 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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Ugh, I can hardly bear to read about sledging injuries, they remind me of working in Verbier many years ago, and living in a chalet which was on the edge of a wood, with a 'nice' slippy path between us and the wood. On the average of about once a week - usually in the evening/pitch dark - some idiotic, drunken British youngster would be brought into the chalet, where they would bleed all over the floor while someone called a doctor.
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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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My first experience of sledging in an austrian resort (Mayrhoffen), 'organised by the TO, was many years ago. wooden sledges being run down a road they had closed off. Started with a visit to a bar, much alcohol consumed, then off down the road. This was in the late 70's, well befor helmets and padding. Not surprisingly, out of the 20 or so lemmings, there were two holiday stopping injuries and many bruises. None were as bad as the injury that hyweljenkins referred to above.
Hope the outcome for this person is positive!
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BMF_Skier, snap but in Schladming
Scary.
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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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BMF_Skier, yep, kirchberg too, early 90's
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BMF_Skier, yep I did that in Mayrhofen in 1989 after quite a lot of schnapps. Amazing I'm still alive really.
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I am ashamed to say I took my 65 year old dad to the night sledging place in Brück near Zell am See, we did consume vast amounts of alcohol and sledge down, it was literally sheet ice, Ilost the whole rubber sole off my shoe for continually braking,( I am a lightweight) and my dad lost the complete sledge! He hit a corner and parted company, we searched in the dark for a while but gave up , as you say geetee, lucky to be alive really, and have learned the lesson!
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DAB, well I didn't quite learn the lesson as a couple of years after that I did the torchlit descent thing in France where you go up a mountain, have fondue and lots of wine, and then ski back down with a kind of oil lamp. Duh! 
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Did you spill the oil  OUCH
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DAB, luckily not - no visible scars! Crazy the things the TO's manage to convince us to do though, eh? My last TO suggested stupid activity was bumboarding in Valloire and I ended up with mild concussion. I guess that's when I learn my lesson.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Sorry to be a plank, but what is bumboarding?
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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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DAB, I googled it and found this Now imagine yourself, alcohol fuelled on cheap wine after dinner, and the rep runs in shouting 'It's snowing!! Let's all go bumboarding!' after it had been icy hardpack for the first part of the week. Well of course it sounds like fun. So you grab a jacket and head out to the nearest slope collecting a bumboard on the way. Nice fluffy snow on the top, boilerplate ice underneath. The rest was a blank.
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Crikey! That could do you some serious damage if you hit a stone, or worse a rock
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