 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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You were there before the big redevelopment prior to the 1992 games. Building work at la Daille started at the end of the 1960s. Cogedim, a big French builder, put up some apartments only to realise that they were in an avalanche zone and that the local mayor had been handing out planning permits without taking into account the risks. It cost Cogedim may millions to secure the slopes above their apartments so they could sell them.
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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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There's a lot more snow on the face of the glaicer/cliff face just to the left and up from the cable car than there is these days!
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RachelQ, ..... you must have been just a very young teenager then ..... 
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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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davidof, yes the 92 games made a huge difference, especially to the roads. It once took us nearly 10 hours to get back to Geneva airport. JQ, me and dbiggins were very close to buying an apartment in La Daille then - for 27,000 pounds - if only we had. BernardC, you're an Irish charmer for sure 
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RachelQ, I remember that fire and that grump french lady at La Daille, except I remember it as being a stone hut! Lots of vin chaud imbibed there. 
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That's the Sache run down to Brevieres, isn't it! I did it just the other week - it still looks the same... 
Oh, & the Aiguille Percee is still blessed by the same chairlift, I should think... does a kind of fairground-horse up-&-down peformance half way up, which wasn't entirely enjoyable!
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I went there in '87 and I didn't recognise it when I went back for the Olympics in '92...!! God knows what it looks like know and I haven't been tempted to find out
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I think thats the same angle as the above shot, taken in jan 06
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element, thanks I'll stand by my previuous ascertion that there's a lot less glaciation on the face now than then!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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These, of course, were the days of rear enrty boots, Elho suits, Nevica technicolour jackets, the Ali Ross teaching craze, moon boots, big fat ski brochures selling holidays to resorts with an altitude of 100m, the monoski, 2m skis, Bladon Lines chalets....ah those were the days!!!
Anyhow, I was actually in Val D'Isere that season-Feb 86 if I recall staying in an apartment that would contravene human rights laws these days!!!
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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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Why, were you torturing people in there?
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No, it was torturing us. Imagine having the presence of mind, after mind numbing amounts of alcohol, to ensure the hot plate wasn't switched on when having to shimmy up to a bunk bed, ensuring in the morning you didn't sit up in case you crashed your head on the ceiling?
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You know it makes sense.
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kevin mcclean, Careful you are dissing the golden years of The Abominable snowHeads skiing career.
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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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Anyone remember "Playbach", the hot nite spot in those days?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Martin Bell, was that the place with a grand piano, just up the road from the Kandahar? If it was, we went in there a couple of times. We were mostly found in Dicks T-Bar.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Martin-I do remember it for being thrown out, unfortunately. No matter-we went to Tignes the following night, stormed a Bladon Lines chalet and got ejected out of that.
If I'm right, Mr Bell came sixth in the Criterium race in the December of 1986 which was followed by a smashed up ski towards the finishing line of the Val Gardena race a week or so later when he was on for a top 4.
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