 Poster: A snowHead
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| Spyderman wrote: |
| You're only a 'Real Skier' if you've skied on Cairngorm. |
Correct but... to be really Real you need to have been unable to move downhill due to the wind blowing uphill (and experienced the opposite!), you need to have gone out in the evening with that pebble-dashed skin look, you need to have run out of run out and stopped dead on some heather, you need to have walked to the Ptarmigan when the lifts are closed, you need to have experienced the deep fried frozen pizza. Anything pansy you all get up to in France simply doesn't qualify.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Bode Swiller, now I'm disappointed again - whilst I can fulfill 1 and (2) not 3 but 4 (on the Chevin in Oltey) not 5 but did walk back to the top on the Chevin and 6 doesn't even tempt me!
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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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Bode Swiller, not just "stop dead in heather" but a full "park and fly" I think is required.
I reckon most of not all SHs are "real" skiers by some definition. Perhaps, "Interested enough in the pursuit to discuss on line when not actually skiing".
I have some chums that ski - but they have little interest in skiing per se. It could be kite surfing, pig breeding or lion taming - the critical point being that all their mates go off for a week a year to do it and they'd feel left out if they didn't.
And there's nothing at all wrong with that...
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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'm a real bad skier, does that count?
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Hurtle, ..... don't worry ....
.... if Heineken did real skiing, they would have invented snowHeads ..... 
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I'm "keepin' it real" if that helps? 
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When I say a 'real skier' I mean someone who goes skiing for more than 6 days a year, someone who wants to be (or may already be) a good skier, someone who actively wants to improve their skiing, someone who aspires to (or already does) own their own skis, someone who's more interested in skiing that in the pub, someone who spends time talking about skiing when they're not doing it (that's most Snowheads who post).
A holiday skier is more interested in the pub than skiing, a holiday skier isn't at all interested in skiing well, or learning to do so, a holiday skier wouldn't go off piste, they will never ski more than one week a year, and wouldn't dream of going to a snowdome or a dry slope. A holiday skier is someone who may like to clock up mileage, not for the sake of skiing but for the sake of boasting to their pals.
I think that's enough to be going on with.... ergo, reading very quickly through the posts already - most Snowheads (who post) are 'real' skiers. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Charlatanefc, Judging by easiski's , criteria you are indeed a real skier
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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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easiski, I feel a bit better now 
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Frosty the Snowman, reading easiski's criteria, I'm confused, as I seem to fall into both camps a fair bit
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You know it makes sense.
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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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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| Spyderman wrote: |
| You're only a 'Real Skier' if you've skied on Cairngorm. |
Correct but... to be really Real you need to have been unable to move downhill due to the wind blowing uphill (and experienced the opposite!), you need to have gone out in the evening with that pebble-dashed skin look, you need to have run out of run out and stopped dead on some heather, you need to have walked to the Ptarmigan when the lifts are closed, you need to have experienced the deep fried frozen pizza. Anything pansy you all get up to in France simply doesn't qualify. |
Need to go into a tuck to get down the White Lady because if you stand up you'll get blown back up the hill.
Been woken up by a snowplough as you lay in the gutter unconcious from a night on the heavy & whisky.
skied the Heather and saw the sparks from the ski edges as they hit the granite.
Eaten Meat Pie, beans & Chips in the Day Lodge.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Spyderman, I'll happily Eat Meat Pie, beans & Chips in the Day Lodge., but thats as close as I'll get to skiing in Scotland. and there was me thinking I'd become a real skier cos I'm going to buy boots and have 4 trips planned this coming season 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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holidayloverxx, Meat Pies in the Day Lodge are a delight not to be missed, you just cut into them and the grease just runs out and spills over the plate, the beans are about as hot as Napalm and the chips, well you can just feel your arteries blocking. They make food anywhere else in the world so much more palatable.
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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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Spyderman, excellent - you might persuade me to give scotland a go after all 
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I reckon that a real skier has to have an aversion to fondue - it's the most boring, overrated thing around
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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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Specialman, ah yes Fondue... in Aviemore that's where we used to dunk half bricks into used engine oil. Real food for real skiers.
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There's nothing like cheese to give you some low-down ballast when making tight turns!!
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Hurtle,
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| Are most snowHeads real skiers? |
Yes, most are.
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I'm a real skier.
Ski instructor. At least 100 days on snow a season working or playing and more often than not both.
I'm a luck b******* but i've worked hard at getting this lucky
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I still think we should stop slating the poor old 'holiday' skier. Particularly those of us who rely on his cash one way and another.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Specialman,
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RE: ARE MOST SNOWHEADS 'REAL' SKIERS?
No. I'm a boarder.
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Shame, you have such good taste in music, what happened?
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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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| Mosha Marc wrote: |
| I'm a real bad skier, does that count? |
I hope so.
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So to use the easiski, scale, because I choose not to take regular instruction, I am not a real skier? Ergo, I am a holiday skier....
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You know it makes sense.
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I'm a holiday skier too. I hardley ever ski here in Cham'. I love getting out and about to other resorts. Chamonix, has in recent years, lacked sufficent 'Kiddycover', so killing children on the piste has become somewhat a rariety. Luckly they have invested heavily in the 'Family' thing around and abouts, so that's great.
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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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SMALLZOOKEEPER, If I were to partake in your sport of kiddy killing then how would I differentiate between genuine kids and shortarsed cute bootfitters?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Spyderman, can you ski on cairngorm?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, I realised that coordination with one piece of wood is better than with two!!
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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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Frosty the Snowman, Pi$$ 'arf!!!!!!!!!
Specialman, Sure, if you've got one leg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Kramer, I'm gona Pi$$ in your boots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Kramer, If he needs to p!ss in your boots then you better have some step ladders handy for the boy
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Real skiers: those who are out all (or a lot of) the season on the slopes, the professionals (such as easiski, ssh, veeeight) and the likes of davidof, Bernard_C, and so forth. The rest of us are holiday skiers - and most of us are keen ones..
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BernardC, yeh but no but yeh
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Real skiiers only get the first lifts on powder days. 
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Lizzard, thankfully I don't depend on them - if I did I'd do something else. Why are Euan and Dave so stoked about teaching Snowheads at the EOSB? Because they actually had students who wanted to learn! They (because they both work for ski schools) spend most of the winter trying to teach peeps who don't actually want to learn, but are just there because someone else enrolled them, or because it was included in the holiday price. It's absolutely and totally demoralising to try to teach these peeps 6-7 days a week for 5 months! 
SMALLZOOKEEPER, Peeps in the biz don't count!
achilles, AFAIC you're deffo a real skier. Holiday skiers are the above...
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