 Poster: A snowHead
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Top of the first lift at the PiPAU bash, last Dec, I realised I'd forgotten...
...How to ski!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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I always think it's quite an easy trip to pack for as you know what you are going to be doing. Imagine getting dressed and what I need and hey presto it all gets put out on the bed/table/floor, surveyed then packed. No idea why anyone would need a list. Unless they are taking food provisions to cook with for a week and want to remember the dried sage for the stuffing.
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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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| adithorp wrote: |
Top of the first lift at the PiPAU bash, last Dec, I realised I'd forgotten...
...How to ski! |
Happens to me on every trip!
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One time we forgot to take the house keys out of the front door before we left. Had to phone sister-in-law to go round and lock up for us. 
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Not lost but while arriving in Geneva for a big group/family holiday I picked up my friends kids pram to lend a hand. I then found them outside with the kid in the exact same pram and had to get it back through the other side of security for the rightful owner, ooops.
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There wasn’t a kid in the mistaken pram was there? Extra points if so! |
I've only lost others children, I don't have my own, once. It ended happy so we don't talk about it hahaha
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I forgot to tell Mrs. D which week I had booked off at work for skiing. And I got the week wrong. Whoops.
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We left a pair of my son's, then about 10, salopettes and only discovered when he was dressing the next morning. Mad rush to ski shop in ADH before lessons started. Towards end of season and all we could find at short notice were a pair at double the price we'd just paid back home.
On a summer holiday i forgot to set the alarm for an early departure. Tunnel booked for about 6:30am, woke up about 5:15 , thought faark, and managed to get 4 of us out of the house and to Eurotunnel in time for our booking. Thankfully we're about 5 minutes away.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Turned up at a race with everything except my boots?
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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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And, for underwear, underpants (men) knickers (women). No confusion there.
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Ah! I take pants to mean underwear for either sex (trying to adopt gender neutral terminology). "Ski pants" to me means the undewear you wear specifically for skiing just as "ski socks" means socks specifically for skiing
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Ski Pants = Salopettes to me.
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You know it makes sense.
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Left my passport in an airbnb on my last day skiing in March 2020. Would never have clocked if the owner hadn't messaged me. Was planning to ski until early afternoon, but by the time I'd schlepped back to my car and driven down the mountain to retrieve said passport, I couldn't be bothered to go back up and just got on the road to my overnight stop in Magnant.
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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: |
| Ski Pants = Salopettes to me. |
Only when they incorporate braces. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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@johnE,
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"Ski pants" to me means the undewear you wear specifically for skiing
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That's a new one on me.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Latest trip I fitted the adapter nuts for the fancy-pants, snap on snow chains I have a week early, but then the car had needed last minute check/repair on the brakes in england. So so I tool them off. I remembered 3 days into the holiday that if required, the chains in the boot would be of no use whatsoever as the nuts were in my garage at home 
Thankfully not an issue in this dry winter we're having.
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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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"Ski pants" to me means the undewear you wear specifically for skiing
That's a new one on me.
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Don't you mean a "new pair"
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Only when they incorporate braces.
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@Hurtle, I can't remember ever owning a pair that didn't? (might be a feature more predominant in male apparel?)
Back in the day, when virtually everyone wore skin-tight stretchy ski pants (aka race pants, at the time), I seem to remember that salopettes was a term reserved for the baggy, more insulated, trousers.
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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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Shoes, got all packed & got to my overnight stop at mum's to find the sandals that I was wearing and my ski boots were the only footwear I had
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I forgot gloves on my 1st trip. Was to late to get any when I realised & after the 1st day being on the bunny slope I didnt bother getting any.
It was mid march & not very cold.
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This wasn't skiing, but years ago we got to the passport booth at Portsmouth for an overnight ferry to France, and realised that our 4 month old daughter wasn't on anyone's passport. Frantic phone call to my mum, who was an immigration officer at Harwich. She phoned her counterpart at Portsmouth and grovelled, but to no avail - apparently UK Borderforce get a huge fine if they let someone through without the right paperwork and it gets noticed on the other side. We turned round, went home to Guildford, and came back next day with her birth certificate as proof she was our baby - of course this time they didn't bother to look at anything and just waved us straight through!
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Footbeds for my boots. I’d split my boots, liners and footbeds after our previous trip and had them all in the airing cupboard. I picked up my boots and liners but completely forgot the footbeds.
We’ve also forgotten the cash we’d exchanged the day before.
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Winter (snow) boots, helmet liner.
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I must have forgotten something some time ...
But I can't remember 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I think I’m with @DrLawn on that. No doubt there has been something fairly trivial on occasions - but I can’t remember a biggy.
However, I have had a few dreams about going away and forgetting something really important - like important equipment (‘no trousers in public’ type scenario), the right venue or right week, or left my boat behind (obviously not a skiing holiday). Oddly, I’m sure I had a dream recently that was very similar to tangowaggon’s wrong footwear incident.
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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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My husband left his new jacket in a hotel between Macon and Lyon on the way to Val Thorens a few years ago at Easter. The owner texted me a few minutes after we left but (unusually) I had put my phone in the boot so didn’t get the message till we arrived in VT. We bought a new jacket and collected the other one on the way home. Shout out to L’Aube du Moulin in Gleize, a very pleasant night stop and helpful owner.
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Forgot my gloves one year, left them on a boot storage carousel in the Swiss hotel, they were still there when we went back a year later!
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You know it makes sense.
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Recently combined a work trip with some skiing, was so pleased I seemed to have remembered all my work equipment. It was only as I glanced at someone's carry on luggage on the plane that I realised I'd forgotten my helmet. Trip to the sport shop at Zurich airport, now have two helmets and only one head...
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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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I do remember a bunch of us driving away from our Mark Warner week at the Monte Fort Chalet in Verbier, but forgetting to pick up our passports.
From the reception.
Luckily we were all working in Germany and just drove through the border without incident.
The passports arrived by post a couple of days later.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Remembered how to ski quite quickly last month but forgot how to speak French!
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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 was going between northern and southern hemispheres. Stopped off in Bali for 'a couple of weeks', had 7 pairs of demo skis with me. Managed to persuade the hotel to look after them when i first arrived , moved around a bit and promptly forgot about them, was standing at the airport and looked at my booking with 2 ski bags on it about to check in and thought shiiiuuuugar. Quickly managed to taxi to hotel and back to airport in time. Ooops.
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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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Many years ago I dug out the passports the night before our ski flights and realised with horror that both children's passports had just expired - resulting in a rapid change of flights to a couple of days later and a drive up to the Liverpool passport office ...
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| johnE wrote: |
| "Ski pants" to me means the undewear you wear specifically for skiing just as "ski socks" means socks specifically for skiing |
Is that because they are particularly "lucky"? Or is it because they have a reinforced gusset to support you over the moguls?
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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 once forgot to switch off the "Shuffle" feature on my iPod.
This may not sound like a big deal to you... but I drive through the night to get to the Alps, and to keep me awake I listen to audio books. Have you ever listened to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with all the chapters in the wrong order???? It certainly kept me awake.. more out of frustration and a sense of bewilderment than anything else. Because the rest of the family were asleep in the car, I couldn't turn the interior light on to see how to switch off the shuffle feature.
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@jamescollings,
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^^ winner so far! ^^
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Obviously not bad enough an experience to pull over to sort it?!?
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I once got onto a drag lift having forgotten to put my skis on. The liftie laughed a lot and I felt a complete fool.
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Not enough drawers i.e. pants thanks fully easily rectified by a visit to the Spar which is surprisingly well stocked with such items
Apres ski boots, again just bought some cheap ones whilst there.
Thankfully have never forgotten something which I’ve had to pay through the nose for.
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FAQ
It's been years since I've been to Switzerland so I've just ordered some appropriate adaptors!! 
