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Hellooo
First post on here but been recommended by Ross (arv). Been lurking for a while tho and looks a great forum!!!
Anyways... being a fellow snowhead and only 19 im looking to start a career within the snowsport industry. Somewhere in the media side of snowsports would be my area of choice but im aware that its pretty hard to get into this area. Im a keen skier, having done what ross did and get CSIA level 1 and 2 in Big White this season just gone. A launch into either journalism within ski magazines, with involvement in photography etc or ski movie production would be amazing!!
If anyone one knows of any tips and people to contact, id love to hear from you!! Cant wait to get posting loads on here!
Cheeeers, Ben
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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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boredsurfin, Beat me to it 
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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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Looks an excellent start to me. Have a go - PS sH jacksonhole is also the editor of S+B, the SCGB magazine.
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achilles,
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sH jacksonhole is also the editor of S+B, the SCGB magazine
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Unfortunately, I don't think he currently visits this site and he self-confessedly hasn't got the hang of PMs. On the other hand, there's no harm in trying to contact him through Snow & Board, and mentioning the snowHead recommendation along the way.
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Cheers for all the responses guys!! 
I have applied to the SCGB one and will drop the editor of ski and board a line.
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ben123, There is some one from Fall line their log on is fall line might be worth dropping them a pm
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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There is some one from Fall line their log on is fall line
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Ordhan, good thinking. He's called fallliner.
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Hurtle, i think he's a she 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Arno, oh, right, I didn't know.
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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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| achilles wrote: |
| Looks an excellent start to me. Have a go - PS sH jacksonhole is also the editor of S+B, the SCGB magazine. |
and isn't their Director of New Media a snowHead as well?
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| boredsurfin, do you regularly visit that website? |
I'm a lapsed member, My daughter wanted to join last season in LP but the reps office hours hours were held somewhere incovenient for us, I hoped to bump into them on the slopes or in a bar but didn't 
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You know it makes sense.
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boredsurfin,
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and isn't their Director of New Media a snowHead as well?
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Not sure
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I'm a lapsed member
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Oh, I thought you were one of the anti-SKGB-ites. Sorry.
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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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Oh, I thought you were one of the anti-SKGB-ites. Sorry.
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only when the membership were bringing their tantrums over here from over there 
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Poster: A snowHead
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boredsurfin, home-grown tantrums, on the other hand, are perfectly acceptable. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Lizzard, yep, like the English Summer, I'm still waiting for this year's
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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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Old thread i know, but just thought i'd say i just got offered the job of Snow Reporter with SCGB!
Cheers guys for your ideas and boredsurfin for the link to the job advertisment!! Start early October, so should be good!!
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ben123, congrats! 
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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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Hurtle, falliner is most definitely a he...........
and congrats to Ben123
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ben123, nice one and best of luck... the office social activity should be interesting if you know what I mean, nudge, nudge .
If the job involves talking to tourist offices and asking for latest snow depths, can you quiz them really hard on where exactly they are measuring - you'll be doing the world a favour. I often see a measure under a chairlift loading area, for example, where nobody skis and flattens the snow.
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Jo225, Helen Beaumont, Thank you!!
Bode Swiller Thanks as well!! Apparently social events are also a big part of the job, ill be going to a lot of them And they have a ski trip for the staff in April sometime, which will be great!! As for the snow depth question, i will be sure to ask them that!! I have always wondered that as well, when you see a lower piste depth of, say, 30cm and then get to the resort to find most of the lower slopes bare.
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ben123, That sounds like a result - will you work out of a UK office? I'm sure if you need ideas for articles and information requests that there will be plenty of suggestions here. Wish you well
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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ben123, you have a chance to change things forever... no more vanity measuring, no more rubber rulers. There's more than one measurement really... at the moment we have tio make do with just upper slopes / lower slopes and, like you say, they often bear no resemblance to the reality when you turn up. How deep is the unpisted stuff? How deep is it when packed down in the high traffic areas? What's the snow temperature? Of course, it would need some consistency across the globe as to where measurements are taken but that's part of the challenge. Snow reports haven't really moved on in decades. With all the info-gathering gear at our disposal these days, it's time for more meaningful numbers.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Winterhighland, trouble is, that's also the length of the run.
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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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ben123, Congratulations thrilled for you now go live all our dreams for us
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ben123, congrats on the job now that I read more than 1 post back in this thread!
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Old thread i know, but just thought i'd say i just got offered the job of Snow Reporter with SCGB!
Cheers guys for your ideas and boredsurfin for the link to the job advertisment!! Start early October, so should be good!! |
Well done. Enjoy. The editor of S+B is a great guy.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Surely this job should have gone to Mr David Goldsmith?
Coat please...
ben123, well done!
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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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stoatsbrother, No not him.......ben123, well done please make sure it does not snow on Saturdays
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