 Poster: A snowHead
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 So you guys - anyone get out there and do some skiing? Over here it melted pretty quickly yesterday afternoon in Bourg, although it's well below freezing today. Just about enough snow left to try a bit of free skiing in the 'garden'... down the 35° slope at the back, round the heap of stone for the unbuilt garden shelter, over the wall...... helmets compulsory...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wild - never realised you could click to enlarge these pics. Do they all work like that ??
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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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Is that u PG?
It's rather hard to tell with the 'No Press!' hand up to obscure the face.
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Well I did have one go but have to admit I didn't get that far, meeting an undignified end at the pile of rock. Tree skiing in an inch of frozen snow down a very steep slope, I discovered, is beyond me. No, that's Timothy.
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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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You are both bl**dy nuts! In the nicest possible sense. 
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| Well I did have one go but have to admit I didn't get that far, meeting an undignified end at the pile of rock. Tree skiing in an inch of frozen snow down a very steep slope, I discovered, is beyond me. No, that's Timothy. |
I met some guys who skied in Somerset in 1998 - they had a farmer with 4x4 take them back up to the top of the hill and the local telly turned out to film them.
I also have some friends who reguarly ski tour around Newcastle in the winter when they get the chance.
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If we'd have had another 1" or 2" I'd have got the skis out. We still have a layer of ice, but not enough to turn on!
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Unfortunately I haven't bought any nordic kit yet (though I'm planning to) and my alpine touring kit is a bit heavy weight for forest skiing. Not even sure there is enough snow on the forest tracks yet.
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There were some lads snowboarding on the hills near us today, just up and down a couple of fields that kids were sledging on.
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It hasn't snowed in Bath yet, which is a shame because we've got some super hills. If it does tonight I'm walking up the hill behind our house tomorrow morning, but I don't think it's likely.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Cycled in a bit of sleet today!
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Just went for a drive through the hills, still a good 4 inches at about 200m
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You know it makes sense.
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I went out on Friday and did a bit of skiing sadly it was only on the local plastic slope, all we saw here were a few flakes of the white stuff amongst the rain 
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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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Took my daughter (three years old) out in the garden on the kiddy plastic skis that I got her last winter. She was happy walking around and falling over after sliding down the miniscule slopes in my garder (e.g. lawn to veggie patch!). She kept falling over, getting in a tangle with her skis and saying "Oh! Not again". She'll be a natural! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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highlander, those are the best shots of Ben Wyvis I've ever seen. A real pleasure!
For those who don't know the mountain, it's local to Dingwall and Strathpeffer - about 18 miles NW of Inverness. There's been local lobbying for it to become a mechanised ski mountain, going back 30 years or more, but it was generally thought to be too far north to attract sufficient trade.
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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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Chris Reed, I can just picture it. That's great.
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highlander, they are wonderful photos, it's great to see the white stuff again and since I am off to Malaysia and Australia in the coming weeks I won't be seeing much snow for a while!
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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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The ski tow on Raise in the Lake District Fells ran for the first time this season on Friday although conditions were described as marginal. Unfortunately there wasn't quite enough snow at Yad Moss.
On Sunday mild air sweeping across Britain wiped all the snow out from the Lakeland Fells..
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I flew down from Newcastle to Southampton on Saturday. The Pennines and the North York moors looked as though they had a pretty reasonable dump. Couldn't see any piste-bashers out though!
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