 Poster: A snowHead
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Haven't spent much time in Switzerland so can't comment.
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Are Swiss passionate about ANYTHING? I just can't tell...
I haven't met a Swiss who doens't ski. But none of them are "passionate" about skiing. They just do it (and do a lot of it & rather good at it...)
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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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So the best ski possible ski resort would have the-
Swiss lift infrastructure and village ambience, French slopes, American customer services, Italian cooking, Canadian attitude to off piste/in bounds, and Austrian apres ski? 
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Martin Bell, Gosh I remember that day, and the looks on their faces  . Was interesting seeing the final results board though!
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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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T Bar, point taken, Swiss village ambience then? Bulgarian infrastructure? 
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| Deliaskis wrote: |
Slightly biased having lived there for a year or so, but I really do think that Austria needs to be nominated, on the basis that yes it is ingrained in their culture. The scenes you mention Christopher, in France and Italy do happen in those countries in the alpine regions, but I would wager that the interest in Paris and Rome would be much less, and it would not feel like a premiership football match. Whereas I have always felt that for the Austrians skiing IS their premiership football. I've been in Vienna and Graz and Linz with skiing on the TV and people have been going nuts about it. Everybody I have ever met in Austria can name the top skiers in their squad, wherever in the country they live (I have walked into bars in Klagenfurt where I used to live and just asked the general populace 'who won today?' and everybody would know I meant the skiing), whereas I would not imagine the same would apply to Italians in Naples or the French in Marseilles?
Sorry, did I get a bit too impassioned with my argument there? 
Haven't spent much time in Switzerland so can't comment.
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You're definatly right, i know where your coming from.
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Norway I think would be the clear winner on most objective measures. Remember the fixed heel is a relatively modern innovation. I think most of the early history of skiing in Canada and the US is populated by Scandinavian emigrant loggers & miners.
These days the real home of skiing is t'internet.
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What's the problem? Norway is top of the list!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Norway as a country.
Many states and provinces in the US very much geared towards mountain living and winter activities.
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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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| redrunmarcus wrote: |
Snowsports History: Time-Line
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1893 - H. M Christiansen built first 2-layered laminated ski
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1903 – Ski Club of Great Britain was formed
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1922 – Arnold Lunn set up the first modern slalom in Murren
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Your skiing history completely ignores Austria east of Arlberg/St Anton, redrunmarcus !!!
Orherwise it would read like
1892 Zdarsky cut 1 meter off Norwegian ski and invented firm alpine binding
1892-1895 Zdarsky and his friends developed technique for steep slopes
1900 foundation of the „International Alpine Ski Association“
1905 Zdarsky set up the first modern slalom in Lilienfeld (70km from Vienna/Austria),
there were thousands of Zdarsky-trained skiers in East Austria by 1905
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Tom from Austria, not mine the Ski Club 's
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You know it makes sense.
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first home i like 2 find is a cheap one!
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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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So Wimbledon it is then.
How I wish it was still Eaton Square and the bar was open.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Latchigo wrote: |
So Wimbledon it is then.
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Yup, with the new roof on centre court they need a winter use. Snowdomes are the in thing, so not much vertical, but hell you can say you played on centre court! I'll get my coat.
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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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| redrunmarcus wrote: |
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2500 BC - The Rodoy Carvings above the arctic circle in Norway show a man on long runners with a hunting implement.
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Here it is. Skiers have been carving for thousands of years.
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
I believe he argued with Bilgeri over ski technique so much that Zdarsky even challenged Bilgeri to a duel! 
(Fortunately? the duel never happened) |
Would have been an unfair duel, Zdarsky had a longer pole.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Latchigo wrote: |
So Wimbledon it is then.
How I wish it was still Eaton Square and the bar was open. |
Me too, it was just so much more convenient than South of the River 
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) and opposed the use of 2 poles as promoted by his fellow countryman Colonel Georg Bilgeri. I believe he argued with Bilgeri over ski technique so much that Zdarsky even challenged Bilgeri to a duel! 