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Useful signs on ski roads and pistes

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I'm not sure how big a collection we can build, but here's a starter.

In the interests of keeping death off the road and piste, has anyone got any others?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Now here's a constant danger all skiers & boarders should be aware of!!!!!!!!!!
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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?
I haven't a photo, but I found very sexist signs in Soldeu. The blue runs were marked with a mother and child; the red runs marked with a fella.
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Presumably the black runs were marked with a widow or reaper (hopefully both to avoid sexual stereotyping)
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I wish I could think of something witty - but I'm not as quick as you expert skiers. Perhaps as my technique improves in one department, it will in others!
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here's one

If you're not allowed to ski presumably you achieve the 40 kph in some sort of free fall Cool
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OT - And one for the Iraqi Border Crossings

And one that would be useful on the steeper pistes and/or at US Checkpoints. Oh and that Captain Safety site has tons of funny stuff and more outrageous signs not all of which would last long on here.
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And one that would be useful on the steeper pistes and/or at US Checkpoints.


Laughing
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Unfortunately I don't have a photo but the helpful little signs placed at about ankle height (i.e you don't see them if you're not looking down, and since the approach is through trees this is unlikely) in parts of Fernie have "Cliff" written on them. Never did hear him though.
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Useless ski road signs:

1) On the back roads of Maine (USA), it's fairly common to pass yellow caution signs saying, "Thickly Settled - 1 mile ahead". However, when you drive the mile, there are only two or three houses anywhere to be seen.

2) I've seen a fair number of moose driving to and from skiing in Maine, but not one was ever in the vicinity of a "Moose Crossing" yellow caution sign. OTOH, one definitely does not want to hit one of these creatures, so I guess erring on the side of caution is reasonable.

3) Signs warning, "Trucks Entering Roadway" are fairly common here in the eastern part of the USA. Under the lettering on one of these signs, some waif drew a picture of a big rig diving nose first into a crater-like hole in the middle of the road.

Tom / PM
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And from Flanders & Swann on the 'low flying aircraft' sign you get near airports.

"Not a lot you can do about it - - - - except take your hat off"

Anybody been in Courchevel when that little 'uphill' runway is in use. How scary or otherwise is that for skiers ?
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I've seen a fair number of moose driving to and from skiing in Maine


Shocked

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but not one was ever in the vicinity of a "Moose Crossing" yellow caution sign


Because they were driving, instead?
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Was this found at the top of the intermediate plateau perhaps?
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
As for black runs, one of the hazards you encounter on Australian ski roads is schussing kangaroos. (the ones that have given up hopping).
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
There's one halfway up a T-bar at Davos (no picture, unfortunately) that says that non-experts should get off there. It's probably the only drag lift in the world where you're encouraged to get off halfway up.

As I was with a stranger and didn't notice any English wording on the sign (which may well be there), I thought it said you shouldn't get off (the drag crossed a path so it was very inviting for people to do so). The bloke I was with hopped off onto the path (nearly making me fall as I had no idea he might do it), and leaving me to tut and roll my eyes, in the best English tradition. When I got to the top I had was up to then, my most difficult descent.

Made it though. snowHead
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And does this warn of a mogul field, or horizontal female skiers?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Mark Hunter, Laughing Laughing
More likely a tired lady boarder lying down in the middle of the piste.
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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?
Mark Hunter, I think it's a warning of two Austrian puddings ahead - Germknodels.
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It is comforting to see that there is skiing on The Other Side Mark Hunter, especially for those of us getting a bit long in the tooth. Wink
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Sign me up to these
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once remember seeing a sign in vail saying:

WRONG WAY

...and, strangely, it was right. not sure how it knew though...
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tough crowd, was it facing down the piste Puzzled
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skanky wrote:
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I've seen a fair number of moose driving to and from skiing in Maine
Shocked


Even more shocking, they never carry insurance, and you should see the vehicles that they drive. Wink

(That will teach me to post in the middle of the night when half asleep).

Embarassed

Tom / PM
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Physicsman, Very Happy I'm also interested in how they ski?
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1) In the lift lines, they don't have the courtesy thing quite down yet;

2) My patroller buddies tell me that they are h-ll to load in a sled; and,

3) You ought to see what they do to the salad bar at lunch time.

Mr. Green

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(grumble ... #$%#@ double posting...)


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Sorry, are we talking about Moose or Snowboarder?
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skanky, the world knows moose don't ski. They ride around on ATVs and Skidoos instead. I do not advise you to have a problem with that.

It may just be possible that WTFH and PM are really on about snowboarder caribou. They've displayed similar gateway behaviour.
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You know it makes sense.
Physicsman, Very Happy

Wear The Fox Hat, Very Happy

comprex, Very Happy to the first one. The other pictures seem to have diappeared Puzzled
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Moose

caribou
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Poster: A snowHead
Very Happy
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
And a few others (apologies if someone already posted them - I didn't make it through all the links):
http://www.natives.co.uk/features/jokes/snowmobile.htm
http://www.natives.co.uk/news/0700/25trans.htm
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