 Poster: A snowHead
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1) Chilling by myself on a slow beginners chairlift in Tignes Le Lac and being pinged out having not realised I was at the top. Ouch!
2) Getting sh it faced in Tignes Le Brev and missing out on a days bluebird powder skiing. I was led astray!
3) Running out of petrol driving overnight to the Alps. Don't feckin ask!
4) Standing barefoot in a pool of vomit on the Snowtrain. Eugh.
So come on folks, spill the beans on your skiing faux pas's that if you had your time again....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Falling of the Magic Carpet in Val Thorens.
The fact I had fat skis and an airbag on made me look even more of a w@nka 
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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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did have a rather impressive chunder whilst on a chair lift in Kitzbuhel, was like a scene from the exorcist
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Clipped the odd adult or child as an out-of-control beginner.
Ski boot slipped on a wet tile in a cafe the other day and I did a karate kid style scissor kick landing flat on my back.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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After a big night out, waking up in the morning with a broken nose and no idea how it happened 
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Thankfully not me but a friend of mine. Issued a pair of Rossignol skis and after being told, actually went back to the hire shop to ask for a left and right pair as both his had R for right on the tips.
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Not doing more skiing...obviously! 
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Or, if you'd rather: things you should have really regretted but definitely didn't. For example over Christmas I'd literally done a couple of turns on the piste off the top of the Aiguille Rouge when I ended up straddling the rear of a young and very gorgeous French lass. After bidding her a quick bonjour, I slid back a little and on the down the slope. Even the missus saw the funny side.
Add to that the first time I ever went skiing my mate was going for two weeks and said "maybe you should just go for one, you may not like it". I went for two and no regrets whatsoever!!
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Falling in that damn marmotte hole.
Also on one chairchift I was doing so much manspreading I knocked my ski off against a pylon.
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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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Getting a van stuck in an underground car park in Val.
The height bar did not match the actual car park.
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Getting wasted and missing a day of skiing in La Plagne. Having spent a not small amount of money to go skiing for 6 days it was highly regretable to lose one of them as a result of drinking, something which I can easily do in the UK.
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You know it makes sense.
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Not putting on suncream in April in Andorra and missing a bluebird day through sunstroke.
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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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No names, no pack drill.
Goes on tour stays on tour.
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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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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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driving into a car park with fully loaded roof box...
driving out without it, minor height issue!
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On my first visit to Morzine I had an attack of 'first night nerves' and drank far too many carafes of house red.
I decided that it would be a good idea to take a run up at a long stretch of ice to gracefully glide along it like we used to on the old school playground many years ago (probably not allowed now).
I ran and made it onto the ice and slid about 10cm's before going A over T and breaking several ribs- very painful ski holiday followed!
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| sequoiaboard wrote: |
| Thankfully not me but a friend of mine. Issued a pair of Rossignol skis and after being told, actually went back to the hire shop to ask for a left and right pair as both his had R for right on the tips. |
One of the lads I worked with told his brothers mate (from Middlesbrough) that he would have to get a passport to join them on a trip to the Lake District as it was in Scotland, he actually went to the post office to get the forms!
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All the drag lifts I've ever fallen off especially the Rauz t-bar with a massive queue all scrambling for the last lift up to St. Anton. 
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Paying for ESF group lessons in Tignes.
Adding up the cost of a ski holiday once, after I'd done it. Ruined the entire holiday for me.
Trying to teach my 4 yr old skiing (when I'm only a poor-technique red-runner myself). With all the shouting and tears, I'm amazed she wasn't put off for life.
Going for a major ski jump while on a school trip with no training whatsoever. The instructor taking the more advanced group who were actually waiting to use the jump apparently gave a Gallic shrug and said "Look, 'e will crash." She was right.
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@Layne, I believe one of my party (who shall remain nameless) can trump you on (4). Sitting in a pile of vomit, with some in hands too, in Eurostar standard premier! Those damn free small bottles of wine.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Not starting skiing until I was 25, and not starting powder skiing until I was 40.
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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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Wanting to become a snowboarder prior to my first lessons, thankfully the Old Man nudged me to skiing 
@Orange200, Despite me slagging of their off-piste safety in another thread I actually had 2 very good instructors in Tignes during my first couple of skiing weeks.
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Telluride, at the top of a small snowfield with 1/2 foot of fresh powder, explaining to my partner (at the moment) which landmark to stop and exit the field (because below that there's no exit). I scouted that route the day before, both from the ground and from the lift.
3 skiers and 1 boarder came by. They were from our larger group. I greeted them pleasantly, with the intention to explain the same again. They ignored s and drop into the field. The inexperienced boarder side slip the whole slope and trashed all the powder!
Regret? Perhaps I should have just drop in and let my partner figure out what NOT to do.
The next 30 minutes, on our 2nd AND 3rd lap of that same route, we watched that same group trudging in thigh deep snow on an UPWARD incline making their way out of the area they ventured into. The boarder sinking into her waist on each step.
They did NOT exit the field as we did.
(last week at Snowbird, I saw another patch of untouched snow that ends in some trees. Not having scouted the exit, I let the powder remain untouched. The image of that group of skiers at Telluride came to my mind)
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You know it makes sense.
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Years of footballing, skiing and snowboarding. Never had a serious injury. Stood still in a lift queue, slipped on some ice and smashed my arm to smithereens. I could have at least done it doing something impressive.
Even more annoyed the following year when I broke my foot walking down the stairs in our ski chalet 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| PowderAdict wrote: |
| Not starting skiing until I was 25, and not starting powder skiing until I was 40. |
Not starting skiing until I was 60 !
Survived my first weeks skiing unscathed - took hire skis and boots back to shop and met others in the group when we decided to go ice skating.
I had skated quite a bit some 40 years previously and may have been showing off (!) but I fell backwards on the ice and split the back of my head open.
Met the rest of the group in a bar after and they had run a sweepstake on how many stitches I had ( 8 ) - and the doc had said that as there are not many nerves in the back of the head I didn't need a local anaesthetic. (Ouch !)
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Poster: A snowHead
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Jnr kicked off one day at having sun cream put on, so insisted he put it on himself. He had to spend the rest of the week looking like someone had tattooed his face with red ink in the style of a Union flag.
Being invited out by the younger lads who we were sharing a chalet with for a night out after Jnr and the OH had gone to bed. I have no recollection, but it turns out I got kicked out of a place for taking my shirt off and swinging it round my head. Then when I got back I proceeded to trail vomit from our room through the chalet to the shared toilet. I then missed the next day's skiing - this wasn't so bad though as it was about 25C and conditions weren't great.
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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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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A bottle of Lemoncello and 10 14-year old girls. Definitely my biggest regret.
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Good evening Mr Glitter 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| A bottle of Lemoncello and 10 14-year old girls. Definitely my biggest regret. |
Not sure I want to know
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Thinking that drinking shots of Flugel through my nose on an EOSB was a good idea.
Two hours later thinking that making caramelised pears was a good idea.
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Complaining that the miserable old French liftie geezer wouldn't let me ride the drag lift again, after I'd fallen off on a snowboard for the 6th plucky time. The attractive young ticket office manager replied 'Oh, you mean my father'.
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Not having proper lessons much much sooner ... I could've been half-decent by now
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