 Poster: A snowHead
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Last weekend, with the avy risk at 4, we headed up to spot X, some low angled between the trees action on telemark. Not that easy to make progress given the meter of hyperlight powder that had dumped overnight. Anyway a little video to amuse you...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2355335566879684288
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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davidof, Gosh.
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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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Amazing!
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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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Awesome! So much fun 
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Nice skiing, great snow! A bit more speed and would be perfect.
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silly hippies 
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Yes more speed would have been very welcome but the powder was holding us back and we're not pro skiers (Luc only took up telemark this year) and... well I was on skinny skis and and and.... 
Apoligies to Steve Harley for content theft, although I suspect he has amortized that song by now, but maybe I can make amends by suggesting a Cockney Rebel anthology
The Cream of Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
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davidof, great stuff. Bit unfair of me alluding to Cockney Rebel being in DG's time without admitting it was also not before mine. I am glad your generation enjoys them too.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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davidof, excellent. Sat here at my desk, under the auspice of doing some work and thought how much fun that looked. Really must try and ensure that the next time I decide to have an off-piste lesson, I do in fact stick to it 
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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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Great video. Since I've never even tried Telemarking I can hardly carp. Fredi, our Guide last week in Engelberg was sometimes on Teles (even once in zero visibility in the cloud in a snowstorm - which is a challenge to ballance anyway, so he did fall over once or twice)
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You know it makes sense.
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I enjoyed watching that - 4 is a fairly high avalanche warning isn't it? but there did seem to be quite a big group of you and you were in the trees so perhaps it was fairly safe. That was deep snow - Do you have to keep the weight more off the tips of the skis when you ski in conditions like that?
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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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Brilliant video, really enjoyed watching that. The snow looked amazing!! Brightened up my otherwise dull Friday afternoon 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Megamum, in general keep your weight over the middle of your foot on all occasions. If the skis are diving and you are being slowed too much by the deep snow you may want to bring the weight back a bit (and in very heavy wet snow off piste, and the end of a turn for advanced racers) but that is all for more advanced skiers - don't let it confuse the general rule.
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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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Loved it !
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That snow really is unbelievably light. Is March the new February ??
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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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davidof, Beautiful skis, beautiful boots, beautiful rep .... Dynafit Je t'aime
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AWESOME 
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FAQ
That snow is crying out for fat skis and speed 
(my fats were in Geneva).
