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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| What Inspired Your First Ski/Snowboard Trip? |
My dad Rudy. Kitzbuhel 1959. Says it all. Magic!
As a six-year-old I was just gobsmacked by the scale of the snowfields and the adventures to be had.
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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 used to watch Ski Sunday as a kid, and always wanted a go myself, but despite the fact that my aunt owned an apartment in Cervinia for many years, my parents never took us (cost, I guess, with 4 of us - even the school ski trips were too expensive).
Then, at the age of 26, I was offered a place on a pre-trade fair jolly in Austria. I told the guy from the tourist board that I couldn't ski, and all he said was that, in that case, it would be the perfect opportunity to learn, because they were picking up the bill.
We arrived to thick snow in the village (even in a low Austrian resort), and skied as fat, blobby flakes fell, with fair visibility and not a breath of wind. That was it - I was hooked.
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My grandad went every year with a ski club and every Sunday we would all watch Ski Sunday together. Then we were lucky as my parents scraped by to send both my brother and I on 2 school trips each. God Bless them ! Thing is, up till last year the had never been themselves. So on pur first ever family winter holiday we strapped them onto our boards and pushed them down the nursery slope in Flaine ! Now they really want to learn ! My dad at 61 wants to carry on with learning to snowboard as he enjoyed it so much 
Your never too old to get stung by the winter bug!
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My boss at the time decided that we should go to Xscape MK for a team building exercise about 3 years ago. The rest as they say is history although I do keep reminding him of how much money he has cost me (hint I need a bigger rise to finance my trips).
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Met my partner in November 2001 - he is from Valle d' Aosta, Italy and grew up skiing in and around Gressoney; he has skied since 5 years old. He persuaded me to give it a try and I went on my first ever ski holiday in March 2003 to Soldeu in Andorra. At first, I was a bit apprehensive as I thought it would be really cold and wet, etc but it was actually the opposite. I went to ski school and loved it.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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When I started going out with my husband-to-be in 1979, we found that we both fancied trying out skiing so went to Puy St. Vincent in 1980. I then had a break of about 10 years for various reasons but then took it up again and have been mad keen ever since.
No longer got the husband, but still got the skiing. 
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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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I was out in the Rockies on an ice climbing trip one Feb, and we had a few days where heavy snow resulted in high avalanche danger. My mate persuaded me to try skiing as he had never been either and fancied giving it a bash. Cue 4 days of fun and a new addiction
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You know it makes sense.
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My bird at the time.
I passed up the opportunity of Flintstone-style skiing when I was at school, as I had never been outside UK/Ireland.
In those days people had Summer holidays if they were lucky.
Foreign trips involving sightseeing had more appeal. Besides snow quickly turned to slush, people broke legs(tell me about it !)and skiing was not for the likes of me - it was for Roger Moore and co.
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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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My parents were skiers. We lived in Salzburg for 2 years when I was a child, and we skied in Lofer--stayed in a mountain hotel (which still exists and I went there recently again with my son..)
But then I didn't ski for many years (though I WAS addicted!)...no opportunity again until I was in my mid-thirties, when I took my daughter to Yugoslavia, where she learnt to ski and broke her leg at the end of the first week. (She was 9,... she decided to go up the mountain on her own... and ski straight down,...) However, after that episode we went skiing each year and she became very good... My son learnt to ski at age 6--and he is pretty good but is not so keen recently as I am...hopefully this may change yet..
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Poster: A snowHead
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My family were never able to afford to send me on the school ski trips even though I spent 6 years of my childhood in Germany (dad was in the RAF). Then when I joined the RAF myself, finished my training and got out to my first unit, in Germany funnily enough, I could finally afford to go. There was also the lure of a certain young lady too. She was a keen skier and we took our first trip together to Mayrhofen, she flew in and I got the train from where I was based. Probably one of the most enjoyable Christmases I have ever had. Been hooked ever since.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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too much red wine one sunday lunchtime
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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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The family and me were in the Auvergne in France and suddenly came upon a mountain, covered in snow, lifts and skiers!! I said 'that looks fun I want a go!' One ski lesson later and I was hooked.
Due to time and big money constraints it took me many years before I progressed to skiing parallel, but I've loved every second of it.
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I did a week's ski school at Hillend nearly thirty years ago and enjoyed it but wasn't bitten by the bug (possibly due to the fact that my younger sister was a better skier than me). Fifteen years later I was at a conference in Keystone and had a lesson and loved it but never had a chance to follow it up.
Fast forward to my children going to Hillend for ski school. My daughter couldn't go on the tow and gave up after a couple of days. We then took her to the dry slope in Glasgow and she got the hang of it and then the children said "When are you going to learn?" I've been three weeks and desperately now trying to work out how to do more. Maybe the EoSB next year...
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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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Was at the Chiropodist having verukas seen to. He bought up the conversation of skiing and asked if I had been. Told him I had always wanted to but was too old at 39. He said you are never too old as he was in his late fourties when he started. Went and persuaded husband to try, booked for Alpbach 2000 and have never looked back. Love everything about skiing.
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My first trip was xc skiing in Venabu, Norway. inspired by an article in a woman's magazine (possibly Woman's Journal) back in about 1991, I think.
Anyway, we booked the same hotel as in the article, and enjoyed it so much, we went back the next year.
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Standing at the bottom of a ski slope somewhere in France aged 6 watching my older brothers being sent off skiing and my Dad telling me I was too young to join in. I think I cried and moaned about the injustice of it for a solid year so the next year I got to go along too.
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I was a young 20 year old living at home, had a factory shutdown week one March and me and my mate got paid and went drinking Friday lunchtime, decided a holiday would be a good bet. The girl in the travel agents said we would be pushing it to get antwhere hot for our 100 quid budget and maybe we should take an allocate on arrival ski hol to Austria. We flew out the next morning ended up in Mayerhofen and had a bloody good time. Was temporarily and rudely interrupted by marriage and children but now they are all old enough to come they are forced to endure the now annual ski holiday and are actually beginning to enjoy it.....................how I miss those 100 quid ski holidays.
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Watching Klammer win the Olympic downhill on TV.
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), almost put me off! Once we got out to Les Carroz we were utterly spoilt and very well taken care of, got private lessons and never looked back.
). He just decided age 11 he wanted to go, and watching the first few lessons I thought it might be more fun than my memory told me (had tried a couple of odd days while living in Austria and been put off by feeling out of control and the cold) and maybe clothing nowadays might be better so I wouldn't freeze and maybe it wouldn't be as extortionate as I reckoned.
. Had 10 trips since in the last two seasons 
We then spend the next twenty five years making excuses about costs, difficulties getting the right holidays from work and a series of other reasons until last year we took the plunge and went on a budget skiing holiday in February 06, to a resort we had never heard of called Prato Nevoso in Italy. We absolutely loved it, the weather was brilliant, skiing fabulous and so we resolved to go again this year but wanted a more sympathetic teacher with smaller classes catering for the older skier - and a more comfortable hotel (with a bath!). By chance we heard about Easiski's over 50's learn to ski week and signed up for L2A in March. It was totally brilliant. Now I can't wait to get more skiing in this year. 
