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This looks fun. Wonder if there's any action up on the local Cols (Petit St Bernard, etc)? davidof? Think one or two may be opening this coming weekend, I'll take a drive up, take the skis along just in case!
PisteHors article on the 'road-gapers'
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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That looks gnarly, man, I expect they were stoked 
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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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PG. I can remember doing this on the link road on Cairngorm back in the mid 80's. I will see if I can dig out some old photo's.
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Aaargh! No thanks. I think I'll stick to watching this one.
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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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Great article...don't fancy trying it though.
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PG, fantastic, what will they think of next?
And only in France. I'm sure it would have been banned long ago here.
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Jonpim, Rob D, was right. Graham Varney(?) did a jump over the Cairdsport bus on the link road many moons ago. He thought it would go in the brochure but the powers that be thought it might encourage other people to try it .......... I'm sure it wasn't really allowed but he did it without the aid of ramps and so on - quite a feat. 
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| PG wrote: |
| This looks fun. Wonder if there's any action up on the local Cols (Petit St Bernard, etc)? davidof? Think one or two may be opening this coming weekend, I'll take a drive up, take the skis along just in case! |
You will see people jumping on the Petit St Bernard and the Iseran. In particulary my friends from Team Blerow from Aime... but as this is illegal there is not too much publicity.
If anyone has watched the film Apocalypse Snow they may recall skiers jumping a train line over a ploughed gap, one of the skiers touches the roof of the passing train as it passes.
Regarding the google newsfeed question... the article appears because Google (amongst other sites) uses Pistehors as a newsfeed. I don't have any information on how this works.
There are a few more photos of the road gap here:-
http://www.adrenalintrip.net/forums/gallery.php?siteid=1&topicdays=45&forum=1
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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davidof, illegal?
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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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| PG wrote: |
| davidof, illegal? |
Yes... you can't just go jumping over roads whenever you feel like it. If you've watched the Free Radicals movies you will see the cocky Swedes getting knicked by the plucky French Gendarmes.
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excellent pictures - like the one looking up at the boarder jumping over
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You know it makes sense.
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| davidof wrote: |
| PG wrote: |
| davidof, illegal? |
Yes... you can't just go jumping over roads whenever you feel like it, |
...Not that you'd necessarily want to jump over roads when you don't feel like it. I think I can safely predict that my skiing career will conclude without being booked for ski jumping over a French road.
The unfairness of it all is that no one would blink at a hang-glider or parapente sweeping over a road. It's just a case of kamikaze skiers getting picked on, yet again.
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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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Just be wary of high-sided vehicles - whether on a paraglider, skis, or board.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I was up there that day and saw an avalanche for the first time and on the road back down to the Lautaret there had been 4 more that had dropped onto the tarmac. Scarry but not as bad as the idiots walking through the tunnel!
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