviewing my Pocket rockets (in brief, excellent in the soft stuff but a bit too much on the hardpack, so I might be selling them if anyone's interested?)
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Off to Serre Chevalier. meeting up with Lin and Chris Davison, as we are renting their apartment.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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SCSA said
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It's great when you really turn someone on.
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I'll second that thought!
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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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erica, lots of people to ski with here. Why not make it six times and come out to Val Thorens for Easter?
(Time passes)
Quick search shows not much accomodation in Val T (none!), but you could get into Meribel or Les Menuires. Go on - you know you want to. 
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You know it makes sense.
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I think this is one of the best parts of on-line communities... Hook up here and stay in touch. Tell your friends about snowHeads, and you'll stay current.
Where are those business cards and stickers for the boards, U?!
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FAQ
Cos I married her 
We met summer skiing in Tignes
