 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'd like to go 'on record' and say that I never, ever get cold whilst skiing 
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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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Frosty the Snowman, I wish I could tell you.... 
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vetski, agreed. Why don't these people just eat more 
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Though the thread is clearly meant in jest, I think keeping warm is an issue for thin people. Having helped at the Mud Race over the New Year on an incredibly cold day it was my impression that those who suffered from the cold the most were those competitors with the lower BMI's.
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BMI, BMF, you know them all girl 
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Keeping warm is definitely not just an issue for skinny people. I am not skinny by any stretch of the imagination and am permanently freezing. Once the outside temp drops below about 20C my hands and feet are pretty iceberg like. Even with the warmest gloves I can find and inner gloves, my hands rarely get hot whilst skiing. Eating more just diverts the available warm blood to the digestive areas making the extremeties even chillier! Raynaud's syndrome I may hear some of you say-quite probably, says me.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Skinny people (or light people to be more accurate) also find it harder to ski faster - simple gravity! We have to work a whole lot harder to keep up, ha ha!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I don't know any skinny people. My mates and I are bound together by our mutual love of chocolate...
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Frosty the Snowman, It is a real problem.
Actually, I come from a female line of big-assed women. It's called the 'Bertwistle Bottom'.
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You know it makes sense.
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If I get cold I just find a fat bird to cuddle up to. They're always grateful for the attention.
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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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hyweljenkins, who says they'd share it with you! There's probably plenty of deserving cute boys who suddenly find having a size 8 girlfriend has its flaws. 
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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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Alexandra, get better gear. I've never been cold on a mountain because I wear appropriate gear.
It's simple - thin people have more scope to stay warm in extreme temperatures. I can put a tshirt on first, then another, then another (all size Small). Then I can put Medium stuff on. Then Large. Then XL. Then XXL. Then XXXL. Then I can do the same with outer layers.
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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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Nope. Skinny people will be physiologically challenged, just like fat people. People with a normal BMI will more likely be giving themselves the best chance. Then they'll just have the environmental, equipment, physical, psychological, technical and tactical to sort out and the job's a good'un!
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slikedges, "normal BMI"? Irrelevant. BMI is a fallacy.
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My 8-pack acts like a muscle duvet.
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twiggy people on skis look tragic.
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What is BMI? I thought it were an airline...?
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hyweljenkins, some claim so but there's still a flat earth society. The BMI is relevant and useful. Sorry to have to tell you I and most of my sane and non-partisan colleagues believe it, and what's worse are making decisions on real people with it daily. 
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queen bodecia, yes dear, an airline
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| hyweljenkins wrote: |
Alexandra, get better gear. I've never been cold on a mountain because I wear appropriate gear.
It's simple - thin people have more scope to stay warm in extreme temperatures. I can put a tshirt on first, then another, then another (all size Small). Then I can put Medium stuff on. Then Large. Then XL. Then XXL. Then XXXL. Then I can do the same with outer layers. |
Dead right. I wear my wool-mix Helly Hensens 3 at a time - long sleeve vests & longjohns. Then on the bottom: a good pair of moleskins, and then the ski trousers (the feather-filled "duvet" trousers are for when it's really cold...). On the top: a wool shirt, 4/5 thin wool jumpers, a thick wool jumper, a fleece and then my XL ski jacket - which has space under it for a "duvet" gillet in cases of emergency.
People then wonder why I ski without gloves or hat all day...
Oh yes, and please note the preponderance of proper fabrics. The only polyester is in the Helly Hensens, the optional fleece and the ski jacket.
Of course with all that on, I cannot possibly move, but whilst I am able to compete on the weight front with the lard boys, the air resistance stops me from going down the hill. Oh yes, and I have to get up 20 minutes earlier than everybody else. But I am NEVER cold when out of doors.
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| beanie1 wrote: |
| Skinny people (or light people to be more accurate) also find it harder to ski faster - simple gravity! |
Not 'simple gravity', but 'complicated air-resistance'. A feather and a cannon ball will descend at the same rate in a vacuum, but not through air.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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James the Last, you missed the point. In extreme weather slim people can put on more layers. I wasn't about skiing, when I just wear a tshirt and my ski jacket. I managed fine in Banff's -30C three years ago, Val d'Isere's -20C last year and will, no doubt, manage just fine this year.
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scarr, well, well...
hyweljenkins, in yer dreams. We girls with a little more to offer tend to be the recipients of gratitude. "We're bouncy, bouncy,bouncy, bouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!" (with apologies to Tigger, AA Milne and Disney)
In terms of dimension, I'm no Twiglet, but I feel the cold terribly - hands and feet especially.
The best thing about really skinny people on ski slopes? Seeing how far they fly when you bump into 'em
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You know it makes sense.
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Slim people. We're just better.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Slim people. We're just better. |
...at being slalom poles. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Having been skiing in Ruka, Finland (just south of the arctic circle) in January in temperatures less than - 30 (not even taking windchill into account), I can safely say fat or thin, good gear or not we were all bl00dy freezing!! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Skinny people make excellent emergency stop barriers. If out of control then smashing into one can often half ones speed with no injury to oneself.
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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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Frosty the Snowman, You can use me as your Emergency Barrier Woobie any time you like!
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A skinny version of the "security blanket" would be a "security sheet"
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I'm fairly skinny and only wear a thermal T under a gore-tex in some quite severe weather. As long as I'm moving I stay warm.
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Maybe I'm just unfit and cr@p 
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vetski,
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"security hankie"?
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that makes me a security hankie then.
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I don't know any skinny people. My mates and I are bound together by our mutual love of chocolate...
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queen bodecia, I could be the first! cant resist the stuff, Staying catered chalet, shall not stop for lunch but will take about 4 bags of fun size bars to stuff in every pocket
I dont get cold skiing but freeze to death on the lifts.
Advice to all other skinny skiers. DONT fall over on the dry slope. I got the biggest b****y bruise on my backside last year. It was so spectacular I took a photo to remind me not to do it again. Am I mad I am planning to go to southampton on Sunday?
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If you get cold whilst skiing, you're not working had enough. It's sitting on the lifts that I get cold. I'm skinny as the come by the way.
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