 Poster: A snowHead
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(Not sure if this is right place...) I was making a list today and was wondering where'd you go? I know there was a topic similar to this a while back.. Basically let's see your optimistic (well we all know it depends on money/injuries/other commitments etc.) plan. This is somewhat my plan:
For first three years, I'd try to get the European spots done with...
European Stage - 3 Years
France:
3V
Verbiers
Alpe D'Huez
La Grave
Britain:
Yad Moss
Cairngorm
Switzerland:
Davos
Norway:
Hemsedal or Voss
Sweden:
Riksgränsen
North American/Asian Stage - 2 Years
Canada:
Whistler
Lake Louise
U.S.A:
Jackson Hole
Southern Hemisphere Stage - Summertime during the 5 years
New Zealand:
Resort yet to be found, perhaps heli ski-trip.
Chile:
Resort yet to be found.
Other places I'd like to go are Morocco and Japan. Obviously as a student this whole plan won't be easy... I'd like to get Britain done with this winter once I'm healed and perhaps get one of the French resorts done with. La Grave I plan to do at the end. Sweden/Norway would be early Spring trips with Switzerland maybe being done next christmas as a friend lives near there. The N.A. stage I'd do once I'm done with uni and perhaps spend one season in one of the resorts one year, and the next go to the other two.
I should be doing essays.. but hey!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Timmaah, It'll probably be more than 3 years before the French colonise Verbier. Until then it's in Switzerland. Not interested in Austria?
Hold the scandi resorts for late spring and make the most of the long days and stretch the season.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ahh ya, I forgot of how Verbiers in France/Switzerland... As for Austria, I've skied in numerous places there so would like to see something new. France I've... never skied in and ya, the scandi resorts I'd be leaving for late spring. I may go this year providing money and body allows it.
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Cyprus.
Sicily.
Corsica.
Kazakhstan.
Japan.
South Korea.
China.
Finland.
Greenland.
Norway.
Chile.
South Africa.
New Zealand.
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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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Timmaah,
In New Zealand consider Methven(Mt Hutt), Queenstown(Remarkables & Coronet Peak), Wanaka(Treble Cone, Cardrona, & Snowpark). For something a bit different there is a club field called Craigieburn ( http://www.blackdiamondsafaris.co.nz/skiareas_craigieburn.htm ) well known locally for advanced skiing. Facilities will be minimal, lifts are few and very basic.
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Are the places you list where you would like to ski or have already skied? If the first - then where have you skied already?
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snowball It's where timmah would like to ski!
Whitegold South Africa? What now? In my visits to SA I've not heard about skiing there.....do tell!
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snowball, I've mainly skied in Europe, did a season in the Gstaad area with trips to Lausanne etc. And generally otherwise I've been to austrian resorts.
Just to clarify... this isn't a topic SOLELY for me, was curious to see what your plans would be to ski in the next 5 years.
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Whistler // Portillo // Jackson Hole // The Remarkables // AK // Las L
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Mon 29-10-07 15:02; edited 1 time in total
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Yad Moss! Ha Ha - is this a joke?
Do you ski off-piste, perhaps with a guide or mostly on piste?
I hope to ski at Jackson's Hole in 09, and perhaps Kicking Horse another year.
I go away to ski 3 weeks per year, leaving my wife at work (she does not ski). So do not think I can go to Argentina or Chile in the Summer as well, but I would like to.
If I had enough money I would like to try Heli-skiing in Russia and / or Alaska!!!!!
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^ Cant get my message to post in full!
Las Lenas // La Garve // Perisher Blue // S.A (Tiffindel)
Saw a television programme about it and S.A would be purely just to say i had been there!
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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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snowball, not a joke! I think it would be pretty cool to say I've skied in England even if the slopes aren't exactly challenging or mountainous terrain. Also, it depends on the resort whether I'd ski off-piste with a guide, but would most likely yes.
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| Timmaah wrote: |
| snowball, not a joke! I think it would be pretty cool to say I've skied in England even if the slopes aren't exactly challenging or mountainous terrain. |
And do that before global warming makes it a history! 
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You know it makes sense.
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Timmaah, If you havn't skiied in Scotland i'd do it soon aswell! Dont think we are going to last long snow-wise up here!
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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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The plans for the next 5 years?????  Bufff...... now I'm in difficult to planify THIS season, the next five can be impossible!!!
But in mind....in the next 5 years i would like to do:
- Repeat and know better (specially off-piste) some of the big ones that I had ski yet: Verbier, Espace killy, 3V, St.Anton, Chamonix, L2A, Zermatt, paradiski,......
And know in Europe:
France:
- REAL chamonix (one week with an expert guide, to know the pure freeride, the best steep and deep....  ..a dream....)
- La grave
- Serre chevalier
- La clusaz with knee deep powder
- La mongie/bareges and specially le telepherique du Pic du midi
Switzerland:
- Andermatt and Flims/laax
- Engelberg
- Val d'anniviers
Italy:
- Alagna
Austria:
- Zillertal valley
- Krippenstein
America:
US:
- 2-3weeks in Utah (in wasatch) and wyoming (jackson hole and grand targhe), doing a road trip
Canada:
- Whistler
- Road trip from calgary: sunshine, lake louise, kicking horse, fernie, big white, castle, revelstoke, catski in retallack, ....
alaska:
- Alyeska + heliski in the chugach (after that...i can die.......)
It's possible that all of this plans I'll do it in less than 5y, maybe 2-3years...if I finish before, the plans will be...start another time 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Wouldn't give a toss as long as some friend and family were with me.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| snowball wrote: |
| Yad Moss! Ha Ha - is this a joke? |
LOL, I'd like to ski it too sometime and I'm not joking either 
| Rossfra8 wrote: |
| Timmaah, If you havn't skiied in Scotland i'd do it soon aswell! Dont think we are going to last long snow-wise up here! |
You've got until around 2050 on the most pessimistic forecasts IIRC - just coz it don't snow that often in Helensburgh doesn't mean there's no snow 3/4000 feet up in the highlands!
You aren't a Scotland on Sunday/Independent reader by any chance are you?
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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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| Timmaah wrote: |
| snowball, not a joke! I think it would be pretty cool to say I've skied in England. |
Well yes, I might too if I were somewhere near and it happened to be the day there that year you could ski there. But then I'm English and it might be nice to be able to say I'd skied snow in England somewhere other than a ski dome (or 100metres almost flat in the local park twice in my life). But I wouldn't go to another country to do it!
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roga, funnily enough I am an independant reader haha and i am a fan of the scotsman however, I can count on one hand how many ski days i got in Scotland last year and keeping in mind I am as far away from Glencoe as I am from Xscape thats not so good at all! Huge difference between snow, and skiing, it takes alot of snow to cover the heather up this way!
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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 German with a five year plan of places to go
You have sensibly chosen to avoid Russia this time.
Invading Poland is always a good option (Zakopane ?).
Britain will not be as easy as you think though.
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brian
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I understand this however unless you have some diversity then youc an hardly class this as a "ski day"! I had a fantastic day at Glencoe last year but as far as i am concerned sliding over muck and rocks to get down the hill is hardly a ski day, however the season before in total i had a good couple weeks in scotland, skiing back down to the base at glencoe on morethan one occasion, now that is a ski day!
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I'd skied snow in England somewhere other than a ski dome
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I skied down Box Hill in Surrey quite a few winters ago. I only did it so I could say I'd done it! It was a long walk up.
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brian
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Rossfra8, lightweight 
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brian, nutter! at least this season i'll be a lightweight in north america for 3 months
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Rossfra8 wrote: |
| I understand this however unless you have some diversity then youc an hardly class this as a "ski day"! I had a fantastic day at Glencoe last year but as far as i am concerned sliding over muck and rocks to get down the hill is hardly a ski day, however the season before in total i had a good couple weeks in scotland, skiing back down to the base at glencoe on morethan one occasion, now that is a ski day! |
Indeed, I guess it depends on what your definition of a ski day is but your original comment implied there was little snow in Scotland for skiing which just isn't true.
I got my first turns of last season in on Cairngorm in the first week of December when they'd already been open a couple of weekends for snowsports, they finally closed in late April - hardly a country with no snow, in fact that's a better record than many low lying resorts in the Alps had last year and that's without snowmaking. There's already been snow on the Scottish hills, in fact turns were made on Cairngorm in September, and there's been a dump in October too which hopefully bodes well for the coming season, at least the ground is cooling down ready for a hopefully lasting base.
Last season, as elsewhere in Europe, wasn't great, but that's hardly a reason to suggest that skiing in Scotland isn't going to last much longer.
Anyway, on the topic of this thread I'd like to add Austria and Canada (probably Whistler) to the list of countries I've skied in, apart from that I have no fixed plans... I never do I just go wherever chance takes me
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brian
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at least you have a good sense of humour for someone from the east coast!! just goes to show...
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brian
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Rossfra8, did I mention that the only thing worse than a jammy, gloating lightweight is a jammy, gloating, weegie lightweight ?
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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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Nah i'm "posh" haha, Helensburgh! How dare you associate me with the likes of 'them'! You seem very much like a hearts fan to me.
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brian
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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haha neither of which apply to me! enjoy pear cider and long walks haha only joking. If i wore a shellsuit and drank buckie would i have the internet to be typing this now? probably not!
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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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