 Poster: A snowHead
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Any tips on pushing a pram through snow? Could do with some sledge blades but don't know where to buy them from!
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sat 5-06-10 21:22; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sophiadolf,
OK get a Bugaboo with snowtyres, yes they do do them!!
Or a Stokke Xplory and just tow it backwards on two wheels.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Sophiadolf,
Sorry welcome to snowheads!!!!!
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backwards seems best or maybe get a dog team
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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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Sophiadolf, pulling is much easier than pushing when the going gets tough - same as using a pushchair on a beach. Otherwise, go light ( eg Maclaren Volo) and be prepared to lift it.
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Volo is cr*p in snow:wheels are just too small and you sink - even in half-an-inch of snowl. A decent all-terrain pushchair (3-wheeler, inflatable tyres) will cope up to a few inches, but in deeper stuff you still need to pull rather than push. If it's deep, then a back-pack carrier is more suitable. I do have some pics of JuniorAP is his buggy in Canada,but they are no-longer online.
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Another vote for pulling, rather than pushing. At least from my recollection of many years ago, when it snowed heavily and we lived in a corner house with a steepish hill either side 
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It has to be pulling.
We had a holiday in Alpe d'Huez a few years ago where the Creche was miles from the hotel.
I spent many a happy hour dragging a pram to and from the Creche. Pushing is useless in snow.
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Buy one of those baby sledges?
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Camping trolley from 'Junior Apprentice'?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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A bugaboo works well, pulling rather than pushing, but don't take the small wheels off like they tell you too! Otherwise hire a nanny and let her do all the work! 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Don't buy anything made by Bugaboo, unless you're the kind of person that buys Apple computers. Ditto Stokke. Double-markup form-over-function fashion clutter for the affluent and unimaginative keep-up-with-the-Jonesing middle aged wannabe hipster.
Forget wheels, and get a backpack. Or a papoose if it's a really small one.
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Sophiadolf, Get a top of the range Silver Cross pram and wear stilletoes when you push it, like the gypsy girls on the hill at The Derby yesterday.
Appearances are everything.
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You know it makes sense.
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Chariots do cross country ski kits?
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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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Latchico, actually a carrige built Silver Cross pram does quite well in the snow (especially if you swap the tyres), but needs an uniformed nanny to push it.
paulio, don't you like things that actually work?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Lots of people in Switzerland have an attachment that fits a wooden sledge and makes a cradle for the baby to lie in.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ski hire shops all rent out little sledgy things. No need to fanny around with a pram in the snow, though they have their uses in airports, as long as you don't go hanging so many ski boot bags on the handle that the baby gets tipped out backwards.
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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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I should take the hint and stop now - taking children to the slopes becomes expensive as they get older. Think of all those extra ski holidays you could afford if you just left the kids at home...
But if you're going ignore that advice, I'd definitely go with the pulling rather than pushing. And when my children are 40, I intend to remind them that they have an obligation to do the same for me in my wheelchair
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Biggest wheels you can get and pull when the going gets tough.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Knew I'd seen this pram somewhere Seed Pli 
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sarah, have you seen how much their buggies cost though ... £700+ ... ouch!
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| Megamum wrote: |
| Lots of people in Switzerland have an attachment that fits a wooden sledge and makes a cradle for the baby to lie in. |
Bloody Swiss, they have an answer for everything(just don't expect it to be as good quaility as it used to be )
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big bouncy inflatable tyres... and pull it...
I have thankfully come to the end of this period of our snow sports!
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It depends on the age of the child as to the suitability of a sledge!!! but they work very well as the children get older!!!
If not I would agree with the inflatable tyres and when the going gets tough pulling!
Where are you thinking of going? Some resorts are very good at clearing the snow and then some are less good.......this could influence your decision on what pram/pushchair to use!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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We used a Quinny Freestyle 4 for a while - big inflatable wheels are fine for most "piste" conditions.. we just flogged ours on the bay, but you can still find them there - great pushchair, lots of space to carry stuff but a bit of a big beast.
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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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These comparisons of high tech, high price, baby carriers are hilarious to an old bird like me. The sort of choice we had to make was between a second hand carry cot and a set of wheels, as opposed to Aunty Sylvia's old but high quality Silver Cross coachbuilt which had been down the coal shed since 1963 but might scrub up OK.
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pam w, have you seen the price of a coach built Silver Cross lately?  Even a very used one is hard to get hold of.
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You know it makes sense.
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and even harder to get in the back of the car....
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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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| skinanny wrote: |
| pam w, have you seen the price of a coach built Silver Cross lately? Even a very used one is hard to get hold of. |
I have a 1960s one in the garage, our neighbour gave it to me as she moved house, her kids and grandchildren had all used it. My son was too old for it by the time I got it unfortunately. It is a lovely thing.
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Poster: A snowHead
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sarah, spunds like you should put in on ebay?
My grandmother had one, which was (of course) her pride and joy as they were not at all a wealthy family. She also had a ghastly old one, which she had said the boy scouts could have for their pram race thing. But when they came to collect it, she was out, and my grandfather was not really paying attention........ 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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pam w, no I am keeping it, you never know 
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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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if you keep it, you'll probably never have another baby. Like when you break a cup and keep the saucer.
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