 Poster: A snowHead
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@Hells Bells, @Hurtle, He was in VT liftie gear but with "security" on the chest. As Pioneers feeds to the Folie and there's a lot of students around, I suspect he'd had a back-hander... either that or there's some local by-law against dodgy looking characters having picnics 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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If he’d confiscated our peanut snickers bars there would have been trouble.
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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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| Pejoli wrote: |
| Was it in the morning? |
Yes. About 10.30 or 11am
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| Gored wrote: |
| . Raises the question about validity of insurance if drunk on a slope |
If, of course, you can define "drunk". Or "intoxicated", or "under the influence of".
Raises the question also of what all the patrons of all those lovely bars and mountain restaurants are busy consuming whilst those of us with our rucksacks brimming with water, squash and sarnies are busy enjoying the lunchtime emptier slopes 
(And there wouldn't be any connection between having your BYO alcohol confiscated either, presumably?)
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| But no-one was actually drinking anything in this instance, and there is no law against having a glass of wine with your lunch in a French restaurant or with your picnic. ! It is like confiscating alcohol being carried in a vehicle on the way back from the supermarket. |
And we don't know what he'd have done if he did find it.
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This is all extremely odd.
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@Hurtle, given that the Folie in Chamonix charge €65 for the very same prosecco one buys for €6 in Carrefour... not unknown for some to arrive with "their own" ... 
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@under a new name, but surely the confiscation of personal prosecco is the job of the 'security' staff at the Folie D?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@under a new name, Sounds a little authoritarian; they are communists I suppose so its only fair . . . 
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adi and k obviously look too much like the hard-core rave at noon demographic. Less healthy activity and looking more knackered will probably keep the party po po off your tails.
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So you're saying "Be more @Dave of the Marmottes,"?
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You know it makes sense.
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Yeah. The party po-po never bother frisking me. They're busy calling the defibrillator guys.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I wonder what he’d have been able to do had you refused to being searched? What powers do they have?
Plus anyone with any sense finds a quiet spot piste side to bury their stash in snow thus saving you the job of carrying it around all morning whilst also keeping the refreshments nice and cool!
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Poster: A snowHead
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It's not at all unusual for the backpacks of certain demographics to be checked for booze at the bottom station of the La Daille gondola in Val d'Isere. It does run directly to the back door of the Folie Douche .
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| . ....They're busy calling the defibrillator guys. |
Don't you carry one of those in you're pack? 
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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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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| adi and k obviously look too much like the hard-core rave at noon demographic. Less healthy activity and looking more knackered will probably keep the party po po off your tails. |
To be fair, Adi does have a certain air of acid flashback about him
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@stanton, Too true.
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112 it’s the same everywheré.
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@adithorp, I reckon you could and should have refused. I don't think secouristes have any such right of search. Pretty sure they have no right of enforcement if you just say "bug off".
Maybe it was his mates turn to bring up the elevenses bottles, had forgotten and he thought he might get lucky?
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@johnE, Thats just the general Euro emergency number, not specific to the Arlberg which is 'Mountain Rescue - 140'
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@Old Man Of Lech, Thanks for that. I'll remember it, but will still have to crawl down to find a phone. The only time I've needed rescuing on the piste I just waited until a ski school came by and the instructor summoned the pistuers on her radio.
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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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@johnE, that is for emergency services is it not? As opposed to a resorts "piste de secours"?
Must admit I am not clear on each jurisdiction....
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I just shout 'Snowhead down' and wait a few seconds 
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You know it makes sense.
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This Wednesday afternoon there were 4 gendarmes at the bottom of the Pionniers lift in VT, not just searching backpacks but also doing pat downs. We were waived straight through but they were pulling quite a lot of people for checks so it caused a small amount of chaos despite being fairly quiet.
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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 strapped a wine box bag to my bra for festivals in my youth when their wine was bloody grim (yes worse than box wine). Top tip for Snowheads looking to avoid the VT Wine Persecutors
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Nadenoodlee, would first have to borrow a bra & Mrs.T42 might ask some awkward questions: Why is this wine warm? ... Whose bra is that!? ...sort of stuff 
| johnE wrote: |
| 112 it’s the same everywheré. |
Maybe so, it even works in the UK, but there are different emergencies...
| ..but just seen what Old Man Of Lech wrote: |
| @johnE, Thats just the general Euro emergency number, not specific to the Arlberg which is 'Mountain Rescue - 140' |
I recently had to update my Austrian Alps emergency number from 140, as advised in Obergurgl(?), to add 144 as shown on the piste signs in Mayrhofen.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sun 16-03-25 15:44; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Gämsbock, it's become common in recent years, although less so down at Plein Sud. I don't quite get the basis though, surely if you don't have an open container then you're not breaking any rules?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@SnoodyMcFlude, first time I‘ve seen/heard of it being Gendarmes as opposed to private security, ditto the pat downs. I guess this is more to do with looking for drugs. There‘s a huge fence above the Folie now too, not sure when they put that in but it basically means its impossible to perch yourself within earshot of it without actually going in.
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Once I take some water with me, then a backpack seems the most convenient way to carry it. Even a small water bottle in a pocket is cumbersome. A small backpack give me somewhere to put any layers I need to put on or take off as well, rather than stuff miscellaneous things into my coat.
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I noticed one day a couple of weeks ago, Sunday I think it was, a large number of Gendarmes on skis around the Lindarets area of PdS. Noticed a couple skiing around, then quite a few just at the turn off to the Mossettes chair. They didn't seem to be systematically stopping anyone, as in, they were just standing around (in a busy area where lots of skiers wait to regroup) so I wasn't at all sure what they were doing.
But afaiaa there is no rule here to say you can't carry alcohol, so it wouldn't have been for that - maybe they were just out on a training day out?
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| Essayer wrote: |
Have been skiing in the Arlberg for the last 10 days and it seems like every second person is wearing a backpack.
People don’t do ski with backpacks in Australia where I am from.
What is in these backpacks?
I don’t think it’s avalanche stuff. These aren’t big powder days or off piste skiers, just regular skiiers |
The bags are filled with Picnic material of varying sizes. the bags are filled with hedonistic picnic material. They find a place off piste and unravel a great feast of local hunky delicacies, display it all on a ski and photo caption it as a charcuterski.
Like Bond said before he sold out to the system, the world is not enough.
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