 Poster: A snowHead
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Axsman mentioned this elsewhere... watched a number of people skiing across tarmac roads last week in VT ... it's worse than fingernails on blackboards 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes. Wheels are mandatory.
Monoskiing down a mild gradient on a wide skateboard, with a reasonably long wheelbase, is fun!
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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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David, saw a few monoskis around in VT last week (more monoskiers than telemarkers, I think).
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Hoppo, Hope I don't get their rentals at the EoSB
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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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I did it once years ago. Skiing down a path in Les Arcs, strong sunlight, came round a corner, saw what I thought was ice, in fact it was wet tarmac. Destroyed the skis and my ski pants.
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holidayloverxx, yes - I advise you buy your own skis to avoid problems such as this 
Spyderman, sounds nasty - thing is, these people were doing it deliberately...
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Hoppo, Possibly people having a blast on some already totalled skis?
I might go ski down a few escalators when mine are at the end of their life. 
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george_1, looked a lot more like people on rentals who couldn't be bothered to take them off to cross the road...
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IMO more people should ski tarmac, especially those who own their own skis - it's good for business 
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Hoppo, Ahh well, as long as it isn't my hire shop
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hoppo, I have found rental skis to have much better edge hold on tarmac than my own..
Seriously - this is to be expected in an age where people ski rails, benches and escalators. How long before we see a Tarmac Specific Ski?
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Darky
Darky
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| stoatsbrother wrote: |
Hoppo, I have found rental skis to have much better edge hold on tarmac than my own..
Seriously - this is to be expected in an age where people ski rails, benches and escalators. How long before we see a Tarmac Specific Ski? |
Hey, it's good for the atmosphere!! Good idea!! hehehe 
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I made contact with tarmac in Ischgl last week after being thrown off a downhill poma lift. spyderjon, I'll be paying you (another) visit sometime... 
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You know it makes sense.
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
Yes. Wheels are mandatory.
Monoskiing down a mild gradient on a wide skateboard, with a reasonably long wheelbase, is fun! |
Yes it is, it's called mountain boarding 
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