 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello everybody!!
Anybody have any opinions on the ideal apres ski routine? In other words, is it better to do all your drinking directly after skiing or to wait until later as one would at home and drink till very late (early).
My normal apres-ski routine was a beer or two after skiing till about 6ish, +/- quick snooze (depending on how late the previous night was), shower and shave, dinner followed by a traditional Irish/English session till the wee hours and struggle up for skiing the next morning.
However this year, every day except one we continued drinking from 5 until 10,11,12 or so and had dinner either after or during. I found, to my surprise, that this method had serious advantages:
1. A full 8 hours sleep each night (at least!!!) made it much easier to get up for skiing and better quality of skiing once i got up there.
2. Didnt have to interrupt a couple of fun 5 oclock pints.
3. The post skiing adrenaline buzz made for a much better apres ski wee wee up as opposed to the previous situation where it would have dissipated after a big carb-heavy dinner.
4. Same amount of boozing, just at a better time
However there were disadvantages:
1. Showers often lost out in the haze of booze which made for a spectacularly smelly holiday!!
2. Inappropriate behaviour in reasonably respectable restaurants (pointless Iraq war - GW Bush debates at top of our voices between the musels and the fillet steak................)
3. Avoids having to go half-board and eating potentially awful food prepared by 18 year old kids.
It seems like im converted to the former (which is obviously only doable if you are not on halfboard) but im worried that i am making excuses for the fact that it was my first skitrip in my 30's and i can't handle the on the beer till 3 am, skiing at 9 am cycle i used to manage with ease.
Anyone else have any opinions?????
Cheers
Kevin 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ski, Ski, Ski, then sleep. You can drink at home 
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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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I tend to go for the straight off the slopes options, drink until dinner, have wine with dinner, collapse afterwards. Nightclubs in ski resorts tend to be horrendous places anyway, generally full of gangs of middle aged, balding, rotarian dentists. Not what I'd choose as an ideal night out.
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I'm only 35 and I couldn't be bothered with apres ski - I wouldn't be able to function the next day on the slopes and I'm teetotal. I'm the kind of person who needs my sleep or else I'm hopeless - I'm hopeless anyway (who said that!!)
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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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jb1970, I'm with you. Drink kills me at home, and at altitude.......well dont even ask
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Well, as I said, I'm teetotal and not really a pubby/clubby type of person anyway. Even if I was, there is probably no way I could partake in apres ski, then be on the slopes in the morning. I like to go back to the hotel/chalet, have a nice shower, read a bit of my book, have dinner, some chat, back to my room, a bit more of my book, then sleep! When I was in Les Deux Alpes last year, I was first out and last in every single day. I am still at the "learning" stage (intermediateish!) so, maybe when I become better, I will have a long lie but, then again, maybe not, I savour every moment as I am only there for a week.
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We take one of the last lifts down, have a couple of vin chaud and then head back to the appartment for food, a few beers and several games of sh*thead...first lift up in the morning
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On Sat night/Sun morning I did Apres ski till 3:30am but was on the piste for 9:00 am. The trick was to make sure I ate enough early and drank at least 50% less beers than the English group I was with. I've read that for recovery purposes it's better to eat within an hour of finisihing exercise. IMHO chalet/restaurant food at 7 or 8:00 pm is too late but most Brits will follow the holiday companies schedule.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Sharkymark, pardon my ignorance, but what the hell is sh*thead 
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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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It all depends whether I'm with the family or the football team!
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IncogSkiSno, sh*thead is the most universal card game ever. Everyone I've met on my travels knows how to play it, from South America, to Europe, to New Zealand! and if they don't know, you teach them and thus the game lives on!
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You know it makes sense.
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| nightshift wrote: |
| IncogSkiSno, sh*thead is the most universal card game ever. Everyone I've met on my travels knows how to play it, from South America, to Europe, to New Zealand! and if they don't know, you teach them and thus the game lives on! |
At the risk of encouraging this thread to wander off-topic, could someone please explain this game?
Back on-topic - I usually grab a quick shower and change of clothes after skiing then hit a bar until about 8, back home to eat then out again until the wee small hours.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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telford_mike, umm, I don't really think I can! Plus, you'll find that if one of us starts explaining it, someone else will come back saying they play variations on my rules and we'll be here all day!!
It's not Mornington Crescent type complicated though - it's very simple!!
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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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LOL just realized that in the link you can get away with the naughty words 
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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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boredsurfin,
Same here. Except you're older than me 
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IncogSkiSno, cool but as I thought, a few variations on my rules there! Either way, those are the basics and it's a great game!
Back on topic - quick drink after skiing but I hate being in my ski clothes when out in bars so I tend to head home quite quickly for a bath and book, then dinner and out till 1 - 2am ish. Skiing at about 10am or if it's really cold, not till lunchtime and then just buy a half day pass.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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As someone who eats nowt for lunch, I'd just have a beer or maybe two coming off the piste, a sauna (if there) and a shower and then a feed before hitting the fleshpots I experienced Austria apre for the first time last year. No wonder they like their lunches, you need something to soak up some of the alcohol! I have never drunk that much after coming off the hill 
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| Masque wrote: |
| As someone who eats nowt for lunch, I'd just have a beer or maybe two coming off the piste, a sauna (if there) and a shower and then a feed before hitting the fleshpots I experienced Austria apre for the first time last year. No wonder they like their lunches, you need something to soak up some of the alcohol! I have never drunk that much after coming off the hill |
I honestly don't know how you can go through the day without lunch. If I start skiing at 9/9.30, I am starving by about 12/12.30!
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nightshift, my kids have played it. It is with 2 people and looks a little like solitaire, I've seen them playing it but didn't know what it was.
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IncogSkiSno, well now you do and depending on how old your kids are right now, no doubt they'll be playing it as a drinking game in years to come!!!!
My boyf and I play it constantly on holiday once we've run out of things to talk about after the first couple of drunken days of putting the world to rights!!
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jb1970, I eat breakfast and like slow release carbs so I only start feeling hungry at about 4 so it's no hassle. But by 6, I need food, a beer will kill the edge but dinner is invariably late for my body clock. What I'd really like is a bowl of soup with that first beer when coming off the hill.
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Apres ski routine varies but invariably involves at least 2 drinks straight off the slopes, kip, shower, food and more drinkies usually in bed by midnight - 1am and out for 9am. Can't be doing with this holier-than-thou no apres atitude.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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My routine is ski ( well board ! ) til last lift shuts - have 2/3/4 beers in local bar or hotel bar. Shower, nap, dinner at 8ish. Plenty of wine. Repair to hotel bar / chalet communal area. Drink couple more beers. Retire to bed around midnight. Up for first lifts.
Generally, once in the week we'll stagger out after dinner and make the effort to go into town for the after dinner beer - this often results in some nonsense in a local club and a late night !
Sounds pretty dull... but in my defense, we're normally in a large group, so all you need is your friends and a cold beer for a good time - I am now a married man... things were different a few years ago ! 
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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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When I was in my twenties/thirties it was drink stops during the day. Then start drinking straight after skiing until about 4am. Dragged out of bed to ski in the morning. Collapse after skiing holiday.
Now. Apres ski straight after skiing, like to catch a bar at the top of the last run of the day as well. Room party or bar, then lightning shower, dinner with wine, some post dinner beer, to bed at a reasonable hour ready to get up the next morning. Sometimes it goes wrong if the evening is going too well, and last to bed again!!
Masque, Communal plate of nachos with the first apres ski beers. Wonderfully civilised in Whistler.
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Ah, that reminds me - Saalbach a couple of years back - Apres started with a brandy laced hot chocolate straight off the slopes as a pre-cursor to the beers. Now THAT was very civilised !
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Last week was a first lift/last lift every day with immediate apres of a few beers from 5ish to 7ish before dinner with wine. Loiter over the wine whilst playing cards or similar and then to bed by midnight. Fantastic!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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To be honest, if the snow's crap, some days I don't make it out at all.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Caspar, washing optional?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Masque, Depends if you are living in a motorhome or not. If not, then it is not optional (five minutes between beers is always possible).
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Caspar, What's this five minutes between beers about. I take it that you have a stock of beer on your balcony. Have one with your shower. You obviously haven't shared a room with me.
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Cymru am Byth, If you're at apres-ski then you simply finish a beer quicker than your mates. While they finish theirs and order your next one, you nip upstairs and get a cold one from the balcony to take into the shower with you. Unless you are overdoing the cleaning thing then you should be back to the bar in time to receive your next beer (without the pain of buying the damned thing) 
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Caspar, quite right. It's a really nasty habit to get into. Never used to do it, until I went on holiday with a female friend who wasn't a very keen skier, and she started me off. I can honestly say that I've never been the same since. 
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Caspar, I can't decide if you're a genius or just cheap ... not a doctor are you?
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drkpower-how on earth are you able to drink from 5pm till midnight and function the next day? You must have some constitution!
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