 Poster: A snowHead
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I've just succumbed and bought a Jollnar down jacket. However,it doesn't have a sleeve pocket for a pass. What are people's experiences of how it works of you carry a pass in either a side pocket or a pocket in your salopettes?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Absolutely no problem.
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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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Sorry, should read Jöttnar. And thankyou @cad99uk,
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Dies it not have a chest pocket? I don't have any "ski jackets", just use my climbing clobber and always just the "Left Breast" pocket (inside or outside). Sometimes have to rub my chest against the machine but not that often.
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Since many resorts have switched to RFID based lift passes the issue has largely disappeared. If there is an issue it tends to be with the ticket machine, rather than the pass. Don’t of course put your ticket in a wallet or next to your mobile.
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Any pocket on your left hand side seems to work ok, hip pocket, side pocket, chest pocket, sleeve pocket. Only issue is with gates that have the reader on your right hand side, where a bit of twisting and cursing seems to do the trick.
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@esaw1, you are going to ski in a down jacket 
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Another, and my preferred option - gloves with the pocket for the lift pass on the back of the hand.
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@Layne, Only if the temp plummets. I normally use a hardshell and layers and have bought the down jacket for staggering to and from apres venues but now I have the option to not only boil whilst skiing but also to keep warm whilst walking the dog on Costa del Wales. Thank you everyone for your input.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Till you hit that random right-side gate 
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Put it in your gloves between the glove & linear. Just remember its there when you take your gloves off!
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You know it makes sense.
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Have used a chest pocket relatively successfully but I am only 5’ 7. Hubby found that a bit hard work in some places, and bought himself a pair of Dakine gloves which had a zip pocket which nicely takes the card.
Personally I think it is a real shame we can’t load the lift passes on the Snowpass Swatch watches anymore.
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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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Never had a sleeve or glove pocket. Pass always goes in a lower jacket pocket, somewhere between high waist and low hip depending on jacket. Usually a load of other assorted useful crud in the same or nearby or covering pockets as well. Never had an issue.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Mr.Egg wrote: |
| Put it in your gloves between the glove & linear. Just remember its there when you take your gloves off! |
This... and if I'm just wearing liners I've found the pass sits inside the cuff on the back of my hand.
My usual gloves have a pocket for a pass which I find easier than coat / trouser pocket, but this seems to have fallen out of fashion...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I wouldn't want me lift pass loosely placed anywhere or in a pocket with other stuff I am likely to access. I want it somewhere secure where I can forget about it and not worry.
What happens btw if you lose your pass where you have to get a connecting lift back to base?
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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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| Grizzler wrote: |
| Never had a sleeve or glove pocket. Pass always goes in a lower jacket pocket, somewhere between high waist and low hip depending on jacket.... Never had an issue. |
This.
Perhaps it's a perspective thing - if not electronic, then the standard North American approach is that a "ticket" looks like a ticket and is fastened to the outside of the jacket or pants somewhere with a bit of use-once wire. You'd look like a Brit with "powder tracers" turning up with something strapped to your arm for that. Austrian systems work fine with a pass in a pocket vaguely on the correct side.
Less is more.
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| Layne wrote: |
| I wouldn't want me lift pass loosely placed anywhere or in a pocket with other stuff I am likely to access. I want it somewhere secure where I can forget about it and not worry.? |
Wasn't going to overcomplicate things, but I carry my magnetic card passes (and always have done) by wrapping them up inside a strong plastic bag (actually an old A4 papers 'wallet' from my old office, circa Millennium) with an elastic hairband tied around and a piece of climbing cord tied thereto, attached at t'other end to a cheapie carabiner through a zip pull on the jacket. It ain't going nowhere that the jacket doesn't go.
Heath Robinson; who he ? 
Never understood why they can't punch a small hole in the corner of the plastic so you can put a tie string on it.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Awdbugga, thanks for that. I have a very old jacket with only a right hand inside pocket.
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My jacket doesn't have a pocket on the arm for a pass so last season I taped it to my arm with some of that elastic adhesive tape they use for putting across your muscles. Worked a treat. 
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