 Poster: A snowHead
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I was wondering if anyone out there owns or is aware of a watch designed for the skier? Either high end or slightly more digital.
There are endless diver, pilot, military, driver, etc watch but don't see many skiing timepieces about.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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this would do the trick, in all fairness it would only go down to -20 which could be a problem.
++I just use my phone for the time..
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Mon 20-10-08 12:39; edited 1 time in total
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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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What do you want it do do?
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My £14.99 Pulsar has done 6 seasons without any problem. It's really good. It tells me what the time is. 
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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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Some people have too much money. Send the watch money to africa and maybe it would feed a family for a year.
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jimmjimm, or to London and we could feed a small group of investment bankers for one night.
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The_Hirsty, I have a Suunto S6 which is designed for snowsports. It records number of descents, vertical distance, changes in barometric pressure, etc. The temperature function is not useful (it gets hot underneath your ski clothes) and you need to calibrate it to a known height each day to account for changes in barometric pressure if you want to get absolute altitude measurements from it. It records all this info which can be downloaded to a PC, but the novelty of this soon wears off! It was a gift, and I'm not sure if I would want to pay the full retail price for this unless I had a specific need to know my altitude at all times.
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Anything marketed for climbers should fill your gadget gap. Dive computers in particular are now almost essential in anything beyond recreational diving and calling them a watch rather trivialises their role 
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rob@rar, does it tell the time though?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Lizzard, yes it does that as well, plus it has an alarm to wake me up for my porridge with bananas & honey. That was the most useful function. Alas it didn't actually make the porridge, but I understand Suunto are working on that...
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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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I've a Nike one which has altimeter, barometer, compass, chronometer, ski-run chronometer, thermometer and a watch. There are normally some going cheap (new) on ebay. I think I paid around £40 about 4 years ago and it's a fun toy, my daughter and I used the the ski-run timer last year for races at ADH from Signal down to Villard Veculas (it stops on set base altitude).
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I wear a Suunto Titanium Observer, which looks like an ordinary watch. the Suunto S6 does a bit more, but it's not something that you'd want to wear every day.
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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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Alas it didn't actually make the porridge
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Tsk, what rubbish. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Boredsurfing,
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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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jimmjimm, some people work for the money. I recently spent £800 on going to New York for 24 hours. Is that wrong?
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Boredsurfing, Casting my net wide and all that.
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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 got a dirt cheap nurses watch and taped it (in the upside down position) to my rucksack strap. Now all I need to do is glance down.
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Scarpa, I did that with an old Swatch.
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Scarpa, I did something similar - I got some cheap dirty nurses to tell me the time.
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| hyweljenkins wrote: |
| Scarpa, I did something similar - I got some cheap dirty nurses to tell me the time. |
Ah but had you taped them upside down at the time??
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swatch snowpass can have ski lift pass data uploaded to it.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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hyweljenkins, I used to crash at Margate nurses home when visiting from my research placement in Canterbury. Damn... those girls could drink 
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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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Scarpa,
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I got a dirt cheap nurses watch and taped it
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I got a dirt cheap nurse.....................
Damn hyweljenkins, beat me to it. 
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halfhand, Are there any other types  *ducks*
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You know it makes sense.
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On a more serious note, a Swedish mate found a digital watch on a nurses type fabric sports fob with a velco fastening designed to fit neatly onto a rucksack chest strap for £8. Can she remember the site....??? Can she hell
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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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MarjMJ, Why do you think that I'm so careful. Lots of old college mates are nurses and I once worked in a hospital. Imagine the opportunities for taking the p if I ended up bed-ridden hehehe
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Scarpa, IME they've been cheap or dirty but never both . tin hat please.
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