 Poster: A snowHead
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comprex,
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Eating poutine three times a day
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This sounds a bit "mucky" is it suitable for a family forum?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Eating poutine three times a day
This sounds a bit "mucky" is it suitable for a family forum?
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lol 
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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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the incredible silence tree skiing in powder
the rare moments when you traverse round a shoulder or boot over a coll and you are on your own
chairlift tension - you are just willing the thing up the mountain as you see people starting to cut up YOUR powder field
the magic dust you occasionally get when after really cold powder, thermals cause tiny flakes to float up sparkling in the sunshine
smoothly cruising between the crowds on the last run down, beer beckoning
assiette montagnard avec frites et un grande bierre
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oh and when that lift finally opens up just as you are passing the bottom
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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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Getting a text asking if you were on the first lift and you are still in bed 
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This is a thread about 'odd things' you like about skiing.
Why do people keep giving answers that are a variant of 'I like snow'?
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Skiing on a road that still open to traffic after a run through the trees on a heavy snow day takes some beating, especially last run at twilight.
Less bizarre is closing my eyes on the chair up and hearing the hiss of heavy snow, and the deadened sound from close by - anticipation...
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the warming burn of the rum in the mid-morning hot chocolate - 'odd' that I seem perfectly able to limit myself to just one
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paulio, thank you for noticing, it does appear to be passing people by.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Reading this thread is giving me goosebumps... 
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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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Watching my ten year old son (who is hopeless at team sports and ball games) ski down the last run of the day at speed, holding his poles on his head like antlers, to his innocent delight.
Watching the look on my wife's face as our eight year old daughter talked to her - while skiing fakie so as to do so.
Sitting in a hot-tub while it snows on you (I know that's an "I like snow" but it is an odd one).
The crunchy squeek that snow makes.
The excitement that spreads through a lift line as news comes through that a bowl full of powder at the top has just been opened by the ski-patrol.
Waking up to the sound of explosions and knowing that it is a powder day.
Enjoying the music played by the lifties that I would never listen to the rest of the year.
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The feeling you get after the long hot shower at the end of the day, when you're strangely relaxed and content whilst being aware that every muscle in your body aches.
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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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| Smokin Joe, there must be a reason why that stuff arrives in a test tube rack. Have you ever taken a bottle home? It's odd how it tastes amazing when half-cut in the Windsor Bar, but get it home and it becomes something beyond vile. Much like Ouzo does when it escapes from its Greek island. |
Correct - but its also great for waxing skis 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Being the only one still working in the rain on Christmas Day - decidedly odd.
Being the only one still teaching on the upper mountain as the lifts are about to close due to high winds. And seeing all of the beginners I was teaching that day back for more the next day, still in terrible weather.
Going around saying "lovely weather for ducks"!
Watching the line of tail lights leaving the resort, and knowing you can't get home for at least 2 hours.
Hearing that Caltrans have closed I-80.
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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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This is one of the most uplifting threads I have read in ages.
Things I like (although many of you have already named some of mine):
The fact that you have to forget your woes, whatever they may be, because if you don't you will hurt yourself
The lack of hoodies, litter, and scum bags at ski resorts
How for the first few nights I dream skiing
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| Peter Leuzzi wrote: |
| How for the first few nights I dream skiing |
I dream skiing on a very large number of nights, throughout the year.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I loved reading the last four pages of literary ski porn.
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| Peter Leuzzi wrote: |
The lack of hoodies, litter, and scum bags at ski resorts
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I reckon you see more hoodies (the garment, not the social classification) in ski resorts. But the hoodies are worn by laid back skiers or snowboarders who are more likely to say 'hows it going' than 'what the f*** are you looking at'.
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The g-force pushing me to the side of the slope I go for a hairpin bend on a deserted motorway run, trying to edge as much as possible without skidding 
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Dr. Will, with the arcs parallel in the turn 
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what do i like about riding in the mountains? the total freedom that comes with making a total back bottom of myself when i faceplant and still end up giggling like a kid at xmas - no one cares cos everyone is having fun.
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Pulling on a warm pair of ski boots in the morning
Putting on my soft shoes and walking back from the ski deposit at the end of the day.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Only travelling a few miles from the airport before you encounter snow in the valley
Sitting in a hot tub by Lake Tahoe looking up at the mountains
Chilli fries with cheese in Colorado
The blueness of the sky in the mountains
Finding a clean toilet in a French mountain restaurant that you don't have to pay for and which isn't accessed down a flight of stairs more dangerous than an icy black run
Falling in really soft dry snow
Walking past a table in a crowded mountain restaurant just as its occupants get up to leave
Texting your friends at work in England to get the Val d'Isere webcam on their computer so they can see you waving to them from in front of the snowdrift
(how sad am I!)
The days when everyone goes home early because it's snowing and you've got the piste to yourself (just in case anyone thinks I don't actually do any skiing!)
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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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| PamG wrote: |
| Only travelling a few miles from the airport before you encounter snow in the valley |
That is a great one. Even better if you land in some small remote airport on a snow covered runway.
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The smell of wood smoke in the morning when I get up at 6am because it's snowed and I can't wait. And the walk to the shop at that time with just locals around.
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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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skinutter, wonderful, that's really poetic. Interesting how many of your favourites are aural. Do you ski with music? I'd hazard a guess that you don't.
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Poster: A snowHead
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no way....i think you need to hear the natural sounds around u to appreciate the sights.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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skinutter,
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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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A list of selected odd highlights:
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I like slow chairlifts on a nice day.
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looking up the mountain at night, and watching the headlights of the bashers
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The smell of skis getting waxed
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Whiteouts are fun for me
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squeaky snow beneath my skis.
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Middle aged Italians in 80s gear somehow looking cool in a retro way
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The heavy rumble of a chairlift when you go over a pylon where the cable is slung under the guide wheels
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I also love the thud/rumble of charges or gazex(sp?) cannons going off whilst i'm having breakfast
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Blizzards while I'm night skiing
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Sliding down a piste in shoes on your way back from the bar
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going through the trees not knowing where you are
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I love skiing deep slush
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Waiting in Austrian railway stations feeling like you're an extra in the Third Man.
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Using my ski edges to trim back twigs and canes poking up through the snow.
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waking up and aching in places you never knew you had,
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Eating poutine three times a day
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the magic dust you occasionally get
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Skiing on a road that still open to traffic after a run through the trees on a heavy snow day
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Being the only one still working in the rain on Christmas Day
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The inconvenience of having to fit chains to go any further
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The beep-beep sound of the pistenbullys after the lifts close
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Crouched beside the road up from Chambery, fitting snowchains on a very snowy dark evening, hearing a creaking noise, looking up to see a farmer heaving open the door to the cowshed, feeling the hot smelly rush of air and thinking "I'm back in the mountains".
Reliving that moment every time I've driven past the spot since.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Driving through the tunnel on the autoroute where the landscape on the entry side is green and rolling and on the exit side is suddenly stark and mountainous - I can never remember which tunnel it is, so every tunnel is an 'Is this it?'
When it is just the three of us,(small and cheap apartment) the first meal conjured up on facilities marginally better than a camping stove........and at least the camping stove has a constant power supply!
The same dodgy meal at the same dodgy restaurant by the same formula 1 that we always end up in on the way down.
The occasional thrill when the french sentence I've carefully prepared, comes out my mouth in the same way as it was constructed in my head and isn't met with a complete look of baffled lack of understanding by the recipient.......or the gales of laughter when I get it spectaculalry wrong.
The feeling this morning when a padded envelope came through the door containing our season passes even though we can't use them for a month.
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Woodsmoke at home reminding me of mountain huts, and woodsmoke from mountain huts reminding me of home.
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Cabane de Mont Fort brownies with a glass of gamay
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The point at which I start looking forward to this seasons ski trips rather than back on last seasons...so that would be round abouut NOW! 
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The smell of my skiing gloves. Wierd I know, I guess its an association thing. I wore them at Twickenham on Saturday and that smell was the highlight of the afternoon! 
Ski shop window displays. The lighting on the brightly coloured kit makes it look so tempting. If I was minted, I could blow fortunes on ski gear in resort.
First run down on freshly groomed piste which is still frozen solid. Really wakes you up and blows away the cobwebs from the night before.
Seeing "crocodiles" of tiny kids snaking down the slopes. More so this year as hopefully my little boy will be in one...
Sitting outside to eat and drink in temperatures that mean you probably wouldn't even walk to the pub in England, never mind sit ouside it!
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First run down on freshly groomed piste which is still frozen solid. Really wakes you up and blows away the cobwebs from the night before
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Ooo......No.............still not keen on that. That sort of surface wrecked my ski race in VT. Everyone watching and me knowing I could make a passable job of it in snow that skis could dig into, and it turns out to be this rock hard corduroy that you couldn't mark with a hammer and chisel and that made a hellish noise when you skied over it. Next year rearrange the race order - Good skiers first whilst its still rock hard - give the beginners next year a break.
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