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Hello.
I’m doing a small study for an article of “pet peeves” (small or large complaints) people have when they go on ski and/or snowboarding trips. What drives you nuts? What do you find most disappointing? It could be about the slopes, facilities, food, hotels or anything that made your trip less of a pleasure than you would want.
Would appreciate your opinions.
Thank you
C.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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people using you as a slalom pole - buzzing you as you go down hill
people not being aware when carrying ski's or ski sticks that they can do damage to people by not being aware what they are carrying or how to carry them properly in a group of people - or when walking along roads.
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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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People standing on the back's of my ski's in lift queues.
Long lift queues and seeing empty chairs going up 
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| I’m doing a small study for an article of “pet peeves” (small or large complaints) people have when they go on ski and/or snowboarding trips. What drives you nuts? |
My pet squirrel drives me nuts.
As for skiing, the only thing that drives me nuts is groups of people sitting in Alpine chalets at dinner discussing exactly the same middle-class hang-ups they discuss at home - burglaries, secondary education, how they cashed in on the housing market, whether Waitrose is superior to Tesco - and so on.
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whether Waitrose is superior to Tesco
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That a no brainer, shirley! 
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Clarke, Welcome to 
My biggest pet peeve is concerns folk who inhabit skiing forums, but don't actually ever go skiing anywhere.
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| snowbunny wrote: |
Clarke, Welcome to
My biggest pet peeve is concerns folk who inhabit skiing forums, but don't actually ever go skiing anywhere. |
Me 2
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People who don't check uphill before starting off.
People (snowboarders) who ALWAYS choose to assemble as a pack of hill frogs just out of side behind a blind summit.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I think Slipper's was THE answer to that one
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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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".....to be sold crap food at astronomic prices by surly staff with nowhere to sit... |
Is it having nowhere to sit that makes them surly, d'yer think??
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Red Leon, I don't do punctuation when I rant mode - it just all falls out
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You know it makes sense.
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Ian Hopkinson,
'stream of consciousness' stylee?? An excellent way to release your anger and make it all better. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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David Murdoch,
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People (snowboarders) who ALWAYS choose to assemble as a pack of hill frogs just out of side behind a blind summit.
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I agree with you there, and also queue bargers especially when they barge passed children, that really gets me going!!!!!!!!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Lift queues, caused by nob-heds who won't sit on chairlifts with people they don't know. When was the last time you saw a full 6-seater chairlft???
Busy pistes in general.
Being kept waiting 45 mins for a take-off slot at Chambery while a succession of russian private jets landed/took off. Sod off Abramovich!!!!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Not being alowed to wind holiday-makers up, by doing all the above things, just to wind them up. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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also queue bargers especially when they barge passed children, that really gets me going!!!!!!!!!
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I usually find it is the children doing the barging - usually whole streams of them!
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| David Murdoch wrote: |
| People (snowboarders) who ALWAYS choose to assemble as a pack of hill frogs just out of side behind a blind summit. |
Or choose the off ramp of a lift to do up their bindings.
Oh well, easy solution there: ALTA! 
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It's not just 'borders who are guilty of causing chaos around the off ramp......drives you nuts!
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Mon 16-01-06 14:00; edited 1 time in total
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Over-crowded slopes
Groups of people attempting to ski on slopes that are too difficult for them ... stopping for ages after every single turn plonk in the middle of the piste.... so that whole slope becomes one big obstacle course
And generally people not following the piste rules, such as not checking uphill before moving off, not giving priority to people already skiing below you, stopping in middle of piste etc 
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Sitting in a gondola in France with a couple of brits and a couple of French listening to the brits bang on about what's rubbish in France, why they don't like the French, why the hate garlic, etc etc etc....feeling unable to have our own conversation in case the very nice French guys thought we were part of the same group! You could tell they could speak English by the expression on their faces....was that a bit specific? I'll tighten it down a bit "Brits Abroad!"
Plus all the other things above....
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1. When on a package sitting on a bus for an hour whilst the TO waits for another flight to arrive. (Didnt mention that in the brochure when advising on transfer times!)
2. Everything to do with airports. Absolutely everything.
3. Hogging equipment on and off busses, especially when everyone scrambles at the same time.
4. The fourth day of the week when Im sick of everything there is to drink, sick of the same salad buffet (in Teutonic countries) and sick of chewy bread for breakfast.
(Appreciating that Im a Grumpy Old Man, I do have a longer list of things I like...)
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HappyMouffe,
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also queue bargers especially when they barge passed children, that really gets me going!!!!!!!!!
I usually find it is the children doing the barging - usually whole streams of them!
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I have to say I do agree with you on that. I tend to stop everyone from barging by stuffing my ski pole very firmly in their path (it drives them nuts!!!!  )
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have to second many of the above peeves. These were the disgraceful ones I witnessed only last week...
1. queue barging by 12yr old kids standing on my skis - I phyically barged them over. I was in the queue first, so I'm getting on that darn chair first.
2. idiots pretending to do downhill training on an open piste with obviously nervous beginners, and doing a turn right in front of them (ie less than 1 ski length, just as they wanted to pull into a traverse).
3. people pulling out with out checking... I had 1 group pull out in front of me, and not a SINGLE one checked uphill!
4. boarders that think the skier's code doesn't apply to them, cos they are on a board... one boarder shoulder barged me at high speed from behind , just as I was about to slow up in front of a danger/slow sign approaching a lift queue. He went tumbling, and that was the first time i've ever done a 5-knuckle shuffle sign at another snow user. Obviously "ski in control", "ski within your ability", and "downhill skier have right of way" are not applicable to this boarder. I think he hurt himself, but I left him to rot as he virtually crashed into a busy lift queue, and I was aiming for another queue.
5. idiots that hold up busy queues so that they can get their entire group of 6 on a six man chair. I ended up interspersed in their group, but in front of some (making a 7th person aiming for 1 chair) and about 4 chairs wnt empty before they eventually stopped barging and standing on my skis when they realised I was stopping them from going together. I got a chair to myself, and they took 6 places on the chair behind. They were brits.
edited: there's some real odd censorship stuff in this forum!
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andy, heheh.. yes the chairlift is so sad its funny.. obviously groups want to sit together, and when its not busy no one cares about a chair or two going up with 1 person on it.. but when its busy then you'd think people would wise up n get moving..
mind you i would cut some slack for parents with small kids, or people looking after beginners, especially if they dont know the resort very well ...
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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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I hate to see litter on the slopes the most, but people who get off a chair lift and just stop blocking everyone else coming up is annoying too.
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DittoIan Hopkinson's rant about charter transfers. I thoroughly resent being forced to waste an entire 2 days of my holiday (one at at each end of the week) on sitting around on a bus/airport terminal/airport runway.
I'd charge my lost holiday time to the tour op, but they keep laughing in my face....
Any other ski-holiday niggles are just small fry compared to the hell of transfer day.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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When I first moved to Switzerland I was told - please understand that British sense of queuing doesnt exist so if someone walks in front of you you left too much space....
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Poster: A snowHead
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Restaurants that charge to use the toilet. (Les Deux Alpes).
People who go to big expensive tourist resorts then wonder why there are so many inconsiderate skiers/boarders around
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Those who dress up in all the freeride gear and can barely carve a turn. They think they're all 'sick' and radical but really look a bit daft....
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People smoking on the same chairlift as you. Indeed, people smoking at all. Grrrrr.
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Oisin Osh Kelly, what is strapped to peoples feet makes no difference. If they shoulder barge me from behind when I'm slowly approaching a huge flourescent orange "danger" sign with a lift queue 20m beyond, then I'm clearly in the right. Had I have been hurt, I would be suing his pants off, and would have made sure that his pass was confiscated.
The things that irks me most is that last week was a rather quiet week, but the number of plebs certainly increased since the last time! Oh and the 2 skiers that were pretending to do a downhill course and put a turn in 1m in front of a beginner were both ESF ski instructors! At the time I just wished they'd been involved in an incident, so that I could be a witness and have them sacked.
crazy_skier_jules, dunno why they keep discussing smoking bans. just ban ciggies. everyone will get over it eventually, and I won't have to dodge the scrunched up marlboro packets under the chairlifts.
Oisin Osh Kelly, in Les Gets they put in a "white route" so you can ski through the village between lifts. I think they need to rebrand it as a "brown route".
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people who get of lifts but don't clear the area, making you thread your way through or get caught in the ensuing pile up
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andy, I think its a case of, as has been mentioned before, with the rise in affordability and popularity of snowsports, there are more and more plebs on the slopes. I have seen stupid boarders, and I have seen stupid skiers.. same as the rest of the world really I guess... on the roads there are good/safe drivers... as well as people who shouldn't be allowed to play playstation games never mind driving a car. 
On the subjects of ski instructors.. I actually got buzzed by an instructor one evening walking back through town in Avoriaz at Xmas. I had missed the last lift at the bottom of the resort so I had to walk all the way back up the main through run in the town. It was quite dark and all the instructors were making their way down. Board under one arm, radio talking to my girlfriend in the other, I saw one instructor in a group of 3 actually switch direction and head on a diagonal toward me. I wasaon the very edge of the groomed through way so it wasn't as if I had made myself a target, the guy then at the very last moment changed direction to head straight down and literally passed me (his arm to my arm) with about 2 inches to spare. Goggles, on, scarf wrapped around nose and mouth (kinda like a red baron stylie)... don't care if he was the best skier in the world and always in control... he scared the living poo-poo outta me.. it all happened in slow motion for me.. from the moment he turned for me...
Anyway.. guess he was just an as*hole.. and no I'm not contradicting myself by saying all ski instructors are like this just this guy was a D1ck...
pet hate number 3 cocky instructors 
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My last trip to Les Arcs was full of Pet Peeves of the brown variety. Not very good, at all.
What really irks me as a boarder are families who decide to stop halfway along a narrow blue, especially when they can see you coming from a distance. Have proudly ridden over Dad's ski's in disgust . As Oisin Osh Kelly points out, skiers are equally guilty of stopping on blind lips and off chair lifts - surely this a null debate by now?
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the descriptions of accomodation in some TOs brochures
eg chalet apaul de charvette in VAl D
spiral stair case- takes one 90degree bend
comunnal seating area adjasent to bedrooms- the hallway with a broken 2 seater sofa
bedroom- a corridor with 2 beds (camp bed size) and a third fold down one above
en-suite- cupboard with toilet (need to put one foot in the shower tray to acually use, shower cubicle- with a shower without a hook
the only thing that made the trip was great snow and the staff in the 'chalet' who understood the problems but were powerless to do anything about it
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