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Do you know exactly the number of weeks and days until your next ski holiday (24 weeks 6 days - without just counting it then!)?
What signs of 'winter is on it's way' do you look for? Signs I've seen this week include:
1. Autumn/winter ranges coming out - I got very excited to see 'autumn collection from so-and-so' newsletter in my email.
2. Starting to get dark around 8pm.
3. Back to school adverts on the TV.
4. Winter 2010/11 ski brochures dropping through the letter box.
5. I've signed up for a 10K in autumn to help with the pre-winter training.
What 'signs' do you look for or have you seen????
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Farry, I start to get in the mood to go skiing. Best sign for me.
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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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Hmmmm... Only a week till I see what state Hintertux is in.
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The peak of the Northern Hemisphere Summer will be Thurs 12th Aug.
After that date, the top half of the world starts to cool down.
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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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We had summer from late May until mid-July. A fairly long summer for once. The weather has been mostly rubbish since then, generally overcast, plenty of rain and temperatures hardly venturing above 20º. So yes, summer appears to be over. I've even noticed a few fallen leaves already.
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Autumn/winter ranges coming out
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they come out before summer really gets under way. A woman in M & S clearly thought I was daft to be disappointed in mid July that there were hardly any T shirts left between the sizes of 8 and 18. Summer is in its fullest swing in the Alps. The myrtilles are ripening nicely and the people who will be busy in winter are catching up with things like building extensions and doing maintenance (and farming, of course). I love skiing as much as anybody but I have no intention of wishing the summer away. I shall sit beside a nice mountain stream with some bread and cheese, an apple and a bottle of beer at lunchtime, and I hope there won't be any sign of winter coming. It's been coldish up here, so far, and hopefully some warmer weather lies ahead. If winter starts too early some of the new chairlift building operations will be difficult, too.
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50 days to go before my trip to Tignes.
In Homebase last week I tried to buy some lamp oil for garden lamps. I was told 'we only stock that in the summer sir'.
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I certainly don't wish the summer away, in fact I hate winter weather here at home, I'd rather reserve that for the Alps. Having said that my first skiing trip is only 83 days away (earliest ever for me). I might even need an ad hoc trip out next month and would probably fit a days skiing in then too.
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still winter here in NZ!!!! great snow at the moment having had 45cm dump over the weekend!
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I'm not wishing the summer away as we have our 2 week holiday coming up.
However I will be glad when the wretched wasps are gone.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Summer hols finish day after August Bank Holiday. Ski planning starts the day after that.
Anyone know when/where the Birthday Bash / MSB will be? 
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Autumn/winter ranges coming out
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Can't wait. Dunno about there but here the blokes' summer range is all pink and lilac. Only went in for some t-shirts and thought I'd inadvertently walked in to the girls section. I don't do "shopping", and I definitely don't do "shopping for pink and lilac".
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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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andy,
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I definitely don't do "shopping for pink and lilac".
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You never know till you try it, you might surprise yourself!
In terms of signs of autumn: loads of leafs on the pavement and people dressing in boots and opaque tights (though that might not be conclusive as some never stopped)
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Autumn/winter ranges coming out
Can't wait. Dunno about there but here the blokes' summer range is all pink and lilac. Only went in for some t-shirts and thought I'd inadvertently walked in to the girls section. I don't do "shopping", and I definitely don't do "shopping for pink and lilac". |
I was in Snow and Rock in Hemel on Saturday looking at their left over mens' jackets in the sale. Seems like baby sh*t yellow and bile green were not the hits S & R might have hoped for last season.
Pink and Lilac skiwear will no doubt be available at substantial discounts this time next year.
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You know it makes sense.
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Seems like baby sh*t yellow and bile green were not the hits S & R might have hoped for last season.
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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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On Saturday I looked out the window in the morning and the Snowline has come down by about 500m.
Thats a pretty good start.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Just got up and having a coffee on the deck at a beach house on long beach island new jersey US of A. It's 08:12 and just under 30 degrees so not really thinking about it for the next couple of weeks.
On return though mini ricfrench will be at Hemel learning to snowboard so I'd say the end starts then 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Recently arrived in Hokkaido and there's absolutely no sign of winter. 29C and humid today. I hiked up one of my local ski hills at the weekend and it seems so improbable that it'll be under metres of snow in a few months!
I can't wait for it to get colder!
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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'm sitting here with the windows open and for the first time in a few months there is a cool breeze, another bonus, it's raining.  Heat wave over at last. Now where is the snow.
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Biggest sign of the Winter comming for me is having to wear a wetsuit for windsurfing and not just a rashie and shorts!!!
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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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I had my first 10/11 season ski dream last night
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Was in Bourg St Maurice this afternoon and it's baking hot. Winter feels like an epoch away!
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rob@rar, Glad to hear as I'm off to the Alps for a summer holiday in a weeks time. Then I've got Bestival on the Isle of Wight in September, so I'm still hoping for an Indian summer.
All be it followed by winter rolling in.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I been checking temp gauge in car on way to work everyday since jan this year. I remember squealing with horror and almost in tears when the guage was reading +9 in april. now Im squealing with joy at +9. Its heading in right direction 
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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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Had the ice symbol on the car temp sensor come on the other day!
Was 30C in slovenia when mountain-biking, then drove back thru austria, where it was raining. Massive jams for tauern tunnel, so took the pass thru Obertauern, and thermometer went down to +4.5C at the top, and the snowflake symbol came on!
Winter's on its way 
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nixmap,
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You know it makes sense.
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Don't get me wrong - when it's cold I wish it was warmer - when it's hot I wish it were cooler.
Although - as my holidays are mainly in the winter that's the time of year I'm most motivated about. So yes yes let's make the most of what's left of summer - but at the same time roll on a long snowy winter!!!
- and Wednesday night was cold enough to mist my house windows up a little - another good sign! 
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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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| Whitegold wrote: |
The peak of the Northern Hemisphere Summer will be Thurs 12th Aug.
After that date, the top half of the world starts to cool down. |
Absoutely spot on - 13th August 10 degrees and raining in Newcastle - snow by Tuesday I reckon.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Smokin Joe wrote: |
| Whitegold wrote: |
The peak of the Northern Hemisphere Summer will be Thurs 12th Aug.
After that date, the top half of the world starts to cool down. |
Absoutely spot on - 13th August 10 degrees and raining in Newcastle - snow by Tuesday I reckon. |
and still, nobody in newcastle will wear a jacket!
could never see why snow and rock opened a shop there and try and sell jackets!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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First sniff of winter here in Otley, Yorkshire today - really autumnal and the central heating clicked itself on. Hail yesterday, in mid-August.
No prospects of a winter holiday so all the more depressing.
To La Rosiere in a fortnight though so back to summer again!
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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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Hi. .I had to put my heavy weight dressing gown on a few mornings the past couple weeks as opposed to my summer one. . .every little helps 
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shoogly, odd that they don't have many bargains in the sale either.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Sat at home wearing my new ski boots in and watching "steep" dvd and trying to work out how I can squeeze in an extra ski trip this coming winter.
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Certainly was over yesterday in Tignes
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Big mother f****r of a spider in my bath this morning - that to me is a sign that Autumn is upon us...... as if the grey damp cold weather today isn't hint enough!
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Just back from Morzine and although fabulous......that's it...summer hols out of the way....here comes winter!!!!!!!!
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We had the fire going the other night, but you can smell the difference in some evenings now, quite autumnal, and they are getting cooler.
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| The peak of the Northern Hemisphere Summer will be Thurs 12th Aug. After that date, the top half of the world starts to cool down. |
I reckon the process started here around the start of July. Weeks of Sunshine and then rain for my first bike track day in years.
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I was back up in Aberdeen for a retake the other day, it's actually getting dark at night up there now which is always a good sign!
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