 Poster: A snowHead
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I wish all my ski holidays were like last years EOSB. Probably one one the best weeks skiing I had. In lots of ways it was better than going away with friends or family. I met lots of people who I would happily go skiing with again. I learnt a lot about lots of things not just skiing. I just wish I could go this year again. Just don't focus on the fact that you have never met these mad strangers off the internet, make some friends and have fun.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Kramer, I defintely fall into the wierdo bracket !
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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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Paul Mason, you're nowhere near the worst though.
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Where The Frock's At is in training for the ski race
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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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Kramer, have you met the legendary Lord Whitenoise yet? 
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Weirdos
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johnboy, Excellent thread by the way.
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REFUND!!
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We would go to the EOSB if we had not been out most of the season anyway, and completely run out of money, and I have a big meeting I can't miss. Years ago we went to a week's holiday organised in the Isle of Wight with people who have, or used to have till they got something better, the same kind of sailing boat as us. We had a great week, all totally new people, completely different except for the one enthusiasm which united them and which they were keen to share with people who knew very little (i.e us). Some became good friends (who have been ski-ing with us several times since) and all were worth meeting. Most activity holidays involve doing something with people you don't know (I am the only non French person in a ski class this week...). I've spent a week in a yacht with people I didn't know, around the west coast of Scotland in a week of gales, supposedly learning to navigate etc. We certainly knew each other by the end.... I don't understand how people make new friends, or meet new kinds of people, if they never do anything with people they don't know. I'm sure the EOSB will be great, and I will read the reports with interest.
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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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Cathy Coins, I will be a second-weeker - and I know I'm not the only one going in that particular boat. (A boat to the mountain? Hmmm.) So if the other snowHeads are going to have a laugh, it'll be at me. And I don't care!
johnboy, what I get out of it is a week on the side of a mountain with planks strapped to my feet. I enjoyed it so much the first time - when I went with friends and family last year - that I wanted to do it again and was hugely disappointed when matters meant I had to cancel the family holiday (would have been in La Plagne now  ) So when the chance came up to have a week's break my first thought was for snow - and the second was for snowHeads, as a group of like-minded people, even though I hadn't posted in about ten months...
It's an adventure!
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You know it makes sense.
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My excuse for not going is that it's my daughter 5th birthday on the 27th and her party on the 23rd. Boo hoo, nut I've got to be there. Anyway had 2 weeks already this year .. so good luck to you all and having skiied with some strange people in my days I'm sure the snowheads won't be any stranger!
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Whats the problem...??? you like who you like and its just another first time meet. Its not as though we have to find things to talk about...WE'RE SKIING...!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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johnboy,
I'm amazed you can't see the benefit, imagine 30 people all standing at the bottom of a slope, debating for hours about what ski/wax/pole/glove/jacket etc to use.
Then repeat for each run/lift/beer/bar/lunch stop and you have a fascinating week in prospect!
Regards,
Greg
(tongue firmly in cheek!)
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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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30 people all standing at the bottom of a slope, debating for hours about what ski/wax/pole/glove/jacket etc to use.
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gregh, Shouldn't that read ""anorak" Rather than "jacket". I'm a boring skier, but not a ski bore
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I'd love to come - and annoyingly I actually have both the time and the money! - but I'm not allowed to go skiing for a full week without Mr Eng The occasional day I can get away with, but certainly not a week. Mind you, it's swings and roundabouts - I'd be pretty peed off if he boogered off skiing without me for a week, it's hardly fair to do it to him. But waaaahhhhhH!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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No, I'd rather pick a battle I have a chance of winning  Currently working on maybe some summer skiing, and def some v early season stuff (Nov/Dec), maybe even PSB? (have the dates been set for that btw?) Then if we can get another few days in here before the end of the month, at least the waiting and anticipation time will be reduced.
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I'd love to come, but I can't get the leave approved either
I think it would be great to put faces to names. As Cathy Coins said, it may be like a book being made into a film, but I bet that the cast turns out to be a right shady bunch of extras rather than the good-looking stars that are in my imagination.
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Ray Zorro, if Frosty the Snowman doesn't have a stove-pipe hat and coal-buttoned coat, I'm going to be very upset...
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I'm a low poster and am quite shy. I decided to go last year because I'd been made to feel very welcome on here, I'd just discovered skiing but didn't know many people, and thought it would be a really nice way to spend a week in the mountains. I have to say I did have to pluck up the courage to ask if I could come along, but I'm really glad I did. As it turned out, the really nice virtual people were also really nice real people...
Looking forward to this year even more than last time...fenlandskier, give me the car keys, there's a good lad 
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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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My hair's a little longer and I'm quite a lot younger, but otherwise....
(shut it, Foxy  )
Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Tue 11-04-06 19:06; edited 1 time in total
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Michelle, See, I'm quite perceptive really
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You know it makes sense.
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Ray Zorro, You will be missed, especially during sunday morning prayers
EDIT Now if you had saved up all these one dayers....
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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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Frosty the Snowman, awww, just say one extra for me 
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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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| Ianhappy wrote: |
I'm a low poster and am quite shy. I decided to go last year because I'd been made to feel very welcome on here, I'd just discovered skiing but didn't know many people, and thought it would be a really nice way to spend a week in the mountains. I have to say I did have to pluck up the courage to ask if I could come along, but I'm really glad I did. As it turned out, the really nice virtual people were also really nice real people...
Looking forward to this year even more than last time...fenlandskier, give me the car keys, there's a good lad |
Yes - it was a great week - looking forward to skiing with you all again. Ian - I reckon fls should have the keys in an alloy briefcase handcuffed to his left hand like in a spy film.
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| easiski wrote: |
| Yes - the thread's called PSB/Mondial dates 2006 or some such - in Snow events!! |
I saw that, easiski, but wasn't entirely clear on the dates - is it the first w/e in Nov?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Paul Mason wrote: |
| Nick_C, you only need to worry about SCARPA - the rest of us are harmless ! |
That is terrible, casting aspersions like that. I am leaving the bow at home and social services are employing snowbunny to make sure that I stay in my seat on the coach. That yellow snow WAS lemon, and I wouldn't have killed her if she hadn't of started screaming your honour!!!
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Is it too late to order a can of Mace to control the Scarpa 
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johnboy, what's not to get?
First, it's skiing
Secondly, it's another ski holiday that we probably wouldn't have if it wasn't for snowHeads.
Thirdly, you make some very good new friends.
Fourthly, the whole thing is a proper craic.
Fifthly, I'm really looking forward to seeing all last year's EOSBers again, and really looking forward to meeting the new ones.
Sixthly, there's a race, and I've got a title to uphold |
Seventhly (?), if you attend the Bash and then enter the prize draw, it seems you're in with a good chance of winning!
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PG,
Is it true that they will be running that Prize draw next year with the following prizes?
First Prize: One week in La Rosiere with Trax.
Second Prize: Two weeks in La Rosiere with Trax
Thrid Prize: A romantic meal for two with a Black & Decker strimmer
...... please say it's true cause I'm dead excited
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