 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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Respect, sir. Wishing many more years of skiing great lines.
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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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RESPECT!
I hope to live so long as I'm fit and healthy enough to enjoy life-whatever the number! 
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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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Probably the best two ski vidz I've seen this year! So impressive.
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To stay as active and positive as that into old age you need determination, drive and a lot of self discipline. We are all responsible for those qualities - or lack of them - in ourselves.
BUT you also need a fortunate genetic inheritance. And luck.
I had lunch with a friend yesterday - early 70s. Petite, slim, never smoked, very light drinker, done a lot of skiing, walking and other activities, including sailing, in her time. Never looked anything like her age - really quite a girlish figure, if you saw her in the distance.
She had quite a bad stroke, completely out of the blue, last year. She has made a reasonable recovery with masses of exercise - still has problems with her right hand and without at least 30 minutes of her rehab exercises each day it regresses. She also has balance problems - nothing drastic, just a bit of a "drunken stagger" now and again.
Getting older needn't mean giving up - certainly shouldn't mean giving up. But you need to be realistic and recognise the need to adapt. Those guys in those videos probably can't, and don't, do the days they did many years ago. It's a bit like the people who say that having babies isn't going to be allowed to change their social lives in any way. You just have to laugh. 
I gave up snowboarding a couple of years ago. Made sense. And I've pretty well decided (more regretfully) that my poorly knee isn't going to be up to skiing off piste. It would be, if I was better at it. But you don't only have to give things up. I've just started learning to play the piano. It's a lot easier on the knees, if harder on the brain.
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Top bloke. Hope to still be doing that when I'm 97.
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We shared a chalet in ADH a couple of years back with a guy in his 80's, (84 I think) and he was sound. We came across him half way down Sarenne a couple of times.
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There are absolutely loads of skiers in their 80s - it won't be long before they raise the age for free ski passes again.  But 97 is a tad impressive!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@pam w, absolutely, but we liked David (for twas his name) very much. He was wise and funny and told great stories.
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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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Age is indeed just a number.
My Mom works in a hospital. Sometimes she sees young cancer patients that absolutely breaks her heart! Genetic makes for a very uneven playing field.
But given whatever genetics, it's up to each individual to make the best of it. Drink excessively, smoke lots, you may get to grow to an old "age" with the help of loads of pills, with a life quality better dead than alive.
Or you can exercise, stay active both mentally and physically. There's no guarantee you'll "beat the odds" of poor genetics. But you may just get lucky with the luck of draw and have a long life, and health!
I do my best in the hope that, if I happen to have gotten a good draw in that "luck" department in genetics, I'll be in good health to enjoy it for many years!
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| pam w wrote: |
To stay as active and positive as that into old age you need determination, drive and a lot of self discipline. We are all responsible for those qualities - or lack of them - in ourselves.
BUT you also need a fortunate genetic inheritance. And luck. |
Yep. Recently seen one of my neighbours (mid 50s) limping badly after a week's skiing. He's not unfit, he's not overweight, he's just got knee problems that surgery didn't fix.
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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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Totally amazing.
I'm only in my 40s, but do ski with a 70+ guy who is certainly fitter than your average 30 year old couch potato. I think lifestyle plays a big part in all this, but obviously genetics count too and perhaps a bit of luck for good measure.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I may have posted this before but this guy is my hero:
http://www.eagleskiclub.org.uk/news/eighty-over-four-thousand-jeremy-whiteheads-birthday
I skied with him about 10 years ago (when he was only 74). Very steady uphill - didn't go super-fast but never stopped until the top and a very tidy skier. Talked to a guy who had skied with him the year before. This guy had just summited Everest (!) and was amused when he got a thorough grilling from Jeremy about whether he would be fit enough to join Jeremy's tour 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Blimey you mean i have to keep going til i get to 100 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The trick is to wear a helmet and goggles, then they can't tell your age.
I'm ok with young people though - in time they will probably learn not to be overweight, and technique comes with time.
My mate Don Wildman is a bit of a baby at 82, but he can still ride rings around most people, irrespective of age, in deep powder:
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-wildman22-2009jun22-story.html#page=1
That said, his young ladies do tend to be somewhat less than half his age.
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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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Fantastic!
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| pam w wrote: |
| I've just started learning to play the piano. It's a lot easier on the knees, if harder on the brain. |
I find it's not so hard if you use the fingers and thumbs!
I mountain bike with my 80 year old chum. He is a little slower these days. Could be something to do with his prosthetic left leg.....
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I recently met a British lady in Big White Canada - she must have been 70 I would guess. She had spent a week CAT skiing near Fernie and was now part way through a 5 or 6 week ski instructors course! Massively impressed.
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