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Just wondering what people carry with them in their back pack while skiing?
like survival bag, whistle, etc etc......
I am thinking about maybe a whistle for this years trip and maybe a little strobe light, maybe.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Matt_G, yeah, there's nothing worse than running into a disco on the slopes and finding that their lighting is just not up to spec.
I carry a hat (to replace the helmet during cold or sunny breaks), SPF and lip stuff, tissues (for those long lonely chair lifts) and money/CCs, all in pockets.
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Wed 4-03-09 17:49; edited 1 time in total
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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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mobile and money and piste map
some times sweets
I don't stray from pistes
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Matt_G, I normally wear a backpack even though I generally stick to on-piste.
It will contain a camelbak (1.5L), a fleece or jumper, spare pair of gloves, spare pair of goggles, usually the cat-tracks that I will have had on my boots until I reached the lift, lunch if I'm taking a packed lunch, wallet, lip salve, multi-tool (similar to leatherman but cheaper).
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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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I stay on piste (Mr. L knows all about that  ) I don't like skiing with a rucksack so usually look like the Michelin man!!
I carry debit and insurance card, mobile phone, sun cream, i-pod, hat, goggles (wear sun-glasses), piste map, navette timetable. If I take a rucksack I usually throw in a bit of food and a bottle of water.
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What do you carry with you while skiing
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Poles!
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I stay on piste but still have a (small) backpack on containing...
hat
goggles
sunglasses
snacks (cereal bars and snickers)
flask (containing cuppa soup)
sandwich (usually ham and cheese)
mobile phone
water
juice
then in my jacket....
piste map
lip balm
lift pass!
hmm i think thats it
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Kit Kat
Spare Kit Kat
if skiing off piste Emergency Kit Kat.
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No back pack usually, just pockets. Wallet, tissues, phone, camera, lift pass, piste map, sun cream...
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Just pockets.
If I'm on a stuff them full day (which means its sunny and I've decided the camera is worth taking) then its
plastic cards, insurance stuff, EHIC card, mobile phone, spare glasses or contact lenses depends on which combo is working best in the weather, choccy bar, tissues, buff (if I'm not already wearing it), camera and I can normally be relied upon for Leatherman, space blanket, sun cream, lip salve, whistle, also possibly small LED light, triangle bandage, elastoplast etc. but what I get away with depends on how much I look like the Michelin man and how much mickey is taken before I set off. It might be fair to say I take too much, but I used to be a very good girl guide.
The above has needed to be pared down since the advent of my new jacket which has fewer pockets and is designed for a more streamlined look so it looks a bit odd if I cram it too full
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Full four course meal with wine
Collapsible table and chairs
Hacksaw
Bow tie
Inflatable donkey
Complete works of Dostoyevsky
Chamber orchestra
Fishing rod
Spare ferret (with extra whiskers)
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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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Matt_G, do you ski off piste (I mean, really off piste)? Otherwise...
On definite on/near piste says I only take a pack if I have my big camera. The only thing I find invaluable that would be at all unusual is one of the little interdental brushes to pick my teeth with after an admirable luncheon. I find virgins a little stringy and their flesh gets stuck a bit.
On off piste days, apart from S-T-P, I have security blanket, snack bars, strong spirits, chewing gum, a days supply of drugs (most of mine are on prescription, you choose your own), multi tool, inner gloves, goggles, glasses, hat head band, spare fleece.
On off piste days when I know I will be fighting ninjas, I usually add a phase pistol or two. Those little black clad gits are a 'mare hand-to-hand so evaporating them at a sensible distance is a Good Plan.
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Lizzard, I hope you've got proper glasses for that wine, and linen napkins.
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You know it makes sense.
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pam w, well naturally - there's a pocket for them on the side of the hamper.
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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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Lizzard, You forgot the butler to serve the wine!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Shovel
Probe
Spare goggles & usually sunnies too
Lighter/heavier gloves
camelbak
Transceiver if i'm not wearing it.
Suncream/lip balm
Hat
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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...er, hip flask containing George Smith's finest 12 year old malt 
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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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Well fully kitted up if on a glacier the list is something like this 
probe
shovel
beacon
2 litre water
spare set googles
sunglasses
leatherman
survival blanket
first aid kit
compass
map
duct tape
30m rope
prussics
harness
karabinas
crampons
ice axe
ascender
2 slings
skins
sandwich/choco bar
suncream
thin pair of gloves
binos
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under a new name, I like your preparedness. I'd like to carry one of those needler guns you get on Halo. 
Standard gubbins which gets jammed into the pockets of my jacket:-
Cash
Phone
Camera
Car keys
Water
Lip salve
Suncream
Couple of snack bars
Cable & padlock
Edge sharpening tool
Foil survival blanket
If touring then I wear a backpack with room for more gubbins, e.g. a lot more food, drink and skins.
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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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A hip flask of Jaegermeister!!!!
A thermos flask of gluewein!
Camera
Spare gloves
Goggles
Bagette
Cheese slices
Ham
Spare hat
Piste map
Phone
And another hip flask of jaegermeister!
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Don't stray off piste so
In rucsack
bottle of water
snickers bars
Dry roast peanuts
Ibuprofen tablets
lip salve
suncream
Any clothes taken off cos I got too hot skiing
spare glove liners
In jacket pockets
phone
insurance
cash
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rob@rar,
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Kit Kat
Spare Kit Kat
if skiing off piste Emergency Kit Kat.
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Chunky, double chunky or the new dark ones ?
I just take a phone unless I'm off piste then its the usual kit plus water, whistle, choccy and torch
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Depends, day to day:
shovel/probe
food
water
bivi bag
camera
spare fleece
headtorch
proper off piste day add:
map
compass
bit more food
maybe a pole depending on route
if with a glacier: (or something that might need an ab)
harness
prussics
slings
krabs
rope (if it's my turn)
if touring/ a walk in or out:
snowshoes
poles
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My Fila (chavtastic) ski jacket from TKMaxx has muchos pockets so:
Piste Map, I appear to be the only member of my family who can make any sense of them - 'Can we ski up the blue run under the gondola Dad ?'
Chapstick, usually from our summer holidays but occasionally a proper well good winter sports one.
Camera
Abbey Zero Credit Card in wallet with a bit of cash for beers/hot choccies
Lift pass - in its own pocket so I never run the risk of opening the pocket for something else and losing my 200Euro ticket to the slopes !
Apartment Key - never lost it but only a matter of time !
Used to carry a hat but since getting my Giro helmet don't need that.
Zardoz NotWax for a quick run over at the end of the day so the skis arew primed for the next morning.
+lots of things which the kids should carry for themselves but because they are kids my wife scowls if I don't carry them on their behalf !
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| Butterfly wrote: |
| Lizzard, You forgot the butler to serve the wine! |
Who do you think was carrying that lot?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Beer money
Sometimes mobile
Unless you are doing serious off piste stuff, why on earth would you take all that clober?
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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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johnboy, If you get as thirsty as I do, then you have to have some water with you, or you end up spending a fortune no bottled water on the mountain.
I usually drain the 1.5L camelbak in a day, and have even been known to refill it from taps in the loos on occasion.
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lip balm, kitkat, camera, mobile, cash, tissues, anti bac hand gel (have you SEEN some of those loos?) suncream, baguette/lunch, babybels
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You know it makes sense.
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alex_heney,
i keep my thirst under control with regular beer stops. 
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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 bet you all wonder where I find my virgins...
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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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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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johnboy, That costs even more than bottled water!
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Chasseur, That's gonna cost you....
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Lift pass in nifty little pocket on the sleeve
Goggles
Spectacles to read the piste map
Hat, only wear one if its cold
Hip flask * 2
Tissues
Insurance
Money
Credit card
Room key
Camera
Mobile phone
Cigarettes and lighter
Piste map
Sun Cream
Lip Salve
Would carry; Virgin if I could find one 
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Off-piste (normal riding rather than glaciers/touring):
Shovel
Probe
1st aid kit
map
compass
Food
Water
Survival bag (actually bodged-together thermal wrap)
Mini-tool
Sunnies for hiking
On-piste:
Nothing. Why would you?
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achilles, and here - I searched "ferret" to find it, as that had lodged in my memory! It was an ace thread. 
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| achilles, and here - I searched "ferret" to find it, as that had lodged in my memory! It was an ace thread. |
Thank you, I missed that first time round. Felt like being in a Terry Gilliam movie!
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