 Poster: A snowHead
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Father in Law was clearing out his loft at the weekend, and came across a box of all his old kit....
As a result, I am now the proud owner of a pair of 1974 Killy goggles - they are truly horrific. I look forward to gracing the slopes of some poor, unsuspecting resort in a few weeks. 
What's in your wallet? Any advance on 34 years?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Gosh!
I thought I was doing well with my gloves - 15 years old this season. They are still going strong though.
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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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Guvnor, I think Mr DS has some skis of approximately that vintage still in the loft. His old fluorescent ski jacket is late 1970's, but I have banned him from wearing it.
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Last season, on a Verbier trip, I killed my poles, bought in 1990 when I was a poor student.
I was saying on a chairlift ride how I won't change them until they break, as they have been lucky for me and have overseen my transformation from high intermediate to offpiste fiend. Hey presto, on the very next run we're doing some breakable crust which lives up to its name by breaking under my ski tip, I topple over and I fall on one of the poles, which snaps in two.
The interesting thing was that I skied the breakable crust better with one pole!
(Can't compete with 1974 though - my only equipment around that time was reusable nappies...)
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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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By far the oldest and most decrepit bits of kit I use are my knees. despite a couple of trips to the body shop I have been unable to get any new ones, but I am considering trying to get the old ones done up a bit.
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Just binned a pair of round mirror lens, white rimmed, leather sided Jublo glasses. I loved them.....till I got a pair of sunnies I could actually see through, about 14 years old IIRC.
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Not skiing related but I still have a pair of shoes I bought in 1973. Don't wear them much but if I hang on to them a bit longer they may come back in fasion. 
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1 Berghaus bum bag with roll-outable upper backpack bit. From my first ever ski trip in 1982.
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Julbo glacier goggles.. a lucky buy ( in that I didn't recognise the technical features in the glass, I do now ) bought in 1985 but they are great and still packed. Best bins ever for me, IMV... quality!
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Can't beat 1974, but I do own still some skis from circa 1978-1980ish I think. Red, blue and grey Fischer ones, straight (natch) with random bindings totally different from what we use now. Really dull paint-scheme on them, no texture on the tops at all, really like two planks with curvy ends!
I bought them for £5 when I lived in Austria in 1998 and learnt on them, then finally saved up for 'proper' skis by the next year. Am feeling quite nostalgic thinking about them. Although I guess I would no be that good at skiing on them these days, having got used to shaped skis.
The pair I bought in 1999 fortunately lasted me until last year when I got my new ones.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I will sport on Fartbag day at EoSB the all in one suit that I bought for our first ever trip skiing in Lenzerheide which is easily 10+ years ago. We are also still using the cheap gloves we bought then (though I have decent ski ones now for my use) DH uses his old ones just for keeping warm at the bottom and also the wolly beany hats we bought too.
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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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Base Scraper & Cairngorm Mountain Racer sweat shirt bought at the Hill Shop on Cairngorm.
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You know it makes sense.
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I walked past Blacks on Kensington High Street the other day and they had a pair of old, I'm guessing approx 20 years old, K2s with the bindings ripped off, as part of their window display. I couldn't work out if the display was supposed to be 'retro' or what, bit odd really 
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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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1980 pair of Hexcel Mirage 190cm Skis. My first pair.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I still have a pair of 200cm K2 TRX carbons outside. The binding was a Quadrax Carbon one. They recide on the snowblades at the mo.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'm still using (flourescent) poles I bought in 1988 
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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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Class Poles
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Flogged all our old kit on E bay back in November and made quite a few quid profit
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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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My first skis. A pair of K2 612s (think they were early 80s)
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