 Poster: A snowHead
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Val Thorens, first day of my second trip and couldn't see 6ft in front of me, going down a seemingly unpisted blue, I think it was Fond, which was deserted. Just the complete lack of definition in the terrain made it really difficult.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Epaule de Charvet in val d'isere, jumping off the back of every cut off mogul.
It was horrid 
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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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The first slope I skied on day 1 of trip 1.
Since then it's just gotten easier.
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No3 black in LaThiule... the one Lindsay Vonn fell on last week. My third week,+70% and boiler plate on (so literally the hardest). Must have fallen 10 times first run but went back and nailed it next run.
Or Tetras in Meribel when it had moguls so big I couldn't see over them and had to side step up.... and had no idea what I was doing. It got bashed that night and was childs play the next day.
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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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On my first ski holiday in L2A that horrible track from Les Cretes down to resort. should be regraded as green suggests easy but try snow ploughing all the way with 7000 other beginners and 100 a**holes. truly terrifying not to mention agony on the knees as tensed up the whole way down which took a good 40 minutes.
Tetris (black) in Montgenevre has a horrible drop in at the top and was scraped blue ice and horrible giant moguls
two steep sections of sarenne (ADH) between the rocks which in the afternoon on a warm spring day resembled the opening scenes of saving private ryan, bodies, skis and poles everywhere 6ft moguls. no idea how i negotiated it without falling once.
still love skiing though
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Frank Berthod black at La Thuile which had a top half of light blue ice. Stopping a third of the way for a breather and seeing ice balls rolling all the way down did nothing for my sanity either. Scary
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Bottom end of the Luc Alfond black at Serre Che. It had rained heavily and refrozen. Like an ice skating rink. Very busy late on and the home run. I was on borrowed skis -ten years old that hadn't been serviced in years and had no edges. Everyone was going over and taking out lots of other people, including me. Happy days....
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@RWDLYN, that's the one... Only on my first attempt I was on my back bottom overtaking the ice balls.
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The glacier at L2A - PSB 2007 ish - polished, blue glacier ice. Gentle slope on which control was impossible for a numpty like me.
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Not exactly a piste but the last crappy bit just as you arrive at any lift !!!!! Soft, soggy, tight and generally horrible and the point where idiots always come flying past to get a better place in the queue.....no manners. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Guerlain Chicherit, Tignes when icy gave me a surprise , eases out after the first 300m or so. Leisse was tricky as well, but the chair back up scarier.
La Masse when icy and moguled is a steep run, but at least it is quite wide.
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