 Poster: A snowHead
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OK, polite answers only please  I went to Austria twice last year and the best time of the day (for entertainment, forget the skiing) was 4-6 pm when the schnapps was flowing and the cheesy music was turned up loud. Dancing in ski boots leaves a lot to be desired but it seems like a good idea at the time... Everything stopped at 6 and everybody went back home - and according to the party goers amongst us (not me, I was enjoying my dinner and a bottle of wine) didn't seem to go out again! They said the clubs were empty. We were in Schladming for one week and Maria Alm for the other.
So, the question is, when people refer to apres ski do they mean the bit in the evening or the late night stuff?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Usually the time in the casualty ward.
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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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Usually the time in the casualty ward
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I've done plenty of that - son with a broken shoulder one year, nephew with pulled leg ligament the next, same nephew with injured thumb the next, husband with kidney stones last year. Makes me wonder why I go - must be something to do with the skiing 
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apres ski, for me, is roight after skiing. I then go home, shower, eat and fall asleep. You sound like you've got the hang of it very well...
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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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Yes. I always thought that apres ski was French for sleep. Beer tastes better with ski boots on anyway. A lot of otherwise expensive bars do a Happy Hour between 4 and 6 when beer is half price. But then I'm too old and boring to party anyway. 
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The Bishes are in agreement on this one, a mug of cocoa and brandy at 8pm and straight to the land of Nod is my tried and tested method - isn't it sad getting old and past it.... 
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Sometimes Apres-Ski can carry on for hours, with dinner, shower, etc, being just momentary interludes - often depends on the resort and the company
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In France it always seems to be the other way round....the bars are pretty quite early evening and liven up later on! I like the Austrian way myself, I'm so pooped I fall into bed too early to go out partying!
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Sue S, technically, apres ski is exactly what it says on the tin. After ski. Anything you do after skiing is apres ski. The actual practice of apres ski depends on individual taste and resort culture.
French resorts you usually get a least a few bars of a nightclubby kind open till the wee hours as per Paris. Of course there's always an influx into the bars after liftclosing, and then a general emptying of French resort bars circa 7-9pm while all the Brits go off for dinner at their chalet. And a similar resurgence in the bars from 10pm onwards (i.e. after dessert). I've yet to ski Austria, but I've heard about the 4-6pm chugalug culture. Quite looking forward to some later this season.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Quite right - Austria for IMMEDIATELY apres ski, France for late evening apres ski. Switzerland, well - all the time if you know the locals!
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Where did you go last year Brian T, I think I met you!!!!!
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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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I'm along the lines of Brian T's thinking.
but with the following points: must include vin chaud and/or bombardinos immediately after skiing (at top of last slope, sat in the sun ideally) and games of table football in the evening. Winning against the locals/seasonaires at table football instantly awards god like status and bragging rights for precisely one year. Silly cocktails are optional but not obligatory (oxymoron).
Les Arcs used to have a boarder park where you could stop at the bottom, sit in a deck chair, drink a pint of vin chaud, listen to their cool sound system and watch the Boarders doing their cool stuff. Cheering was reserved for any particularly spectacular wipe outs.
Sauze has the little hut after the funnel on way down from Pian della Rocca for Bombadinos.
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Poster: A snowHead
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NickW,
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Sauze has the little hut after the funnel on way down from Pian della Rocca for Bombadinos.
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Bar Clotes - good also for the vin brulee at the end of the day 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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In Val Thorens, it involves standing in the street at 5am and joining your mates for some ritual chanting and animal impersonations every night. 
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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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Roy, last year (and this Christmas and end of Feb to come) went to wengen, but flaine the same, Zell also. Must be the altitude, or perhaps the attitude which makes me sleepy after large beers.
Wengen is ideal for that kind of Apres Ski. Anything else, at my advanced age and depth of wisdom, is just tooo exhausting.
The Alpenrose is ideal for my kind. DG also is a very wise person!.
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FAQ
I had to be kicked out of my bed one day last season to go into St Anton for dinner at about 7.30. I had hit a friend's bar at about 4 and had been sampling his home-brew. By about 6 I was a goner. 
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