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Replace all chairs with gondolas
Solves the half empty thing as well being boarder friendly
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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100% re toilets down three flights of slushy narrow stairs - can't remember the only resort (must be Austrian not French) where this was not the case - heaven!
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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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Goggle lenses with a defrosting (frost, not fog) screen similar to the rear window in our cars. My home area specializes in freezing fog, and the only thing that fixes it is your bare hand every 10 to 12 turns.
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@Scooter in Seattle, ...you fix freezing fog by turning it with your bare hands?....impressive
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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 wish French mountain restaurants would allow people of any age to choose the kids menu! It is often restricted to under 10s which my teens find frustrating
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| Scooter in Seattle wrote: |
| Goggle lenses with a defrosting (frost, not fog) screen similar to the rear window in our cars. My home area specializes in freezing fog, and the only thing that fixes it is your bare hand every 10 to 12 turns. |
Now that is interesting......... https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005004927195477.html .......couple of strips....powered by something like electric glove/boot systems currently in existence 
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@ski3, exactly. And nice work finding that gizmo. Keep going, and I’ll be your guinea pig!
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Yeah we need the solution to be applied to real ski goggles, so we don’t go blind. Plus, it’s too cheap to be any good. On the other hand, it’s so cheap I might just get one anyway to check it out. Good find. I will admit that graphene had not crossed my mind.
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When non-detachable chairs reach stealth mode.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The restaurant by the Carella lift at La Plagne has a rope fixed at head height all around the perimeter wall where you can clip your helmet on, neat solution.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| terrygasson wrote: |
lift lines to be better regulated and chairs to be full during busy periods, how hard is it to put up roped off lanes so as you can funnel down to the lifts, with a separate line for single skiers to fill up spare seats.
I.E. a 4man chair have 5no lanes, it would also stop the cockwombles who go through the barriers, then immediately stop and wait for their mates who are further back to come through!!
I have experienced this in America, and it still amazes me that resorts in Europe (though there may be some), do not adopt this
i know we are on holiday and should chill out, but there is nothing more annoying than a big lift queue, whilst watching chairs depart with lots of spare capacity on them!! |
I’m so happy this drives someone else nuts,
Was skiing back from La Plagne to Arc 1600 yesterday and there were 6 man chairs going up with 2 people with huge queues . It’s five minutes people. It won’t kill you ti shard the chair or be temporarily separated from your mates.
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@Raven, ...yes this is a weird phenomenon...which sometimes makes us think that maybe skiing attracts egotists or encourages egocentric behaviour...or maybe the proximity anxiety from COVID has not yet gone away. This one actually has a remedy ... either a pisteur shouting ‘advancez a quatre/sees!!’ or a deafening loudspeaker doing the same...
...we once (irresponsibly?) set up a menacing chant at a choked 4-person chair...’advancez a quatre!! Advancez a quatre....!!’ And it got so fervent in the queue - a big chant in unison - that the pistey calmed it down and said ‘arret!!!!’ But it bloody well worked....
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You know it makes sense.
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Social pressure; a powerful tool!
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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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More Vegan options in Restaurants up the mountain (certainly in France). When I go with my Vegan Daughter - it’s like a weird Orienteering exercise - or a game of “Where’s (vegan) Wally”.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Is there such a thing as a Google Maps “Directions” feature for ski resorts? My daughter sent me a location pin but the map just recognized it as somewhere in another field. It would be nice if it said go down, fork left at the next blue, take the further chair at the bottom, then branch right for the red at the top, to arrive at this location (expected travel time 14 minutes). Recalculate route if you get on the wrong chair. Even better if you get the option “Avoid black runs” like “avoid motorways”.
I feel like it should have been done already but perhaps only for a few big resorts. And I’m aware that satnav plus cold kills phone batteries.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Brainwashing people into buying offpiste skis when all mountain skis would be more beneficial to their skiing
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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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Bench seat as standard at the top of all lifts to help boarders put on their boards without clutering up the whole piste!
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Orange200, Google maps have mapped some areas, street view via snowmobile 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thanks but doesn’t seem to work with directions? I just tried VdI, got onto the ski map, then plotted two points on pistes about 3km apart and asked Directions. It told me to walk/drive between them. Acid test for a downhill course, reverse direction. It gave me the same route. So perhaps the mapping has been done, but not the directions.
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@wnhall, our favourite lunch stop has a supply of bags and lots of hooks above head height for just that purpose.
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| Timmycb5 wrote: |
| wnhall wrote: |
| would you pay extra on the lift pass to put snipers ontop of the chairlift posts ? |
Could they multitask and take out anyone playing music on a loud speaker on the slopes? |
I wish the snipers were out in Les Gets today. There were two people in the same group of friends in the queue for a lift, each with a speaker blaring out the crapest hardcore stomp house. Different songs, obviously, so it produced just a generic noise.
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Ski boots that don't hurt and aren't a faff to put on and off. Like, you put your feet on a base, press a button (or something!) and a magic liquid gel thing comes out and forms neatly round your feet and lower shins, fitting you perfectly with just the right amount of wriggle room, with a harder protective shell on top. When you're done for the day, or stopped in a restaurant, they just unform back into the base again.
Surely we can't be TOO far off that kind of technology by now!!
On a more realistic level, I'll take scrapping the metal staircases of doom to the toilets please. And more pisteurs for confiscating lift passes from Blue Run Heroes with no sense of personal space.
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| @wnhall, our favourite lunch stop has a supply of bags and lots of hooks above head height for just that purpose. |
They should make it law to provide hooks 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| stewart woodward wrote: |
| Brainwashing people into buying offpiste skis when all mountain skis would be more beneficial to their skiing |
Ah do you mean "marketing all mtn" skis = fatter piste skis?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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A hyperloop from GVA to the 3Vs, that only I know about
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Why not think bigger? Hyperloop from *my house* to anywhere I choose in the world, destination movable with 1h notice to the hyperloop team 
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I'd like a tunnel you could drive through from England to France without stopping, rather than one where you have to arrive 45 minutes before your crossing, drive round the terminal car park, into another car park queue, then stack onto a train, wait another 15 minutes before it starts moving then unpack the train again at the other end.
After all those years they spent digging the tunnel you still have to get on a train to get to France.
It's a shame you can't pay to drive in the center service tunnel.
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You know it makes sense.
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@JohnS4,
If you've ever driven/ridden through Mont Blanc tunnel then you'd hate this idea, long tunnels stink so bad of exhaust fumes on a motorbike they are lethal.
For all those with goggle misting issues, use a very thin wipe of washing up liquid on the inside, it works for motorbike visors so I see no reason why it won't work for skiing goggles. I don't suffer with this problem myself though.
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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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| Chaletbeauroc wrote: |
| terrygasson wrote: |
I have experienced this in America, and it still amazes me that resorts in Europe (though there may be some), do not adopt this
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It requires people, people cost money. Not everybody would be happy for lift pass prices to go up even more in order to allow this. |
That's not the point. Some French resorts (e.g. 3V) had this when the first fast 6-chairs became popular in the late 90s. Those single lines vanished over time because of heavy lobbying against it on the part of ski schools. It's one of their main selling points for already quite advanced skiers. Les Arcs for example is toying around with the idea to bring something similar back. However no longer as a free service, but in the rather unpleasant form of a hard-boiled profit center with priority boarding which comes at a premium.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| gixxerniknik wrote: |
@JohnS4,
If you've ever driven/ridden through Mont Blanc tunnel then you'd hate this idea, long tunnels stink so bad of exhaust fumes on a motorbike they are lethal.
For all those with goggle misting issues, use a very thin wipe of washing up liquid on the inside, it works for motorbike visors so I see no reason why it won't work for skiing goggles. I don't suffer with this problem myself though. |
I've always done his too, a few spots spread out across visor inside, let dry and fine for fogging.
Also this https://www.thevisorshop.com/en/gb/Bob-Heath-Heath-Anti-Fog-Spray-50ml-Pump/m-5768.aspx was given to me as sample and works fine.
Note, don't think you want to use either on anti-fog coated goggles, there's warning to this on the above spray.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| sparklies wrote: |
| I'll take scrapping the metal staircases of doom to the toilets please. |
+1 for this. Glad it's not just me that hates that awkward clump to the loo.
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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 boots (vs Snowboard boots).
I'm 47 and really really want to start sking. My entire previous experience is one day about 15 years ago and I was actually quite good at it....but felt like i hated every moment based on the stupid heavy clumpy bricks paralysing the ends of my legs. Within a couple of hours all I wanted was my snowboard back, I couldn't begin to imagine an apres session in them, or stairs, or tiled floors. The list never ends.
Ski boots and bindings are trapped in a evolutionary cul-de-sac, a route that I'll never be able to take until a long overdue technical revolution is found.
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| 0nlyEverBoard# wrote: |
Ski boots (vs Snowboard boots).
I'm 47 and really really want to start sking. My entire previous experience is one day about 15 years ago and I was actually quite good at it....but felt like i hated every moment based on the stupid heavy clumpy bricks paralysing the ends of my legs. Within a couple of hours all I wanted was my snowboard back, I couldn't begin to imagine an apres session in them, or stairs, or tiled floors. The list never ends.
Ski boots and bindings are trapped in a evolutionary cul-de-sac, a route that I'll never be able to take until a long overdue technical revolution is found. |
Ski boots are great for crowded apres places, it's like wearing steel toecapped workboots, you feet are protected from when some heavyweight apres-er accidentally steps on your foot.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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There's a certain irony there, having had my foot stamped on by an angy ski boot !!
Ski boots are just weird, there's no comparison to any other widely used footware, especially ones that are needed to be worn in normal practical settings like bars, shops, public transport etc.
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Several million regular skiers suggest the issue is more with your personal tolerance than the technology itself. Sure it would be nice to have but you do sound very angry about it.
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@0nlyEverBoard#, alas, we are but pilgrims in a strange land here - this lot still think they need ski poles  , and anyway in A to your Q... https://www.apexskiboots.com/
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@Richard_Sideways, That's it !!
That's what's been needed for at least 30 years.
Let's hope they're the future, that they're successful, get developed and become a lot more affordable....cos right now 800 quid !!
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| Orange200 wrote: |
| Several million regular skiers suggest the issue is more with your personal tolerance than the technology itself. Sure it would be nice to have but you do sound very angry about it. |
Ha, no anger here, maybe some frustration that it was so easy to give up on skiing and return to what I already knew...and relief that I found boarding before skiing found me !
Also surprise that the countless millions of skiers over the last 35+ years haven't demanded and innovated more user friendly boots since the introduction of soft snowboard boots all that time ago.
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@0nlyEverBoard#, The point with skiing boots is in the name. They are for skiing. Not for walking/apres ski, dancing. And are designed to maximise skiing performance above other attributes. That is why at the high end of performance you even see some boarders using hard boots!
That said there has been significant innovation. Gripwalk, where there is more grip and the sole is shaped to aid walking especially. Materials development means boots ca. be much lighter and still give the same performance. And cross-over boots that have a very effective walk function (releasing the upper cuff). I will often wear my cross-over boots when teaching as they are more comfortable, walking is easier, and they are still reasonably stiff when skiing. But I do also have piste boots that I use for higher performance when required.
The Apex boot is a good concept but it's not great for skiing performance being very soft in forward flex. Essentially only good for lower level recreational skiing really.
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