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| Scooter in Seattle wrote: |
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I for one, totally don't understand.
I wouldn't know what to say to all those celebrities. Moreover, if I do have any interest in conversing with them, I'd rather do it over a drink than shouting to each other out on the slope. As for the like of Plake etc? I wouldn't be able to keep up anyway.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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My old PE teacher, Mr Latcham, I was totally hopeless at school sports, football, tennis, athletics etc etc. Mike Latcham used to run the school ski trips (I didn't start skiing till I'd left school) and I think I can be happy with my skiing abilities now.
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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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Nigel Farage would be another, for different reasons, sooooo satisfying to send him head first ito the slush 
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someone who had recently won 'worlds best ski instructor'
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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 met Farage post 2016, in the fanciest hotel in Lancashire. He was smoking near my car, looking at it in an offensive fascist manner.
I vaguely hoped he'd drop ash on it and give me an excuse. It didn't happen.
The celeb thing is weird; when I've snowboarded with famous people I pretend I don't know who they are, which
isn't particularly interesting. I don't think I ever met a non-snow celeb who was better than mediocre; some of them
have "issues" which mean they're mostly best avoided.
Riding with famous sports people is good though. The best bit is before anyone knows who they are... which is where you learn not
to make assumptions about people. Like the ski shop guys advising Jennifer Heil that her skis were wrong.
I'm still laughing, not sure if they ever worked it out, mind.
On the OP, I'm collecting them but I missed Sims, so he'd do for dead people.
Otherwise Victoria Jealouse would be good, but don't tell anyone I said that.
Or Tina Basich; I ended up with her brother so don't tell him I was disappointed.
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| Orange200 wrote: |
I was going to say Bond, just to deploy the Union Flag parachute  |
Ah, the forgotten Bond. His one and only appearance. I actually thought he was quite good and should have done a few more.
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Plake would be great craic, and McConkey would have been fun, but I would pass on him if I could ski with the great Saucer Boy!!
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stanton and whitegold just to find out if a) they exist and b) they know one end of the ski from the other
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| kitenski wrote: |
| stanton and whitegold just to find out if a) they exist and b) they know one end of the ski from the other |
Suspect that would be a major disappointment 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Nigella Lawson. No idea if she can ski though
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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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I'd love to ski with Stanton just to see if he actually skis.
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Doug Coombs
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You know it makes sense.
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@DB, good shout. He was a true gent.
I’d like to say Aksel Lund Svindal or Didier Cuche, or (back to the departed) Klammer. But they would all just leave me behind.
I’d love to say Marcel Hirscher, but he’d just leave me behind too.
Having not seen my stepD since pre covid, it’ll be her… even though she also tries to leave me behind. Roll on Christmas in Italy, just hope she makes it back from Canada.
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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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| dode wrote: |
@DB, good shout. He was a true gent.
I’d like to say Aksel Lund Svindal or Didier Cuche, or (back to the departed) Klammer. But they would all just leave me behind.
I’d love to say Marcel Hirscher, but he’d just leave me behind too.
Having not seen my stepD since pre covid, it’ll be her… even though she also tries to leave me behind. Roll on Christmas in Italy, just hope she makes it back from Canada. |
Think that bombshell might be a bit of news to Der Kaiser.
I've skied with Rahlves - lovely guy but fast like you wouldn't believe even with punters, bumps not even there to him.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ricky Gervais and Greg Davies. It would be really irritatingly slow skiing but you would never stop laughing.
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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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Haven't skied for 20 years but a day Snowboarding with
Living - Xavier de le Rue
Departed - Craig Kelly
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It would also be nice to ski with Michael Schumacher because that would mean he has recovered. Still a sad situation.
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| dode wrote: |
@DB, good shout. He was a true gent.
I’d like to say Aksel Lund Svindal or Didier Cuche, or (back to the departed) Klammer. But they would all just leave me behind.
I’d love to say Marcel Hirscher, but he’d just leave me behind too.
Having not seen my stepD since pre covid, it’ll be her… even though she also tries to leave me behind. Roll on Christmas in Italy, just hope she makes it back from Canada. |
He’s from our local resort (Dachstein West)….watched him training on his home hill (specially prepared) about 3 Winters ago. Hoping to ‘bump’ into him one day.
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If I am.able to clip in again I would definitely want it to be with my wife.
Absolutely no desire to ski with a celeb or some pro that would dissappear over the horizon in a flash
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@Dave of the Marmottes, @DB, never been happier to have been mistaken 
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Dave Ryding, awesome slalom skier. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Snowbandit56, yep. Me 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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Sorry I have no heros.
I don't much like skiing alone though.
I like skiing with Newbies and I like skiing with anyone who'll have me along.
I like taking tips from experts and I love sharing them with anyone who needs a pointer.
I need someone to show me the easy way down or push me a bit harder to take a steeper challenge.
I've had a great time skiing with my kids when they were children and I'm particulary looking forward to skiing with
My Granddaughter, I have a feeling she is going to become a very tasty skier.
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The guys I worked with in Serre Che too many years ago with my mate Steve. (I think they are all still alive)
Doug Combes, in La Grave obvs.
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You know it makes sense.
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Definitely either Candide or Cody Townsend. They're the only two people I'm a real fan of in skiing, and I think it'd be a real blast skiing with them.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I (with my wife) once shared a lift in Lech with Madonna, so skied 30 metres with her getting off. Not much of a claim to fame considering I'm an ex-international winter sportsman. I've shared the same hotel as Graham Bell, and nearly wiped him out in Courmayeur.
But the guy I'd ski with is Vladimir Putin. Just to see if he is any good.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I'd give anything to ski in the Alps with my boy. He clicked with it last ski trip in '19 and has come in a load on plastic in the last 2 years. It looks like we'll need to wait another year at least.
In terms of inspirational skiers, not sure 'with' would be the right word. I'd concede the 'best skier on the mountain' title to have a few runs with any these guys:
Glen Plake. In Chamonix.
Cody Townsend.
JP Auclair.
Shane McConkey.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The more I'm thinking with who I would like to ski, the less names come to my mind. I did ski with pretty much everyone who I would want to ski with from alpine WC tour, with some more with some at least few runs, and also with quite few from freeride world, so I really have noone who I would really want to ski with and I didn't yet. People listed in this thread who have absolutely no idea on how to ski (Putin, Schumacher...) are not on my list of want to have them as ski partners. I would go for beer, coffee, lunch or dinner with them, but for skiing my requires are a bit higher
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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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Attila the Hun, complete with elephants. That way it will settle the argument once and for all which pass he went over.
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Alastair Pink in his tweeds.
Everyone would be looking at him and not notice how crap I was skiing.
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Boarding alive - Shaun Palmer - Would love to just rage around with him pissing people off and acting like an angry young punk.
Boarding dead - Tom sims - Just a legend in skate and snow. The tales on the chairlift would be awesome.
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| johnE wrote: |
| Attila the Hun, complete with elephants. That way it will settle the argument once and for all which pass he went over. |
I can help you out there. None and not with elephants.
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| Bones wrote: |
But did they have fava beans and Chianti as refreshments on the way ?  |
there is a good chance they had Fava beans and cabbage foraged en-route along with dried mutton tenderized under the saddle of their horses as they rode. There was probably epic farting from the 15,000 horses and men in the Hunnic army.
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Margot Robbie
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@davidof, No Chianti though, they didn't get that far south.
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A barrel of laughs. Into motorsport in a big way (class win in Paris Dakar amongs other things)
