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Recently there was a thread about traveling from the UK to the alps to complete travel and a full day on the slopes with return flight.
I cant find it through the search.
Can someone point me in the right direction.
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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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Thanks Liz. 
PS is Liz acceptable.
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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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Renry, yes. That's what I'm known as "in real life"!!
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| Elizabeth B wrote: |
| Renry, yes. That's what I'm known as "in real life"!! |
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Renry, also look at lastminute.com- they do the eurostar one day trips- bit of a pain from Yorkshire, but not impossible to get to London first!
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One-day skiing from the UK is pointless. It is for losers. Expensive, tiresome and overrated.
It is only worthwhile if you can private-jet from your backdoor to slopeside in one quick hop to, say, Courchevel.
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Whitegold,
Do you speak from experience? Has anyone been on one of these Eurostar trips? I must admit to being tempted - especially if there was some decent company along for the trip.
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warrell, My mum did it last year with my little brother to come out and see me when I was workign out there. She said it wasnt the most comfortable but was bearable!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Less and longer duration trips are far better for the environment and therefore snow than multiple short trips. Train travel is also much more environmentally friendly than flying. BBC2 had a programme on this issue last week.
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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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| Peter Ross wrote: |
| Less and longer duration trips are far better for the environment and therefore snow than multiple short trips. Train travel is also much more environmentally friendly than flying. BBC2 had a programme on this issue last week. |
The world has been heating up for 15k years. Since the end of the last Ice Age. Long before man built factories and cars. Cutting back on a few plane trips ain't gonna make much difference now.
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Whitegold, According to the BBC documentary planes have a far greater impact than land travel as they dump CO2 high in the atmosphere. The changes that have been occuring in the past 50 years have been far more rapid than anything previously and arctic ice cores support this. Should we assume man has nothing to do with global warming?
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You know it makes sense.
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Peter Ross, if people with private jets weren't flying to Courchevel they'd be flying somewhere else, so it has no nett effect.
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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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richmond, really, that's like saying it's pointless that I put my rubbish in the bin as someone else won't! Although you are right it is not really a skiing issue as such but we can't moan in the snow reports section about no snow when in trips we talk about endless short breaks. Here's the evidence of global warming, you'd better buy a houseboat! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/flying/default.stm
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Poster: A snowHead
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Peter Ross, calm down, it was a throwaway comment not an attempt to justify flying to Rome and back for lunch.
Back on topic, and global warming considerations apart, wouldn't it be much better VFM to fly out one evening, stay somewhere dirt cheap (suchas the dreaded Formule 1) or even in the resort and head for the slopes first thing? You'd get a lot more skiing for the extra £25 or whatever.
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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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Renry, I bet you didn't expect all this global warming stuff when you asked about one day of skiing.
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I guess they'll start on the ethics of heliskiing soon.... 
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richmond, I'm calm again now 
Still global warming aside I just couldn't contemplate 1 days skiing.
It probably means a 4am alarm, stress parking, checking in, waiting in a half dead state, eventually arrive at destination, queue, rush, grab car, battle traffic, queue, queue, exhausted by midday! Sleep all afternoon, back to airport, queue, plane delayed, back home, get bags after delay, grab car, get home, crash into bed and take the next few days off work to recover!
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Whitegold, you like to call people "losers" don't you? How would you define a loser?
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bh1, Sorry to beat the buzzer! 
loser
Main Entry: los·er
Pronunciation: 'lü-z&r
Function: noun
1 : a person or thing that loses especially consistently
2 : a person who is incompetent or unable to succeed; also : something doomed to fail or disappoint
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3 : a person with a view that runs contrary to Whitegold.
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bh1, Nail > Head 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The headlines in most of today's papers justify Peter Ross's sensible comments about glabal warming and very short trips. It is just not psosiblke to deny that iut is a result of human activity any more.
Niot sure my children will be getting to ski much when they have their own children sadly.
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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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aidancostello,
How do you know? The precipitation has to go somewhere and the Yanks might argue global warming is a good thing for their skiing after the season they have been boasting of so far. It's all too early to say and know how it will pan out
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You know it makes sense.
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I'm not interested in an argument on this issue. I chippe in top what was an active thread. Just seems rather hard to deny that the fast accelearation of global warming must be connected to various factors that are mainly related to the use of fossil fuels. As temperatures increase presumably a lot more fuel will be used generating air-conditioning units though AxSman.
With respefct JT it seems pretty clear where itis eventually heading if warming continues at this rate.
Anyway I'm no expert and have no axe to grind. I love skiing and fly there generally when I do. Just think that Peter Ross makes reasonable points and although I would consider a short trip I think a one-day trip is a bit excvessive. Just my view though - wouldn't enforce it opn anyone. I don't belive in capital punishment either but I wouldn't criticise someone who did. Some things you either belive or you don't.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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apologies for appalling typos btw!
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FAQ
(and glad to see your still prodding our consciences Peter 
) the savings us inhabitants of northern european countries can make on our heating bills, which means we can spend more money flying off to high resorts to ski - Result! 
