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wondered if snowheads might like to enter????
I cann't- Mrs Ed is pregnant with number 3 due end of March-
need 3 people, at least 1 woman, 3 different disciplines; ski, telemark, snowboard, mono, skwal or even mountain bike.......
any takers - 2150m of descent, off piste, no markers, no gates any route except trifides couloirs, the winners do it in about 6 minutes!!!
go on.........
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ummmm...............
Nope I'm busy that day 
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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 was on the hill the same day as the Derby a few years ago, my descent time would have been measured in hours not minutes.
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| edsilva wrote: |
wondered if snowheads might like to enter????
I cann't- Mrs Ed is pregnant with number 3 due end of March-
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Tease.
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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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| comprex wrote: |
| edsilva wrote: |
wondered if snowheads might like to enter????
I cann't- Mrs Ed is pregnant with number 3 due end of March-
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Tease. |
not really --- I mean it....some teams are very slow- and do take an hour or so...would be fun.
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look if you can ski Grands Montets top to bottom then will be fine...
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i will make up part of the team. my weapon of choice will be a bin liner 
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edsilva, you know what...
Actually I'm tempted, I always thought it was a really serious thing (it probably is for the top guys) but given you can do it in fancy dress... now where did I put my dressing gown? 
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| Swirly wrote: |
edsilva, you know what...
Actually I'm tempted, I always thought it was a really serious thing (it probably is for the top guys) but given you can do it in fancy dress... now where did I put my dressing gown? |
that's the spirit.....
fancy dress- a few Gauloise and a bottle or two of red at the half way point....
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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 wrote: |
| edsilva wrote: |
wondered if snowheads might like to enter????
I cann't- Mrs Ed is pregnant with number 3 due end of March-
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Tease. |
No, I think you have to be more than a "tease" to get pregnant 
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I skied La Grave at the same time as the Derby a few years ago, met some of the few British contenders. One of them got the best British time for the year.
Would love to enter at some point. 
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You know it makes sense.
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I've been threatening to ski this for a while. The problem for me is work, it usually falls over a weekend when I just can't get away from the chalet. I will always be tempted, so don't count me out (happy to be the telewhacker, sadly I cut my pony tail off and no longer get confused for a girl).
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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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| parlor wrote: |
| I cut my pony tail off and no longer get confused for a girl). |
Except when you strip down to your skinnies and dance on the bar (or so they tell me in the Coco)
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Poster: A snowHead
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| rungsp wrote: |
| parlor wrote: |
| I cut my pony tail off and no longer get confused for a girl). |
Except when you strip down to your skinnies and dance on the bar (or so they tell me in the Coco) |
Maybe that's why I kept getting offered a free wax? BS&C not skis. 
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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'll play, if the selectors smile on me...
I've coveted doing this for a while, but never got my finger out to investigate beyond idle speculation.
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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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edsilva, ....apparently Derby de la Meije is on from 1st -3rd, April 2009 ... which is Wednesday to Friday
I probably won't be that far away in La Roche and like paulmck, can offer myself to the selectors ... I ski, I sing and I am an Artist .... 
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| BernardC wrote: |
| edsilva, ....apparently Derby de la Meije is on from 1st -3rd, April 2009 ... which is Wednesday to Friday |
Which is always a bummer for me, Easter is one of our busiest times. 
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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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BernardC, Looks like you've got most of the bases covered there.
Anyone prepared to organise this? I would, but i have quite a lot on between now and end Jan
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Spikyhedgehog, Not forgetting that a british woman won the women's freeheel class the year before last - don't think she did it last year. Maybe someone can persuade her to join snowheads for a wee while ..... 2 birds with 1 stone - tele + female + she's fast.
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Well I'd join in but I suspect it might take me all day and by the time I got to the bottom I'd have missed all the beers.
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easiski, Heather Kay I think???
easiski, you are a snowhead and a girlie- and you live in L2A-- an obvious choice for Team Snowhead DDLM Manager I'd say
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BernardC, nope- not booked in,
no devilish schemes (about this anyway)
just seems like a good idea and that there are lots of Snowheads who would like it - and some might make a respectable time - and that would be a big achievement cos it looks proper hard....
I really would love to do it (but really Mrs Ed due 23 March and as it is I'm off skiing in La Grave end Jan, and then with our oldest son Feb Half term- so really cant take paternity leave and do the Derby- my reputation as a bad daddy is quite bad enough as it is)
easiski, you know t makes sense
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Need some practice for a potential Mega Avalanche entry next year so would be half tempted to do it on bike...providing it ain't knee deep
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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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Sharkymark, .... one day I was there ... when JT and GrahamN had gone to Serrre Chevalier .... and I had nearly 10m of new powder to myself .... 
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You know it makes sense.
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edsilva, I'm old and slow and scared - wouldn't do at all. Heather on the other hand ... What about Rachel Q - she enjoyed her trip down there. Also, you do need to spend the week leading up to the race there to plan your route. Heather told me that she found a route with significantly fewer moguls which is why she reckons she won!
Sharkymark, You would need to practise your mogul-biking!
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Poster: A snowHead
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RachelQ, looks precarious!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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RachelQ, tht all looks like loads of fun. I volunteer for the slow and rather rubbish team.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Lizzard, that would be my team preference too.
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There's nothing to say a team has to try and win - I'm hopeless though , too competitive by half and I'd rather not compete than do so when I know I've no chance of doing well. However the party in the town afterwards is legendary.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Swirly, so we need a slow and rather rubbish telemarker then. Preferably one who knows the way.
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Lizzard, I am a slow and rubbish telemarker (but would have no chance if their was fresh snow)
anyway Mrs ed will have child...
I agree that a fun...have ago effort would be better than a serious go down as fast as possible one (for me at least)
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Lizzard, I'll keep a look out! Maybe place an ad: Wanted one person to slide down mountain on non-standard object. Inability an essential requirement. Maybe I can persuade in garbure we trust to come over with his mono ski although he'd probably still be quicker than me!
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Tom from Austria who is a did it last year on his rather strange RAX invention. You could try to persuade him to be part of the team although he does seem to take it a bit more seriously.
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Lizzard, i know the way and as I have said would be prepared to compete in/on my binbag 
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Arno, binbag! Now that's hardcore, and would certainly make up for the rubbishness of the rest of the team. You're on.
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