 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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How can you compare a pastime with a continent?
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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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Troll Boy strikes again 
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fatbob, go back to work..or get down the gym..
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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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skiking4, North America has one mountain for each resort - boring.
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Europe isn't full of Americans, there we go!
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| stoatsbrother wrote: |
| ... so what is Backcountry skiing if not off-piste? |
Off piste AND outside the resort area.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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europe does not have daft early lift closing times. Why fly for hours and have a transfer for hours when the lifts close at 3.30pm!
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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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chrisb, fair point I would say.
I guess the explanation is to make sure the pistes and ski area are closed down properly, especially since US pistes are often areas rather than narrow bands of ice surrounded by off-piste. Or maybe it is because the French love their Orthopaedic surgeons so much that they like to reward them by funnelling loads of skiers together into narrow icy runs just as the visibility goes and the weather cools 
Standee, and sadly - vice versa also makes the US more attractive.
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Mosha Marc, whereas European off-piste is the bits the ski area can't be arsed to look after inside their area?
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You know it makes sense.
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Backcountry is off piste, it just is to the outer sides of the boundary making more runs available instead of having in Europe with few runs but tons of space.
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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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At least in Eurodisney when we pay for something, we know it includes the labour charge.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| stoatsbrother wrote: |
chrisb, fair point I would say.
I guess the explanation is to make sure the pistes and ski area are closed down properly, especially since US pistes are often areas rather than narrow bands of ice surrounded by off-piste. Or maybe it is because the French love their Orthopaedic surgeons so much that they like to reward them by funnelling loads of skiers together into narrow icy runs just as the visibility goes and the weather cools
Standee, and sadly - vice versa also makes the US more attractive. |
Americans are, to a man, a vile race.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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chrisb, ours close at 10pm.
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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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comprex, we have indoor slopes that stay open much later than that 
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Mosha Marc, it takes that long to make up for all the times the lifts stop for Brits to load and unload? 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Standee, what a banal and stupid thing to say. And as a Brit - I think that proves my point about sometimes being nice to be away from europeans.
There are horrible yanks and good yanks. Horrible people from yerp and nice people from yerp.
This thread was started as a good humoured troll by someone who I believe likes North American skiing.
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Standee, what a stupid thing to say. You are a grade A t*sser.
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Hull is a place that would have one plonker at least!
A geographic area is bound to have decent and vile people in it. So castigating an entire race by their geographic profile is ... er ... foolish!
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stoatsbrother,
Indeed
On one side , I can go there for the weekend, huge areas/potential, familiarity, traditional apres
On the other, better chance of a powder day (if you pick carefully), can ski alone without worrying too much about avy/crevasse, more trees, tailgating
US people are always seem quite surprised as for them the Alps is the mecca though often they acknowledge they have shitted out with luck when they have taken a trip over.
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| Sharkymark wrote: |
Why I love Europe:
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6) Faster lifts. |
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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skisimon, faster than many in Fernie perhaps, but great snow can be worth waiting for.
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Standee, Hey, I have an American niece and nephew. And the Americans are great !
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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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And there's me thinking this was an ironic, take the p!ss, thread 
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Poster: A snowHead
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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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erica2004, I agreed you couldn't easily ski resort to resort, but there are resorts with more than one mountain... which is what you said.
Mosha Marc - indeed 
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Mosha Marc, stoatsbrother, it's happening to almost every thread which has been started as a p!ss take. Wossamatter with everybody?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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British Columbia is the place to go. No Americans or French 
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Spyderman, spot on!
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| erica2004 wrote: |
| skiking4, North America has one mountain for each resort - boring. |
I just realized there're a lot of tourists on ski in Europe. 
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North America usually has several mountains like Europe... just less than half the size.
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Will a McCain / palin victory change anyone's mind?
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I am about to try US skiing, but I was a bit disappointed with how little off-piste (ie off-trail) there was at Whistler. The in-resort off-piste seemed to get skied out in a day -(like the close to the pistes stuff in, for example, Argentiere) and the further out backcountry couldn't be skied from the lifts but required serious skinning (in a day we skied a pathetically tiny amount of gentle stuff - I regretted doing it) - unlike the huge and varied areas available at the best European resorts where a guide can find you untracked snow long after the last snowfall - skiing back to the lifts (perhaps many miles away or circling back) or a linked lift sytem, or occasionally requiring a taxi or a short train journey - perhaps from another country. However if you want to discover European resorts beyond the piste areas you do need to go with a guide, which does put up the cost of holidays.
However, I did enjoy Whistler and I'd probably go back. I think I skied more steeps in one day with "Extremely Canadian" in my first of two days with them, than I have anywhere else.
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FAQ
plenty of places which contradict this.
