 Poster: A snowHead
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Chateau d'Oeux, aged 12, with the most glorious English ski instructor, Seb. Lots of side-stepping, lots of white-outs and my first ever ciggie! We were there during the balloon festival, stayed in an authentic Swiss chalet, a truely magical experience and I was hooked!
Managed to barter my poor parents into a second trip the following year, to Madonna di Campiglio, and then years of deprivation! Skint student days, many distractions and, horror of horrors, I almost forgot the joys of skiing!!! Thankfully a work colleague pestered me into going again in 2000 and it all came back to me. So here I find myself, a total addict.....worse than any drug this is!!! ( and almost as expensive) 
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Fri 12-03-04 0:40; 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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The first time? Heck, I can't remember not having skis. Old photos reveal a 4y/o bundle of woolen clothes on skis. Then years of pottering, trips, touring, climbing, only a couple days of formal instruction before this century.
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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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1995-Flaine, awful weather, rain,thunder,hail sleet, and loads of new snow. Most of resort closed, but not the nursery sl;opes, son no excuse for us. Then on Friday, a glorious day, skied all the way down the Serpentine in the aftermoon, vin chaud halfway down(?) the day dreams are made of. Permanently hooked .   
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Champery 1962 before it was linked up with Portes du Soleil. Didn't ski again until 1988, got hooked, two weeks a year since.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Piancavallo, late 70's, School trip. Outside the hotel flat "car park" put skis on travelled at what seemed speed of sound (bearing in mind it was a flat garden) did not know how I was going to stop, fell down and felt that I should wait til the morning and have proper instruction.
I will never forget my first view of the nursery slopes. I honestly thought it was the olympic downhill course. It is amazing how quickly you take to those "Downhill runs"
Loved that holiday and every one since including the one with the broken leg!!
Keep on skiing
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17 (a long time ago) to Formigal, £25.00 all in including lift pass.
We got diverted to Barcelona and had a 10 hour wait for the coach.
As all 17 year olds do we decided to drink the two bottles of Johny Walker we had bought as duty free.
After a 10 hour coach journey to Formigal I still can't drink whisky and we must have been the only teenagers ever to go to Spain and have an alchohol free week (I have made up for it since).
We actualy hired ski -bobs (the bikes with skis instead of wheels) so I didn't even get to ski properly.
As I didn't start skiing until 5 years ago all I can say is what a waste.
Stephen.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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First trip was Les Orres, December 2000. Hooked from day 1. Have just been back there & it's amazing how less steep all those runs look now!! 
I managed to blag my way into the "1 week skiing advanced beginner" group in Ski school after a day of intensive lessons at Tamworth.
Hubby, who has been skiing since he was 11, is most put out that he now gets much less rest as he waits for me to catch up!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Jan 96, Oulu, Finland
I was there as an exchange student. Headed off to the nearest slope (3hrs) with some Canadian friends.
Less than appropriately dressed, jeans and a woolly duffel coat for -25 C and windchill, I was escorted to the top of top of a green slope.
It took more than an hour to come down the first time. (put on skiing, slide slowly across slope into loose snow at the side, fall over, get up, put back on skis now facing opposite direction and repeat numerous times).
When I finished at end of day and changed clothes, my jeans froze so stiff that you could stand them up, and my woolly coat was white. Off to sauna and a roll in the snow for the aching bones. Undeterred, I skied another ten weekends that year.
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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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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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I was 15- school ski trip to Serre Chevalier in 1998. Loads of snow- gorgeous instructor who got taken off us to be replaced by a butch lesbian type who hated us and wanted to see us suffer. Apres Ski was good though, managed to persuade teachers to let us go to the Creperie- SUCKERS- straight down the pub, on the last night the hotel staff were drafted in to hunt us down and get everyone onboard the coach at 3am- remember being found on a roof half cut with an instructor, 34 very poorly young ladies on the coach transfer back to Lyon. Got me hooked!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Well that explains a lot 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes- I blame the parents
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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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| Nadenoodlee wrote: |
| remember being found on a roof half cut with an instructor |
Extreme off piste on your first trip - impressive 
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Yeah - bloody good week! Had to have a week off school to recover! But luckily they never told my mum
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Did it ever occur to you that possibly some of your school chums were caught in a more compromising location ?
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I doubt it- most of them thought looking at boys couldve got you pregnant! ah the merits of a catholic education
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FAQ
Didn't find out till the next day what he meant. Then two days in a 
), I gave in. (I always thought it looked dangerous and yet, as he pointed out, I was quite happy to throw myself over fences on a 17 hand horse!).
