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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Moved this to 'The Piste' for you.
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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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19th Jan v Leicester
11th Fev v Newcastle
Any bar with Sky should have it
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@Dave of the Marmottes, 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Dave of the Marmottes, they are playing Shrewsbury in the FA cup 4th round on 26th. Could be a good cup game.
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There was a very cool nature programme on the box during the past week looking at Wolves in the Alps.
It tracked the migration of a pregnant bitch from her pack, which she left after poignantly mourning the loss of her Alpha male mate. She guided her new litter approx 1000km around the Alps (even through towns at night) until finally reaching & settling in a nature reserve in the Italian Alps iirc.
Great show, if you like these sort of things (which both myself and especially my dog do  )
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@horgand, What channel was that on? Sounds interesting,
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@horgand, @Alastair Pink, Thanks both. I'll watch that later.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I shall watch that, thank you for bringing to our attention.
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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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Just checked out that wolf film, but sadly it's not a documentary, it's a dramatized story using habituated animals and animatronics.
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| thecramps wrote: |
| @Dave of the Marmottes, they are playing Shrewsbury in the FA cup 4th round on 26th. Could be a good cup game. |
Essential viewing in my house 
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You know it makes sense.
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@ElDiablo, I am guessing you are a Shrew. Had a great day and night out there with my beloved Stockport County back in the day. We lost, but what a lovely town and night out we had.
Anyway, more thread drift. Sorry. 
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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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@thecramps, wrong! I'm a Wolf,
- but yes you are correct it's a lovely town (as is the county of Shropshire) with some great pubs, great food and lovely beer.
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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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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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@ElDiablo, Wow, aren't you basically crapping it? If you win, every one say's "so what", but if you draw or lose, you lose, classic FA cup dilemma.
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Been loads of reports of wolves across the French Alps this season.
They are def on the rise.
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| Weathercam wrote: |
@thecramps, plus one - as someone who has a bit of an interest in this subject, and has posted on here a few times before about it this prior to this podcast, I was cynically dismayed about the BBC docu, which I tend to be with many of the other BBC docus, i.e get amazing footage, then edit it down and narrate a kids story out of the final product, or drag David Attenborough out, stick him in a studio to do his bit...............
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But in this case it seems to have feck all to do with the BBC . It's a French production that doesn't seem to pretend to be gritty unedited footage of wild animals in their natural environment. The problem with the latter of course is that it is really easy to miss key moments and hard to objectively interpret everything which happens. Hence an anthromorphic "story" is hung on productions like Dynasties (which are stil mindblowing for the photography alone)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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That BBC programme was what prompted our chat in the podcast. There's a link on the page to a pic of a wolf pack of 13 seen last year...
www.theskipodcast.com
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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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On the cross country course outside Argentiere near Chamonix this morning definitely felt Wolfy! I was glad I'd sharpened my poles. But it did make me wonder/quiver what would happen if a pack of wolves came running round the corner. My guess would be a pack of wolves encountering any one man it would be good night Vienna. It was a full moon last night I think but no howling, well just me. 
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@oneglove, despite the old stories it is very rare for wolves to attack humans and try to avoid them where possible.
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You know it makes sense.
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Rabbie, Yes but if a pack came across a person by chance, especially if they were hungry. Then the hunt and prey mentality would kick in. I'm all for wildlife in a zoo where it belongs.  But seriously my night time woody walks are more sombre now unless I've had a few then would take them all on.
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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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Cross country skiing at Pont in the Aosta Valley. Beautiful day, no one else skiing, our only company was a fox and half a dozen chamois.
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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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Reading into reports of fatalities by grey wolf are quite an eye opener! I also saw some were spotted recently above Argentiere in the woods! Our shared stomping ground. Most non rapid attacks the alpha wolf will bite first to access potential victims vulnerability then given the green light the whole pack will pile in. It does not bode well to surprise wolves either that's their job.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Wolf hysteria is as old as the hills.
Wolf attacks in Europe are almost nonexistent.
Around 10 people were killed by wolf attacks in Russia and Europe between 1950 and 2018.
Compared with roughly 1,000 people killed by pet or feral dogs.
Little Rocky is 100 times more deadly than a wolf.
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Yup, some worry so much about the almost nonexistant threat from wolves (mostly to children or very small adults) while there were 50 road deaths per million inhabitants in the EU in 2017 which we all seem to deal with very well.
Although there were a couple of sheep killed by a wolf or two passing through the area about 1km behind our house. It would have been amazing to have spotted one.
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Scarpa, the "summary" is about 50 pages of mollycoddling. Trying to reassure people in wolf zones that your more likely to meet your maker in the form of a flying tortilla or whatever. How do you know the wolves were passing through? Just say you knew there was a pack living in the woods above, would you alone go find them or they find you at night?
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Came across a group of people in a forest on the way to a pub a few years ago that were exercising some wolves. They were from the UK Wolf Conservation Trust located near Newbury. From a distance they looked like Alsatians but up close we realised what they were. My wife thought their eyes were weird. Good job we didn’t have ‘Daniel the Spaniel’ back then or he might have been lunch. Don't think I would like to meet a wild one though.
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It's very reassuring, it's only really the mad wolves with rabies that kill most people
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When my father was a young man he was a junior officer in the Polish cavalry.
In the winter of 1923 he sent a patrol of soldiers out into the forest area bordering Russia.
They were never seen again, search parties found no trace (snow was heavy).
When the spring thaw came some remains were found:
The metal parts of their uniforms, guns and horse saddlery.
The area was carpeted with the spend shell casings of all their ammunition.
There were also a number of wolf jaw bones but nothing else.
The evidence suggested that they had been surrounded by wolves at night (there were a lot of wolves in the forest) and had been overcome.
The wolves had eaten everything except the metal parts, even the wood on their rifles (it would have had lots of gun oil on it accumulated over time). The wolves had even eaten the dead wolves...leaving teeth in jaw bones uneaten.
My Dad had a very deep respect for wolves!
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