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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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BA website says:
Changes to the carriage of sporting equipment:
Sporting equipment will be included as part of your free checked baggage allowance.
If the number of bags exceed your free allowance you will be charged the excess baggage rate for each extra bag.
I can generally keep my kit (inc skis) to under 23kg so am just curious. I can't find a price on the ba website for taking skis. Does this mean that you just pay excess baggage charges for them?
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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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Been done multiple times - take all your kit including skis in one bag weighing <23kg & you should be fine.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Take something like a Dakine Concourse Double ski bag. Fits ski's and gear easily. Just make sure you get the 185cm one and not the 2 metre version to fit in with the new rules (assuming your skis fit - 185cm ski's easily do BTW)
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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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| Take something like a Dakine Concourse Double ski bag. Fits ski's and gear easily. Just make sure you get the 185cm one and not the 2 metre version to fit in with the new rules (assuming your skis fit - 185cm ski's easily do BTW) |
That is SUCH a good idea, thanks, particularly since there are some available online at reduced prices!  My skis are only 152cm long, so I'm assuming that I'll easily be able to get my boots (and helmet?) into the bag, as well as all the rest of my clobber? Is the wheely mechanism good? That's important to me, as a pixie!
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Hurtle, Get a 165cm snowboard roller bag if your skis are so short e.g. Da Kine low roller. less weight of the bag itself = more weight allowance for stuff inside it.
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IIRC the snowboard ones don't have ski tie downs, if that is important. Any of the Dakine ones are good; the concourse(ski)/high roller (snowboard) at 5kg have thicker padding and than the other versions, fall-line (skiing)/low roller (snowboard) at 4kg and 3kg. The lighter versions are cheaper. I'd decide whether you wanted the padding or the cheapest. Just don't get the 2 metre version!
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Think the offers are mostly restricted to the end of Oct. Do many SH ski in summer?
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snowplow, thanks, bought from Edge2Edge a Dakine low roller, just a bit longer than my skis, for £35 inc postage! Horrible colour/print, but who cares? That's so cheap that, if the idea doesn't work out as well as expected in practice, not too much is lost.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hurtle, too good to miss at that price! Great buy.
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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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snowplow, Thanks again for the advice!
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Hurtle, hopefully you won't have too many people with
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Horrible colour/print
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rollers on the collection trolly to mix up with then 
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You know it makes sense.
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Michelle, yeah, I thought that too.
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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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Think the offers are mostly restricted to the end of Oct. Do many SH ski in summer?
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Oh yes!! The usual suspect Alpine glaciers are big favourites plus the odd  popping down to the southern hemisphere.
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