 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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Ray Zorro, how can you remember that far back? I can't remember how many days I did last season, never mind when I started several years ago!
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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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rob@rar, I am just a saddo. All my life is contained in one spreadsheet or another 
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brian
brian
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Ray Zorro, you are today's Marvo the Memory Man 
I can't remember precisely but:
1982-1987 - averaged 10-12 days per season, all in Scotland
1988 - 1st week in Alps plus usual 10-12 days or so at home
1989 - 1992 - averaged 2-3 days, poor student Introduced future wife at Cairngorm 91. She liked it (phew).
1993 - 1998 - averaged about 10 days per season, most years 1 week in alps, all years several days in Scotland. Special mention for 95-96 when it never seemed to stop snowing from Feb-April
1998 - 2002 - had kids, disaster for ski time, I don't think I ever went a whole season with zero days though.
2003 - 4 day trip to France plus 2 at home, looking better 
2004 - week in France plus 2 days at home, decidedly better
2005 - 4 day trip to Switzerland plus 4 days at home plus summer week in 2 alpes, kids' first week, they liked it (phew).
2006 - week in France plus 4 day trip France/Switzerland plus 5 days at home plus summer week in 2 alpes, now we're talking !
2007 - 7 days in Switzerland plus 3 in France so far, another 7 days definite coming up, 0 days at home so far (must rectify).
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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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brian, that's more like it.
Mine's somewhat similar:
85: learn to ski, about 10-15? can't remember that detail
86-87: 10-15, improving and enjoying enormously.
88: pull a ligemnt, short season, maybe 5-10 days?
89-90: shack up with a Swiss. Lots and lots of ski days, mostly western US (we both live in the midwest of US at the time), one trip in Austria. Improve technique too thanks for the free coaching.
91-92: Job moved to Florida 1 week in 91, 0 in 92. Lossing the Swiss sugar daddy doesn't help either
93-94: back in the snow belt 10-20 (work nights so plenty of time, but no money, also everyone else is working so single supplement big time, no more free coaching any more )
95-99: ~10. getting bored with the same cruising on the same scenery. Usually 1 trip out to the Rockies (Alta my favorate). Start getting serious about nordic skiing, which takes snowtime away from downhill
00-04: shack up with a non-skier. total of 5-10 days in 5 years.
05: on my own again, but only 1 day. No, snow, no time to travel, no money either.
06: <10, shack up with another skier. But too late in the season to do trips. Start thinking of "upgrading" my 10 year old equipments though.
07: already about 10+ despite the late start of snow season, that's not counting another 5 doing nordic. Just getting my ski legs back and demo-ing stuff. 1 week coming up for MSB.
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Megamum, I am definitely going next year.
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brian
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Megamum, me too. I haven't got the holidays or brownie points to fit it in this year. Might target the PSB which should be pretty budget being out of the main season and easier to do a short trip fitting in.
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If its half as good this as it was last the 08 shall see me there again
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92 - 6 days
93 - 6 days
94 - 6 days
95 - 0
96 - 0
97 - 1
98 - 0
99- 0
00 - 0
01- 6
02 - 6
03 - 6
04 - 16
05 - 7
06 - 15
07 - 7
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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As a Rock Climber, Mountaineer, and Marathon runner I only got into skiing after a back injury stopped the running altogether, and seriously curtailed the rock climbing - so I learned to ski at the local dry slope at the end of 2004 at the age of 44 - skiing since then has been:
04/05 - 1 week Livigno
05/06 - 1 week Livigno, 1 week Portes du Soleil
06/07 - 1 week Cervinia, 1 week Ischgl, 1 week Portes du Soleil (go tonight!)
We are already looking at venues for 07/08 - Dolomites? and are now at the stage where ski trips take more money and holiday than summer trips.
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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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1985 - Flaine 13days
1988 - Mottaret 6days
1989 - 0
1990 - Avoriaz 6
1991 - 0
1992 - Flaine 6
1993 - 0
1994 - 0
1995 - 0
1996 - 0
1997 - Flaine 6
1998 - la Plagne 6
1999 - les Arcs 6
2000/2001 - Tremblant 11 (managed to ski in two years by skiing over the New Year - it was cold  )
2002 - Gressoney 3 1/2, Cervinia 1 (not enough snow followed by too much)
2003 - Soldeu 6
2004 - Soldeu 6
2005 - Tignes 6
2006 - Tignes 8
2007 - la Rosiere 8
2007 - EOSB
2008 - ?Obergurgl ?PSB ?MSB ?EOSB ( the latter to be decided by how my liver and lard cope with EOSB 2007)
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Remember, if you only get in 1 week of skiing a year, it's still mre skiing than David Goldsmith, Hertz rent a quote and Dave Goldsmith combined!
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You know it makes sense.
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Byron Gates, my first ski trip (aside from one morning in 2002 when I broke my knee on the first morning) was in 2005, and I was 46. I had learned to ski at the Snowdome, but it isn't the same.
I've done 8 weeks in the mountains now (plus more at the Snowdome) and I'm about to go off for the 9th week and I'm hooked. Good to know that there are other SH's who caught the bug at a later age
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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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This is a good turn of the thread. I would love to see a list of people's skiing experience over the years and what they did right/wrong along the way. Helps beginers to sort out the real goods from hypes.
For example, for me, one thing I did right was buying my own boot at 1st season and getting finding a good boot fitter for the rest of my skiing years. What I did wrong was NOT having footbeds in my previous boots. Got them now, wish I had them earlier, years earlier.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I retired last year and managed to fit in one expensive and one cheap long weekend .This year I opted for two cheap . I prefer the former 
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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, as for mistakes: I skied a little, with a couple of half day lessons, in the States in my early 20s. When I took it up again in my mid-30s, I imagined that I didn't need lessons, because I was pretty good at most sports and had 'done' skiing before. After a couple of years, I learned the error of my ways and now think that regular lessons are essential for recreational skiers at any level who wish to continue to improve. Maybe there are some 'naturals' out there to whom that doesn't apply, but not very many IMO.
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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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abc,
my mistake was definitely stopping lessons - I have regressed further almost every trip. A false economy as I cannot ski as much of the terrain as I want or should be able to do after 12 weeks.
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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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johntysandra, welcome to Snowheads!
1991 - 2001 - 1 week per season
01/02 and 02/03 - living in VT for the seasons.
03/04 - about 6 weeks.
04/05 - 3 weeks
05/06 - 2 days
06/07 - 2 days so far and hoping for 3 more before the end of the season.
The lack of skiing my life now is seriously seriously upsetting. I have a non skiing partner and it makes a huge difference.
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johntysandra,
sorry - missed that it was your first post. Welcome 
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Ive had one week this year - and next year is looking like no weeks Im not sure how i'll survive a whole season, especially with Snowheads!
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Markus, 
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OK, I started this and you all know how much I've done, but thought I might follow form with a potted history as others have done - they make interesting viewing
1990ish - 1week - long planks, no lessons, got nowhere
1991ish - 1 week - long planks, no lessons, got nowhere
1992-2005 - 0 weeks
2006 - 1 week - shorter planks, lessons, got down easy blue nursery slope - dead chuffed
2007 - 1 week - joined 's, shorter planks, lesons, same easy blue nursery slope - starting parallel turns 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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1962-1967 10 days on the ski school bus each year
68 zero
69-72 maybe 10 total
73-77 zero
78-90 10 to 16 days a year
91-2001 15 to 25 a year
02-04 30-40-40
05 30
06 41
07 38 and counting, Whistler is a blast in May, especially this year with record snowfall.
Wow, never thought of doing that before, seems about right though!
I'm lucky enough to live only 54 miles, about 87 km, from my local ski area and a 3 hour drive from Whistler. The last 5 yrs I've played music at the lodge for passes. The year before that I would ski every Monday and play at a bar in town Monday nights and make enough to cover the day of skiing. During the summer I like to go down to Mt Hood a couple times for summer skiing. This season my first day was at Hood in September. I'm 57 and don't plan on ever living farther than I do now from good skiing. My golfing buddies keep trying to get me to play but I have to tell them it's still ski season, they think I'm nuts!!
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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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Been doing 2 hols a year since 1994 (started in 1988) except 3 years after we last moved (99) and had just one week in each of those years. This year is the first year I've had 3 trips (1 week Tignes, 4 days Serre Chevalier, weekend Morzine / Avoriaz) since 96 (3rd was admittedly the Cairngorm) - not doing bad by my own standards I think.
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26 days this season, all out in Canada. Still not nearly enough, but I count myself lucky!
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You know it makes sense.
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1970-1976 About 7 weeks skiing in Westerndorf, Obergurgal and Solden in Austria and in Foppilo and somewhere else it Italy that i cannot remember the name
2002 6 days Wengen
2003 9 days Wengen
2004 9 days Wengen
2005 13 days Wengen
2006 9 days Wengen
2007 13 days Wengen and Arabba
2008 hope to do 20 days
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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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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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Similar story to Ray Zorro, although a bit more extreme 
1989 - 7 (NY, Chatel)
1990 - 2 (USA)
1991 - 0
1992 - 0
1993 - 0
1994 - 0
1995 - 0
1996 - 0
1997 - 7 (Chamonix)
1998 - 4 (Chamonix)
1999 - 6 (Les Arcs)
2000 - 6 (ADH)
2001 - 13 (USA & Vd'I)
2002 - 17 (Chamonix & Vd'I)
2003 - 20 (Flaine, Chamonix)
2004 - 12 (Chamonix, Flaine, Davos)
2005 - 26 (La Tania, Grimentz, Klosters, a tour...oh and Chamonix )
2006 - 37 (Vd'I, La Grave/LDA, Gressoney, a tour, VT...oh and Chamonix )
2007 - 36 (Tignes, St Anton, La Grave/LDA, Gressoney... oh and Chamonix )
+ two sessions a week at the local dry slope since mid 2005
Joined SCGB at beginning of 2003, at beginning of 2005
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from these charts you can often see when people had kids .. or got some money!!
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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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02- learnt in whistler .. then did chamonix went straight up the vallee blanche n belled up half way down. that should reach chamonix in 2355.
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02.. 14 (2 trips)
03.. 10 (3 trips)
04.. 10 (3 trips)
05.. 18 (4 trips)
06.. 20 (4 trips)
07.. 20 (4 trips)
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| CANV CANVINGTON wrote: |
| from these charts you can often see when people had kids .. or got some money!! |
...or realised they've spent far too much of the previous 20 years obsessing about work rather than the important things in life!!!
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1981 6 days St Lary
1982 6 days Bardonecchia
1983 6 days Andorra
1984 6 days Souze D'oux
1985 8 days Tignes
1986 6 days Schladming
1987 9 days Flaine and VAl D-espaire
1988 8 days, Flaine and Meribel
1989 6 days Courmayer
1990 6 days Flaine
1991 8 days, vaious Vermont, Massachusets
1992 8 days various New York, Vermont etc
1993 12 days Verbier and Flaine
1994 11 days Verbier and Flaine
1995 12 days Verbier and Flaine
1996 11 days Verbier and Flaine
1997 11 days Verbier and Flaine
1998 11 days Verbier and Flaine
1999 11 days Verbier and Val D'doom and Flaine
2000 11 days...wild guess...Verbier and Flaine!
2001 8 days Verbier
2002 11 days Cortina and Verbier
2003 12 days Chamonix and Whistler
2004 7 days Verbier
2005 21 days various Utah and Verbier
2006 33 days Verbier
2007 34 days Saas Fee, Verbier and 1 day in.....for old times sake...Flaine!
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Managed 99 days in 2006, Verbier, Chamonix, Tignes, Valle Nevado and Saas Fee. Was hoping to hit the ton this year but won't be able to get away in July/August as I was hoping, so will have to contend with two weeks in NZ for my summer fix, and then foolishly committed to a postgraduate degree course which will restrict things next winter. I suppose there are other things in life besides skiing..
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I think being in snowheads really cranks up your interest even if it starts at a low level. Cheap flights also help clock up the ski miles. I started off as a one week a year skier, then two and this year three separate weeks!
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After June can I count one day in a dome?!!
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