 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello all!
I was wondering what original and fun games people liked to played whilst skiing. I'm not talking 'spot the dropped pole' whilst on a chairlift, but actually whilst skiing.
For instance, when there's enough of us we like to play a (semi) toned down version of British bulldogs. When the pistes are clear, one skier goes a little way down the piste and tries to touch the other skiers before they reach a set finish line maybe 3 or 400m downhill. If you're caught, you join the catchers. Eventually you have 7 or 8 people trying to catch a single skier.
Good fun, if a little violent occasionally... 
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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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Those goggles with the game would get banned pretty quickly, I'd have thought. In the US the rebels play football (i.e., throw and catch) on the slopes, and have a tendency to kill themselves or others as they crash trying to catch. Was there and some patroller said he pulled the pass off someone doing that the week before.
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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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Top trolling
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Yep, probably trolling, but it did bring back memories of playing 'dominoes' with the school ski club. Much older and wiser now, but back in the day, on the bus to cairngorm we would all brag about our intent. There were two (maybe even 3? It's a long time ago) classes. The aim of the game was to fake losing control and crash into a different class as they were stood Indian file down the side of the piste. Points for every kid you knocked over domino style. You had to be good enough at faking a crash that the teacher never cottoned on and if you wiped out the teacher you got bonus points.
Stupid, potentially dangerous, immature, but aged 14 great fun.
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Not trolling even if it is my first post! Although not sure why asking what ski games people play is trolling.
Is this not a done thing then? I think my group of friends started playing 'games' when it got towards the end of our season and there was no off piste to speak of and we were a bit bored of cruising the same runs. 
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| Ali180 wrote: |
| Although not sure why asking what ski games people play is trolling. |
Because it is. 
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Who can be last off the chair lift is always a classic. As is planting you like and weight in someone's boot release in a chair lift queue. As they push off to move, their boot comes out and they usually go over. If its a bug, Brightside, th4 domino effect can be great. Stink bomb in a cable car is also good.
When you take school kids for many years you see a lots of things.
Stealing reps jackets was always a sixth form classic.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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"Lick a onesie" - As the title suggests. Usually easier in the lift queues, has to be witnessed, and hopefully without getting your face smashed in by irate boyfriend...
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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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I think fartbag hunting where you have to be photographed pointing conspicuously to a fartbagged quarry without the quarry getting spooked is still legit. Although has been made significantly more challenging by the rise of "fake" fartbag wearers for fancy dress and noveau revisionists like Tipsy Elves and Willy Finder.
If you really must play a game while actually skiing I'd suggest National Ski Styles - ski a lap with the French bum wiggle, The Arlberg bum clench, The Canadian Hunch, The Japanese Uberstyle
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You know it makes sense.
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5pike, Good call - well worth another watch
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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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Human slalom where members of the class become slalom poles and everyone skis around everyone else.
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Poster: A snowHead
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5pike, superb.
But not for me
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The game we end up ultimately playing is 'Last one down is a poofter'.  No rules required.
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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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Aviemore at Easter a VERY long time ago - egg and spoon race on skis, using hard boiled eggs. The 'winner' actually dropped his egg which shattered on the ice but he deftly scooped up the yolk without stopping..... The lifties had a great laugh. Those were the days.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Best played my beginners/early intermediates: first to fall buys the first round that night, second to fall buys the second, etc.
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