 Poster: A snowHead
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What do you normally do for lunch on the slopes? Eat at a resturant on the slope, go back to the chalet or byo?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Eat at a restaurant, but not at lunchtime - by having a late lunch you can get quieter slopes between 12 and 2, and you don't have to cope with crowded restaurants.
If I'm having a really good time, sometimes I don't bother with lunch at all.
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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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Normally eat at a resto on the slopes.
Have done a BBQ on the slopes in Vail a couple of seasons ago - that was fun!
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Have a coffee stop, then a late lunch, especially when it gets a bit warmer and slushy in the afternoon.
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If I'm skiing by myself it's normally a Mars bar or two on the chairlift. If skiing with others it can get a bit of an affair (especially if with the SCGB), but normally a bowl of soup and a roll (or some chips) is plenty enough. If touring either a bit of cheese and (probably only half) a roll, or you've often finished for the day by 2pm, so a bowl of pasta at the hut. Back to the chalet is a complete waste of valuable snowtime  .
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A nice lunchtime meal, outside if the weather is fine, can't be beaten. Whatever looks good on the menu. Also provides 45 mins nice rest.
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Lucnh sitting outside a mountain restaurant taking in the views and enjoyed a nice cold beer.
Generally have lunch quite early - 12-12.30 so we have the slopes to ourselves come 1pm.
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My lunch breaks are similar to grahamN.
Soup, Roll and possibley a plate of chips plus a coke or bottle of water.
Don't drink alcohol at all whilst ski-ing.
Always lunch at resturant but I would try and plan my stop either before the rush or at a quieter resturant. For example early in the week mountain top resturants tend to be quieter becuase ski schools are still at the bottom. Then come the middle of the week the ski schools have moved up the mountain so it tends to be queiter at the base station.
Never take more than 1 hour for lunch.
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Restaurant. Inside.
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If I'm having a particularly good day (or the restaurant looks busy or the people I'm with are chronically slow eaters) I'll just ski through. I used to take loads of snacks with me but last season hardly ever bothered.
The problem with lunch is that I never ski as well afterwards as I did before so it's best to leave it as late as possible.
I only drink at lunchtime on the mountain if I'm skiing down and finishing straight afterwards.
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If it's at all cold, inside. Learned a while ago that a nice day whilst skiing isn't necessarily nice when sat down stationary and eating. Good to get inside and keep warm. Normally like to just have a bowl of soup and bread, with some coke. No alcohol mid-day, unless not really intending to ski much in the afternoon, in which case a vin chaud - mmmmmmmmmmm, I'm feeling myself there already! 
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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 have to eat so always a lunch..anything , Rosti, spag bol, soup...!!
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Coffee is essential, to finish.
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You know it makes sense.
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Take a packed lunch, so it can be eaten while riding lifts.
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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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Usually mountain restaurant - and usually have the plat du jour or whatever the equivalent was in Austria - forgotten! Washed down with either beer, vin chaud or a hot chocolate depending on mood!!!
I need a decent break otherwise my sugar levels seem to dip and I get very grumpy and technique goes to pot!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Increasingly I like rather a fine lunch. In any case I need to eat frequently (but lightly).
If it's a full on powder day I'll grab burger/pasta/etc. Eaten on chair if it's really deep and fluffy.
If it's cold, wet, rainy and miserable I'll try and find my way to somewhere with a decent menu. I believe you can start at least as early as 11h00. I highly recommend La Terrasse in Lindarets: duck in honey sauce and a bottle or so of Mercurey. Maybe a little Rose or a Leffe as apero.
Poire is essential, to finish.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Elizabeth B, Going up and down in a gondola just to avoid "picnic interdit" seems a bit excessive
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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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Nick-o, grab a light snack at about 11, ski then until 2.30 - 3 and grab something. That avoid long delays and spend more time on slopes.
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Generally we stop for lunch in one of the mountain restaurants. We did try taking rolls for a couple of days, but we wanted something warm in the end, so that didn't last. When skiing with the family, we try and stick to a tight budget as 5 adults gets very expensive. We usually opt for goulash soup or chips, and then suplement this with Mars bars and bread rolls eaten on the chair lifts
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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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IncogSkiSno, we do that as well...the week starts off with large expensive plates of the local specialities in the main resataurant and rapidly turns into the dingy fast food bit underneath when (a) cash runs out and (b) we lose valuable snow time waiting 
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We did a lot of skiing last season as a family and had resolved to make up sandwiches as 4xlunchxmany days = £££'s
Well that idea lasted all of 2 days!
Self and wife: soup and a roll.
Kids: Spag Bol, saussice/frites, whatever.
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Mountain restaurant, on the slopes, on the terrace if possible. Wherever, if I go touring again.
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Restaurant usually, nothing OTT, one course only and a glass or two. If I'm feeling very keen, just a Mars bar and a beer, but this is increasingly rare.
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Lunch is for wimps! The only time I stop is to adjust the red braces on my salopettes. 
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I have done most of the these options.
Eating at a restaurant depends on the resort and the company I am in. SCGB usually means a lunch if you are skiing the afternoon with them. Fluealp at Zermatt with SCGB was absolutely fantastic -great band,great food,great views.
In places like Courchevel eating out of a knapsack is an attractive choice.
I have gone back to the apartment when I was a beginner in La Plagne - but at that stage I regarded it like a Summer holiday and the nursery slope was like the swimming pool just outside the front door. I never had any aspirations to move away from it either. I thought everything I needed was there.
I also went back to the Lodge when I skied at French PTT places. We started off taking huge packed lunches but then I saw the range and quality of scoff they were enjoying at lunch and there was a change of plan. One of our lot smashed himself up really badly and I was the interpretor to deal with the French medics. Two memories are, firstly looking in my schoolboy French dictionary to see he had apparently smashed his goldfish bowl ( I guessed it was his pelvis ) and, secondly, the guilty enjoyment of a really nice steak, thinking I would have to come down to lunch more often.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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On a non-powder day whatever I fancy - definitely prefer cafeteria set ups though & experienced some of the worst waiter service of my life at the crummy hovel at Brevent mid mountain. On a powder day - cereal bars on the chair. Last big trip - lots of powder so usually a sandwich in the car while changing my boots.
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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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chris,
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Lunch is for wimps! The only time I stop is to adjust the red braces on my salopettes.
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I quite like whimps for lunch !!! 
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If it's a full on powder day I'll grab burger/pasta/etc. Eaten on chair if it's really deep and fluffy.
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I can manage a cereal bar (known in our family as squirrel sh*t biscuits) on a chairlift but am full of admiration for someone who can do pasta!
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You know it makes sense.
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...yeah that's ome hell of a chairlift: 5 mins for the water to boil, 10 mins to cook the pasta and 5 mins to eat?! 
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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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Ususally a mountain cafe (I would use the word restaurant advisedly), spag bol, soup and a roll usually two of coffee, beer, red wine, water, vin chaud, fizzy pop. Don't want to get in to the whole alcohol no alcohol sketch and whatever you choose is ok by me but I'm on holiday and I quite like a beer or wine at lunchtime.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Always eat on the slopes. OK, it costs more, but I'd rather be at 2500m eating pasta and knocking back beer than in the village
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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johnboy, Yep, the only way after is up or down, which is the best option.
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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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As the Mrs says we usually lunch early and have the slopes to ourselves when everyone else is in the scrum. Then we have a good afternoon break and ski till last lift.
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It depends on the location. I skipped lunch in Whistler it was so bad. Usually outside in the sun, but at Christmas a warm cosy chalet is best. Usually eat early as kids get up late and won't have breakfast. I
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Odin,
I think you'll make 10,000 posts no problem
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Odin,
I think you'll make 10,000 posts no problem |
Yea . . . Just not sure i'll make tomorrow unless I stop drinking ! 
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