 Poster: A snowHead
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An 82 year old has just given up after skiing every day of the season for the last 24 years !!!!
After and during an amazing catalogue of injuries. A role model for our Masque perhaps. 
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| At 82, Schipper´s Cal Ripken-like streak of obsessively hitting the slopes every single day has ended after 24 years, or a total of 3,903 days. |
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Over the next two decades, Schipper went to extremes to keep the streak alive.
In 1987, he traveled to the top of the mountain in a ski-grooming machine at midnight so he could ski down before driving 7 1/2 hours to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for his son´s graduation. He was back on the slopes the next day.
In 1993, he delayed the removal of a cancerous kidney to keep the streak alive; in 1995, he underwent bypass heart surgery during the offseason. Both times, he was back on the slopes when the snow began falling.
In 1997, a doctor created a special cast so he could keep skiing after a collision with a snowboarder broke his thumb. |
Full amazing story from Maine Today
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Most of my injuries were gained in my youth and weren't skiing related, but I intend to keep going whatever the idiots in white say. This guy is an inspiration to us all . . . if just a little obsesive.
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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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And snowheads here are worrying how to get there, how long the kit will last, where to find a restaurant, strikes, overweighed skiers, people smoke, snowchains etc .................
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kuwait_ian, Fab story, but I think he's been beaten by that surfer chap (also in the US), who surfed every day for more than 30 years - but that it EVERY DAY. I suppose the skier only skied when there was snow (no glacier I think on the east coast). 
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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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easiski, he skied every day his resort was open so yes it's not quite as impressive as the surfer. Begs the question of whether he was actually safe on the slopes towards the end...
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| As he entered the new millennium, Schipper´s eyesight had become the biggest obstacle. He suffers from macular degeneration and glaucoma, and his depth perception suffered despite prescription ski goggles that he wore. |
Now I know there are plenty of one-eyed skiers and drivers who can make adjustements for the lack of depth perception but this venerable old guy may not have been coping so well. Whatever, a fine achievement. 
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Fantastic. That's definitely the way to grow young. My ambition is to pop my clogs the day after my hundredth birthday while having ago at the Flying Kilometre in Les Arcs. Might be messy, but I'll be grinning from ear to ear.
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