 Poster: A snowHead
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Since I was 15. You?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Same 
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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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New Kid On The Block, I thought you were 14.
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At least I do not lay eggs!!
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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'm only 16...I thought I was the youngest here...
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I'm much older than you
Hannah is the youngest, I think, she's about 8 or 10.
Wear the Fox Hat is about 90 but acts like a kid.
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Snow-Queen, Since I was 50 
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this is my 4th year, although i dont ski - i succumed to the dark side from the start. actually thats a lie, ive been dry slope skiing a few times - and it was enough to put me off it for a long time. im curious now though, so might rent some snowblades and see what all the fuss is about.
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This is my 10th year skiing. I started when I was just a cub.
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Snow-Queen, 5 years, started at 16
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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18 years. Half my life. How did that happen?
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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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Started in 1959, in boots similar to
these. To see them closer to actual size, click here.
Leather boots had outer laces, threaded through a row of hooks, which pulled together the outer skin of the boot. The outer flaps of the boot helped to seal the inner boot from snow penetration. The inner boot had its own laces threaded through eyes.
Boots had to be polished daily. Every night thousands of hotel workers across the Alps polished their guests' boots - the tradition was to leave your boots outside the bedroom door and you'd find them all shined up in the morning.
Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Wed 16-02-05 18:31; edited 2 times in total
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ermm
hang on, I might have to take my socks off
fernie
BC roadtrip
la tania
whistler
tahoe
montgenevre
passo tonale
so that make this my eighth season, since those are the main places I've visited in each of the last few seasons - fernie in 2004, back to my frst trip to Passo Tonale in 1998
that means I was, erm, 25, when I first went
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You know it makes sense.
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David Goldsmith, must have been murder getting your legs into that postion - glad things have moved on.
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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all morning......
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Went skiing on a school trip when i was 14 but that doesnt count.... finally took up the challenge back in 97 and have been every year since, apart from 2000 when I was giving birth to my son smack in the middle of the ski season. Stupid stupid stupid. Bad timing, should have thought that one through a little more.
(mind u at least he gets a ski holiday instead of expensive and pointless birthday party)
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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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First ski trip was 2nd March 1992, so I'll shortly be celebrating my 13th Anniversary. Since then I skied (on snow) a total of 393 days, plus up until a few years ago very regularly on plastic. I've also worked out that the average ski trip costs around £100/day, all in, which means skiing has so far cost me £40,000!
Junior only started 'proper' skiing in Feb 2004, and now, at age three and a half he's progressed to moguls almost as big as him: http://midlandski.fotopic.net/p11797899.html
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Not an easy question to answer - I first set foot on skis nearly 21 years ago (aged 14). Totally loved it, but my parents kept telling me it was an expensive fad and that I would grow out of it. As I was reliant on them to fund my skiing, after a year or so of regular dry slope lessons and skiing trips to Scotland and Spain, I stopped.
I managed to finally scrape together the time and money to get back into skiing about 4 years ago and am now trying to make up for lost time!!
I really wish I had started younger and managed to keep it going over the years.
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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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Not long enough...should have started far earlier than 31! Just about to go off on my 6th week skiing since 2002, plus 2 or 3 days up at Glencoe and few hours on dry slopes.
I, like you Fruity, went on a school trip when I was about 14 too. It lasted all of about 20 minutes before I gave up and decided it was not for me. If only I knew then what I know now!
My husband had to bribe me to try it again, and now I love it as much as he does (if not more!). 
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First time on skis was about 8 years ago, then nothing for 2 years, then I became a ski addict.
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4 years!
I too wish I had started younger (I was 31 when I started too), I've taken this up with the parents - who haven't been able to account properly for this omission 
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23 years now mainly France.
WHat a fantastic website.
bobS
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welcome to Snowheads, BobS
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Ian Hopkinson - great minds think alike , ehh 
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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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8 weeks, in the last 3 years. Don't seem to have improved much the last few trips though
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Just like Newbie50, another one to start after turning 50.
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Poster: A snowHead
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bobs welcome to snowheads.
I have been skiing since I was 5, about 26 years ago.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Since David Goldsmith, taught me in cairngorm in the winters when snow was regular. 10 years off then met snowbird through this site 4 years ago and the rest is history - some lies in here I think !
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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27 years - since I was 3
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I think im on year 19, and still cant ski like I want to.  .
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mick newby, snap, I started 19 years ago. I still can't ski.
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Ray Zorro, What do you put it down to ?
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Will be 2 years to the day next month when I'm in La Plagne. Will be my 6th time skiing, to a total of about 6 1/2 to 7 weeks, 5th time in La Plagne, and did a long weekend in Grindelwald/Wengen 2 weeks ago.
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25 years since I was 7, skiing 4 weeks a year for the last 3 seasons, and still nowhere near where I want to be.
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