 Poster: A snowHead
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do anyone else get that buzz of anticipation when you drive to a ski resort and wait to see that first flake of snow on the ground, leaving somewhere like geneva airport when its raining and theres no sign of any snow, but you know its there because you read the snow report and saw the web cams, and yet with every hairpin bend theres still no snow, and finally round the final bend you see a whole new world, from out of nowhere theres a snowy scene in front of you, and if its sunny as well, the feeling is quite magical.
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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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Did a drive down overnight think Feb 2004.
Was snow on the hard shoulder from Southampton to Val D'isere.
Managed to get my dad's VW Caravelle into underground car park under accommodation - result!
Return trip started badly, someone had left an Internal light on, battery dead. €80 on jump leads and we were off.
Or not, due to extra snow we couldn't get out of the car park due to headroom issue! Much digging later we were out.
Snow on hard shoulder all the way home!
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I do, but a couple of years ago there was pretty much snow from just outside Paris all the way down to Avoriaz...
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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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I live in Lisbon for nearly 20 years. It doesn't snow in Lisbon. (It did once, about 10 years ago, for perhaps seven minutes when a rainstorm thickened into snowflakes then back to rain again; made headlines the next day). I absolutely get the magical feeling when seeing snow.
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Yes a proper feeling of excited anticipation. remember that being mixed with the pressure on one of my very first trips where I'd chosen the destination of Soldeu and one of my more ski-experienced mates was very skeptical that there would be any snow.
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Yes. But more often of late I get to the top and it's still green or worse raining 
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Im absolutely with you on that.
The first time i went skiing i was 17 in the mid 80's and went away with a couple of mates on my first holiday abroad and without parents. I could not believe what i was seeing, id never seen mountains, and cable cars and chairs on wires, wtf, and amazing sunshine and hot wine! I think i spent most of the week with my mouth open struggling to take it all in. It was quite mind blowing at the time and i still get that sense of anticipation and excitement going up the hill and a sense of disappointment and loss going down.
My kids, now teenagers have been on family trips to the alps since they were 3 and now we are lucky enough to go several times a year but they don't have that sense of excitement, maybe because they've seen it all from a young age? Once we get through Grenoble I'm looking up at the hills, trying to see what the snow is like, getting my mountain playlist ready, they are watching youtube in the back of the car.
Oh well, their loss perhaps.
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Due to the modern age I basically can judge from the webcams but that is relatively recent. I do remember one time driving across France and there were patches of snow. So exciting.
I also remember getting a hire car from Geneva and there was snow at that level. Not the Jura, Geneva lake level. Woohoo.
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My first trip to the mountains the transfer was after dark and all I could make out was the narrowing and steepening of the sides of the valley. We arrived at the chalet, ate and went to bed, so it wasn't until the next morning that I went and opened the door and looked out of the balcony
Nearly fell backwards in awe of the scale of it all when I took it all in for the first time.
I then proceeded to triple layer up and then go to the hire shop.... And nearly sweat myself to death trying on skiboots
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Ah the heady days of the TO hol when the first question everyone asked of the rep was "Is there any snow?", followed by a bland non commital answer and desperate viewing from the coach window
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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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Definitely get excited at the first sight of snow, even after over 25 years of skiing.
Does anyone else get the sad, deflated feeling as they drive away from the mountains knowing that's it for another year?
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@karin, book a second trip to delay the disappointment. Family ski trip in 2 weeks and then boys weekend in early March. I’m usually glad to get home from that one so the sadness of leaving the mountains won’t be as bad.
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You know it makes sense.
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i still get that sense of anticipation and excitement going up the hill and a sense of disappointment and loss going down
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Yep: most exciting hour of the year followed a week later by the most depressing hour of the year.....
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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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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| Ah the heady days of the TO hol when the first question everyone asked of the rep was "Is there any snow?", followed by a bland non commital answer and desperate viewing from the coach window |
I remember the reps always answering: "You should have been here last week!"
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