 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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Nothing like that for me. Just an obscenely early Sunday morning start (check in Doncaster airport at 5.30am!).
I would be prepared to do a weekend trip next season if I can find anything cheap enough and can get two days off work.
I had a flight booked from Manchester once (not the most convenient airport since it is a good hour and a half away) but it got cancelled and I had to fly from Gatwick. Definitely never again. A five-hour drive after landing is not my idea of fun. I now choose destinations where I can fly from East Midlands, Doncaster or Birmingham and rule out all other airports.
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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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Bergmeister, when you could drive to Glenshee in 4 hours, why are you doing all that 
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Seems like an awful lot of money & effort for what will probably be second rate early season snow.
Personally i'd be more inclined to save your money to extend your main trip or use it for more mid to late season long weekends where the snow's likely to be better & there'll be more daylight so you'll get more out of it.
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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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Sounds like Stress to me.
What if the wind is high,storms & the lifts cannot operate (high prob at that time of year) ?
I,d leave out the Apres Drink (all day sunday) , there is nothing more the Austrian Police like doing, is stopping German (Munich Plates) cars on a Sunday evening..
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Thu 15-10-09 14:58; edited 1 time in total
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frank4short, November in Hintertux will be nice snow, no problems there... though Bergmeister, nothing but total respect, thats a dedicated skier.
What lengths would i push to? two words... Bassingbourn Barracks!!!
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Bergmeister, I admire your dedication but couldn't you find somewhere nearer an airport? Or is there a reason for Hintertux and Stubai? Les Diablerets opens mid - end of October and is only an hour from Geneva?
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holidayloverxx, what an absolutely fantastic report, don't know how I missed it first time round. 
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Hurtle, I think you were busy with word footie that day 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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holidayloverxx, nope, in fact I was skiing. (And I don't do word footie  )
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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 would sell my sould for a few days on the snow. Although the last time I tried Satin informed me that I can not sell my sould twice and I would need to come up with alternative collaterol.
So for Sale
1 Granny
1 Fiancee
2 Dogs
& the last shreds of my decency
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Ordhan, 
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You know it makes sense.
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Ordhan, I've invented this nice structured product called a sale and leaseback of souls. Gives you the use of your soul during the leaseback period and hence you may be able to lend it again for limited periods of time
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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As much as I cannot wait to hit the snow again, and have been planning a longish weekend sometime this season, that crazy trip sounds like too much effort and possibly a waste of money that could be better used towards a longer or more pleasurable break later on.
Therefore I conclude that you are both loony tunes and have far too much money.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Tony_H, trip might be crazy, I might be a loony tunes, but it certainly wasn't a waste of money - I still had 2 weeks skiing after that
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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 am attempting a NYE trip to Les Arcs. I say attempt as I made a mess of the booking in the quest to find a cheap flight. Luckily KLM sorted out the balls up.
The Plan
Leave home on 26/12 at 5am
LHR at 6am for 8am flight
Land in Amsterdam at 11am
Train into Centrum and straight to Cafe Pleinzicht for a few De Konnicks
Hunters for an early 'wake n bake'
In De Wildeman for a few more beers
AMS to Geneva 3.40pm
Land at 4.50 then 3 hour transfer to Les Arcs
Meet with the rest and get royally drunk
1 week boarding and getting drunk
Rtn to Geneva at 4pm drink until 8pm
Rtn to AMS and try and get in more beer before going back to LHR with an aching body and a royal hangover.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Bergmeister,Hunter's is a "coffee shop", wake & bake is an early morning spliff (do they still call them that?) - hope KLM let Gainz onto the GVA fkight after the full on day he's planning
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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've done the following just to get one days skiing....
Flown to New York in Jan, driven 4 hours to Mount Snow, late night checkingm, skied in the coldest temps I have ever encountered for 1 day and driven back for a meeting
Flown to Geneva in November, driven to Tignes late at night, stayed in resort, skied 1 day then driven to the South of France for a meeting
Flown to Milan, skied Cervinia, then driven to Monaco for a meeting!!
Left Leeds after work Friday night, driven to Glasgow, got 6 hrs kip in a motel, driven to Glencoe, skied a day, had a curry/B&B in Fort William, skied Nevis Range, got food poisoning and thrown up all the way back to Leeds!!
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Stag weekend to Kitz.
Get to LHR - fly friday night (20:30 etc) to MUC.
Get hire cars - 'go oh-drat roof bars stuck to rood (can't tie ropes underneath!)
Drive like nutters to kitz
Arrive c. 1:30am - find flophouse drop kit.
Go for a few bevvies
6am walk back to flophouse, stopping at bakers opening up for the day for a couple of croissant.
Go to bed.
Get up 10am, get hire kit and on the hill by 10:45 latest.
Ski to around 1:30pm, late lunch. Ski again in the arvo.
16:00 back in the gaff. 16:30 watching the 6 nations.
19:30 pizzas
20:30 More beer.
22:30 More beer
23:30 Nightclub & Silly drinks.
03:30 crawl home
09:30 Sun get up and Maccy D's
10:15 Go Skiing all day in fab fresh pow and blue ski conditions!!
17:00 meet back at cars, drvie back to MUC, fly home
Monday
Die at Desk
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bertie bassett
Sounds excellent!! Why would anybody NOT want to do that! Life's too short for garden centres, cleaning cars, lazy weekends etc etc!
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Bunch of amateurs.
Exhibit A:
High Wycombe, Thursday after work at pub round corner, quick pint then drive in convoy to Dover, ferry to Calais (before the tunnel was built), drive through night to Megeve. Coffee & croissant, then ski all day. Eat. Sleep. Ski all day. Eat, drink all night, pass out. Ouch. Ski most of day, back into cars, drive back throught the night to Wycombe, work on Monday morning. 
Exhibit B:
3 day conference in Montreux, late March, anyone? I volunteer. Day one; work. Day two, work. Breakfast day three - "Think I had some dodgy chicken at the chinese last night - I'm going back to bed". The second the doors closed on the conference session, I'm walking down the lake-front in some ski-gear I found in my suitcase to the station to catch the train to Leysin, site of my first ski trip - my mission; to ski the piste that in 10 days I never once got from top to bottom without falling over. Mission accomplished.  Back to conference by dinner time. "Feeling much better now, thanks".
Exhibit C:
Daughter in Prep schools ski competition, Glenshee. She goes in the minibus on Friday with everyone else. Saturday morning, 5am, I hit the road (from the Cotswolds). 5 hours later, I'm in resort, skis rented, pass bought, meet up with school group for recreational ski on the best snow at Glenshee for years. And on Sunday they won the cup!
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FAQ
s gone to similar lengths for the sake of a bit of skiing or are we in the loony minority?
- BUT it's for 2 day's skiing - so has got to be worth it!!
