 Poster: A snowHead
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pam w,
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The best way to look like a "noob" is having new matching everything
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Err..................if you are still a noob then I guess there's no harm in looking like one.................Err................. is there [smiley]hopeful[/smiley]?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Despite a fair few years of skiing and knowing the benefits of a helmet, it still has to be pretty damn cold before i put any kind of hat on. Then it will be a functional blue beanie. Though to be fair if its cold neough for me to put it one it will be white with frost in minutes.
Maybe its an age thing, in the same way that i still can't see me wearing a helmet when cycling.
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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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A (Viking) Helmet. 
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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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Helmet everytime, need a new one this season as i cracked mine last year! 
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Helmet.
And not just for protection against hitting rocks or other skiers hitting me - it's also useful when skiing narrow tree-lined runs, of which there are quite a few in Whistler (roll on March!).
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Megamum, anyone who attaches that much significance to what you're wearing is a boring and shallow individual anyway.
On the headgear front .....
- a stripy beanie or
- a baseball cap (probably bright red this year - 5€ Decathlon special) or
- a Giro Bad Lieutenant in blood red (dubious colour for a helmet when you think about it)
..... depending on what I'm doing and how warm it is.
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I've adapted the Halo headband idea:
http://store.haloheadband.com/Default.asp?Redirected=Y
and replaced the wicking textile wrapped open cell foam mounted at the forehead of all my bike helmets with Plastazote. Works so well that I'm going to see whether a Halo beanie would work under a ski helmet for wearing with goggles.
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hankthepenguin, welcome to snowHeads. Hope your head didn't suffer too much when you cracked your helmet last season 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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EKnight - another Helmet. (Dainesse) - I am not sure where you ski, but perhaps 50% of people skiing/boarding in US/Canada wear a lid 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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Dianese helmet - started wearing it 2 years ago and will never go without one now.
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K2 Helmet....soooper comfy and keeps the noodle nice and warm but not too warm.
From Motorcycling days I'd say that fit is the most important factor...not style. A badly fitting helmet might ruin your holiday being uncomfortable and might actually injure you in a fall, while a well fitting one might save your life in the same situation.
I have a slightly unusually shaped head (kinda streamlined) so had to look for ages before finding helmets that fit well. Found two.....a Sweet something which cost about £150 and a K2 which was much more sensibly priced....guess which one I got.
After a few days of skiing quite fast with a helmet I feel vulnerable skiing without it now!.
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You know it makes sense.
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Started wearing a helmet a couple of years ago but find that unless it's january it's too warm for me. I am lucky enough to suffer a excess of heat so loosing that heat through my head is usually a blessed relief, chair lifts not withstanding of course. Of course I can always take it off, but then find it a pain to know what to do with it! If anyone has any tips be grateful as teenies will be skiing this year and I have to set a good example! On a quiet day on the slopes I'm currently with Elizabeth B on this - hood or the strap on my goggles over the tips of my ears is usually plenty, worst case is usually a beenie I generally have always around in my pocket - I think current incarnation is a Scott but I loose them so frequently I usually pick up something in TK Maxx.
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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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ChickenDhansak, I find the Giro Fuse with thirteen vents lets heat out quite well. Six of the vents are controlled with slider, although the remainder have removable plugs which can be lost.
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Poster: A snowHead
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helmets for all the rungsp family...It's like a car seatbelt...you feel naked without one after a while.
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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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Megamum :Hi - welcome to this, at times, madhouse. What on earth were you doing to crack a helmet!! Shocked
Compressed in a hidden dip and caught an edge, flipped and cracked my head on some ice. I ripped my MCL, it was my only second morning skiing so the rest of the week involved lots of beer (sometimes with toast in the morning)!!! Thankfully i got another week skiing in mammoth mountain at the end of the season. 
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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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A Giro I bought somewhere around 1998-1999... now that I think of it I do need a new one for this season...
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hankthepenguin, Ouch!!
Glad you weren't permanantly damaged!!
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Mr L has stick-on doggy ears to attach to his (lime green) helmet ( ears designed for a bike helmet - made all the peage ladies laugh). His cool French mate refused to go boarding with him last year until he took the ears off.
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I guess if anyone skis at Christmas time you could get some of those reindeer antlers on a headband and find some way of attaching them to a helmet.
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Megamum, Stufff like that designed for helmets is widely available from e bay 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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boredsurfin, Oh, no!!
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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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Barts beenie
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Lizzard,
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His cool French mate refused to go boarding with him last year until he took the ears off.
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And who could blame him? 
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You know it makes sense.
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| stoatsbrother wrote: |
| EKnight - another Helmet. (Dainesse) - I am not sure where you ski, but perhaps 50% of people skiing/boarding in US/Canada wear a lid these days. |
Perhaps? More like 5% in the US.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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abc, I don't know where you ski; 50% easily down here poss. half that again. Don't forget they are -required- for underage lessons.
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Poster: A snowHead
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codger, Thanks - might see if Father Christmas is open for business, not cheap are they!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| davehk wrote: |
| ...it's also useful when skiing narrow tree-lined runs, of which there are quite a few in Whistler (roll on March!). |
Where's that then? Where are the tightest packed skis you can ski thru in Whistler?
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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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I make my kids wear a helmet - so I wear one to prove how cool it is 
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| Snowy wrote: |
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| ...it's also useful when skiing narrow tree-lined runs, of which there are quite a few in Whistler (roll on March!). |
Where's that then? Where are the tightest packed skis you can ski thru in Whistler? |
More or less anywhere below tree line I'd have thought.
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abc, may be 5% on your local US hills, but I ski in the US and Canada every year ( and both this coming season) and 50% is based on counting in lift queues. Even Austria would manage more than 5%.
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| comprex wrote: |
| abc, I don't know where you ski; 50% easily down here poss. half that again. Don't forget they are -required- for underage lessons. |
Where is "down here" for YOU?
I've been skiing all over the northeast. No, most skiers DON'T wear helmets. Where do YOU see 50% of them wearing helmets???
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This hat normaly 
However I will be getting a helmet at the PSB
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Pennsylvania (particularly SW Pa), MD, Virginia, West Virginia qualifies as 'down heah', I reckon. Haven't been to down to Beech or Sugar in the last 3 years so really couldn't say about them.
Using the 7 million alpine skiers figure from here and the 600,000 helmet sales per year figure would seem to indicate 10% even without considering that few people replace their helmets every year.
Probably a more reliable figure than your or my impression of the NE.
Alternatively, we could look at recent lift line pics, for example, from Keystone, CO:
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abc, I don't know where you ski; 75% easily across here poss. half that again.
Harmony Chair, Whistler
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FAQ
), one with all those multicolour long tentacle things coming out of it, and nessie! Also have some more sensible beanies and my new fave with earflaps with little plaits hanging from them and built in headphones for my ipod 
