Poster: A snowHead
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As your annual ski holiday approaches?
Does it eclipse the excitement of your summer holiday if you have one? Has it waned over he years as it becomes a regular holiday and maybe the novelty has faded and therefore the excitement?
I'm about to burst. Off tomorrow. I love summer holidays and love exploring far away places, but I'm not sure I ever get as excited as I do about skiing, even when it's just for a long weekend.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Im about to burst too and I'm 42 and skied since I was a child - I'm going on Sunday. Checking snow reports 5 times a day. Couldn't sleep the other night so was checking online at 4am. My whole family think I am insane! I love my summer holiday too but nothing like this - keep telling my husband it's all part of the holiday as I am checking for the umpteenth time the snow forecast.
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Skikitten1972, And welcome to s
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Very, sat in exec lougne at Leeds Bradford for Geneva flight and very excited
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I'm excited already that January's trip is already sorted
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excitement for me builds up as soon as the first snow falls wherever i maybe going.
Start planning where we'll ride on what days, where to eat, endlessly checking snowreports webcams etc.
By the week of the trip i'm pretty much in holiday mode, when i land in resort i'm pretty much a kid for the duration of the trip
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Mosha Marc, nice little lounge, free drinks and stuff, good start to the trip
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stevew, I thought Mosha Marc, was saying he didn't think there was a flight to Geneva from LBA. You better rush the Easyjet gate is closing NOW.
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After 25 years I still get the buzz. Much more than my wife it seems who is a few years younger but skied as a child (bought a couple of hours from the alps). My oldest and bestest skiing buddy never gave a flying f about any other holiday and still doesn't. We used to bore people senseless talking about skiing holidays. The only time I desensitise about is at the end of the season. I personally do enjoy a good spring/summer/autumn holiday so that nudges the skiing out of my brain for a while.
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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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Don't give a monkeys about summer holidays. Sitting around a pool or browsing in markets gives me the shivers. On the other hand, I have an app on my phone which tells me it's 281 days till I next go skiing!! (Already been at NY and last week!!)
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We don't have summer holidays, which allows us to have three ski trips per season! Surely that's a no-brainer?
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You know it makes sense.
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Off tomorrow too. Very excited. Just another 6 or so hours at work to contend with first. My skiing trips are the highlight of my year without a doubt. I don't really have a summer holiday, just a short break in the autumn usually.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I need that ^^^ app
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Poster: A snowHead
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I'm the sort of person who can either be asleep or doing something, so sitting by the pool is my idea of hell and the sleep/ski/drunk/eat/repeat cycle of a ski holiday my idea of heven.
I tend to start counting down the days about 3 weeks before the trip (currently t-8 days to my next trip) and having to force myself to delay packing (I could quite happily have everything packed already but know it will just lead to an unpack/repack closer to the date as I'll convince myself I've forgotten to pack something!).
Worst part about a ski holiday is trying to arrange it (Why does "Do you want to go skiing to X resort from Y to Z dates?" seem to be such a bloody difficuly question for so many of my friends?!?!) to the point I've taken to doing solo trips to Morzine with HOFNAR. Much easier.
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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?
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More like flat panic here as a single parent trying to ensure everything is packed (and hasn't been unpacked again by helpful daughters!)
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I bounce off the walls every time the white stuff falls from the sky.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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skikitten - I'm with you - similar age - off on sunday - checking snow reports daily - looks liked we have picked a good week! but .... looking like it will be colder than my week in Jan - how odd!
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Always like the proverbial dog with two dicks when it comes to skiing and I'm sure I bore my non skiing friends with how fantastic it is and continually point out they should try it.......I actually don't like to openly admit that I have non skiing friends
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I get very excited by snowfall but must confess that we don't really take ski holidays any more... we just get up and go skiing, if we feel like it (and don't have work or chores to do)
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I had to go back to work to a) ensure we can get to the snow regularly now that Herr Gove has brought on that silly rule about school and holidays
and b) Musher so excited by ski holidays he will not contemplate a summer break unless I pay !!!!
I get all restless when winter approaches and have to drink lots of schnapps.
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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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I've been counting the days down since the turn of the year (my wife thinks it very sad). Off to VT on Sunday and have had my gear laid out in the spare room since beginning of March lol.
I think the daily snow updates have driven her mad
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I wake up at 6.15 and the first thing I do is check a certain snow related forum to see if the weather outlook thread has been updated. Nuff said
Off to La Plagne on Sunday with Mrs Reded and 3 kids in tow.
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You know it makes sense.
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Am a total obsessive, and at the moment a bit glum as a late change to work commitments means I can't go on our end of season trip on 5th April . Really sad that I may have had my last ski of this season, especially looking at the current snow forecast for the next week or so.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I'm off tomorrow and I was really excited and looking forward to skiing in the spring sunshine. Now I'm just worried about being able to see where I'm going with all the snow that's forecast...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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pinball13, it's a mountain. It snows. So what. Enjoy it no matter how far you can see. I spent 5 days being able to see BA skiing in Norway this year and it was brilliant.
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All of the above - bouncing off walls, checking forecast constantly, packing too early requiring a re-pack, talking about nothing else... there is nothing in my world like a ski holiday.
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Get hugely excited. Have almost been turfed out of the car on the way to the mountains for dementing my husband.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Legend.... Like many here I am basically obsessed by being in the mountains both skiing and climbing - so I have developed a technique of appearing not obsessed whilst being manically preoccupied under the surface. When I am not planning I am surreptitiously reviewing or buying kit - when I am not actually on a trip I am mentally on one - when cutting the lawn I am mentally cutting steps with an axe or swinging through trees in knee deep powder. Probably terrible for my mental health but it gets me on the bike (for retaining fitness) down to the wall (for strength) and onto the wobble board (for balance). I delete my youtube history so no one can see how often I look at All I can, Candide Kamera 2, and others....which is probably a much better reason than most....(!)
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Only managed one ski trip this season due to injury...but I am looking forward to next trip in December..then January then February ...sod summer holidays...going to chill factor Wednesday to keep my eye in
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Another here who gets mega excited. Kids think I am nuts. Still on a basic intermediate skier but still love it, all things Austria, Alps, Snow. Roll on winter again.
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I am getting even more excited - less than 3 weeks till I go (ok 2wks 6days but still) and a nice dump of snow over the weekend with tops ups forecast during the week. Watching the webcams and it looks fantastic out there at the moment.
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Just before the season starts I watch the webcams for snow ...nuts I know but once you get the ski feeling
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For me it's like a kid at Christmas, summer holidays don't exist for me anymore!
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