 Poster: A snowHead
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I think this probably belongs on 'the piste' and I promise I wasn't at the time. I was highly embarassed. What I need to know is this an unforgivable sin?.........
So I goes down to the dark basement by myself, no kids, dark glasses on ready to go outside once I've grabbed my ski's so I just grab my ski's without flicking the light switch and am off. Nip out for my lesson and have all sorts of problems - can't stay on my feet 5 minutes and keep tripping over. I'm down at the bottom of the lift yet again and look down - then it slowly dawns on me - I've got yellow ski's on, but they're sure as anything not the ones I was given in the hire shop!!
Immediately I realise several things 1. This is potentially dangerous - these binding were not set for me, 2. I could be potentially wrecking someones pride and joy's and 3. What if someone is looking for them at this moment?
However, I then hit a language barrier with my instructor and I'm sure he didn't fully understand what I was trying get through to him - I even tried claiming that they were my kids ski's, but I still don't know if that worked. Although he did tell me to get some longer skis the next day!!
Anyhow, I took them directly back after my lesson, and was just leaving the basement when another family arrived - their teenager looked up and down the racks of predominately dry skis and then discovers ones that look like hers wet and snowy. I tentatively enquire if they are hers - yes (oh...no...thinks I, but luckily they had not missed them whilst I had my lesson), so I try to describe what I've done with huge apologies and embarassment and mum seems to immediately comprehend and indicates that she is not annoyed. Luckily I don't see them the rest of the week!!
So much for me asking before I went about the sizing of bindings and boots and can you fit other skis than your own.
The thing is if it had been your ski's would you have been outraged - I can't think of a worse thing to have done  - or did I just get away lightly?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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thats outrageous 
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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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Its a bit like one of these dreams you have when you're on the train and you suddenly realise you are not wearing your trousers..
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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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yes, you probably did! We went on a family holiday once, years ago. All hired skis. My husband faffed around endlessly insisting on putting various combinations of coloured electrical tape on the skis so everyone knew which were theirs, though the kids insisted they'd remember. He was the only one who picked up the wrong skis - twice in the week. If your boots fitted into the foreign skis, that was because the girl had the same length boots. Lots of hire skis are the same - they have numbers on, and you need to memorise yours! Or faff around with electrical tape.
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At least you were honest, so that redeems you.
as to would I forgive you if it were my skis . . . .
if you are blonde, brunette or a red head- Yes 
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FenlandSkier, your skis are easily confused for someone else's!
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Kramer,  Is that why you've changed to Missions this year?
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FenlandSkier, if I'd managed to clip in to your bindings then that would have been the last you'd have seen of em.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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sproggski, that does make me feel loads better about it - thanks - at least I'm not unique in doing something like that
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Megamum, All this could have been avoided if you had taken some SnowHeads stickers
EDIT: Another good reason to swap a ski at all stops.
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You know it makes sense.
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Frosty the Snowman, I guess so, but wouldn't it have been a bit naughty to still them onto hire ski's? I did however smother the 3 silver helmets with different combinations and I don't think they got muddled all week!
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Megamum, My son ended up with a smaller helmet (got swapped in ski school) he kept complaining it was too tight! so this time we put stickers on all the skis and helmets, and picked them all off before we returned them! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Our schoolkids do this sort of thing all the time. I had one once come back in for lunch complaining that his boots were uncomfortable. This was not surprising, considering that they were:
1. of two different sizes
2. neither of them his
3. on the wrong feet
He had to wear the group silly hat all next day for his efforts.
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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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Megamum, Our incident happened in the Dolomites last week. One of the most experienced skiers in the party (3 or 4 times a year) accidently took the wrong indentical skis which were next to each other whilst we were at a mountain restaurant.
I shall shorten a very long story. He realised he had wrong skis after about 20 minutes of skiing. We all decided to go back up to restaurant with him. Unfortunately lost him as he was almost last on the very long chair lift and by then could'nt even get skis into bindings. Luckily he was left with another very experienced skier in our party, but by then we had lost them and did'nt know what the problem was. He then stayed at bottom whilst our friend took his skis back up to restaurant, but got stopped on the way by plain clothed cabineri (by this time he was exhausted with heavy skis on shoulder and 4 poles). They told him "you are in serious trouble". As he did'nt have any i.d on him they made him ski with them all the way back to the hotel in Selva to show his passport. Then it was back up (skis on shoulder again) with police either side back up to restaurant. Other skis could'nt be found. Anyway his story was believed as he had mentioned what he was doing to a lift attendant. Story still went on in the evening as the friend who had the wrong skis had to go the police station where the other people were whos skis he had taken. They were in the most trouble with the police as when they realised at the restaurant what had happened, they took his skis anyway. Then they locked them in their car and were not going to let him have them back until police intervened.
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Wed 21-02-07 10:39; edited 1 time in total
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Oh yes forgot. It get's worse! The people who's skis he took were having their last ski of the day and then nice lunch as they were about to drive home to Germany. SoMegamum, don't feel bad, it could have been a whole lot worse!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Someone much shorter than me went off with my ski's and poles when we stopped for lunch in Zell last year, after much hunting, we found another pair which were of the same make but shorter ( from memory mine were head 180 and these were Head 150) it was the poles which were funny, they were tiny, luckily the hire shop changed it all over for me quite quickly.
From that point on, if we stop anywhere My girlfriend and I swap one ski each and put them together and stand the pairs apart, makes it much easier to find our own skis and less likely someone else would take either pair by mistake.
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I'm just off out to find a ski lock.
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This is the main reason I use ski locks for the family skis. We have already been saved from the impact of a numbskull who was about to take my son's skis because "Oh they'll be ours; they're yellow". 
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Wed 21-02-07 13:34; edited 1 time in total
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jtr, hellfiresliding, brilliant idea-- I'm getting a lock too!
Christina1, what a horror story! Actually, after the experience with my friend K's "ski-swap"-- I would never leave my skis outside restaurants in a crowd of skis--I usually trudge around to find a more solitary side of the building.
I just remembered another incident , we were skiing the Valee Blanche some years ago--a group of us with a guide. We had stopped at a mountain refuge, and as I looked a bit tired after lunch (needing a siesta!) the guide grabbed my skis, intending to be helpful--- but luckily I spotted that they weren't mine! Hate to think what would have happened if I'd tried to ski the rest of the trip with the wrong skis...even with my own I was exhausted!
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Had the same experience - went to retrieve skis from bootroom for kids lesson in 20 mins to find that someone had taken our rented skis and left a much longer pair instead. What a hassle to trail back to the rental shop - hire another set of skis - get them set for the boots and still make the lesson and then take them back at the end of the day.
What made it worse was the shrug of the shoulders i got when i confronted the culprit with my invoice showing that they had taken my skis.......
The moral of the story is - apply sticky labels to each ski/helmet/boot etc with kids/adults name - our ski rental shop supplies these FOC and has indelible marker pen for you to use.
Get a cheap cable lock and pass it through one of the skis from each person in the group. Its just not worth the hassle of coming back to find wrong skis or skis gone for 30 seconds of effort. If you want to be really retentive about it - take a photo at the start of your hols - showing how you lock your skis. Much easier with insurance company if you can prove that you've taken every reasonable care.
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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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I don't really use lockers/boot rooms in the way you are all describing, my skis get locked into the rack on the top ofthe car, however, when I go to a restaurant or something, I always split the skis up so that one of mine is with one of my wife's and the kids are mixed up too.
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What made it worse was the shrug of the shoulders i got when i confronted the culprit with my invoice showing that they had taken my skis.......
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I might have considered "borrowing" his skis for a day to see how he felt..
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| http://forums.epicski.com/showthread.php?t=48161&highlight=franz+klammer |
A fantastic tale 
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You know it makes sense.
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Frosty the Snowman, Yeah, awesome - I bet he covered that sticker with something to preserve it for posterity. On the back of that report and the others above, I feel quite mollified. It's as though I've joined and exclusive club of 'ski swappers' frequented by Franz and others. Mind you is a 'Klammer' sticker the ulitimate 'must have' on your skis or would 's rather have one saying 'as 'borrowed' by Frosty the Snowman, '!!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Awesome story lol!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Leg End more like it
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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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I always use a lock - mainly to stop some muppet inadvertently stealing my skis rather than to stop a determined thief.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Friends looked at me very oddly when I took a photo of the ski shop label (& number) on my skis, until I explained that it was possibly the only way I would be able to identify them if I forgot where I'd left them outside a restaurant (first shot on the camera - easy to find for reference, if it had come to that).
Fortunately, because I'd chosen a not very well-stocked ski, there weren't many of them on the mountain. But I saw at least a dozen pairs a day of the ones my friend was skiing in, which threw us a few times, when we knew we'd put our skis next to each other. Caused one or two hot-and-cold moments.
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clara_jo, good idea on taking a photo 
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| Caspar wrote: |
| I always use a lock - mainly to stop some muppet inadvertently stealing my skis rather than to stop a determined thief. |
Do we know each other casper fella?
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I always ski with Caspar and let him carry the lock
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lol
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The other week I went off with a German girls boots and skied on them all day without noticing ... just thought they had warmed up a bit cos they were a lot softer and that there were some new adjustable bits and bobs on them that I hadn't noticed before.
She however couldn't use mine and spent hours (apparently) looking for a pair to fit her and as she was leaving that night took mine back to Germany with her as hostages to make sure I sent hers back to her !!
In our subsequent emails she blamed the apres .. clever girl !!!
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