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Does anyone know where I can get some powder ribbons ?
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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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EBay.
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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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hyweljenkins, I don't think so 
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redrunmarcus, I think so. That is, after all, where I got mine from.
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hyweljenkins, at the moment you get a choice of powder compacts for the ladies or a ceramic wall plaque with a ribbon for a powder room (toilet) door 
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Yoda, my first powder traces were made from roadwork tape and the rubber loops from one of those straps that keep your sunglasses on.
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hyweljenkins, so it was you  I claim my £5.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Orange piste closed tape works better 
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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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For £9 you can buy 9m of synthetic ribbon, tie it to your bindings and stuff the remainder up your trouser leg, and find your ski in eye deep powder still. Come on guys what happened to a bit of DIY initiative. For free I like the roadclosure tape.
Scene of crime tape would be cool...
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You know it makes sense.
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Mosha Marc, thank you so much always look in the obvious place first 
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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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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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There is never a right time to put them on.....mine stay in the pack too long..
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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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JT, having spent more than an hour looking for my skis  I always put them on, even if they are a pain in the butt!
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As I'm feeling Hannibal Lector-ish this morning .....
"In humans the intestine is divided into two major sections: the small intestine, which is about 6 m (20 ft) long,...; and the large intestine, which has a larger diameter and is about 1.5 m (5 ft) long,..."
Woo Ha Ha Ha Ha
hmm Chianti .... sip
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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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Also you get 2 colours ... Darkish Purple for the first 7 metres and then Dark Red for the last 2 metres
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Good idea is to have a mini-crab or quick release clip of some kind tied on the end, then you can keep them stuffed up your trousers all day, and easily unclip from the ski to take 'em off. I drill a little hole in the heel lever on the binding & tie a little loop to clip them to.
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Hurtle, If you have a ski come off in powder they help you to locate your ski and save a heck of a lot of bother! 
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boredsurfin, yeah, I had eventually gathered that.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hurtle, they are worth ten times their weight in gold, but they are a pain in the ass to handle. Since using them I've never had a problem with losing skis in powder, but the downside is that they are really fiddly when putiing the ski on ( attach to ski brake, stuff ribbon in trousers or top of boot ).
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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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Mike Lawrie, Hmm, methinks these particular problems need adding to the glove technique thread.
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Hurtle,
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| Hmm, methinks these particular problems need adding to the glove technique thread |
Didn't know we had one of those. This isn't veiled smut again is it?
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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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tried them, they suck. Will sell you them in fluro yellow or orange!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Hurtle, WOW
stoatsbrother, yes, they do suck. But losing your ski in powder sucks a whole lot more!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Mike Lawrie,
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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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On a powder day they are such a great idea.
I unreservedly suggest you get them.
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It's interesting that the same people who will either sell you (or endorse the value of) powder cords for finding lost skis in deep snow ...
... will also tell you that avalanche cords don't work.
Figure that one out!
Any brightly-coloured cord/tape (especially with directional and length markings on it) will help trace any buried object - organic or synthetic.
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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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David Goldsmith,Who tells you that? I cannot see any of the people who challenged you on the evidence for that interesting alternative safety method supporting cords above.
I think both are cack... Avalanche Cords because the later version of the book you quoted as being for them admitted there was no hard evidence they had saved any skiers. Powder Cords because they are fiddly, fall out on chair lifts, and you have to unhook them when you get in Gondolas etc etc.
When did you last use them by the way
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| stoatsbrother wrote: |
| "I think both are cack... " |
Last words of skier buried in avalanche, disappointed to have lost a ski.
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| "Channel 5 is all $h!t, isn't it? Christ, the crap they put on there. It's a waste of space" |
The famous last words of Adam Faith
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No, I'm not a String Goldsmith but my daughter's a very keen violinist!
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
It's interesting that the same people who will either sell you (or endorse the value of) powder cords for finding lost skis in deep snow ...
... will also tell you that don't work.
Figure that one out!
Any brightly-coloured cord/tape (especially with directional and length markings on it) will help trace any buried object - organic or synthetic. |
Powder cords are unnecessary. In nearly all cases and in nearly all types of 'powder' the ski will just stop when you become detached from it. Merely work your way back up the line of your fall to where your track ends, seeping with your pole as you go. If there are other people there who don't know what they are doing, tell them not to 'help' as they will just trample on the 'evidence' and probably force the ski further down into the snowpack.
Avalanche cords is not a substitute for a transceiver.
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FAQ
Mine have "
I had to stop flying with my RADIOACTIVE tape, even though it was on an unused untorn roll fresh from the lab supply company 