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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Did you know that there's a ski resort in Morocco?
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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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Not Europe, but for unusual destinations I think there's at least a couple of snowHeads who have skied in Iran.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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There are lots of countries and resorts not mentioned in that article. For example Slovakia or Yad Moss.
It always amuses me what is or is not considered Europe. I was judging the European Gymnastics Championships a few years ago and was shocked to discover Israel, Iceland, Turkey (including the non european part), Armenia and Azerbaijan are all in Europe.
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I had a chuckle when the 'Dolomites' featured at the end of the article... 
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Albania would be great if it gets the infrastructure in the future. The food is great, people are very friendly, and there's a lot to see.
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Israel, Iceland, Turkey (including the non european part), Armenia and Azerbaijan are all in Europe.
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Surely Iceland has to be part of Europe? Turkey is a difficult one as it crosses between Europe and Asia. Armenia and Azerbaijan are geographically Asia but culturally more like Europe than Asia. Israel is just entered I to Europe stuff as it would never be allowed in its regional equivalent event.
As for interesting places to ski outside Europe - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, currently Uzbekistan is starting to grow too.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Lofoten. Stunning place
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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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Fantastic Lebanon shot
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Fabulous photos!
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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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Only missing Greece and Armenia to complete the list (including Cyprus!). Google flights next 
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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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| rob@rar wrote: |
| Not Europe, but for unusual destinations I think there's at least a couple of snowHeads who have skied in Iran. |
Yes, I'd recommend it as somewhere unusual to ski that's near Europe. Plus Iran in general was a great experience as a tourist.
It's a bit of a hassle for UK passport holders now though, because you need a compulsory guide/escort to accompany you the whole time while you're in Iran (applies only to USA, UK and Canadian passport holders). When I went in 2010 and 2011 it wasn't a requirement.
It also invalidates the US ESTA, so you have to apply for a proper tourist visa if you want to visit the USA subsequently, which requires a trip to the embassy and lots of waiting around!
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now there's some inspiration
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Skied Rocarraso, Campo Felice and Ovindoli when we lived in Rome, all good fun but my Italian colleague compared them to skiing Scotland, weather wise.
Rocarasso was great, varied terrain and good infrastructure.
Had the opportunity to ski in Iran for a day a few years back. Mucked up my planning by having what turned out to be a 15 minute meeting on a Saturday on the wrong side of Tehran which meant I didn't have time to get to the ski hill. Doubt I will ever get a chance to go back again, and TBH I wouldn't want to under the current regime.
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+1 for everything musehead says about Iran. Worth going as a tourist let alone to ski, fantastic country.
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Doubt I will ever get a chance to go back again, and TBH I wouldn't want to under the current regime
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Unless you were there pre-1978 not much could have changed since you last went. Anyone that's been to Iran will tell you judge the country by the people not their government. I'm sure a lot of us in UK and USA would hope for the same treatment, and we get to elect ours!
Also nobody has mentioned Afghanistan yet. Bamyan is pretty safe and has the annual Afghan ski race.
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I don’t think Afghanistan is in Europe 
Portugal has ski lift infrastructure but Wales might be better.
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@boarder2020, The people I dealt with there on both trips were fantastic and couldn't have looked after us better.
The problem was that officialdom was always on pace behind. I think it is an amazing place and would love to go back as a tourist but not with the current regime in place and certainly wouldn't ask my wife to go. Both times I went was for work, given the sanctions in place since I last went I can't see me going back for work.
My view from two trips of ten days each was that the educated/middle class are putting up with the current regime but have no way to oust it. The people who were in their twenties that we spoke to were just bored, their view was that regime basically clamps down on anything at any time with little logic as to why certain things may or may not contravene the regimes views.
The regime I think have been clever in commercialising the leadership of the republican guard who have many interests in day to day Iranian companies. Its not in their economic interest, regardless of their belief in the doctrine to let the theocracy fail.
Anyway sorry for the thread drift.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Jasna is the most exotic place I have been to. Really enjoyed the trip but some of the pubs in the surrounding villages where a little sketchy.
Typical Brit so no language skills and zero English spoken in most of the bars and all the huts on the slopes. I thought Vodka and Coke in English was universally understood but apparently not
The shot of coke cost more than the Vodka too!
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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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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Great that JuanPlank. Is that you on the video?
Is it a rarity to have enough snow to ski on Tenerife?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Excellent Mike Pow and dublin2.
And Jasna does feel fairly exotic/very eastern bloc russ_e
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
Great that JuanPlank. Is that you on the video?
Is it a rarity to have enough snow to ski on Tenerife? |
mountainaddict, no not me. JuanPlan is more of an attempt at a joke on me being a snowboarder (one plank as opposed to two).
As for skiing, it's possible but unpredictable. I lived out there as a child/teen in the 80s and we had heavy snow at least once or twice every winter. You have to time it right though, it usually only lasts for a few days before it all melts again.
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@extremerob,
Wow!
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@Mike Pow,
Another Wow! Couloir and steep from 4m 30s in. 
Travelled Corsica a lot but only summer, for sampling GRs and beaches.
Magical. Favourite in Europe.
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| dublin2 wrote: |
| Val De Nuria, Catalonia Very small ski area, 20km perhaps What is unique about is is the funicular journey to reach it... |
Yeah, only been in summer, a couple of years back.
There are more interesting areas which are easier to get to in winter a bit further along the road like Masella.
In summer the mountainside has a lot of graded trails. Up from the base on the opposite side from the lifts there was
evidence of significant forest-damaging avalanche activity.
I stayed in the village at the bottom, then walked to the train which takes you up to the base.
The base itself was a bit charmless close up: I wasn't sorry not to stay there. It's a bit like those large Canadian hotel places.
There's one big complex in the bottom of a bowl. The food available was basic. Overall it didn't look shabby, but
not as upmarket as the Chateaux in Canada.
There's a nursery slope area near the complex, and then a gondola and another lift serving the ridge above the Funicular arrival point.
Possibly a good place for novice families; you couldn't really get lost or out of sight there.
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FAQ
who are that way inclined...
I get it now that it's rather obvious! 
