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My Fall Line mag has arrived and there is snow forecast on the La Plagne glacier over the next few days Laughing snowHead Laughing snowHead
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redrunmarcus wrote:
My Fall Line mag has arrived and there is snow forecast on the La Plagne glacier over the next few days Laughing snowHead Laughing snowHead


but what is their ski of the year? Toofy Grin
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Winter sure has arived. There is much more life on the forum.
I've my lift pass booked.
New skis ordered, old ones waxed (repeatedly over the summer).
Brothers snowboard stolen (By me Toofy Grin )
First trip nearly booked
Season accomodation paid for.
still need to
get Avi gear but its nearly sorted and I'm told stock is on the way by various retailers.
Book some early season coaching.
Avi safety course
(and finish writing thesis before september) how did people procrastinate before the internet Puzzled

right back to work
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redrunmarcus, and Octobers ski and board has arrived, with a nice piece on La Plagne skiing in April written by a snowHead Very Happy


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Patch, K2 KUNG FUJAS
Boredsurfing, not a member any more so will have to buy one Cool
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Christmas has arrived too! Stores here are now full of Stollen and Lebkuchen. Just waiting for the Glühwein now Smile Getting withdrawal symptoms of the smell of winter.
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redrunmarcus, Not worth £4.oo, quick read in whsmiths I suggest!
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Boredsurfing, will try to sneak a look -who is the snowhead?
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redrunmarcus, jonpim ifirc.
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Boredsurfing, agreed - S&B not worth £4.

Fallline on the other hand. Simply no comparison in the quality of the ski review section.
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stoatsbrother, trouble is I want loads of new skis now.............. Puzzled
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redrunmarcus, I was looking at prices for Gotamas and King Fujas earlier - and I have enough skis already Embarassed
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Off to canada this week to check out ready for season. Madeye-Smiley
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Fallline on the other hand. Simply no comparison in the quality of the ski review section.


Anyone know if there's another subscription offer this year...I didn't bother last year and then bought most of them anyway Smile
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Nothing to do with skiing but I've just watched Last Night of the Proms on TV. That, to me, always means winter has arrived.
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ChrisWo, Yes £37.50 7 issues Scott goggles t shirt discount vip pass....................be silly not to Cool snowHead
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ahh, my copy of s+b arrived today and was quite simply the biggest load of fumble ever, the ladies ski review only had 1 ski over 100mm wide in the "big mntn" section and Shane was described as a "stunt skiier"...I've thrown it into the re-cyc in disgust

As for Fall Line, one of the better I'll admit but the reviews are soooo biased (as are s+b's...eg sponsored skiiers reviewing the brands they're sponsored by for chrissakes!!!!!) it's really not worth reading them unless you need to check up on the dims and graphics!

Bring back Dark Summer, can't wait for my copies to come through.
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S&B arrived yesterday. Fell asleep halfway through Ted Kennedy article.
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the_doc, will the Whitedot skis be reviewed in Dark Summer?

Looks like a big vote for s&b........................................... Toofy Grin Toofy Grin
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And yet yesterday at Ludlow food festival was the sunniest, most summery day I can remember for months.
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What do folk make of the ski rental article in Falline?
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Every ski brochure possible is on our living room floor. Very Happy
Now that means that winter has arrived.
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the_doc, Lou, the S&B editorial team have not shown themselves impressed by such feedback in the past. My wife also thought S&B complete and utter pants.

kitenski, I liked it Toofy Grin
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Winter is coming - just ordered my skis on pro form!
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"the_doc, Lou, the S&B editorial team have not shown themselves impressed by such feedback in the past."

you tried giving them this feedback?? I've been pretty tempted myself in the past as I use the skiclub insurance and am sick of such trash landing on my doorstep and ruining the start of my Winter!
As for WhiteDot being reviewed by Dark Summer I don't want to speak for Kiwi1 but know we both have a very high opinion of the mag (being re-released this winter) and it's pretty much the only UK mag IMO that would give an unbiased review not based on our potential advertising budget! Evil or Very Mad
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the_doc, both on his forum and the SCGB one there have been discussions about this. Nothing changes. A few snowHeads have wrtten fairly decent articles in it. But very little of the content offers either much information or communicates huge passion for skiing. Too much of it reads like "what I did on my holiday..." The mag continues to be IMHO - except for the very odd issue - more suited for the infllight mag of a middle level airline. The PdS detailed review and the ski tests in fallline (whatever the independence issues) are examples of how things could be done better.
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redrunmarcus wrote:
My Fall Line mag has arrived and there is snow forecast on the La Plagne glacier over the next few days Laughing snowHead Laughing snowHead


snow forecast EVERY day for the next few days Shocked snowHead snowHead snowHead
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Yup, snow down to Alpincenter at Kaprun as of this morning. Luvvyjubbly.
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boo neither Fallline nor S+B have arrived...probably down to those striking luddites at the postoffice..feckers.. had to buy DM ski and snowboard..and then wodered why i'd bothered cos its rubbish.

still can start checking webcams more often now
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Whole of Amade region hit with the stuff above about 1500m... every cam is glowing white... Can't see anything from my windows though as there is a dense fog/mist in the way from abot 1100m!
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agreed - S&B not worth £4.

Fallline on the other hand. Simply no comparison in the quality of the ski review section

I sem to be in a bit of a minority here but I, er.....prefer S&B Embarassed Always think it has meaningful reviews of ski trips and destinations - as opposed to Fall Line's "How to huck a 500 ft cliff" or "72 hrs of vomiting and bedwetting in Alpine party town"-type articles.

Ho hum, each to their own I suppose rolling eyes.
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Hurrah! http://www.welove2ski.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=201&id=261

NB. Contains pornographic images... Wink
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Why am I so pathetically excited by this? I've been on (a little bit of) snow all summer, cursed frozen toes since they turned the temperature down at Hemel and I know what is falling in the Alps now will be gone in a week. Yet I'm still excited by this. Pathetic!


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In the last 96 hours I have:

driven to Hemel to slide 150m on pretend snow
checked at least 4 webcams
re-checked that I get free ski carriage on my flight to Geneva in October (Tignes)
got over-baffled by tele kit
been on two runs as the start of my season prep
considered whether I can justify a trip to Austria in November
been irritated with the striking postmen because my Fall Line hasn't arrived
got over-excited by news on FB that the new WDF website will be live at the end of the month
seriously considered replacing my helmet because, well, just because

Some may consider this pathetic. I just think it's normal.
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skisimon, love the pictures especially from the dolomites.
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rob@rar, its because you're a Snowhead ?

I'm not sure i would like to be made aware of a dictionary's explanation of "snowhead" Wink
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Sainsbury's in Wigan now has their Christmas Cakes, Stollen, Christmas Pudding, etc on display.
15th Sept, so they are a bit late this year ?

zammo wrote:
been irritated with the striking postmen because my Fall Line hasn't arrived.

Our office in on the top floor of an office block and no companies here have had any post since last week, yep must be nearly Christmas.
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agreed - S&B not worth £4.

Fallline on the other hand. Simply no comparison in the quality of the ski review section

I sem to be in a bit of a minority here but I, er.....prefer S&B Embarassed Always think it has meaningful reviews of ski trips and destinations - as opposed to Fall Line's "How to huck a 500 ft cliff" or "72 hrs of vomiting and bedwetting in Alpine party town"-type articles.

Ho hum, each to their own I suppose rolling eyes.


Unbelievably, as I read this I have on my screen the next 'how to' which is 'how to huck a cliff'... Though it looks like about 30'. And the bloke fell over. When he backflipped he stayed upright. A lesson for us all.
We have cut back on the vomit this season; it was getting a bit much, I agree.

It's that time of year where I try and post a pic of the front cover and fail. Again.

But there is a good competition here... http://www.fall-line.co.uk/feature.php?10,404
It's a blatant attempt to get people to sign up to our mailing list, obviously. Not that we've worked out how to mail anyone yet, but I've been promised that we might have the capacity within the next two or three decades.
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fallliner, Since you are here.... you have really got to get someone to proof-read the ski tests and make sure they are correct..
It has gotten so bad that if you don't know the ski, the review is nigh on useless as you can't be sure, the stats etc etc are correct and relate to that ski..

For example..
Kastle MX88 is 88mm and a piste/offpiste charger in that it does both very well.. your pic shows an 88 but the text and dims talk about MX78..so which did you test...?
I'd venture they are different skis and you can't bully the 88 as you can the 78, IMV.. depending on your level, of course.

Other mistakes have been as basic as prices, like the Haglofs jacket last year, which isn't so bad at all in the grand scheme of things.. ....but as far as the ski test goes, I think the idea and the type of skis you look at is great... it is just that the accuracy element, which I have noted over the last few years, is always a factor, IMV..and is undermining the whole thing..

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Indeed, we do make mistakes. There are another 3 that we've spotted. In some cases we're sent the wrong image or price; in most cases it's us confusing products - given that we have six months to get it right, it's pitiful. Given that I proof read the tests, it's even worse. We are running the tests in shrunken form through the season so have the chance to get corrections in.

It was the 78 tested, by the way.
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