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I am not mad, but.......
I've just seen an Alsation (a huge great hairy one) sat in the middle seat of the three man Plan des Violettes chairlift, above Villaroger (Les Arcs).
There I was, on my own, on my way up this lift. In the heavy snow we have today I was all huddled up and the lift had just got going after a brief stop. When there, coming down towards me, from the cloudy background, sat upright in the middle seat (With the bar down), was this huge hairy Alsation. It didn't bat an eyelid, just sat there looking at the way ahead.
Behind me, the kids on the chair, a few back, had a good giggle.
But I was too slow (Godsmacked) to get me camera out. So I need someone to corroborate this before the men in white coats come..........
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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pretty common for recuse/patrol dugs to ride the chair with their mum/dad and probably even on their own if their used to it
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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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Poodle Hunter, was he alone? Some of the lifties here occasionally put things on the lifts going down - not living things, just funny things. Was he a stuffed Alsation?
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Was he a stuffed Alsation?
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Yeah he'd just eaten 3 TO reps doing unofficial ski guiding.......
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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 saw a dog on the chair lift in Les Arcs last year.
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I saw an Alsatian riding a chairlift by himself, in Courchevel (on the Biollay chair). He had a red bandana around his neck and was sort of leaning against the side of the chair. Very cool.
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We have taken our dog on a chair in the summer... I'm sure we will at the end of the season too!
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Definitely real and by him self, no one in front and no one behind. The lifts are very quiet as there is heavy snowfall and poor visibility today.
When I got to the top the lofty was putting some other stuff on the lift to go down. I might head out that way again tomorrow to see if this dog is there again. Hopefully.
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yep seen this also in Ste Foy 
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I've seen a dog on a chairlift with his master - one of the pisteurs here had a dog which ran everywhere after him and rode the lifts. But a dog on his own is a bit surprising!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Please please please, its a German Shepherd, NOT an Alsatian, although the breed origionated from the Alsace mountain region, where they were used to herd sheep and protect them from wolves.
Anorak on and leaves
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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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It is a German Shepherd, they only changed the name to an Alsatian because of the war.
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Poodle Hunter, don't you need to change your user name now to Alsatian Hunter? 
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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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And they aint even got the bar down!
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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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Timbobaggins, FIL had just about the biggest GSD I have ever seen, love the breed (unless they are the overbred type with the lower rear quarters) We don't have the space for one otherwise we would.
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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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Go to the EoSB; you'll see loads of dogs on chairlifts
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I often take a couple of monkeys on a chair lift.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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9 mountain rescue dogs and not a brandy barrel among them . . . useless lumps of fur 
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Timbobaggins, He is gorgeous 
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Patrol mutt on cairngorm runs the length of the drag tows alongside his daddy. (Same dog who sometimes refuses to perform when they do demonstrations!)
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Timbobaggins, this one is incredible (back in the early 90s I used to do schutzhund training, so can appreciate a focused dog)
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Zero-G,
Yup Ulf trains dogs brilliantly, he has helped me train our loon, although not to Schz 1,2 or 3 by any stretch, his partner Margeret does the breeding and Ulf does the training.
He uses play as the drive, he is superb to see in action.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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also look at his video called multi control, he has 3 dogs working at same time. All for a rubber toy ring 
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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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A guy at Glenshee fairly often has his collie up with him
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I can't resist a GSD thread and a chance to re-post these of my pair of rescues!
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You know it makes sense.
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Lifty at Nordkette regularly rides with his husky, that thing loves nothing more than hanging outside the hut on a snow day.
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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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Megamum,
nice
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Poster: A snowHead
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Mine go mad in the snow if we get it here - they love chasing snowballs! I don't know how they would fair on a lift though!
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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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Its nothing new here, Winteregg chairlift used to be our favourite in Mürren for long walks with our dogs
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Do the dogs know when to jump at the end of the ride, or do they stop the lifts to enable them to jump down?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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What with all the GSD chat...
Was skiing at Patscherkoffel last week, and saw a dude skinning up with two gorgeous white GSDs. They had no problem at all with skiers, myself and lots of others went passed and the just calmly trotted along. However, when a boarder came past, they went absolutely APESHIT, chased the poor guy for at least two hundred metres, barking loudly - bloody hilarious. Wonder if they were trained to do that (seems very unlikely), or just don't like the noise boards make?
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Saw a GSD riding the lifts in Bansko a few years ago. It was so eager that it often jumped the que and got on the chair ahead of it's owner.
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Having seen avalanche dogs arrive on chairs then dig someone from a slide like JCBs compared with the shovellers; I will always be in awe of the hairy muts by the rescue huts.
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I often take a couple of monkeys on a chair lift.
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That would be with the other dealers in Courchevel? (monkey= £500 just for those more genteel folk)
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Photo I took of a dog (think she was called Leka or something) riding the chairlift with me when I was out with the Whistler ski patrol back in January 2005 when I was working out there..... I wrote an article that was published on (now defunct I think) Ultimate-Ski.com, all about my experiences with the ski patrol.... from blasting to injuries - all in a days work for them.
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What with all the GSD chat...
Was skiing at Patscherkoffel last week, and saw a dude skinning up with two gorgeous white GSDs. They had no problem at all with skiers, myself and lots of others went passed and the just calmly trotted along. However, when a boarder came past, they went absolutely APESHIT, chased the poor guy for at least two hundred metres, barking loudly - bloody hilarious. Wonder if they were trained to do that (seems very unlikely), or just don't like the noise boards make? |
Nope trained,
What i do with my GSD is show him my ski's and every time he sees them i give him a chocolate biscuit,
I then show him a snowboard and every time he sees a snowboard i hit him with a baseball bat, he soon learned to hate snowboards.
ONLY JOKING
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