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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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Yes, but it lost its thrill nowadays as anywhere you go is just like the place you let bejhind in Europe, US i.e no adventure.
South America used to be an adventure 20 yrs ago but now its like just jumping into any western resort.
The season never ends, where you been?
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Come off it stanton, if you travel any reasonable distance east or south and the altitude exceeds 2m it's nothing like the place you left behind. Or any moderately tall building 
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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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Even in Europe, when you can ski every day (dec to May) you don't............ you pick your days and ski those.
I think anyone would get bored even if they did follow the winters.
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That's half the point, marcellus, travelling around the world not just to follow the winter but to experience different places. Or are you saying that fondue is the great leveller?
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You would get bored if you stuck to groomers all the time. That gets boring after 2 days, let alone a year. The pro riders ski year-round and don't find it boring. Why? They keep pushing themselves.
I think this talk of being boredom only applies to those that don't feel the need to push themselves, for whichever quite possibly legitimate reasons.
To OP: I definately want to do this... Once I get the money.
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alex_heney, wasn't there some kind of tragedy with the girl Wilson went round the world with? I thought it was much earlier than 1994 - he seems to have been pontificating about skiing forever and a day and then some! Sorry if he is here under another name, but he and Peter Hardy (Torygraph) drive me up the wall with their articles. such a narrow focus and bias - France or North America no where else exists ...............!
Sue
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The season ends? 
I had my first race of the summer season last Sunday, the second one comes up this Sunday. The racing season runs through until October, and I'll be skiing at least twice a week until then (and some weeks it's going to be four times!). Then it's time for a week or long weekend on a glacier, before getting back onto the longer stuff in December again. When's the time off?
Oh and there's a job to do somewhere in between all that.
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| Samerberg Sue wrote: |
| alex_heney, wasn't there some kind of tragedy with the girl Wilson went round the world with? |
Yes, she died in an avalanche at La Grave a few months later.
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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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You WILL reach a point that it becomes routine. Though probably not the first year. So, if you can afford it, do it.
If you do get bored after a few years, you can always take up knitting... or better, cycling. And follow the season (of summer) round the world.
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I should think a year would be enough!
Seems the kind of thing you could do if you were retired, or single, or living on an inheritance etc. Back in the real world, it doesn't seem so likely, which is kind of sad... 
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You know it makes sense.
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Skiing every day doesnt mean you have to ski all day. If your skiing Nov-May 1-2hrs a day is enough 
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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 should think a year would be enough!
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There's a difference between living and holidaying. Let's talk retirement. After all, there are plenty of people who live somewhere like the Highlands, or the Dales, or Cornwall, for 20 years and enjoy activities like walking, sailing, painting, music, bridge, sex, cooking, reading the newspapers. What's the difference doing it in the mountains and adding skiing or snowboarding to the mix? You just don't expect every day to be packed full of adrenaline pumping excitement. Just the days you do cooking.
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pam w, I know of people who have retired to be near the sea and yet never venture to the beach or water 
My Great Aunt who lived in a nursing home in Bournemouth back in the 1970's hadn't been to the seafront for 20+ years.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I guess it's possible to get bored with surfing?
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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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If it never ended we'd have to pay full price for new gear all year
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Yes, she died in an avalanche at La Grave a few months later.
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Think it was a fall in one of the couloirs (which also injured Peter Hardy).
I actually find Arnie Wilson one of the more readable ski journalists. Adam Ruck when he was writing was the best, could always put a new slant on any resort and had a way with words.
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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 fair number of instructors do back to back seasons in the northern/soutern hemisphere, but most of them can't do it for more than a few years. A friend of mine did it, snowhead Mad Dog. To ski every day would take a serious effort and really isn't normally possible because of travelling.
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andyph, if the season never ended? Sail too close to the wind anyway thanks to love for skiing/mountains, so probably safer to leave as is for me or would be declared bankrupt. Summer is a time to concentrate on extra hours at work 
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| Samerberg Sue wrote: |
| alex_heney, wasn't there some kind of tragedy with the girl Wilson went round the world with? I thought it was much earlier than 1994 - he seems to have been pontificating about skiing forever and a day and then some! Sorry if he is here under another name, but he and Peter Hardy (Torygraph) drive me up the wall with their articles. such a narrow focus and bias - France or North America no where else exists |
he does post occassionally on snowheads, normally to respond to criticisms. I guess they write what sells copy in the Sunday supplements.
I ski around 8-9 months in the year, it is good to have a break but that's ski touring so you can be talking about getting up at 2.30am in the early summer and climbing 1500-2000 meters. I think psychologically most people need a break from that.
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How could he possibly ski EVERY day. How does travel between resorts allow for this? Of did he stick to the alps and have his own helicopter?
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Doesn't necessarily have to be a whole day or lift served I wouldn't have thought which would make it pretty easy and give you plenty time to travel.
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wasn't there some kind of tragedy with the girl Wilson went round the world with?
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In reply to earlier postings which indicate that shw was killed, I think that's why his book was callled "Tears on the Snow." Haven't read it, though would like to. I understand it's long out of print??
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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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| mountainaddict wrote: |
I can't believe there's anyone (on this forum especially) who wouldn't ski every day if they could (except for snowboarders that is.... ) |
There have been plenty of days this season where I could have skied but didn't. You need rest days no matter how fit you are.
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| T Bar wrote: |
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Yes, she died in an avalanche at La Grave a few months later.
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Think it was a fall in one of the couloirs (which also injured Peter Hardy).
I actually find Arnie Wilson one of the more readable ski journalists. Adam Ruck when he was writing was the best, could always put a new slant on any resort and had a way with words. |
Yes, you are right. It was a fall, not an avalanche.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Fergus wrote: |
| How could he possibly ski EVERY day. How does travel between resorts allow for this? Of did he stick to the alps and have his own helicopter? |
No, he travelled around the world to do it - 13 countries.
And took advantage of the international date line, and sometimes skied in the middle of the night.
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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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That would be a seriously tiring year. Would still be awesome though.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Think I'd get very bored with a 365 day winter. It was wonderful as we descended from winter in Val T to summer in the valley this afternoon.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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mountainaddict, Anyone who can ski most days, probably wouldn't. It's a completely different mindset. When it's something you save up for, look forward to and so on each day, regardless of how rough the weather, is special. this feeling does go away though, but you should not confuse this with not enjoying skiing. I wouldn't, if I wasn't getting paid, go up on bad weather days. I can't ski all day and amuse myself, but that doesn't mean to say I don't still enjoy it (I like teaching better), and that I don't look foward to 'my' run down at the end of the day. Mind you, I've been doing it for more than 35 years.
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I have been skiing for a bout 5 years and i still would love to get out on snow every day. Although i think the ESF guys have it about right with half the year doing something else like being a mountain guide.
They even get to smoke fags and have a hip flask while staying fit. Bring on the red jacket!
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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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ph, you've been skiing for 5 years in Nantwich! Good going.
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It might well have been stoke ski centre but 5 years never the less.
Its grey old and you get a lovely view of Asda from the slope.
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| ph wrote: |
| i think the ESF guys have it about right with half the year doing something else like being a mountain guide. |
I think you mean "half the year doing something else like working in a factory"
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ph, If they were mountain guides they'd do that in winter too. Some have special other sports work, but most of the ones that I know do building and council work in the summer. BTW it's not just ESF - there are brits out here all year too.
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never ending season..? im not sure i could fit that much beer in!!
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