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Ok you lovely lot I need a bum bag!
The last few years i have been riding the mountain with a backpack. Whilst this is handy and you can get extra layers in and food/water etc, by the end of the day my neck/shoulders are solid. My solution to this is a bum bag. Big enough to carry a small water bottle, an energy bar and a sandwich.
Can anyone suggest one that works well?
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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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@chrisrawles, sorry. I have to cart around all my daughters' crap so backpack needed.
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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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Just say no on fashion grounds. Helipack is small and light, camelbak, a park rat style jacket with poacher pockets or even a drawstring gym bag is better than the bum bag gaper look.
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even a drawstring gym bag is better than the bum bag gaper look.
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Really? 
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| Liam wrote: |
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even a drawstring gym bag is better than the bum bag gaper look.
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Well obviously it's more ski appropriate if it's decorated with a clown spewing vomit or choppers and AK47s rather than a big Nike logo. Of course if you've already got the full Norrona eye bleach onesie or some bitchin sequinned Bogner then a bumbag may be highly appropriate. It's all about the Rules innit?
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@RobinS, That looks exactly what I am after. Thanks. Yeah with you on the fashion police. LOL
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You do realise that by rejecting the fashion police you're deliberately cultivating your own hipster "I don't give a toss about fashion" image 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Dave of the Marmottes, 
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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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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| You do realise that by rejecting the fashion police you're deliberately cultivating your own hipster "I don't give a toss about fashion" image |
its already happened, there are more and more snowboard edits coming from Colorado with the bib wearing types already rocking the bum bag!
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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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Ummmmm. I think there is a problem here. If the OP gets the triangle frame bag and saddle bag, he'll need to find a way to get the bicycle on his snowboard/skis as well. I'm pretty sure he used the phrase 'riding the mountain' in that ghastly American snowboardy way and doesn't mean cycling.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Instead of a water bottle, I take a legacy 35mm camera film pot full of 2€ coins. Then get a drink from a mountain hut if thirsty. Everything else fits in pockets.
My Salomon fanny pack (just to continue the ghastly american terminology ) that I bought specially for skiing, now does nothing more than act as a convenient bag to store all my camera, phone, netbook, etc. chargers in one place. It never sees a mountain or snow, and only ever gets moved from bag to bag depending on which bag I use whenever staying in a hotel.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I have a friend who skis using a bum bag all the time. I have no idea what he keeps in it.
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Thu 4-02-16 11:19; edited 1 time in total
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@andy,
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Instead of a water bottle, I take a legacy 35mm camera film pot full of 2€ coins. Then get a drink from a mountain hut if thirsty. Everything else fits in pockets. |
They should invent paper money or some sort of plastic card system!
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I use a small hydration backpack (like camelpac) but it was £9 from Argos, I don't use the water bit but it is big enough for water bottle, sweets,hip flask, hat, base layer etc and its small enough you can leave it on on chairs.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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yeah, but that weird paper money stuff doesn't work on the turnstiles to access the bogs in the restaurant at the top of Tignes funicular etc. And the change from a tenner for beer will be a handful of coins anyway. Or a single 10¢ coin in Courchevel (or however you spell that).
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Lift pass, credit card, id, and 200chf note will fit in a credit card holder.
Lippy and sunscreen combo will fit in any small pocket.
Goggles normally attach to helmet.
Phone in any zip pocket ( youngest son found this out the hard way Gd Terche yesterday ).
If you need to take a drink, try these http://www.coldpole.com/home.htm
No need for rucksacks or fanny-packs.
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Instead of a water bottle, I take a legacy 35mm camera film pot full of 2€ coins. ..
I have about 40 old pots, each labelled with a country name and containing their shrapnel.
The arrival of the Euro helped a lot, as I'm not sure where I could pick up more of the pots now (I know: I can google them down, thank you).
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My Salomon fanny pack (just to continue the ghastly american terminology )
Do you really think a "bum bag" is what a tramp carries their stuff in?
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No. They used to work quite well in the 1970/80s. These days the average Brit could not possibly carry enough pies in a bum bag to maintain their BMI. Someone will probably point out that carrying stuff there is a safety hazard.
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My friend wears his around his front so I suppose the term "bum bag" is inappropriate, but then again he is male so the other phrase is also inappropriate, being only applicable to females (I looked it up in a dictionary  ). I suppose we should adopt the term "waist pouch"
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