 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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I know that there are a lot of issues to consider in doing so but I just love heading off on my own and finding some steep little gullies to play in. No sounds, no distractions, a touch of fear and every sense heightened.
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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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Extremely cold snow (-25F and below) with that baby powder texture that resists clumping and cannot be compacted, that acts like sandpaper to anyone who doesn't edge their skis.
Blizzards while I'm night skiing, where the flakes zoom past the helmet glinting from the lights, just like a warp speed sequence from Star Trek.
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comprex, Ooooh... in Canada we once went ice climbing at night during a snowstorm. Headtorch beams piercing upwards at the falls though a swirling patchwork of heavy flakes.
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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 sound a chair makes as it rattles over a pylon
The smell of skis being waxed
Cold in my nostrils
Smoke rising vertically from wood burners in the cold, still air
Vin Chaud on a terrace
Squeeky snow
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The feeling of being wisked off your feet by a chairlift.
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I love swooping down stepped terrain, skimming (only inches above) the powder, feeling almost weightlessness. Even better if between trees.
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The sound a chair makes as it rattles over a pylon
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Oh, why is that a popular one? - I'm more comfortable on the chairs than I was this time last year, but I'm still not keen on the audible reinforcement of the fact that I'm still being suspended a long way up.
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Cold meats and Boiled eggs for breakfast
Sliding down a piste in shoes on your way back from the bar
"that drag lift" the morning after a snowfall when it's soooo quiet
the way Drambuie clashes with toothpaste when you take your first 'nip' of the day
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| Timberwolf wrote: |
the way Drambuie clashes with toothpaste when you take your first 'nip' of the day |
This is why Jagermeister was invented, zero toothpaste clash.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Completing a steep/long draglift without falling off, even if one of your friends did in front and you have to control the laughter
The feeling of nearly losing it but pulling it back together and no-one noticing
A stupendous wipeout caught on camera/video
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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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comprex, I really cannot imagine Jagermeister first thing....... Don't get me wrong, i don't mind a Jager chaser, but not in the hip flask dude 
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Carving down a steep with a gale force wind blowing into your face... makes you feel like a ski god cause you have all the time in the world to make your moves with the wind taking the sting out of gravity  !
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You know it makes sense.
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| James2 wrote: |
| I love the feeling of falling. I don't know why. I guess it just intensifies the adrenaline that is already pumping through my veins. |
Precisely why jumping off cliffs is so much fun 
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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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Arriving at the ropes just at the point a closed bowl is opened on a powder day and then scrambling through towards the front, watching the few in front peel off at various points from the traverse, picking an empty bit and gunning it, racing others beside and behind me to get first tracks first. Skied a fair few superb pow days but that timing has only happened to me once and it was truly uplifting 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Whiteouts are fun for me, especially on a piste which is slightly cut-up/bumpy. You have to ski by feel instead of relying on your eyes to pick out a line. Very fun when not taken to extremes (Glacier at the EoSB early in the week... ). |
Yes! I did the Arolles piste then, & was surprised at how very enjoyable it was (so I did it a few times more ). Don't think I'd fancy that tricky entrance to Glacier in a whiteout though...
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Also, when you're cruising around easy pistes in them when there's not a soul to be seen and it feels like you have the entire mountain to yourself. Magical  |
Ahhh, Les Menuires on the last Friday of the EoSB... it was brilliant!
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| Blizzards while I'm night skiing, where the flakes zoom past the helmet glinting from the lights, just like a warp speed sequence from Star Trek. |
Actually, I was just saying how good this was earlier today! Need to wrap up warm, though...
And...
Marmottes! Didn't see a single one this year, but saw colonies of them in Tignes last April... Awww, they are so cute!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Jo225 wrote: |
And...
Marmottes! Didn't see a single one this year, but saw colonies of them in Tignes last April... Awww, they are so cute! :D |
oh, and the click of a well-lubed .22 rifle for the varmints.
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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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| Timberwolf wrote: |
| "that drag lift" the morning after a snowfall when it's soooo quiet |
I love lifting one foot and just tilting slightly to 'shussssss' though the dlifts (new term for drag lifts through deep drifts  )
powderhound23, I WILL learn to land them properly this year.
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comprex, Not done it in the snow yet but I love the noise of my pump action 
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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 love the very first view from the top of the very first lift on your very first day somewhere new.... so much snow.... so little time!
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DrE, welcome to
Sorry, didn't notice your post earlier... I can live without the gale-force wind, myself!
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| Swirly wrote: |
| I love the sound of gasex in the morning (that should be on a T-shirt) |
Oh yes! You print them, we'll buy them
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First click into bindings. The squeak of fresh snow. The mind-empyting qualities of skiing. Looking back at the tram lines cut fresh through a groomed piste.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Skiing enough off the piste so you can't see hear or sense any sign of human presence, sitting in a pile of snow and having a smoke. Bliss.
Feeling out of breath due to thinner air.
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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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| killian wrote: |
Skiing enough off the piste so you can't see hear or sense any sign of human presence, sitting in a pile of snow and having a smoke. Bliss.
Feeling out of breath due to thinner air. |
Bloody snowboarders. 
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Feeling out of breath due to thinner air.
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or the smoke......
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You know it makes sense.
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the squeak of cold fresh snow on your shoes when you walk to get that early morning pain au chocolat
Peak chair opening at Whistler
Gers draglift firing up for the first time in spring
Driving up to the hill on the first trip of the season and looking at the snow banks at the side fo the road, trying to work out what the base is like.
First ever pickup when you go heli skiing
The sound (or lack of) in the backcountry
Cold beer at the end of a big day
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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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Coming off the first lift, of the first day, of the first day skiing of the season and feeling the butterflies which mean "can I still do it..."
Skiing with the kids and my heart wants to burst at how well they ski and instantly remembering their first outings on skis.
Creaming (as in going fast!) down a freshly pisted run with no one else around.
Playing in the powder even if it does involve the occasional headplant.
Actually it might be easier to list what I don't like... going home!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Nickski wrote: |
| Odd things you like about 'skiing' |
David Goldsmith.
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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 drive from Lyon to the Tarentaise..
It's odd but as long as it's not busy the tingle of anticipation as you work your way uphill and start seeing the snowcaped peaks...
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Leering at talent you just don't see in any quantity at home. Ski suits make even the most mediocre local girls look like modern-day Helens.
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bertie bassett,
that works so much better than the usual, may I use it?
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| paulmck wrote: |
| Leering at talent you just don't see in any quantity at home. Ski suits make even the most mediocre local girls look like modern-day Helens. |
HA HA, i dont know who helen is, but the girls in their ski geardo ALWAYS look great with their smiles and rosey red cheeks. I often think " that ski gear would look good on my bedroom floor"... well, it usually does... unfortunately the girl in my bed is not quite so hot !!
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Libertine, She came from Troy, had a face that launched a thousand ships, apparently, so you can assume she was a bit of a looker.
On the other hand, in my world, I mainly see faces that lunched on a thousand chips.
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Jagermeister
I'll get me coat !
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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.
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The atm in the resort saying "please wait while we count your cash"
instead of " This transaction cannot be completed".
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You have no soul... 