 Poster: A snowHead
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why don't I see more of you out here in the summer skiing in the morning and mountain biking in the afternoon?
Money, pure and simple. I work hard all year so we can get two or three weeks away in the mountains. That could be biking, that could be skiing.
When I'm not away in the mountains I have to do my sports from home. It might be grim up north but it certainly ain't white and snowcovered, so that more or less rules out skiing...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Time, Pure 'n simple.
I have about 20 days of holiday a year to blow. More than half goes on skiing already.
I can ride from home without breaking into any holiday time.
However, the kids are now on mountain bikes - so when they get bigger..........................
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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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Time & money.
If I take time off in the summer, I don't get paid for it. If I don't get paid, I can't afford to go skiing.
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Let's see:
3 weeks skiing holiday / year
2 weeks sailing
1 week biking (touring, not MTB).
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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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easiski,
I think the others have hit it on the head I used to mountain bike a few times in ski resorts back when I wasn't back into skiing so much but every day's holiday taken in summer is a day lost in winter.
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I'm not really interested in glacier skiing I'm afraid.
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Kramer, snap.
anyway - just as strawberries and leeks have their own seasons, so should skiing (IMHO). One of the joys of skiing is it being a winter sport. On the bike in the trees in summer, on the skis in the trees in winter.
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easiski, see you on the 20th!! 
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I have never skied on a glacier but must admit I have thought about it this year. Mainly to practise drills and take lessons to hopefully improve my skiing during my winter holl. How does summer glacier skiing differ from winter?
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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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most things are cheaper - you can practise and learn so you don't have to spend so much of your winter hols doing that (at greater cost)
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I would have to say easiski has a rather good point. In fact, I had thought of that myself. And if I were in UK, I'd probably do exactly what she suggested and have the best of "both" the alpine ski and mountain biking world.
Unfortunately, ticket from N. America to Europe sky rockets in the summer (like 3x). So, unless I really want to go to Europe for a SUMMER holiday, the "saving" in skiing would be far less than the increase in airfare.
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You know it makes sense.
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easiski, I will probably be on a mountain bike forum in the winter...
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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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| easiski wrote: |
| abc, Yes - a long way for you to come. |
It's not so much the distance/time. It's bloody EXPENSIVE to fly across the pond in the summer.
Winter, now that's a different story!
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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?
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Sharkymark, welcome back! Where you bin?
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Anybody who has been to Serre Chevalier will know the Grand Alp. This is it in summer with Mrs Chris demonstrating her skills MTBing (I know she not wearing a lid!).
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Had to reply to this thread as I am currently going through a "career change", and am intending to do MTB Guiding qualifications this summer/autumn then next winter do ski instructor quals,hopefully this will mean I can go live amongst big mountains all year! I'm a mountain biker first and foremost, and an occasional(intermediate) skier.And in my mind skiing is almost identical to MTB'ing-it's the line down, the scenery, the sensation of speed, the adrenaline rush. 
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markymark73, welcome to snowHeads
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markymark73, welcome! Where do you plan to do guiding?
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I wouldn't bike down some of the steeper slopes I have skied. I like the comfort of something relatively soft to fall on that also won't shred skin should I slide to a stop.
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Would love to Mtb guid in Alpe D'Huez or the alps,however I realise this probably won't happen as I ain't got the French,so anywhwere that will have me....which I'm guessing willl mean Canada or NZ.Any other ideas gretaly appreciated.
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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.
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| Martin Nicholas wrote: |
In both you end up going where you are looking
... so watching that rock or patch of ice equally dangerous for both.
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I wholely agree with this it is quite uncanny how you are looking at an object clearly telling your brain to miss it but you end up careering straight for it!
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plectrum, You go where you look and you hit what you look at. 
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You know it makes sense.
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| markymark73 wrote: |
| Would love to Mtb guid in Alpe D'Huez or the alps,however I realise this probably won't happen as I ain't got the French,so anywhwere that will have me....which I'm guessing willl mean Canada or NZ.Any other ideas gretaly appreciated. |
Whistler.
In north America, Whistler probably has the largest mtn bike guiding operation. -- because the upper mountain is not open for un-guided riding, so all clients has to go with a guide. That's a lot of guides!
Not to mention you get to try the super technical "North Shore" trail networks.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Yea, I think Whistler is the place to be for MTBing- it has a legendery rep. I'm more of an xc jeyboy though-non of that freeride business- I sh*t myself if my wheels are more than 30cm off the floor!lol. Wasn't aware of the guiding rule on the upper mountain though.That's useful to know.Thanks.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| abc wrote: |
| -- because the upper mountain is not open for un-guided riding, so all clients has to go with a guide. |
Why do they do that?
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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?
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abc, 
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Hi all,
Am coming out to Les2Alpes next week with some mates for a few days on the glacier, is there a cheap (ish) hotel in town with a pool?
Also, can you hire mountain bikes in town for the afternoons?
Hope someone can help,
BM
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And that was on an "intermediate" trail with a pitch the guide called "steep, but doable"! 