 Poster: A snowHead
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I used to keep it in my top-right breast pocket. But at the EOSB I bruised a rib in a high-speed fall; so not a good idea to carry it that way. Pity. It helped keeping the battery warm (a significant benefit for January skiing, even if not relevant to the EOSB) and it was handy for taking quick pictures. Where do you carry your camera?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Bumbag
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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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Digital Cam in left pocket
Vid in right pockets.
Although I only bring the Video cam for 1 or 2 mornings to get a few shots of the area and a bit of skiing in.
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Vid cam in my pack... unless I am skiing with it. For short pitches where I am not going to fall, I might pop it in a pocket if I am trying to put some continuity footage together. I tend to do my filming in batches though, otherwise you always have the thing in your hand and its too much stop/start
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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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Not in your back pack and sit it a chairlift the lens gets crushed and you have to spend £100 when you get back repairing it 
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Top right breast pocket, but I prefer not to carry it at all if I think I might be going a bit quick that day, for the reason you mention (more for fear of breaking the camera rather than a rib).
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Waist pocket of Jacket or thigh pocket on ski pants. Love my old Phoenix jacket as it has a huge map pocket and so many other pockets. 
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Jacket breast pocket
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In padded bag in rucsac, but then I do carry an slr which is not exactly handy size-wise 
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In DH's rucksack along with the video camera - he doesn't ski!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Jacket side pocket.
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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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Rucksack, but it's a PITA having to take the rucksack off to sit down on lifts. You can guarantee the day you don't take the camera with you is the one day you see an amzing view and wish you had it...
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You know it makes sense.
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My Da Kine heli pro pack has a pocket on the waist strap which a small digital camera fits in easily - then easily accessible. Not a good idea if snow is very wet and you fall though,
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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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Rucksack, but in one of the hipbelt pockets 
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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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Word of warning. The boss carried hers in a bum bag on her frony. Big fall, pancreas squashed against her spine, a week in hospital, but all turned out well and the pancreas settled down.. Could have gone the other way though.
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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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Winterhighland, they just don't make them anymore......... those Pheonix jackets I mean. Several still going strong amongst our friends. we use to get them direct from the factory at Ashington.
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Helen Beaumont, I remember going to a place at Amble about 25 yrs ago
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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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Frosty the Snowman, sorry, I meant Amble, the friends lived in Ashington, but it wasn't 25 years ago.
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Camcorder in right jacket pocket. No case. Compact camera in left breast pocket with fitted leather case.
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Alastair Pink, Frosty the Snowman, good warnng I must admit to wearing on the front when skiing (on the back when cycling)
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| Helen Beaumont wrote: |
| Winterhighland, they just don't make them anymore......... those Pheonix jackets I mean. Several still going strong amongst our friends. we use to get them direct from the factory at Ashington. |
Mine will be embarking on it's 12th season next winter, it's still the only jacket I've got/had that can still stand up to a truly foul day on CairnGorm. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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AxsMan, I think a thin camera would help - at a guess, I'd say that my camera is 20 - 25 mm thick. So I may look fro a thin one at the start of next season.
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Helen Beaumont wrote:
Winterhighland, they just don't make them anymore......... those Pheonix jackets I mean. Several still going strong amongst our friends. we use to get them direct from the factory at Ashington.
Mine will be embarking on it's 12th season next winter, it's still the only jacket I've got/had that can still stand up to a truly foul day on CairnGorm.
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My Wifes Phoenix jacket is just about indestructable. We bought it from the Amble factory and so far it has outlasted at least two other lesser makes.
Shame they're not still making them. 
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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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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
I posted on this on an old thread, but since it's safety advice it's maybe worth repeating. Bumbags are fine for carrying cameras if they are worn as intended i.e at the back. However, some people wear the bumbag on their front, and in such cases a forward fall (not uncommon when skiing  ) can result in the hard camera being rammed up underneath the ribcage causing damage to internal organs  For this reason do not wear the bumbag on your front if it contains any hard object!  |
I don't wear a bumbag and I have my camera in my right hand-side jacket pocket (the low one, not the chest one). I figure if I take a fall on it, the love handles will be useful padding:-)
But re the advice above...if you wear the camera on the back and you take a fall on it, isn't it possible that it will break your spine? Worse than damage to internal organs... |
I thought about the possibility of damaging your back also, but this warning advice was published in several of the ski magazines a few years back, quoting A & E Doctors. I guess two factors would mitigate against back damage 1) The bumbag sits naturally in the S shape curve of the back, so doesn't project out so far, and 2) when skiing, you're much more likely to have a high speed fall onto your front than on your back. Perhaps some 's Doctors could comment?
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