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Just got another 2 weeks skiing in Canada to endure at the end of this Month. Then thank God it will all be over and I can start thinking about the garden.
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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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How very sad -Spring is a great time to ski -I have had some of my best days ski-ing in April -spring snow can almost be as good as powder 
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Markus, I'm guessing Cairngorm? 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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if snow/weather stays good here in Pacific Northwest, we'll be skiing well into May. Finished May 26th last year. Spring skiing is far too much fun.
And here, I just buy my salmon off In'jun's trucks at the end of the road. Big fat fresh spring chinook should be coming up the Columbia any week now!
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Elmer, Markus, where can I do that!? I'm so doing that this summer.
Last edited by You'll need to Register first of course. on Wed 18-03-09 1:14; edited 1 time in total
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mountainaddict, I don't care what the snow is like in April, I just want to ski.................
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mountainaddict, Helen Beaumont, geepee, thanks be to Allah that someone's talking sense round here. Last trip of the season in 13 sleeps and counting. That reminds me, time for sleep.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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17 sleeps until my only trip of the season. If I don't feel battered at the end of every day I don't feel like I've rung every last drop of pleasure out of it. Too excited!
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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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I pretty much always ski in March. Cheaper than February, warmer than January and gives me a chance to save up a bit of spending money after Christmas. The only problem is coming home again...
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Another heretic!! IMO it's actually the time of year for first lift to last lift, keeping going when the snow gets softer (no such thing as dodgy snow
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Not so much a heretic, but recognising the physical limitations of being well past pension-drawing age! The big variation in snow conditions, especially the soft lumpy stuff, is hard work on the legs - my muscles are absolutely fine. Not the slightest problem with any of them - quads not even feeling a twinge. But the actual knee joints - you can't "work on" them! FtS described his knees as "on fire" and I know exactly what he means. Mine were so swollen, and hot, yesterday afternoon that you could feel the heat through my salopettes. The only wise thing to do then is take Ibuprofen, put them up, and wait - they were really quite sore last night.
I need to make them last till the end of the season - 24 April - so yes, it'll be short days for me for a while! I love the snow too - very happy to sit in a chair in the sun and look at it, with the knees up on a footstool and a cold beer to hand, after four hours on the slopes. 
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You know it makes sense.
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| 17 sleeps until my only trip of the season. If I don't feel battered at the end of every day I don't feel like I've rung every last drop of pleasure out of it. Too excited! |
3 sleeps until my only trip 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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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?
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Yip, not too bothered about a 2nd trip this year. Starting to get too expensive. Plenty of other things going on to keep me occupied at the moment though.
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Came back from Ischgl last Saturday. Read this thread on the day it started but have honestly been to tired to add a post until now and even now its a struggle. Had a great week but while the snow was epic, the poor visibility, the cold and almost constant snow made it hard work. I had a bit of an injury to my left knee prior to going and while it didn't bother me too much when skiing its certainly playing up now and my right knee has downed tools in sympathy since I got back. I passed the half century this year and my body appears to be telling me to slow down even if my mind isn't. Too be honest, the good weather this week makes me dream of summer, spending time in the garden etc. Right now the thought of a summer holiday seems more attractive than another skiing trip. Oh! just rembered off to Mayrhofen two weeks on Saturday but I really don't want to go. Hopefully, another week's recovery and I'll be raring to go.
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Have to admit...
My mountain bike if foremost in my mind.....
Skiing has been (mentally) put to bed now until November when I'll start getting excited about skiing again 
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FtS is right about the toll on the body though. It's a time of year for shorter skiing days, knocking off before the snow gets too dodgy, and putting your feet up with a book.
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AAAAGH!! Another heretic!! IMO it's actually the time of year for first lift to last lift, keeping going when the snow gets softer (no such thing as dodgy snow - all snow is good snow, admittedly with some types more challenging than others), staggering exhausted from the slopes after gruelling slush bumps......with no time for feet up or books - ie pretty much full on, the same as any other ski day be it October on a glacier or May on the strips of mush that get you back down to Val D'Isere. |
I agree too, to a point.
Not that I ever go from first lift to last, unless I have a long lunch in between.
Still, spring is the time I ski "longer", if simply because there's longer daylight. And some resorts actually run their lift for an extra 1/2 or a full hour!
I don't find the spring snow that much harder to ski. So I can ski for just as long. I only hate ice, especially the little chunk of ice broken up by the piste basher. So I do move with the sun, in search of softer snow in the spring.
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Must add that I'm amazed by all this fishing talk.....Whatever next??!!  Just waiting for someone to come on and say something like:
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I no longer feel the same desperate urge to ski. Instead I am planning a trip to my local Ikea and B&Q and a major attack on some painting and decorating and re-arranging the living room. Knocking together some flatpack furniture seems more exciting than does another week on the slopes.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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It's a reasonable thread for people to whom skiing is one of many leisure activities they enjoy equally.
(Of course, they're all heretics )
Those of us who are addicted will just shake their heads and scheme to fool the missus into going to Chile or New Zealand in July.
And hope that by the time our joints go, there'll be bionic ones to let us ski some more.
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