 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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For some people its not all about how many runs they can get in in a day. It can be about spending time with their family members which would probably involve all the time spent on lifts.
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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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mountainaddict, I do love singles lanes, when skiing in a group we often use them as it's quicker then waiting for the crowds to decide when they want to get on.
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Depends on who is at the front of queue, I certainly wouldn't either send or leave my 6 year old just to fill up a chair, would youmountainaddict, ?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm not sitting on a chair next to a snowboarder - that's just asking to be taken out! 
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That was just a joke. I hate people who cant share a gondola...say we are two and they are two but they wont get in a four person gondola 
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Shimmy Alcott, yeah well you wouldn't want to mix with people from Cheshire
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Boris,  thanks
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I hate people who spread all their gear around in the gondola rendering it impossible to get in at the middle station without seriously spraining your legs. MOVE OVER FFS
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At new year I was sat next to a bloke with skis on, on the chair, and he just had his legs spread so wide apart over my skis, d i c k. Not just a bit, I am super chilled on my ski hol so much goes over my head...but this guy was just unbelievable.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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in order to make teh whole chair lift efficinet and balanced, you have to spread the number of skiers out across the chairs, hence in quieter times it is impossible to achieve this if you fill the chairs up, because this will make some empty and you run the risk of teh qhole system becoming unbalanced
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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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P.S. If you fill up the chairs, then how will i get on with my rucksack on ?????????
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Single lanes, nope! We need lanes for annual pass holders 
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You know it makes sense.
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Shimmy Alcott, these guys will try anything to touch your tips!
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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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sev112, Dont worry, I will shove it so far up your a r s e you will have better things to worry about
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Boredsurfing wrote: |
| Single lanes, nope! We need lanes for annual pass holders |
Too right!!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Shimmy Alcott,
Very pleasant 
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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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sev112, I wouldnt really, I'm very lovely
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Butterfly,
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sure i'll share the chairlift but no way are you getting a toke of my spliff man....
okbye
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sev112, I don't really think so. (spreading them out.)
mountainaddict, it's actually worse practice than those gits who don't take their back packs off. Gets right on my t1ts,
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garethjomo, granted, but at the exclusion of others? Don't think so.
A little bit of common sense and common curtsey can go a long way to reducing both queues and tempers.
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The funniest thing about the half-full chairlifts problem (and it is a problem, no question) is that on numerous occasions I've seen people tut and swear at the people who are the ones on the half empty lift.
WTF? They're the ones doing the right thing.
"Hey nobhead, need that lift to yourself eh?"
Er no, if that guy hadn't got on it, it would actually be empty!
I must say though, when I'm snowboarding, and unless there is a queue, I will wait (within reason) until I can get on a chairlift where I'm in with a fighting chance of having an empty chair on at least one side of me. Unless I ever see HH out there, in which case I'm deliberately wiping her out.
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paulio, wouldn't you just love the chance to get me flat on my back lol
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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ah under a new name, i was wondering who might respond to my little wind up
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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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Holding up a queue is pretty rude though, eh. Like the snooty inconsiderate bint on the bus out of Gatwick Long Stay last week who got on a half full bus with a massive suitcase, and just stood with it in the vestibule blocking the doorway, with her inbred pointy nose in the air, looking like her shite doesn't stink, while the rest of us stood in the 4am drizzle wondering why we couldn't get onto a bus that had at least space for a dozen more punters.
Mind you, she was with that velvet trousered arsehole I mentioned elsewhere, so it's not that surprising.
Skiing toffs, everyone!
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paulio, what is this "bus" you speak of? 
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You know it makes sense.
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It's a form of basic municpal transport, for peons and their flea-bitten ilk.
Goodness only knows what the silken velour-clad chattering classes were doing on it. Maybe the sale of their cold and unwelcoming castle fell through, or they'd spent all their money on heroin and wigs.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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For some people its not all about how many runs they can get in in a day. It can be about spending time with their family members which would probably involve all the time spent on lifts.
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I am speechless......Do they also ski down in one of those cuddled together train things to maximise time spent together
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Poster: A snowHead
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It is only a problem if there are large queues. However, it is surely up to the lifties to sort this out. When I was in Banff it was someone's job to corral people in the queue into the right number of people for the lift so that they were filled up. They had a very efficient singles queue from which to make up full lifts. If you wanted to travel up together you linked up with your mates/family/good looking stranger and shuffled along with them letting others through who would make up numbers. But of course, this only happened at the times of the day when there were massive queues. I have never, ever, seen this happen in any of the European resorts I have been too. It is all self policed with lifities being very unconcerned about it.
I find the most irritating thing is when you are lined up in a lift gate at maximum capacity and two (or more) people hang back when the gate opens leaving the others to move forward on their own! If the people behind are in a mamixum line then all they can do is let the laggards onto the next lift.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Tiger2 wrote: |
| I have never, ever, seen this happen in any of the European resorts I have been too. It is all self policed with lifities being very unconcerned about it. |
At half term in the 3V the lifties were very keen to fill all the chairs (and gondolas).
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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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| garethjomo wrote: |
| For some people its not all about how many runs they can get in in a day. It can be about spending time with their family members which would probably involve all the time spent on lifts. |
I don't have a problem with that. But what I really hate is when a couple of people get to the gate and then turn around looking for their mates or relatives and block the loading of the lift. People should have their passes taken away for doing that.
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| RobW wrote: |
| Tiger2 wrote: |
| I have never, ever, seen this happen in any of the European resorts I have been too. It is all self policed with lifities being very unconcerned about it. |
At half term in the 3V the lifties were very keen to fill all the chairs (and gondolas). |
And my observations in Zermatt suggest that, true to their national stereotype, the well-mannered and highly organised Swiss ensure that almost all the chairs are filled without any need to be chivvied along by lifties.
The trouble is that full lifts mean busy pistes. You can't win.
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I wonder whether us Brits are particularly bad at this. We seem to have this innate repulsion to sharing a space with a stranger and conversing with them.
Next time, try sharing a lift with a stranger and talking to them. Most Europeans do speak some English, else it might be a chance to try some of your pigeon French/ German too. You might find that the stranger doesn't actually scam you or punch you in the face and mug you, but holds a decent and interesting conversation!
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| bum wrote: |
I wonder whether us Brits are particularly bad at this. We seem to have this innate repulsion to sharing a space with a stranger and conversing with them.
Next time, try sharing a lift with a stranger and talking to them. Most Europeans do speak some English, else it might be a chance to try some of your pigeon French/ German too. You might find that the stranger doesn't actually scam you or punch you in the face and mug you, but holds a decent and interesting conversation! |
I think you're partially right here. It's a bit like the 'rule' about to speaking to strangers on Transport for London.
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I try to avoid going up next to a novice looking boarded - I don't want to be taken out on arrival! Even more nervous now after an experience of being lined up with 4 others for a 6 man chair. 2 of the 4 were boarders and the last was a small child. Boarders fail to shuffle forwards appropriately (lack of competence/laziness) and get on the lift early and sprawl across it. There is now nowhere for me or unrelated small child to sit. Lifties rugby tackle me and child to floor so lift passes over our heads - then help us up, get us organised and on the chair about 3 later! Didn't really appreciate having to go up lift with only a small child for company as I don't like heights or having to be responsible for lowering and raising the bar. I like to get on, have the bar brought down and hold on nice and tightly!
Since then, I'm a bit nervy about getting on a chair with lots of boarders - if the lifties hadn't been on the ball, it would have been pretty painful!
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Does anyone remember that guy last year who was photographed hanging upside down by his pants on the chair? Wouldn´t want to share with him
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| bum wrote: |
I wonder whether us Brits are particularly bad at this. We seem to have this innate repulsion to sharing a space with a stranger and conversing with them.
Next time, try sharing a lift with a stranger and talking to them. Most Europeans do speak some English, else it might be a chance to try some of your pigeon French/ German too. You might find that the stranger doesn't actually scam you or punch you in the face and mug you, but holds a decent and interesting conversation! |
nah....what the Brits are really bad is queuing for lifts. European stylee queuing is all about finding a gap and filling it, and if you can't find a gap shove your elbows out, your skis forward, create a gap then fill it. British style is all about finding the point in the queue furthest from the front and standing behind it. I use the word queue loosely here of course - it is a mass of people that is, say, 40 people wide at the back and trying to funnel itself down to an organised set of lines 4 wide. No wonder groups get seperated causing the issue under discussion in this thread. Queues really do \bring out the worst behavious (mainland europeans pushing and shoving and Brits complaining - cos thy're no good at it!)
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FAQ
While waiting in one queue at Mayrhofen I counted 20 out of 40 chairs going up unfilled. A query from a fellow 
