 Poster: A snowHead
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Having just recently cultivated a full set (not quite the Grizzly Adams look... yet - give it another few weeks tho'!) , I was wondering - will skiing with a hairy face
a) keep me warmer because of the insulation? or
b) make it colder because of the real possibility of trapped ice and snow close to the skin?
IE - Irrespective of the views of the fashion police / my daughter, should I shave before I hit the mountains?
PS speed isn't an issue here...
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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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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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JimW, definitely keeps you warmer, especially with a scarf over it. wind burn is eliminated. It doesn't need to be a soup strainer to be effective and unless you're a drooler it doesn't ice up in the conditions most of us play in.
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Okay - this is where I bring down a sh!tstorm.
Skiing - good idea
Beard - bad idea
personal opinion... I'll get my coat...
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ermine?
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Masque,
So what you're saying is drooling is out...
Shame, I was just enjoying the thought of DMs lycra-clad eye-candy from t'other thread.
stoatsbrother, So, not into beards then I take it. Oh well, takes all sorts.
IncogSkiSno, I lurrv that piccy.
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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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JimW, you've obviously looked into this, because if speed isn't an issue, you should be fine. Unless of course you're ginger, in which case you have a serious problem.
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You know it makes sense.
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I rather favour the "no shaving on tour " approach, to be flexed in the second week to "shaving allowed but only to create novelty goatee" 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Nickski wrote: |
| JimW, you've obviously looked into this, because if speed isn't an issue, you should be fine. Unless of course you're ginger, in which case you have a serious problem. |
That sounds like 'gingerism' to me. Is that politically incorrect yet ? If not, why not ?
Red haired women can look very nice (no facial hair) but they are considered 'unlucky' in some parts.
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Poster: A snowHead
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GrahamN, is it me, or had you face-planted a few minutes before that?
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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?
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From an aesthetic point of view skiing, or doing anything else, while wearing a beard is a no-no, even for blokes.
I have had a beard for yonks, and it gets iced up sometimes when skiing, but that doesn't seem to make me cold. I assume that the snow/ice as well as the fur itself acts as insulation.
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It's okay if you are Peter Sutcliffe....or similar
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Beards *rock*, 100% of fact
Every man should grow a beard at come point, even if only to confirm that it's not what they want
(clicky makey bigger-er)
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nbt, call THAT a beard I were born w'more than that on m'butt . . . and these days there's more in m'ears!
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Can we score them? 
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For some reason beards seem to have a slighty unnatural look to me. Sure those last two aren't just drawn on? 
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| Masque wrote: |
| nbt, call THAT a beard I were born w'more than that on m'butt . . . and these days there's more in m'ears! |
one of the many reasons I've now shaved it off. Still, that's another comment in support of my theory that men don't actually go bald, it's just that hair sinks - and starts growing out of noses, ears, shoulders, back...
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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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Clearly not a great marker for style however:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Never had a beard, but remember first skiing holiday when I had a moustache and temp was -20. I kept thinking that the jam from my breakfast croissant had not all made its way into the desired location until I realised that it was a mixutre of icicles caused by breathing out through my nose and snot from my eyes watering in the wind-chill.
Yeeuucch.
I do tend to follow fatbob's approach to shaving on holiday though.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I will be unveiling my tribute to FTS at the EoSB...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I like the beard thing while skiing. I like the little icicles that form on it. So much fun to pull them off when on the chairlift. Also, it gives you the added benefit of looking like a grizzled mountain man, or something like that.
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You had better be a good skier if you are going to sport a beard, as he just said:
| DarkSummer wrote: |
| it gives you the added benefit of looking like a grizzled mountain man, or something like that. |
If you ski like a twerp....get the razor out!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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If you do go the bearded route then watch out for fluffy red neckwarmers - when you take it off all the little red bits means you end up looking like you faceplanted a rock!
Of course they're good for hiding *real* blood and split lips 
And the not shaving thing is good too - unless you go for a full Robinson Crusoe you still need to shave - but you can get away without.
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