 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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This is why I don't wear headphones when skiing!
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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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Hmm, those conditions would make it easy to meddle with that footage, wouldn't they BooBoo.
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@Whisky_priest, I did wonder if it was a copy paste job, hard to tell 
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Perhaps someone forgot to tell the bear to hibernate
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My guess is that she blindsided the bear's cubs, and the bear was simply reacting like any Snowhead would.....
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If she was on skis the bear would be friendly.
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Didn't the piste map say bear left? 
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Fake as IMHO
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| Mike Pow wrote: |
| Fake as IMHO |
Agree. Bear seems too much in focus.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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totally fake....
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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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| eddiethebus wrote: |
| totally fake.... |
Ha , no attempt to even make it real, it is super fake. She did not fall on her back bottom, stop for no meaning, or scrape the snow off the mountain in a painful slow screech.
Not even dressed like a boarder, this is a blue screen job.
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Fake....plus i'm pretty sure she's on a Swallowtail at the start of the vid, but not at the end 
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You know it makes sense.
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Considering the bear is "following her" as she slides past the right hand side of the bushes (~48-56 sec mark & from camera PoV) and suddenly the bear has warped itself over to the left!! Odd little detour for a hungry bear to decide to take!!
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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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Lol.
It's fake.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Ok fake, but the question is - who faked it? The snowboarder, the editor or... THE BEAR!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This is really must become an Olympic sport. Release 20 Snowboarders and 20 bears on to a mountain in a kind of Hunger Games type format, get a few dropouts to sit in a BBC commentary box and talk about how 'stoked' they are that the "Brit is still in the game and has only lost two limbs so far and could be in with a bronze -which would be an amazing achievement coming from a country with no bears....."
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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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@cameronphillips2000, not that dissimilar to the grand national.
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@cameronphillips2000, Shame that the UK Alpine skiers were eliminated by the sloths at the regional rounds.
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Girl goes snowboarding with a bear behind!
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Pretty much. I reckon it's a goer. I'd watch.
I think some quality drone footage would add to it -dedicated bear cams etc. It would need to be done professionally...
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I prefer my previous idea of chase a Scotsman as a candidate sport:
1 We all know Scottish skiers have a bulletproof style borne of withstanding 100mph crosswinds while on the T Bar, dropping off Lemming ridge in a blizzard and riding that one man chair at Glenshee therefore they would present a suitable challenge.
2 Scotsman sets off picking a line avoiding wee burns, heather patches and roaming haggis. Occasionally may use his native skills to straightline the heather or huck a burn.
3 After suitable time the chasing pack is realised - being fancydan ski racers they will have no idea how to handle native Scottish conditions leading to much amusement.
4 Winner is first to catch the Scotsman, then down 3 cans of Tennants super strength.
[/all racism purely intentional - I love you all and Scottish skiing in all its glory]
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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..and the Bears should be on snowblades
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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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@Richard_Sideways, ...potential fact update
http://www.snopes.com/snowboarder-girl-chased-by-bear/
I've looked at the loop a lot...very difficult to determine whether the bear vanishes, but it subjectively looks as if it does ... which suggests a fake.
But do take a look...
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You know it makes sense.
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And here was me thinking I was clicking into a thread containing an amusing anecdote from Gay Ski week 
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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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Love that red bull home run race!
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Poster: A snowHead
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@gordonrussell76, ...gender of bear entirely unclear....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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My apologies, LGBT Ski Week
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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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@gordonrussell76, 
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Totally fake.
Here is my rational. As some of you may know I was attached by an Asiatic lack Bear when I was 15/16. So I know a bear when I see one.
The bear in the footage is a brown bear, not an Asiatic Black Bear. Japan has two types of Bear. The Asiatic Black Bear and the Ussuri brown bear.
The Ussuri bears live in Hokkaido
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussuri_brown_bear
But the Snowboarder was skiing in Honshu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honshu
Since this is populated by Asiatic black bears... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_black_bear
AND she was being chased by a brown bear then it is fake.
It is not just the colour.... they have a different style of running.
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@GlasgowCyclops, ...now that's something you don't hear every day:
'....As some of you may know I was attacked by an Asiatic Black Bear when I was 15/16...'
Has the wonderful specifity of a comment I once overheard:
'...surely everyone knows about the undertow on Cococobana Beach?....'
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| valais2 wrote: |
@GlasgowCyclops, ...now that's something you don't hear every day:
'....As some of you may know I was attacked by an Asiatic Black Bear when I was 15/16...'
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Yep, I worked in wild life park and we had a Black Bear called Bugsy who was relatively tame and you could feed her by hand and clap her. I came back from holiday and she was a bit strange (turned out someone was scared of her and chased her away by throwing stones at her so she was a bit wary). I bent down to tie my shoe lace and she lunged at me going for my leg. Thankfully, flared jeans were the rage in the 70's and my mad dive to the side meant she only cut me a wee bit. My knee was about 20cm behind my flared jeans so I've only a 5cm scar and not a leg missing.
Weird when I went to get a couple of stitches in it and the nurse said to me (16 years old and long ginger hair) "Attacked by a bear,, aye,,,,,,,,, and your pal was stabbed by a porcupine last week,,,,,, be serious"..... then it dawned on her when we told here we worked at the wild life park up the road.
Things like THIS were quite common.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radioscotland/2011/01/toms-top-tales-bear.shtml
And because I worked with the animals, they needed someone to patrol the reserves in case anyone tried to jump in by mistake..... why? They had some gigs there as well and some people jumped into the wrong are and were met by a few angry bears.
I got a back stage pass and had a great time with Wishbone Ash of Kelly Johnson from GirlSchool. Really nice people.
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/Loch-Lomond-Festival.html
and
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/Loch-Lomond-Festival-1980.html
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@GlasgowCyclops, love it!
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@GlasgowCyclops, ....excellent stuff...when truth is indeed stranger (and a lot more amusing) than fiction ... and you write well:
Me: Officer, I can tell you which bears will run away from you and which ones will kill you.
...is priceless
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| valais2 wrote: |
@GlasgowCyclops, ....excellent stuff...when truth is indeed stranger (and a lot more amusing) than fiction ... and you write well:
Me: Officer, I can tell you which bears will run away from you and which ones will kill you.
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Yep, It still makes me giggle that day. We had wallabies who also escaped by jumping the fence.
Seriously I kid you not
Police: How did they escape?
Manger: They jumped the fence
Police: but it is such a small animal... ?
Manager: We should have built the fence higher
Police: I couldn't jump that fence
All the staff thinking inn their minds: It is a mini kangaroo you freaking idiot.
Many people thought that the Wallabies had escaped form an Island but we all know where they came from.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/galleries/wallabies/
Soo... Soo many stories..... my favourite is a heard of Bison chasing about 15 bears and kicking the shi-ite out of them. A story for a beer or two at a bash.
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