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So I may have reached a slightly enhanced stage of refreshment on Monday evening, I then got an email saying that these had gone on sale. Que waking up to an email confirming my purchase of a pair of skis that I know next to nothing about. Does anyone know much about them apart from the very sparce blurb on a couple of websites please? 
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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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@under a new name, thanks but those the wider ones which were released last season.
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Ah. All I could find.
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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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@under a new name, yeah, not a lot, all very mysterious, which is great for advertising but rubbish for drunken muppets!
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There are some reviews mostly respouting Rossi marketing puff
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Guess I’ll have to wait till my first trip in December!
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I know this is shallow but I think I'd finds the name too embarrassing to be seen sliding on 
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Unlike Scotts "The Ski"? 
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| wills_h wrote: |
| So I may have reached a slightly enhanced stage of refreshment on Monday evening, I then got an email saying that these had gone on sale. Que waking up to an email confirming my purchase of a pair of skis that I know next to nothing about. Does anyone know much about them apart from the very sparce blurb on a couple of websites please? |
I think I got the same email and my interest faded at "backcountry freestyle twin tip". Good Luck , come back and give us the first impartial review!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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They look pretty hidden in my car from the other half so she doesn't get annoyed at me "wasting money" when we have a baby on the way! She's not a skier and doesn't understand N+1!
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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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Unlike Scotts "The Ski"?
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yeah that's a bit rubbish but it doesn't have the pseudo special forces cringe
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How about Line's Magnum Opus?
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You know it makes sense.
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god yes - that's pretentious
still I just find appropriating special forces/military associations by civilians particularly icky
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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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@jedster, and “the Ski” does have 1970s significance.
My personal fave was the K2 E.I.S. (Extreme Ice Ski) - always wanted to try them!
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Poster: A snowHead
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| wills_h wrote: |
| They look pretty hidden in my car from the other half so she doesn't get annoyed at me "wasting money" when we have a baby on the way! She's not a skier and doesn't understand N+1! |
Aaaaah .... that might pose some problems - they will probably take it back...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| jedster wrote: |
god yes - that's pretentious
still I just find appropriating special forces/military associations by civilians particularly icky |
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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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Surely Black Ops is just a generic term for any secret squirrel stuff these days like an operating unit of Google working on a new app.
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Surely Black Ops is just a generic term for any secret squirrel stuff these days like an operating unit of Google working on a new app.
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I tend to think the term for that is skunk works. Black ops does have a military connotation to me.
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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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@Dave of the Marmottes, I’m with @olderscot on that.
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But I don’t think “skunkworks” wuold get past the marketing-puffer-in-chief.
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Yep - I think it's rather intended to convey the limited edition non garishly branded nature of the skis rather than represent that they were designed by wandering into the Salomon factory wearing an employee badge, assassinating the design director with a doctored ski pole and nicking his blueprints.
Skunkworks would work as a name for some more boutiquey brands but not Rossi e.g. I could totslly imagine an ON3P Skunkworks ski ideally with Skunkicorn graphics.
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| wills_h wrote: |
| How about Line's Magnum Opus? |
What's wrong with that name? 
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