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Dave Barry (see"skiing would be fine .... if it wasn't for the gravity" ) has at last exposed what those Pesky Pistie Beasties actually do (Grab Gravity).
But have you ever seen a Mogul Maker?
My grandpa said they were tree-trunks. Mates try to kid they are made by skiers  . Rubbish! They're all in the bar - when are they supposed to be bounding around the piste building moguls?
So, who makes the moguls?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I headr rumour that actually moguls are snowboarders who sit down for too long whilst it's snowing...
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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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The mogul monster- obviously! pffh and they call me thick!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Nope, it's Kevin McClean.
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Alan Craggs, prove it!
Even if he does, I do a better job! 
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Ahhh - now that Kevin has achieved mythical status (I suspect he may have been one of H.P. Lovecraft's "Old Ones") proof will be tricky. However, are you saying that you have never chanced upon a mogul field where no Hultquist has gone before?
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mmm - the provincial mindset at work.. A few years back I saw a couple in Murren create a mogul field where once only snowsnakes and marmots roamed. Now if only I could find the video...
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Alan Craggs, I had fun building moguls last time I was at Breck. Skiing in about 2' of crud and finding the moguls for our "off piste" application exam was a blast. I actually had a huge smile on my face for that! 
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nice one Steve - I'm off to bed now (2 am get up  )
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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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| Nadenoodlee wrote: |
| Mogul Monster |
Nadenoodlee, I think you might have cracked it.
Often while on a chairlift I have seen those tracks in the snow below. Where do they come from? Where do they go? What makes them?
Of course! They are Mogul Monster tracks.
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Exactly- weve all seen the tracks- too small for a human, too big for a mountain cow/goat etc - its the mogul monster! Glad to find a fellow believer Jonpim!
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You know it makes sense.
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Mountain moles,i've seen them while walking back from pub when on skiing hols
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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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Apparently - and I'm sure ssh/SG can correct me - in some of the US resorts, the Pistie Beasties have mogul-maker attachments. Don't quite know how they work, but somehow collect the snow into "funnels" that then deposit a nice neat pyramid of hardpack. Best of all, they're regularly spaced as well.
Well, that's what my instructor told me last week, but perhaps she was just yanking my chain...
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Poster: A snowHead
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You just ruined my childhood dream Masopa
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nadenoodlee, don't believe him! 
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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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masopa, there are grooming machines that can do that, but they are not usually used for recreational pistes (instead reserved for competitive mogul slopes). However, I have heard that they are used at times.
Give me real moguls any day.
I do a much better job than those beasts!
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Im only young- I still have hope and stuff SSH, and im sure he was just lying
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Nadenoodlee, I know. I've seen your picture, luv! 
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I havent seen yours! Thats not fair
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Writing about Pistie Beasties,
| Masopa wrote: |
then deposit a nice neat pyramid of hardpack
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Excuse me, but I think you are suggesting that moguls are just piles of Pistie Beastie dung!  .
Surely not.
I still go for the Mogul Monster - they must exist as someone has written a book about them: "Tale of the Mogul Monster" .
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aha!! proof !! now we'll see who is right!
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now were even!
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ssh, having looked at your website I suspect you are a "consultant". I refer you to joke number one in the joke thread .
I must warn you that you are third up against the wall come the revolution, after Lawyers and People wearing daft fleece hats (according to MarkP in "Things that make you look like a punter" .)
As I have one of those hats, I'll be up there with you
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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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Its never to late to ditch the hat. You know you wanna...
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Masque, One of my instructors hit it on the head. He said that many of his clients dream of being able to ski moguls well, but never want to learn (they'd rather stick to flat steep slopes when on-piste).
For those of us (minority - you are certainly right) who enjoy the challenge, it's more a case of seeing the few expert mogul skiers bombing between the bumps and thinking, "I wish I could do that". And trying and trying until finally we don't fall over as much.
It's also good for scaring fellow (beginner) skiers. Showed one of our party the bottom half of Grand Couloir from the cable car and he decided I was completely mad. Had I just shown him a steep slope, I'm sure he would have just thought I was slightly mad.
Incidentally, I'm not a good skier at all - just enjoy challenges. I can't ski moguls with anything approaching grace or style, in fact I'm usually very happy if I get down without my bindings releasing. You don't have to be good to want to ski moguls, just slightly insane.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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masopa,
You’re missing my point! Moguls are not a natural phenomenon . . . they are the result of deliberate intent, poor technique or skiers over estimating their prowess and forever putting the brakes on.
Yeh boarders do the same, but they spend less time on the piste and they tend to scrape the piste flat.
Moguls are an entirely avoidable waste of snow!
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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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Don't think I'm missing the point - most people don't like them, so why do they exist? Well, the pistes would be really boring if they all looked the same, so having a bit of variety is good. Perhaps towards the end of the day, too many slopes have moguls - caused, as you rightly say, but skiers progressively trying to avoid the bumps (bit like the phenomenon that caused the millenium bridge start to swing in London).
I would like to see a variety of slopes with decent moguls on - not just really steep stuff, but shallower slopes too, to practice technique. However, since I'm in the minority, I realise that in an "ideal" resort, probably only 5 or so percent of slopes would be mogulled.
Also, they're not avoidable. All you need is one skier who comes to a rapid stop on a slope and you've got the beginning of a bump. Quite often skiers like a point of reference in the snow to force a turn - an oncoming bump (no matter how tiny) can often be used as that - it's natural. So what you have is a bump of ever increasing proportions throughout the day as more skiers turn before the bump, piling it ever higher.
It's a bit like saying the millenium bridge didn't have to swing because nobody forced people to walk in time. True, but it's human nature - try stopping that!
Incidentally, having people who enjoy bumps may actually help to diminish the moguls - sometimes I'll ski between bumps, sometimes I'll ski over the top of them - depend how I feel. At least I'm not constantly piling more snow onto the bump...
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Also, they're not avoidable. All you need is one skier who comes to a rapid stop on a slope and you've got the beginning of a bump
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It's not just skiers coming to a rapid stop, it's any skier, however good, making a turn.
You can't turn, not even a perfect carve, without putting horizontal forces on the snow. This will push it sideways and start creating a bump. Moguls are the natural result of a few skiers turning roughly the same radius turns.
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Now now, boys. Play nicely. Any anyway, EVERYONE knows moguls are just badly parked VW Bugs, covered in snow. What I want to know, is where do they store them in the summer?? 
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| Nadenoodlee wrote: |
| You just ruined my childhood dream Masopa |
Don't panic, Nadenoodlee, it's not that the Mogul Monsters don't exist, it's just in America they shot them all years ago, believing that was a *good thing to do*, now they realise it wasn't that clever, apart from some of them, who make a fortune designing and building machines to replace the Monsters that they killed.
You see, there's this line in the American Constitution which says "One Nation, on the Snow, with Liberty and Justice for all (except Mogul Monsters)"
It's there in black and white. The bit about the Mogul Monsters was added as part of the second amendment, which, as everyone one knows is all about every town having the right to form an armed militia to protect them from attack.
Of course, before the Mogul Monsters saw the men shooting guns at them, they were shy, but friendly creatures, who would help skiers, and built there moguls every night, and some even during the day. Then after the first shootings, they started to fear the guns, and hide in caves. Then they were hunted down and shot, and that is why there are no Mogul Monsters in America, the land of the free, unless you're a Mogul Monster.
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So . . . what you're all saying is . . . moguls are the result of lazy, incompetent skiers. It’s so nice to have this confirmed by the guilty parties themselves.
I must have a chat with my fellow sliders to see what can be done about it.
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Masque, instead of wearing slightly soiled Monkey suits, why not buy Mogul Monster suits, and move back to Septicland. Then you can be shot were you sit on the slopes, and form moguls for us skiers to enjoy.
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