 Poster: A snowHead
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I have a few things that I really like, in principle, but never use ...
I have a Patagucci R4 jacket (basically an R1 bonded to an R2 with a windstopper layer in between...) it is quite a lovely thing to regard but
1. I am sure it is a size too big, despite my (smaller than me) wife using it from time to time
2. It is just too darn hot for any sensible use.
I also have a (?) 240 weight Icebreaker sweater, which is also a thing of beauty, but seriously? I could walk to the arctic in it and not feel the cold. I don't run hot. It's the sort of smart-ish mountain zip up that one could wear to the Albert 1iere for a fine post lockdown troughing but how sweaty?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We got given some very high end Motorola headsets to try out when teaching blind skiers and both the clients I taught using them hated the experience. "I feel like Im skiing around wearing a divers bell helmet" was one comment. Must be in my attic somewhere.
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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 kit related
but I have a very nice harmont and blaine winter coat that I have never had the opportunity to wear.
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I tend to end up with a lot of down and Gore-Tex jackets from previous seasons which are brilliant bits of kit and almost never show any wear... but they can't be worn at the same time as the newer stuff. My local charity shop therefore gets fairly regular drops of the sort of gear I'd have worked half a year to buy when I was younger... Possibly we may have the best dressed tramps in the country. Or the kids of the people in the shops maybe do quite well. Probably both, as last season's Sorrells probably aren't a lot of use in the Fens.
Whatever, there's no point in hoarding stuff you don't use 
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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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Aside from the various safety related items that sit in my pack and I hope never to use.
On a whim I bought a pair of Black Diamond Cobra carbon ice axes around 10 years ago. They are technically brilliant and things of beauty, but so far they have never been near ice. I also have the matching protectors and leash 
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Sadly, all my kit falls into this category this season.. 
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