 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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@PeDaSp, Thought-provokingly misanthropic - can't help but fear the massive ingress of skiers to the Alpes.
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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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@PeDaSp, Thought-provokingly misanthropic - can't help but fear the massive ingress of skiers to the Alpes.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Consistently the best ski movies out there.
And the team - Jordan, Chad & Forrest - are absolute gents.
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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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@Mike Pow, +1, really awesome to see Manley back in action after his accident!
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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| clarky999 wrote: |
| @Mike Pow, +1, really awesome to see Manley back in action after his accident! |
Definitely.
He's come back stronger artistically IMHO
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@Mike Pow, agreed. I read an interview with him where he said he'd been listening to a lot of radio while injured, and it had quite a profound effect in how he utilises/wants to utilise soundtrack and dialogue for deeper immersion and connection in his videos.
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| Snowsartre wrote: |
| @PeDaSp, Thought-provokingly misanthropic - can't help but fear the massive ingress of skiers to the Alpes. |
What is misanthropic about it?
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Good vid.
Know someone who did a daytrip to Snow World, near Beijing. It was brutal. Almost entirely on artificial snow.
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| Steilhang wrote: |
| Snowsartre wrote: |
| @PeDaSp, Thought-provokingly misanthropic - can't help but fear the massive ingress of skiers to the Alpes. |
What is misanthropic about it? |
No, I don't see that either.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Steilhang, @adithorp, I think @Snowsartre means that the video showed that the Chinese middle class are expanding and will become crazy for skiing in the same way that Japan did. But they don't have many good resorts.
Thus we could soon have hordes of Chinese skiing in the Alps, and hence his general dislike of all humanity (not just the Chinese) would mean that he would be displeased to put it mildly. 
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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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@PeDaSp, Thanks for posting, really interesting.
I skied at Harbin Jihua ski resort a couple of years ago, which is about an hours drive outside Harbin in NE China - about 250 miles North of Changbai Mountain shown in the video. The Harbin area only gets about 1m of snowfall annually, although it's super cold so it sticks around all winter. The resort was tiny (two chairlifts operating when we were there) and the skiing as you'd expect, very hard packed pistes with no chance of off-piste unless your skis can cut through bamboo. Interestingly, most of the Chinese were renting 80s straight skis, and most of them seemed to have never been skiing before.
I'm quite surprised they get so much more snow down on the North Korea border!
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Thanks for this link. Very interesting.
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You know it makes sense.
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Thanks folks! If only posting interesting videos actually made one interesting I'd be onto a winner! 
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Love his films, I'd wondered why I hadn't seen any new ones and didn't know he was injured. Hope there are more to come!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Snowsartre wrote: |
| @PeDaSp, Thought-provokingly misanthropic - can't help but fear the massive ingress of skiers to the Alpes. |
Your precious Alpes will be safe. Japan is only a hop skip over from Beijing.
That's where the "massive ingress of skiers" from China is happening. But the Japanese doesn't appear to be quite as fearful.
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