 Poster: A snowHead
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I had to start this thread purely to slate Nevica (Sports Direct) ski socks. By the end of the first day wearing them, they felt like sand paper and I got blisters on my legs, from socks!!! I plan on burning them.
PhD Smartwool socks are far more expensive but practically perfect in every way. I didn’t even think about my feet whenever I wore them, no cold, no discomfort.
Please contribute your rated/slated things ski related, doesn’t have to be products, could be anything.
I’ll also rate the Dolomites, and slate crowds pushing into Gondolas...
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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 rate my planks yeti outerwear.
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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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+1 on Oakley prizm
slate - Carv. Dont work and support team all off skiing. Wait for ski boot manuf built in ones.
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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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Ah yes, now that you mention Goggles, I also rate OutdoorMaster goggles with interchangeable lenses. Amazon special, bargainous and no problems with fogging up.
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Icebreaker layers, you can wear the same base/mid combo for a week and they still smell fresh off the shelf.
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+2 Oakley Prizms. Treated myself to a pair of FlightDeck Torch on my last trip on day 2 as my goggles just weren't giving me the confidence I needed in the varying light.
THE best piece of clothing/equipment I have purchased. Who would have thought that being able to see properly would improve your skiing?
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| Bodeswell wrote: |
| Icebreaker layers, you can wear the same base/mid combo for a week and they still smell fresh off the shelf. |
+1
Slate: Stansted Airport...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Rate Picture jackets and trousers. Comfortable, nice fit, look good, not too hot, get compliments off pretty girls and to top it off, are recycled.
Slate Reusch gloves. Not waterproof at all and after a week, stank so badly I couldn't wear them again; it got so bad that my hands still stank of them the next day after a shower and several trips to the washbasin.
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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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Rate Volcom articulated pants
Slate Howl Mittens - got ripped up after a few days. After 30 days I had to bin them and their customer service sucks
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| Bodeswell wrote: |
| Icebreaker layers, you can wear the same base/mid combo for a week and they still smell fresh off the shelf. |
A week??? - mine are on 4 full seasons 
They have a lifetime guarantee on socks as well - can just take the disgusting old ones into a shop when they fall apart and get a new set
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You know it makes sense.
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@hang11, haha, yes, mine are 6 I think....it's not me that washes them after every trip, it just happens despite my protestations that it is completely unnecessary!
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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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Rate: Short transfers on good roads
Slate: long schleps on poor roads and then climb 20 hairpins to finish
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Thomasski wrote: |
+1
Slate: Stansted Airport... |
Throw Grenoble in with Stansted!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Rate, Blizzard Bonafide skis, Marmot Spire shell clothing, Solutions for Feet boot fitting, skiing whole seasons.
Slate, lift queues (Paradiski Paris weeks!), French beer prices.
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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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| 86tomw wrote: |
Slate Reusch gloves. Not waterproof at all and after a week, stank so badly I couldn't wear them again; it got so bad that my hands still stank of them the next day after a shower and several trips to the washbasin. |
Mine are fine after 2 BBs. Different model maybe?
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Rate. Decathlon gear for socks, bags, thermals, accessories. Surprisingly good quality stuff at great prices. Frees up cash for the core equipment and trips
Also rate people with a good attitude. There may not have been powder everywhere in feb but snow cover was good and you can still have fun
Slate
The lift queue divvies... Why oh why do people have to smash their skis and poles into my board? I wait my turn, I'm patient but at times I swear skiers were doing it on purpose
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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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Also rate people with a good attitude. There may not have been powder everywhere in feb but snow cover was good and you can still have fun
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The lift queue divvies... Why oh why do people have to smash their skis and poles into my board? I wait my turn, I'm patient but at times I swear skiers were doing it on purpose
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Rate: my new Never Summer Funslinger - what a board! Mons Royale thermals. Falke SB socks.
Slate: Ski school teachers teaching their kids bad habits (not looking before setting off, not waiting turns in the park, etc)
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Rate: Oakley rose prizm lenses (again). Hestra gloves, being up a mountain with a white surface to slide on. Merino anything. Smiley people. Singles lines in lift queues. Manchester gin. BBR's! Yes. Typo snowboard.
Slate: Ditherers (again). Mates who won't go sliding with me when they said they would causing me to miss my second week's sliding this season, (probably comes under ditherers actually). Chalet wine. February in France. Knackered knees.
Sure there's more!
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@bobcat, rate +1 for OutdoorMaster Goggles....bargain direct from their website with no postage!
Slate - 2 man chair lift over to Marmolada from Corvara (can't remember number).....sure i was there for an hour!!
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I agree that a lot of the decathlon stuff is great.
Slate
Package holidays that involve getting up at stupid O'clock particularly coming home.
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| T Bar wrote: |
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I agree that a lot of the decathlon stuff is great.
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Package holidays that involve getting up at stupid O'clock particularly coming home. |
I actually enjoy putting the DIY trips together, which leads me to:
Rate. Easyjet website is the best of the budget airlines in my experience
Slate: Geneva Airport. Should be such a slicker user experience than it is
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@johndiamond,
I agree my tour operator stupid o'Clock are fortunately things of the past.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Rate: first direct. A company that understands what customer service actually means.
Slate: Mercedes UK, for repeatedly withdrawing from an agreement, both times in contravention of a signed contract. Never again.
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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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Rate: Norrona, Whitedot, ABS, Ski Arlberg, Swiss and Lufthansa, The Piste Office, Oakley Prizms
Slate: Ski tour operators, gung-ho idiots on the slopes, seasonaires who don't respect the country/ area they are working in, people who dont try speak the language they are visiting even if its a please/ thankyou, rip off French slopeside restaurants.
Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Thu 7-03-19 13:41; edited 2 times in total
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| johndiamond wrote: |
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The lift queue divvies... Why oh why do people have to smash their skis and poles into my board? I wait my turn, I'm patient but at times I swear skiers were doing it on purpose |
It never bothered me when I was renting (obviously), but I have taken to occasionally carrying my board through the gates and clipping my right foot in immediately after that. Much less prone to getting caught by others (be they skiers or boarders) then.
RATE: Anon M3 MFI goggles for both the easy-change lens and the facemask that attaches to the goggles.Paired with a thin Merino beanie under my helmet.
How I ever boarded without my head almost entirely hidden from the elements, I have no idea 
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You know it makes sense.
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Rate: Lovely lovely Snowheads. If it wasn't for you guys (and especially fixx) then I never would have gotten out on the snow at all, having a husband with zero interest in any of it.
Slate: My inability to find padded shorts that actually help with the fact that I still fall over a LOT, and HARD. Feel like I need an airbag, or something.
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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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Rate: Long ski weekends, long steep carvers, tree-lined pistes, proper apres ski (4pm-7pm), anything merino
Slate: Lack of flight options from Ireland and Belfast in particular, the unpredictability of snow conditions, hangovers, insufficient annual leave
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Poster: A snowHead
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They have a lifetime guarantee on socks as well - can just take the disgusting old ones into a shop when they fall apart and get a new set
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Well that's me set for ski socks for my life 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| DonardFlump wrote: |
Rate: Long ski weekends, long steep carvers, tree-lined pistes, proper apres ski (4pm-7pm), anything merino
Slate: Lack of flight options from Ireland and Belfast in particular, the unpredictability of snow conditions, hangovers, insufficient annual leave |
Flying out of Dublin with an Irish Passport to an EU country, could well end up being something to rate.
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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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Rate: Having parents living in Paris. There's something lovely about getting the train down to the Alps, seeing the first patches of snow, etc. Makes for more relaxed travelling than flying, too.
Slate: Cheap Chinese ski gloves. My (Chinese) wife got me a pair one year after my older gloves had given up the ghost. By day 2 most of the seams had split, and I ended up having to buy a 5 euro sewing kit in the local supermarket to keep them reasonably usable until the end of the holiday. Promptly binned thereafter.
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Forgot.....Slate: Brexit
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Slate: Cancer
Rate: Beating it!
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| 86tomw wrote: |
| Rate Picture jackets and trousers. Comfortable, nice fit, look good, not too hot, get compliments off pretty girls and to top it off, are recycled. |
My Picture jacket must be defective then.
Rate: Snowheads, Aramada ARV 106s, Smith I/OX with low light lenses, any time I'm in the mountains and sliding.
Slate: Rain, lift queues, people that don't fill empty space on lifts. GVA security queues, not being able to ski for a living
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Slate; Brits who cry and whinge about T - bars. Rate areas of easy access powder that the whingers therefore leave!
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Rate : Amazon firestick.
Slate : French tv.
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| spacetrucker wrote: |
| Slate : French tv. |
You’ve clearly never watched Les Princes D’Amour or Zig & Sharko then.
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FAQ
The three jam packed gondolas up to Marmolada (purgatory). Snowhead "experts" who get far too personal and vitriolic when giving advice. (Brace yourself @awdbugga, incoming 
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