 Poster: A snowHead
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My wife’s mate is away skiing just now with her mum. Just before lockdown she got new skis for her 89th(?) birthday. Now, at 91, she has decided to wear a helmet for the 1st time ever. Legend.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@dode, there are a few of us who've skied with Jude1's mum Ingrid, who is around that age. Also a total inspiration.
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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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@Hurtle, hope we get as lucky!
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Skiing after 80 is pretty awesome. 90? Legend!
But what’s helmet got anything to do with it?
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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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We skied around ten years ago with a great old friend who was 91. He had such elegant style on the snow, and that also included insisting on going into a self service place, (we were in Flaine)
and coming out followed by two waitresses carrying trays of all the coffee and drinks he had bought. That’s the way to do it, we all thought. Still with us at 101 but he has finally given up skiing and sailing.
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If only we should be so lucky
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It's partly luck, of course, but even someone who is fortunate with the genetics also has to bring a good deal of drive and resilience to bear, to be still skiing (or sailing) into ripe old age. I have crewed for 7 years or so on a boat where, at 75, I am the youngest and by some distance the most agile person on board. The skipper is 88 and has had bowel cancer, open heart surgery and a replacement hip. The boat is set up for ease of handling, with powered winches, and we have a cockpit tent to make things less cold underway, and a diesel heater for indoors! We don't do long voyages or night passages - though in the old days he did all those things. As a young man he was a top dinghy racing helm - and on the rare occasions we race these days, he still has the old competitive streak. We don't go out in the face of a stormy forecast, though inevitably one is sometimes caught out, and then we cope. I just join the boat, take my share of the victualling and the cooking (we eat and drink very well on board) and contribute what very little I'm allowed to, to the cost. The skipper does all the maintenance, works on the boat all winter. The day he has to stop sailing I suspect he'll feel life is no longer worth living.
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That's so true - and a good reason to get with doing stuff while you can.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Awesome.
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The guy who founded my local ski field was skiing hard out into his 80’s, then he got outed as having been in the SS during ww2 and got unceremoniously cancelled.
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You know it makes sense.
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@hang11, which just goes to show that being active well into your 80s is not a sign of moral rectitude. And, conversely, of course, deciding to take life rather easier is not morally reprehensible....
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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've recently discovered I'm now entitled to a free (whole season) lift pass in the Three Valleys. That is a remarkably rejuvenating thought. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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| @hang11, which just goes to show that being active well into your 80s is not a sign of moral rectitude. And, conversely, of course, deciding to take life rather easier is not morally reprehensible.... |
I'm unsure that it goes to show anything other than the fact that people are not keen on having members of the SS in their midst. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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No, of course it doesn't. It's just that sometimes one gets the impression that people who are fit enough to ski at 90 are seen as fine examples of human beings, and that those who can't have somehow just shown a lack of moral fibre.
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He's doing well and enjoying life to the full 
