 Poster: A snowHead
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I spend many days working as a lifty every winter. This unique brand of chaos must be mostly limited to English skiers. Most people sort of just get on, and get off.
FWIW the new AI powered lift systems will try to figure out who's a bit of jerry as people are loading, and set the speed accordingly. I think it looks at a lot of things to make that call, not sure if goggle gap comes into it.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Poogle wrote: |
My ski-poles have a built-in ice-pick, so nobody ever tangles with me...  |
Blimey, we've not had a sighting of the GSA for a while!
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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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| hang11 wrote: |
| ......not sure if goggle gap comes into it. |
Oh God, that's me screwed then 
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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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@Bones, They'll be gorging themselves on heavy Kendle Mint Cake and jacket insulation to form a 'hibernation bung' by now.
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| hang11 wrote: |
I spend many days working as a lifty every winter. This unique brand of chaos must be mostly limited to English skiers. Most people sort of just get on, and get off.
FWIW the new AI powered lift systems will try to figure out who's a bit of jerry as people are loading, and set the speed accordingly. I think it looks at a lot of things to make that call, not sure if goggle gap comes into it. |
Not just English skiers. I’ve sat next to skiers of all nationalities who seem to find it difficult.
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| hammerite wrote: |
Lift entry woes today as I was a few mm away from popping ligaments in both knees. Even though it was quiet, for some reason there was a bunch of people all hanging around in front of the turnstiles. I took the snow plough option to get past a few just as a guy decided to ski over the back of one of my skis snagging it in the process. He kept going and my skis kept separating until eventually I couldn’t take the angle any more and tumbled over. My knees were grumbling somewhat. All at about 0.3mph.
Once he realised he apologised and asked if I was ok. |
Ouch. Similar thing happened to Mrs.tsgsh on Thursday in Sölden. Skier on her left decided to snowplough off an 8-person chair and got a ski over or under hers (she doesn't know which, and I didn't look until it was too late), pulled it out until she was in a snowplough with a lot of worry about her bad left knee then her right toe binding came off (fortunately) and she hit the ground hard, badly bruising her right buttock and elbow and jarring her dodgy right shoulder. The offending skier Foxtrot Oscar'd pretending nothing had happened.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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It depends who I'm next to. If I'm next to people I know, I'm pretty relaxed, though even there I've been caught out.
I got stitched up by my other half this season, who practically jumped off the chair with her skis at 45 degrees on to the back of mine. Failed to make the turn with her skis on the back of mine. She's a fantastic skier but can make ahem . . . interesting, totally independent and uncommunicated, decisions.
If it's ppl I don't know and it's a full chair, if I'm on either side, get off and head to that side. If I'm in the middle, just go straight ahead. A lot depends on the lift exit, straight ahead ones it's pretty hard for ppl to stuff up but where there's a need to immediately turn, it's a recipe for screw ups.
I ski in the 4 vallees so the boarders are usually good, just make sure they have the time and space to get their boards angled straight ahead.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I found myself trying to keep my backside on the chair for maybe half a second longer than others to let them get a head start "just in case" one of them veers the wrong way. Wife's knee got badly twisted a few years ago in a classic slow speed chair lift exit when my son inadvertently did "something" which caused her to fall. We've all been super cautious since. Always better if we can get a lift with just our family on it (up to 6 of us, depending on the day) as we tend to know what each of us is doing. The nightmare is getting on a lift with three or four school trip skiers, especially if they are on either side of you.
I was also amazed how many times we would get on a lift and the the rightmost-seat occupier would want to go left at the top, and vice versa.
Just ski straight off if you're in the middle, and those to the sides should just fan gracefully outwards.
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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 thought the etiquette was to say "bonne journée" to your fellow travellers when leaving the chairlift and if in Japan accompanied by a small bow.
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| johnE wrote: |
| I thought the etiquette was to say "bonne journée" to your fellow travellers when leaving the chairlift and if in Japan accompanied by a small bow. |
And say "Danke schön/merçi/grazie/thanks pal [or hen]" to the lifty (not been to Japan or Andorra to comment on those).
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You know it makes sense.
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| tsgsh wrote: |
| johnE wrote: |
| I thought the etiquette was to say "bonne journée" to your fellow travellers when leaving the chairlift and if in Japan accompanied by a small bow. |
And say "Danke schön/merçi/grazie/thanks pal [or hen]" to the lifty (not been to Japan or Andorra to comment on those). |
...or as one German Lady said to my Father years ago: "Gute Fahrt". 
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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