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| A couple of glasses with lunch, maybe a vin chaud... |
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| Yes why not, ok I fall over a bit more but it hurts less |
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 Poster: A snowHead
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A survey similar to a recent one over on Natives (which gives some interesting results!!)
Let's see if snowHeads are more responsible 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hey - PG - you've become a FreeRider at 2000 posts!
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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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If only it were that easy Ian!
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I had to go for the top option....not because I think it would be dangerous or irresponsible - I just don't drink.
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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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I'd like to drink more, but sadly, I ski better on water...... drinking it that is, not water skiing.
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Used to drink a lot more than I do now.
(can we leave it at that?)
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Responsible! Oh come ON PG, since most of the contributors in this corner of snow idiocy seem to be ‘middle aged’ men, the only thing keeping us ‘responsible’ is the perilous state of our livers! (as a certain Mr. Hunter knows!)
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Masque, cynic....
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(I see Nadlenoodlee hasn't voted yet  )
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Just a couple....any more and the ski technique takes a nosedive....but a couple are great for steadying the nerves ready to go and do that run that you chickened out of earlier!!
Anyway, aren't we all still under the influence from the over indulgence the night before? Except for Elizbeth B of course!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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PG, Moi!?
Mark Hunter, Speak for yourself, I had 'duties' that week and very onerous they were too! 
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You know it makes sense.
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Depends on whom and where you rub it! 
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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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I ski terrible on a hangover - but I was at a night time mountain restaurant party this year at L'Arpette restaurant above Les Arcs 1800 (I'm sure you've been there PG). I definitely skied better on the cheap "wine" they fed us. I think I relaxed more as I have a tendency to tense up, I just flowed down the mountain (no falls). I think I will invest in a hip flask now so if I start to lose technique I can have a few swigs and everything will be sorted again!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Peter Ross, I did the Arpette thing over Easter and I concurr, the run down was icy, bumpy and dark, but no match for my Dutch Courage! Until I got to the bottom and was taken out by a gay-on-a-tray!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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mjg, Perhaps if drunken pr¡cks-on-sticks weren't wobbling all over the piste we wouldn’t be authorised to ‘sanction with extreme predudice’! 
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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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Peter Ross, you mean this one.... never done the evening meal thing - was it good?
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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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No, not from a food point of view. A dodgy salad, them some cold meats (charcuterie is it?) then a big lump of cheese (raclette) and no pudding! The wine they gave us was vile! The lunch time food is far better. Still the dancing on the tables and the torchlite descent was good fun. I started an indoor snowball fight too but managed to get showered in wine by someone - even my goggles were soaked, which wasn't nice!
Even though the food was rotten it was worth it just to see the dodgy French dancing, and the descent was a good laugh too! I didn't carry a torch for fear of setting myself alight! 
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A strangly worded question. Yes I have skied under considerable influence.
The last run down to St Anton springs to mind...
(And Courcheval 1850 to 1550)
But I usually ski during the day and drink at night.
Hmm I am talking myself into having voted wrong.
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I've definitely skiied still drunk the next morning, once at BUSC championships in Edinburgh (on Hill End) where i fell over putting my boots on. Rather set the tone for my performance for the rest of the day. Thumbs still wrecked!  On snow drinking surely interferes with skiing time?
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Chris Angus, You ought to have won.... weaving down the slalom course should have come naturally!
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Yup, I did l'Arpette Restarant too. 3 hours drinking and a couple of hundred boarders and skiers on an icy run with no decent light. The last bit under the flood lights could really be tanked. Crazy and hilarious all at once.
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I never ski under the influence- usually even the sight of alcohol during the day is enough to make me very ill. I do all my drinking after I take my ski boots off! and to be honest so did most people I met and skiied with on holiday in March.
Our daily routine was
11am- get up, eat, ski
5pm - finish skiing- go to McDonalds etc
6pm- Sleep
10pm- get up and get ready to go out- commence drinking
10:30pm- go out- drink solidly and constantly until 6/7am
Sleep til 11am and then start again
The only exception to the rule is if I dont have a hangover the next day- then ive been know to drink myself stupid in a mountain bar with my snowboard instructor and we had to walk back down in the dark, leaving our boards there!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Picky but does Vin Chaud count as alcoholic ? Thought it all boiled off at 78C leaving just a hot drink with no inebriating effects.
I'll own up to skiing with the odd hangover but otherwise very moderate consumption during the day. Maybe a coffee and a cognac mid morning on a cold day. And a glass of wine with lunch. Ca Va Bien. 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I never skied drunk, but the one glass of bombardino, vin brule (gluhwein/vin chaud) or warm Vov at the end of the day, before the last run it's kind of a tradition. Or the occasional sip of Grappa after lunch during a cold day.
Last edited by So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much  on Wed 12-05-04 8:47; edited 1 time in total
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You know it makes sense.
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kuwait_ian, I drank a couple of glasses of homemade Vin Brule this winter, that is, not the industrial concotion they sell in bars on the mountain, but one prepared with real red vine (Merlot), luckily after the day was finished (actually was the landlady who prepared it, back at the Garni), and I assure you, it is inebriating.
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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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I had an evening at L'Arpette (Arc 1800) complete with torchlight descent back in 1989 during my 2nd week of skiing. Food was good from what I recall & wine flowed freely. I used to get paralytic nearly every night then but it wasn't me that fell off the track on the way down
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Poster: A snowHead
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Matteo, bombardino.................mmmmmmmm "sampled" a few of those this year in Courmayeur & Sauze - is it an italian drink?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sorry to spoil the fun but what is the insurance situation if you injure yourself when under the influence? 
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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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Peter Ross, I've seen winter sports policies with small print that excludes claims resulting from "alcohol or substance abuse". I would also be worried about cover if you injure someone else while under the influence...
The standard Endsleigh winter sports policy excludes:
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| Any claim arising from suicide, self injury, alcohol or drugs or any wilful exposure to needless peril |
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I've done the usual drunken run down from the KK and Mooservelt (sp?) at St Anton in the past, but now it tends to be the odd glass at lunch but leave the serious stuff for the apres ski.
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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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PG, I too have yet to find any decent stats or proper scientific papers on the subject of alcohol and altitude and injury. However there are lots of articles, and they all say more or less the same thing:
1. Contrary to popular opinion, alcohol has increased effects at altitude (shown both on mountains and in aeroplanes)
2. Alcohol consumption worsens altitude induced sleep disorder.
3. Alcohol increases chances of suffering altitude sickness
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Jonpim, you left out at least one...
4. Alcohol increase the chances of ugly birds pulling. (10 at 2am, 2 at 10am)
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Wear The Fox Hat, I tried chances of ugly birds pulling in google, but couldn't find your article (interesting one on onions though.....)
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Dan I have the same problem.
My toffee vodka has become legendary - (new recipe based on thorntons fudge rather than werthers originals!) but it does mean that the hip flask is too small for the number of people that end up drinking from it!
Funny how you get a mix of comments from other skiers when you are spotted with the hip flask - ranges from "fab idea" to "tut tut, shouldn't be allowed"!!!!
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Irresponsible I know, but I love getting to a mountain bar at around 4-4.30 get trashed and ski down an hour or so later in the gathering gloom. Come on admit it so do you, lets get that 3% up. 
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