 Poster: A snowHead
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I thought it was funny. That's how those pieces work. Obviously not to those of you who feel lampooned. But that's the point, isn't 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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@abc, it's the few hero runs, when all the planets align, that make the activity memorable for me. I can enjoy all the other experiences otherwise than on a ski holiday (the example of summer hikes in the Dolomites, with good friends, enjoying amazing scenery and good food, springs to mind. Absolutely superb, and the kit is less of a bother, but it's missing the highs of those hero runs.)
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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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@KSH, but skiers are mostly optimists, aren’t they? They plan for a week of hero skiing, even though deep down they know it’s unlikely to happen for everyday of the week. But if they don’t go, there’s zero chance of even one hero run!
Once a trip had been committed (flights and lodging bought, past refund deadline), there’s no room left to do otherwise even when the snow doesn’t oblige. That’s when the “holiday mode” is switched on, for me anyway.
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@abc, yeah, I guess that's where reality sets in and you do your best to enjoy whatever is on offer. What I'm saying is that I don't even expect those few hero runs, but when I get them, that'll turn the whole holiday into magic for me. But anyway, you really can't generalise with feelings like these; and they are a bit weird. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@abc,
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Bikes are really hard to stash in a hotel room or in the back of a small car! Embarassed Skis are piece of cake in comparison
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I can imagine!
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I can confirm that getting a bike box into the back of a too-small rental car at Venice airport has involved as much stress as trying to fit in too many skis and boards into a similar car. But it's so worth it for a trip to the Dolomites, winter or summer.
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I wonder whether Guardian would publish an “opinion” piece about summer cycling trips to the Alps?
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Good question!
Why go all that way, just to get sunstroke whilst pushing your heart rate into the red? You can do that on a beach... etc
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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But, I’m now convinced, having spent all these decades skiing and hanging out with other people who ski, the “slightly terrified” state is EXACTLY what makes skiing attractive for many!
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For some, relatively speaking. There are loads of people who want to ski without remotely being terrified. I ski better when I'm not terrified and skiing as well as I can is the biggest motivation for me (but that's just me). Many just enjoy skiing because it's skiing, at the level they want to do it at, with an appropriate duration for lunch and a 4-star hotel/cheap self-catering.
I subscribe to the Guardian but it's too full of lazy opinion pieces and that was particularly lazy. If you want to find a hill to die on, find a smaller one or put some effort in
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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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@tsgsh, not me either. But I know many who actually seeking that slightly heighten sense of danger to feel “alive”.
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I wonder whether Guardian would publish an “opinion” piece about summer cycling trips to the Alps?
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Good question!
Why go all that way, just to get sunstroke whilst pushing your heart rate into the red? You can do that on a beach... etc |
There are lots of people who don't push their heart rate at all, but just get the lifts up. A few years ago, I was stuck in the Alpette-Rousses Cable car in AdH next to a bunch of London-based [from the accents] snowboarders "giving it large" about how they had been up with their downhill MTBs. For reasons I don't recall, we faffed around at the top for a while then skied down Le Belvédère only to find them in a heap on a steep section, unable to get up off the snow. I hope they made it down okay and I hope they were suitably chastened but I don't hold out much hope for the latter.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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| A few years ago, I was stuck in the Alpette-Rousses Cable car in AdH next to a bunch of London-based [from the accents] snowboarders "giving it large" about how they had been up with their downhill MTBs. For |
eMTBs no doubt, little effort involved.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| A few years ago, I was stuck in the Alpette-Rousses Cable car in AdH next to a bunch of London-based [from the accents] snowboarders "giving it large" about how they had been up with their downhill MTBs. For |
eMTBs no doubt, little effort involved. |
Don’t need the e going downhill. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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got to earn your turns.
but the last time I was over Peaslake I only saw 1 other normal MTB, all the others were e bikes.
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Clearly that piece generated some strong comments. But… boy, did some of those confirmed the stereotype!
For many of us, skiing is cold, inconvenient and occasionally terrifying. It is a rejection of luxury and comfort, which is precisely why we are obsessed with it.
Sorry Eric, I don’t go skiing to “reject luxury and comfort”. Nope!
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She should have tried snowboarding, it's way less poo-poo than skiing
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| She should have tried snowboarding, it's way less poo-poo than skiing |
Yeah, a stoned instructor shouting in french would be so much better 
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FAQ
Many of my summer holidays involve even more cumbersome kit! Bikes are really hard to stash in a hotel room or in the back of a small car! 
Skis are piece of cake in comparison. 
