 Poster: A snowHead
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From a February edition of The Independent is this interesting take on tuition for nervous skiers who may require that extra help from instructors.
Article here scaredy cat skiers
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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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hibernia, that was interesting. Good on them - although why aren't all instructors like that all the time? (rhetorical question...)
La Fruitiere? Worth braving the crap run down for. Not the best ambience in the world IMHO but excellent lunch!
Roger Moore? 4 runs/beer? Good lad!
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hibernia, that was interesting. Good on them - although why aren't all instructors like that all the time? (rhetorical question...)
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yeah one of the staatliche came out with that...
some woman was looking for "xxxxx" because ski school had promised "xxxx is very patient" and she had been scared in the morning group lesson by some funny fellow instructor.... the comment from the staatliche "We are all professionals we should all be patient"
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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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Sounds like they are disney-ifying skiing... 
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Sounds like they are disney-ifying skiing...
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Hardly. Sitting on a chairlift in the Espace Killy in a snowstorm is not very Disney. It beats me, though, why these articles keep saying Val D'Isere is pretty. I suppose compared to Tignes..... And however nice and friendly and patient the instructor, it's a daft place for nervous skiers. I just spent an idyllic morning ski-ing the top end of Notre Dame de Bellecombe. Well prepared, wide, beautiful and EMPTY pistes, on a sunny Sunday morning. Entire pistes to ourselves. That's the place for someone nervous, not with all those boy racers. I spent a day in Val D'Isere a couple of weeks ago and saw more out of control idiots in one day than in a whole season in the Val D'Arly. Does Val D'Isere's PR Department give these guys freebies?
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pam - try livigno.....
I even watched as an instructor read the riot act to an out of control skier and then had the cops escort him off piste.... GOOOOO GUYS!!!
I love this place ... good old fashioned ski resort stuff... ski for fun not for ego and great instructors that actually UNDERSTAND instructing is about teaching PEOPLE to ski.... not being the biggest toughest "dude" in the ski instructor world!
they also know how to make proper coffee being italians!
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I spent a day in Val D'Isere a couple of weeks ago and saw more out of control idiots in one day than in a whole season in the Val D'Arly.
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That's a relief - I was beginning to think everyone up there was aiming for me personally. I've been splatted three times this season in that resort, once by someone who went straight into me in the middle of an otherweise completely empty piste and then whizzed off without even asking if I was all right. Git.
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