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Whilst we're all yearning to get back on the pistes, I was wondering what everyone DIDN'T miss about the slopes.
Me:
Waking up in the morning.
The smell of croissants in the morning.
The smell of smoked meats in the morning (or any other time for that matter)
Snowboarders who have a coffee morning just over the crest of a dip.
Having to get up before you go to bed to get the flight to the middle of nowhere.
The 3-hour transfer from the middle of nowhere to the resort.
I'm sure I have more...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Spending weeks stressing, pointlessly, about the weather and snow cover.
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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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Clomping down steep steps in boots to a smelly toilet, where a harridan demands money despite your already having spent restaurant prices for a cafeteria meal.
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Annual remortgaging! 
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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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Faffers. Especially those who choose to faff just having dismounted a chairlift, closely followed by those who choose to faff just before getting onto a chairlift. The first often follows the second.
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Fri 12-03-21 10:46; edited 1 time in total
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Pretty much the only thing is people who think they are better skiers than they are and pass too close and too fast.
Nothing else I can think of.
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Ski poles.
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| marodo2712 wrote: |
Whilst we're all yearning to get back on the pistes, I was wondering what everyone DIDN'T miss about the slopes.
Me:
Waking up in the morning.
The smell of croissants in the morning.
The smell of smoked meats in the morning (or any other time for that matter)
Snowboarders who have a coffee morning just over the crest of a dip.
Having to get up before you go to bed to get the flight to the middle of nowhere.
The 3-hour transfer from the middle of nowhere to the resort.
I'm sure I have more... |
Erm, what's wrong with the smell of croissants and smoked meats?
The thing I hate is the few minutes between walking into the boot room and walking out of it again. For some reason, putting on your boots is always knackering. The following 7 hours of skiing is fine, but the boot putting on. Yuck.
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Getting overheated in the boot room before going skiing.
Realising as I walk out to the piste that my ski pass/wallet/sunglasses/whatever is still in the chalet.
Waiting for people to do up their ski boots after every blasted lift - Just buy a pair of boots that fit!
Feeling car sick on the windy roads up/down the mountain
The sound of a snowboarder behind you as he/she scrapes all the snow off the mountain.
White-outs
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Erm, what's wrong with the smell of croissants and smoked meats?
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@Timmycb5, I like my apres-ski, and I generally don't eat breakfast anyway, so, to get up feeling 'emotional' then being forced to eat breakfast, the last thing I need is challenging food smells. I generally stuff food in my mouth until I get to the point where I might well see it again, then I steal a ham sandwich and a banana for eating on the chair.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Stupid o'clock flights followed by waiting at the airport for the bus.
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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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Getting overheated in the boot room before going skiing.
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@foxtrotzulu, By the time I get to the top I'm usually utterly knackered, which is why I hate waking up in the morning, I know what's coming - but the minute those skis start sliding, all is forgotten.
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Waking up in the morning earlier than I do to go to work to catch an early morning flight then again all week to get kids to ski school. To say nothing about getting kids fed , dressed including all bits of gear needed, out the door, onto the first lift to get to class.
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You know it makes sense.
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Having to shed 4 layers in a roasting cafe , having fallen for the "layer up under a shell" con.
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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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Standing behind someone in the lift queue who waits at the gate for his/her mate to catch up and blocking me from getting on the chair that just left with one person on it 
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Poster: A snowHead
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1. The stupid rule that you can't wear your ski boots around the hotel and so TO breakfast... Would be so much easier to bend an empty stomach to pull them on than a freshly stuffed one
2. I also agree with bootroom overheating. Look, this is a room used at the start and end of the skiing day by people dressed in artic clothing. Have it unheated, then just switch the boot heaters on overnight!
3. Forgetting to put the suncream in your pocket/backpack on day 1 so getting burnt.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| marodo2712 wrote: |
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Erm, what's wrong with the smell of croissants and smoked meats?
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@Timmycb5, I like my apres-ski, and I generally don't eat breakfast anyway, so, to get up feeling 'emotional' then being forced to eat breakfast, the last thing I need is challenging food smells. I generally stuff food in my mouth until I get to the point where I might well see it again, then I steal a ham sandwich and a banana for eating on the chair. |
Ha! If I'm in a catered chalet breakfast is one of my favourite parts. Triple breakfast for me too usually. Bacon and eggs followed by porridge followed by pastries 
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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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When I really think about it, bad snow conditions and bad weather....that's about it.
Right now I'd happily pay hundreds of pounds to get up early, spend hours on a plane/bus, getting stupidly hot in the boot room jamming my feet into boots, remember something in the room and have to clomp up the stairs, spend 30 minutes in a lift queue and wait 10 minutes for a faffer, all if it meant that I got to slide down a piste for a bit
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Trying to sleep at altitude.
Overheated bedrooms with no control on the radiator, so you have to sleep with the balcony doors open.
Getting out of breath on the high peaks after walking short distances.
Proper whiteouts.
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Can’t wait to get annoyed again
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a big +1 to that!!
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any kind of lift where your feet are on the ground
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1. The stupid rule that you can't wear your ski boots around the hotel and so TO breakfast... Would be so much easier to bend an empty stomach to pull them on than a freshly stuffed one Very Happy
2. I also agree with bootroom overheating. Look, this is a room used at the start and end of the skiing day by people dressed in artic clothing. Have it unheated, then just switch the boot heaters on overnight!
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This
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Empty seats when there's a long lift queue.
As for the rest... why is everyone putting their jacket on to walk around indoors? It's the last thing I put on.
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A propensity of veal
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Boarders lunch thing  My people are naturally quite adept at tray handling.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I used to hate flat light until I bought a pair of Oakley High Pink Prism goggles; they sorted that problem.
Now the only thing I really dislike about skiing, is corduroy pistes first thing in the morning. I know, I know, I'm weird. Give me a really chopped up/moguled piste in the afternoon any day. I've not encountered ice yet, so that's why it's not on the list.
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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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| Awdbugga wrote: |
I used to hate flat light until I bought a pair of Oakley High Pink Prism goggles; they sorted that problem.
Now the only thing I really dislike about skiing, is corduroy pistes first thing in the morning. I know, I know, I'm weird. Give me a really chopped up/moguled piste in the afternoon any day. I've not encountered ice yet, so that's why it's not on the list. |
I'm one of those tw@s with magnetic changeable lenses. Literally takes seconds. Makes a huge difference with changing light conditions.
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You know it makes sense.
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Unpacking the car on arrival - as usually millions of steps between apartment and car park and the mad rush to set up, make beds, get passes etc. Thankfully is all worthwhile when I can sit down with a glass of wine.
Packing up usually easier as downhill to car and will have less stuff - food we bought in valley or taken with us having been consumed.
My absolute least favourite bit - drive from tunnel home and you can no longer kid yourself you're on holiday.
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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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@Awdbugga, They look pretty cool. My wife would love the flight deck ones. That's her birthday present sorted!
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Boris wrote: |
| mad rush to set up, make beds, get passes etc. |
I used to HATE the scrum in the ski hire shop to get your equipment on Saturday afternoon. Massive queues, tired kids, etc.
One year we arrived so late the shop had shut, so we got up and went to the shop for 9am on the Sunday morning and it was deserted. We were straight in and fully kitted out in 20 mins. Never been back to get equipment on Saturday since!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Deliberately not putting kit on to prevent overheating in supernova temperature appartments and boot rooms etc. To then be accused of faffing by the people you have been waiting to get their arrises in gear all morning......
(To be fair my motto is "I faff therefore I am")
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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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People that want to ski all day without even a coffee break.
People that want to ski past the mammoth restaurant when they know it does great chocolate. 
Also that bit of the PV bar that overhangs. You know,,,,, the one you crack your head off every year when getting up off a bar stool.
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@GlasgowCyclops, There is the problem, right there. If you've had enough to drink, you slowly slide off the bar stool onto the floor, thus avoiding cracking your head. Solution- drink more Bob. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Awdbugga, Ahh the voice or reason
PaulC1984 did that one year and woke up in the PV boot room at 4am. He thought he had been arrested and put in jail. He also did 106km/h non skitrax then next morning but that was holding his phone with the DT's
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Taking ski boots off for the last time of the season and facing the reality that it's no more snow and skiing for another 200+ days
Getting home after last time of taking ski boots for the last time of the season and seeing forecast of 0.5m snow due tomorrow in resort. 
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| Timmycb5 wrote: |
| I'm one of those tw@s with magnetic changeable lenses. Literally takes seconds. Makes a huge difference with changing light conditions. |
Changable google lenses, magnetic or otherwise are the worst invention ever to grace skiing!
Previously I only had 1 lens. Sometimes it was correct for the conditions, sometimes it wasn't - but either way it was what it was and there was nothing I could do about it.
Now I have a lens that works well in bright conditions and one that works well in poor light - so now I have the joy of knowing that the correct lens for this afternoon's conditions is...generally the one back in the apartment, having desided it was an "X" day and not wanting to risk my "Y" lens getting crushed in my backpack 
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@Timmycb5, thankfully we now all have our own kit, so avoid the ski shop drama, but yes that was a nightmare
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The anxious feeling I get at the top of a slope i think I can’t handle (I’m usually fine but always assume it’ll go wrong. Exhausting).
The annual boot wrangle as I’m never comfy in boots. Weird feet.
People who ski too close to short cut.
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The smell of my thermals after day 30
Getting covered in mud every time I go near my truck
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