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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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Daughter's salopettes
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His 'n' hers mugs as anywhere French never seems to have anything big enough. Also a container of tea-bags (carefully counted out!) for the week.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| LittleRob wrote: |
| His 'n' hers mugs as anywhere French never seems to have anything big enough. Also a container of tea-bags (carefully counted out!) for the week. |
... and a Tea Pot. 
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No wonder there are so many threads about what ski gear you can or cannot take in hand luggage 
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and, naturally, a tea cosy. And those nice little silver tongs for dropping the lumps of sugar in the tea (you know, the ones we all have in our kitchen useful drawers and don't know what to do with).
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My new current fave must have item for a car journey is a large lightweight 2-3 litre wide topped jug i.e. like those often found in 99p shops. Left within grabbing distance in the boot it has revolutionised the process of keeping the washer bottle full when you arrive at a service area that doesn't have a garage and a watering can handy. Quick trip to the bathroom facilities, or stand alone tap that I have found with the jug and sufficient water can be procured to fill the washer bottle. It fits under taps, is easy to pour from, big enough that a single trip is enough, then all you need is the concentrated screen wash. It is also handy for washing lights, windows and wing mirrors particularly if a small washing up sponge/scourer is also carried in plastic bag. Since discovering this use by accident (I often take one for kitchen use in unknown apartments and had the bright idea of using it to fetch water when we were desperate for screen wash at an 'aire' where there were only loos) it is now top of the 'car packing list' in large letters and I would wholeheartedly recommend carrying one to anyone on a car trip to the Alps. It's useful for all sorts of things, even an emergency car sick case!! (NB. if anyone has a kid with this problem did you know that you can get air sickness bags on ebay? Ours don't get travel sick per se, but since having an incident I always poke a couple of these in their seat pockets). The jug takes up relatively little space as it is sufficiently large that it can easily have other stuff put inside it when not in use. It might sound the daftest item on the planet, but since discovering it we don't do long distances without the 3 litre plastic jug!
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pam w, I have silver sugar tongs (can't do smilies on phone otherwise there would be an embarrassed obe here) which came with the sugar bowl/milk jug set. I'm not aware that either have been used....
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We now have around 87 Vallandry mugs - as every time we go, we forget the mugs, so end up buying a few more in the souvineer shop
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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pam w, you forgot the doilies.
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Hip flask.
If you are going to France take a decent sized bed with you. If you are going to Germany, take a decent sized towel with you. If you are staying on chalet not a hotel, then take an eye mask. Johnny Foreigner has never grasped the concept that curtains need to be lined, have to be at least as wide as the window and, bizarrely, are meant to keep OUT the light.
Take nail scissors, or trim toe nails before you go.
Toffee vodka to fill the hip flask.
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You know it makes sense.
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foxtrotzulu, continental curtains are merely decor. If you want to keep the light/heat/fumes/burglars out you are supposed to use the shutters.
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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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Lizzard, Good point. The only problem is that several of the chalets I have stayed in don't have shutters.
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Poster: A snowHead
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foxtrotzulu, nice apartment in Chalet La Giettaz with electric shutters iirc
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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you forgot the doilies.
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 how could I! My standards must be slipping. foxtrotzulu, when the light comes in, it's time to get up and go skiing!
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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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Decent sized beds, towels, electric shutters and even curtains in a place I know in Serrre Chevalier.
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My suitcase never leaves for France without un appareil à raclette in there beside my ski boots.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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This is my unexpurgated list (copy and paste from my computer).
Some items may be reduced or left out if I don't have room or weight allowance (eg ski waxing kit).
Unfortunately I now have to take a roll of magic foam in my backpack as hand luggage because of my back problems (in case of hard beds).
I pack for 8 days of skiing - my norm. I wear wicking under layers instead of shirts to ski. I gave up on taking thermals as I never used them.
Bin bag is for dirty laundry.
ski bag (skis, poles)
ski boots
skins + harscheisen
Helmet
Ski Jacket
Sallopettes
scarf / necker
8 wicking base layers
polo neck
3 shirts
8 underpants
I thin warm layer
2 thick sweater/fleece
8 pair ski socks
3 pairs socks
2 pairs gloves
ski hat (& spare hat)
goggles (spare goggles)
sunglasses
backpack
avalanche transceiver
shovel
probe
water bottle
hip flask (filled)
harness
Rope
prussiks, carabiners, ropeman
(First aid kit)
ski straps / spare pole basket
P-Tex / lighter
(file, travelling iron, ski-wax, scraper)
mobile phone & phone re-charger
plug-adaptor
camera
toiletries (mouthwash, toothpaste / toothbrush, deodorant, flannel, hairbrush)
suncream, lip salve, plasters, hair bands
pills (ibuprofen, statin)
paper / pens
passport
tickets
insurance papers
foreign money, credit card
book(s)
off piste book?
1:25,000 maps
compass
bin bag
magic foam mattress
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...And a partridge in a pear tree?!
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Humpfknick, damn, forgot them!
I notice that 22 of those items are either specifically because I am an (adventurous) off-piste skier or do my own ski servicing when I can.
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Sun 9-03-14 20:08; edited 1 time in total
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Heavy
Matter of interest do you need two hats as well as a helmet?
Must admit to only taking a couple of base layers since I have used woollen ones they don't smell and need changing like the old ones.
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This is my unexpurgated list (copy and paste from my computer).
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Exactly how many weeks did you say you go for?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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snowball, I guess that although you are an off-piste skier you don't tour from hut to hut. I don't possess 8 base layers OR 8 pairs of ski socks. If in civilized company, 2 would do. Even if they get pongy they wash and dry incredibly easily. If touring and having to carry, one set would do - wash once mid-week.
I do agree you need clean underpants every day and unless travelling light I'd take 8 too. If travelling light I'd take two and wash a pair at the end of each ski day.
I always thought you were a chap snowball, but your list suggests not - or do you have long hair?
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pam w, he has long hair
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You know it makes sense.
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I've seen french ski-tourers who put their clothes on at the start of the week and leave them there until the end. Saves all that uncomfortable dressing/undressing in a shared dormitory
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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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Saves all that uncomfortable dressing/undressing in a shared dormitory
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I wonder if one pair of pants/knickers a day is a girl thing.
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all the girls I know, and most of the boys, wear clean knickers every day. Putting on dirty ones after a shower..... 
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Pedantica, perhaps he uses panty liners?
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if Im staying in a hotel Id have two pairs of knickers a day - as Id shower when I got in and before going down to dinner...wouldnt put used pants back on.
I try very hard not to do any washing on any holiday.
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genepi, I am duly shocked.
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| pam w wrote: |
all the girls I know, and most of the boys, wear clean knickers every day. Putting on dirty ones after a shower..... |
I always had you down as a commando sort of gal.
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I took a helmet for the first time this year but hadn't thought to change the list to one hat. I do tend to perspire quite a lot if the weather is warm, but I might cut down on several things if necessary (especially as I now have to fit the helmet).
Yes, pony tail I'm afraid (when I was an architecture student it was the end of the 60s and was normal; then as a semi-mature art student [see my sig /website] it was an arty sort of thing to have and I just carried on... and on till I found I was a senior citizen, still with a pony tail). Usually I lose a hairband at some point on the slopes so take a spare.
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