 Poster: A snowHead
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Is it me, or do all ski holidays start like this?
Arrival day - arise at some ungodly hour - airport, flight, transfer, arrive resort, go out and get hammered.
Day 1 - despite arrival day, up early, get first lift, ski as if life itself depended on it, go out again in evening and get hammered.
Day 2 - 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You could try going midweek to midweek, then you wouldn't arrive until day 3 or 4, and you could miss that day 2 syndrome altogether.
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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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Sorery mike but it's just you. I don;t do the "going out till 2am geting hammered" as I know that if I do I won;t be able to ski. I can get hammered and feel ill at home, but if I've paid a few hundred pounds for a ski trip then I damn well want to ski
note some of my mates do do the "going out till 2am geting hammered" thingm, but they're still up for first lift with us the next day,
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Mountain air has been the best hangover cure i've found. Twenty minutes, feel great. Trouble arrives on the last day, on the flight back!
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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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I'm with you on that nbt, cannot understand why anyone would want to wait all year to go skiing and then inflict a massive hangover on themselves which in effect ruins 1/6th of their week.
I like a good drink but even more I like a day on the slopes without a thick head! 
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telford_mike, thats my every day routine, incidently im nearly always off sick for a week when i get home, last time it was bronchitis!
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telford_mike, I see the problem: you're obviously not well practiced enough at the going out in the evening bit. The plan is to go out every night, but still get up every morning to ski as if life depended on it. You can sleep at home.
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SteveG, I find that too.
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Ive never had the energy to get drunk after skiing I'm usually done in by 9.00, need to sleep to make the early lifts fresh as a daisy. I also learnt how to beat a hang over as a student - never mix drinks, lots of water, up early, and fresh air, never fails.
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telford_mike, Mike, you are so right.
Haven't found any correlation to alcohol or sleep. I just never, whether on a 2 day or 15 day trip, ski as well on day 2 as days 1 or 3+. Many friends find the same.
Very strange.
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Trying a different plan next trip. Deliberately arriving late in resort so that I won't go out and get hammered on arrival day. Day 1 should be fantastic (as always). Now how about Day 2...........ok, I see what you mean. 
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Maybe if you consistently lived like that (going out on school nights etc) then ski holidays would be like every other day - and you'd be fine!
ps - it may kill you!
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I find on a Saturday departure, it's always Tuesday when I can't get out of bed, and my skiings rubbish when I do.
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You know it makes sense.
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Just don't bother getting up on day 2!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Kramer, Sorry, but that is most definitely not an option
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Poster: A snowHead
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Skiing is too great to have a hangover. As I get older I find I go to bed earlier and earlier but strangely still wake up at the same time to make sure I am on the first lifts in the morning. 
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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 have to say that the idea that mountain air cures all hangovers is a bit of a myth. If you only have a mild to moderate one then it does work, however with the really severe ones, it has very little effect at all.
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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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You're off the slopes by 5pm. Start earlier (5-6pm) and finish earlier (11pm say) that's still a decent session and you can still get 8-9 hours kip and make the first lift.
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This is very easy - you can have beer the other 51 weeks of the year !
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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ski, Sad if you can only ski on one week a year because you need to drink on the other 51.
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Personally, now I'm getting a bit older, but skiing with people younger than me, I find it is about day 4 I notice it catches up with me a bit. If I go out for 2 weeks I have to take a half day out in the middle.
This is not helped by the fact that (eg on SCGB holidays) the others go out by plane but I go by night train (when I can) and get in that extra day before they arrive. I always end up skiing harder than I mean to that day, since I am usually just with one other person and there are no pauses while the group collects before going on.
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If you only have a mild to moderate one then it does work, however with the really severe ones, it has very little effect at all.
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This is why you should never mix your drinks and always avoid anything that might be 'free' local spirits. 
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I find that the hardest part of the morning after a heavy drinking session the day before is the bit between my alarm going off and arriving at the top of the mountain.
After the adrenaline rush I get from the first piste run I'm fine and up can't wait to get back to the top.
Then I finish off the day with a few drinks in a mountain bar, before going out and getting hammered again in the evening.
The perfect holiday
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albeemish, welcome to snowHeads 
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Only been reeeeeally hammered twice, once in Kitzbuhel when two of us skied no more in the holiday due to a very nasty tobboganing incident, Once in Tignes when 2 of us failed to sit on a 6 man chair properly and ended trapped underneath.
My Day 2 feeling now is "oh no, only 5 more days left"
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Thanks Elizabeth
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Helen Beaumont wrote: |
| I find on a Saturday departure, it's always Tuesday when I can't get out of bed, and my skiings rubbish when I do. |
My crowd calls this the "fridge day", i.e. the day when you ski like a fridge. Must be quite a common phenomenon
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If you only have a mild to moderate one then it does work, however with the really severe ones, it has very little effect at all.
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Best then to go for a really really severe one, they don't even think about waking up and kicking in until after you've finished skiing
Comfortably numb.
Reminds me of a guest once, remarking with joy to chalet girl that he'd beaten everyone to breakfast (having not previously appeared at all).
Amid fits of giggles poor girl had to tell him that it was dark because it was 6 in the evening not the morning and he hadn't just missed breakfast but the whole of the day.
Not to be recommended...
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You know it makes sense.
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Feeling that this  is one thing, it is when you start vomitting at the bottom of a run (Lake Louise when I was old enough to know better) that you know you need an AA apointment
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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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Last year in La Rosiere, with a group of lads ('er indoors went with work, so I had a "late pass") we had a pretty good night out on the second evening. I forgot about the house plonk we'd had with our evening meal (chalet board) and continued in to the unkown region of 10 pints. The next day's skiing (Tuesday) was pretty bad, not helped by waking up at 4AM needing the bathroom and then having to climb out of the top bunk in the dark. It was messy.
I promised myself I'll never do that again. After all, us 34 year olds know better, don't we? We'll see.
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Poster: A snowHead
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You know that it's a proper bad hangover, when after a days skiing in the mountain air, plenty of water and gatorade, and food at lunch, and on the last run down, you still have that stale beer taste in the back of your throat, and that rhythmic pounding in your head.
I would hope that in my thirties, I would also know better, but it seems that the lesson has still to be properly learnt.
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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 cant seem to think of anything more fun that skiing all day n getting wasted everynight.
gettin up for ski lessons is always a bit hard tho.
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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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I think that it's a question of balance. If the snow's crap next week, then the balance will shift more towards toffee vodka and hangovers, if it snows (fingers crossed), more towards early nights and first lifts.
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Just dont forget to buy the instructor a few drinks...then you wont be the only one in your class suffering
I find the best way is to drink till late , get up early and have some proper tea and then first lift , dont give the hangover a chance to realise that you have got up
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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 first, and last, time i drank at altitude was enough to put me off forever. it was the 2nd day id been up on the mountain, and i decided to have some red wine, about half a bottle all in all. really fantastic stuff, but i felt a bit tipsy and didnt want to get hungover, so i drank a lot of water and went to bed.
the next morning i felt awful. but i had a lesson and wanted to get out on the slopes, so shaking and with my head pounding i got dressed and grabbed my board. i was fine until i got out in the sunlight and just couldnt face it. went back and was miserable the entire day. since then, its "just say no" and dont drink at altitude. that was of course, until last year - when a friend of mine brought some johnny walker gold label, which went nicely in my hip flask and was used when the ski lifts were too long.
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Had a nasty one myself last season. It started innocently enough with a drop of wine with lunch (well, it was my birthday), but the vin brulee at mid-afternoon was gratuitous. The apres started okay as well with about 4 pints in a friend's bar before finding some dinner over a couple more beers at another bar. Where it all started to go wrong was when my mate decided to surreptitiously get me to drink the entire cocktail menu in another bar before eventually heading off to a night club. He redeemed himself there though by peeling the unfinished vodka coke from my unfeeling hand at about 5am and dragging me away from the wall I was staring at. Apparently, it was a very long walk home indeed due to the excessive traversing I was doing. First time I have ever woken up as late as 11am before going skiing (and then not managing very much at all before deciding I really ought to try to track down my wallet - it eventually turned up though ).
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Is it the beer or the altitude that makes skii resort hangovers worse than home-grown ones? 
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No, you're obviously not drinking enough at home.....
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Nothing cures a hangover like a faceful of snow 
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