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 Poster: A snowHead
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I just have this inkling that most snowHeads have cast an eye at their staircase as a potential 'route'... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'm a 'no', despite living in a three-story house. However, the road my office is on would make a splendid red run in the right conditions.
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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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Unfortunately there is a wall about 4 feet from the bottom of my stairs, but the very steep road around the corner is a definate possibility
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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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Unfortunately our staircase is unacceptable for this proposition, being only 3 with a sharp left hand 90-degree angle, followed by another 4. Although we did consider planning application for a dry ski slope in our garden. 
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Stairs hmmmm....
There is a film with Guillaume Depardieu (son of) called les Apprentis where Guillaume skis the flight of stairs in their Paris appartment - worth watching just for that. Guillaume, who did the stunt himself due to lack of budget, has since lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. The main problem, in my limited experiences, is that once engaged in the staircase you have to ride it to the end as you cannot turn and you pick up speed very quickly. Not good unless you have some kind of run-out.
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Sharkymark, I wanted to see if it was a more general 'problem', I know I've thought it!
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Unfortunately our staircase goes round many times (6 floors up), so muliple wall events would mark the descent. 
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Good to see the vote thingy is working again.
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I've watched a ski instructor ski down the entire 3 flights of metal steps outside the Maison du Ski in La Rosiere. Produced a fantastic display of sparks as the edges were worn down to virtually nothing. (They were an ex-rental pair of skis destined for the bin BTW).
/WiRED
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I have considered it but decided against. However as a child I saw a comic turn done by some ski teachers in a hotel in Lech. They pretended to be a ski class with representatives of several nationalities and skied down a wide flight of stairs onto the dance floor. The chief buffoon was the "English" skier who had tiny skis and enormously long sticks. Of course he fell and had to have a "broken" leg splinted.
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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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Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Thu 4-05-06 14:12; edited 1 time in total
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I saw someone (an Austrian I think) ski down some concrete stairs in Saalbach this year. Lots of sparks!! We made him do it 3 times and fortunately he didn't fall once.
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You know it makes sense.
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Not on skis but I did use my own stairs as a 'toboggan' run using a camping mat. Several of us tried it and all went swimmingly until we tried two people on the same 'toboggan'. This resulted in a broken foot for me.
Before you ask, beer was involved. However, the planning was carried out when sober 
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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 for a change, I saw a French guy ski UP a flight of about 6 - 8 steps outside a bar in Les Saisies. He got enough speed up down the pavement (illegal, and dodging pedestrians) to get very noisily up the stairs and stop right outside the bar. It was quite impressive but I tried not to look impressed because he was obviously a plonker.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Two words: Rental Skis 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| Two words: Rental Skis |
Are you swearing to yourself?
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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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Yes, I've skiied the "Grand Marlborough Gardens Coulior."
Funnily enough it was a Friday night at about 1 in the morning, conditions weren't good but I did ski it responsibly with a guide (my equally drunk brother). I remember it being a very narrow chute with little space to stop. It was the sort of run that you do once and once only!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ian Hopkinson,
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| TRY THIS AT HOME: Stand side on to the stairs, look down and imagine it is a run and you are about to turn works best in a Victorian terrace with v steep stairs, but probably a buzz anywhere! |
Yup ~ most mornings!!!!!!
My skis are still leaning up the stairs as I just haven't got the heart to put them away yet (and keep giving them a little pat as I go by  )...
However, I have managed to resist temptation of actually attempting the double black diamond that is my stairs on skis... I can just feel the pain.
An alternative is stair-diving [similar to tobogganing but head first and on your front] ~ you must first drink far too much with like-minded mates and then think it would be a great laugh to launch yourself head first from the top stair. It works best where you have a reasonable run off, but is particularly challenging where a glass front door is only a metre or so from the bottom of the stairs.
The best is "combo stair-diving" if you can persuade a bloke to be the 'sled' ~ you get all the fun and excitement of the dive without the excruciating carpet burns  
He has to be really really p!ssed to think a second run is a good idea, though.
However, be warned, if you have rather nice widely-spaced wooden spindles on your staircase you may lose one or two as the evening progresses ~ all in the name of sport, though, so that's OK 
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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 considered it as a child but not in recent years
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Scarpa, Ah the best ones always come round again!
Annehillskiing, Yes, have to admit it was probably, ooh, at least 5 years ago I last attempted it ~ but only last June when my mate's newly done spindles were wrecked by some lads (read men) re-living their youth ~ who really should have known better and attempt to hold down quite sensible, 'proper' jobs when they are not stair diving... 
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Scarpa, but I'm collecting hard data, which could be used as a random filler on the BBC or some other well regarded news channel. 
"Researchers at global ski community, snowHeads, have discovered - through painstaking and difficult research..."
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I personally haven't but manage to stop my son sledging down them when the snow had disappeared this year.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Jerry, bitch
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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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You know it makes sense.
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SkiBod, pity no-one was taking a vid at the time
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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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| SkiBod wrote: |
| chuffing-heck-me-duck-fookin-whippets-up-my-ferret-b"gger-me-sideways-with-coal-scuttle |
That's a good night out in Barnsley...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Try and get that line on a T-shirt and you'll be a babe magnet.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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"be" ??
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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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If anyone's ever been to Portsmouth and seen the Guildhall... we used to use the steps as a toboggan run, using bread-trays nicked from round the back of the guildhall... until one of my mates hit one of the bins in the square and broke his leg ! Owch, big big owch !
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austin7, My brother and I used to do something similar with tea-trays when we were little but it was a bit of a sod getting round the bend halfway down
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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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| Linds wrote: |
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ahem
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FenlandSkier, snigger
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Charlatanefc, and I thought you were a nice bloke, your just as bad as FenlandSkier,
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Linds, sorry dearie. Just leave me in the mist next time you find me tired and lost
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