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johnnyh
, ignore the old fuddy-duddies, you just carry on with your posting! It must have been awful to have been following this.
Condolences to friends and family
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
News items with tributes to Rob Williams - the snowboarder who died:
The Herts Advertiser
Quote:
Plumber Peter Williams of Wynchlands Crescent, St Albans, described his son Rob as "twice the son you could ever hope for".
Sky News
Quote:
"Rob had a real zest for life and accomplished so much in his short time in this world," the company said.
He was a colleague and leader with "unflappable capability", the statement [of Rob Williams' company Dolphin Music] added.
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?
People getting upset with each other on a forum is not confined to Snowheads (though I am guessing that no-one is assuming this),
http://www.14ers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17737
This post is from a couple of weeks ago. A 20 year old who (in my and many others opinion) is a "car crash waiting to happen" posted on this American snowsports forum and came in for a whole load of grief.
On the subject of how disorientating a white out is - I am in the habit of ski randonee training at night on our local pistes around Morzine. I arrived at the summit of the Pleney telecabine a few nights ago in fog. It's dark and I have a bright headtorch (a blackout not a whiteout?). I have been there 100's if not over a 1000 times in the summer and winter. It took me approximately 1 minute after leaving the lights of the restaurant to completely loose my sense of direction and end up on the wrong side of the mountain to make my decent. I have been disorientated by a white out loads of times but this really took me by surprise - this spot is like my front yard! I know it back to front. The thing is - if you can't see - you can't see the cliff to avoid.
That reminds me of another one like that. I used to be a Copper. Quite early on in my Police driving course I was driving along in my Astra 1.4L and suddenly the instructor held his clip board in front of my face (so I could not see the road ahead), I did think this was a strange thing to do but decided he must know what he was doing - so I carried on driving. He yelled at me something along the lines of "what the f*** do you think you are doing?", I did feel like responding to him in the same vain but all I managed was silence. I was fairly confused. He then yelled "Stop!". I did and he followed this up with "if you can't f***ing see anything then f***ing stop!" I lesson well taught, covered by
davidof's
, point iv.
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