 Poster: A snowHead
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powder or maybe spring snow................
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You really have to ask? Puhlease...
Although, perfect spring snow vs perfect powder?
Nah, still no question.
Powder is better than s*x.
Well, average s*x anyway...
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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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Although I took my GF snowboarding in Hintertux in October, there was no powder to be had, so direct scientific comparison between sex and powder was not possible. Hopefully this winter will be different. Not keen on anyone peer-reviewing my findings though!
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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 ski 90% off-piste (of the other 8% half is to get to the off-piste or get back from it and 2% is when the ruts and sastrugi and really bad breakable crust get too much for me).
I actually rather like heavy porridge (I know it's perverse) and breakable crust is OK if it breaks easily (but if it holds you up sometimes and you break through only on turns it is just hard work).
But making the first tracks in powder - that's the ultimate.
"Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality." -- Dolores LaChapelle
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But you do get different grades of powder. My fave is "elevator snow" - so deep and fluffy that when you go over a drop it just falls along with you cushioning your descent.
Marvellous.
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I also ski about 90% off piste (I find that skiing on-piste just messes up my knees and my back these days). I also only use the piste to get to the next piece of off-piste.
I too like heavy porridge, though I've never quite come to love breakable crust.
I love laying down tracks when you have a couple of cm of 'firn' on top of a frozen base
But powder is simply the best.
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If the snow is good, then it's got to be off-piste and if you're the first person/group that's as good as it gets. Working trails through trees is a bit special.
However, I also like moguls, which tends to mean piste and carving nice, big, high speed arcs, which definitely means piste.
Twang . . . oops, I appear to have hit a fence.
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I once did a first-aid course and we were shown a picture of someone who did that in Scotland, He most have taken a little air and impaled himself on one of those fence posts along the edge of the piste. There he was with about 2" diameter log sticking out of his belly. Ok, we were asked, what would you do about that!
PS I didn't go so far as to say I LIKED breakable crust (unless it is just a light crust you can smash through without effort - just a bit of speed and confidence).
Yes, trees are fun.
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In good conditions there is no choice but if you spend a lot of time off-piste you will find some hideous snow and then a day cruising
the resort will be a good idea.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Stop the Brutal Grooming 
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