 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Brilliant. Some nice looking Atomic GS (?) planks there to compound the embarrassment.
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Poor sod  . It always amazes me that those nets hold - mind you I'm glad they seem to. I recall riding the big cable car to the top of a VT peak once and we saw someone that had come to grief over the edge of a red run with a somewhat sheer looking drop below him. I think the lift attendant called to get them some assistance, but I sure didn't envy their position with just the net between them and oblivion!
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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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lol... reminds me of when I saw "a man in red" fall over on a Piste..... pretty impressive as he managed to get back up and dust himself off before his class saw him..... later that day he saw me and flagged me down and made me an offer "If I told noone then he'd give me a free 121 hour!!
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Nets are for wimps - real men ski into wooden fences 
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my 5 year old nephew mowed down a "man in red" once, as he was standing in front of a line of suitably impressed and well behaved pupils. My sister skied in the other direction and pretending she didn't know him (the 5 year old, that is).
I did once see a whole little gaggle of men in red, on Mont Chery in Les Gets, laugh fit to bust at one of their number who had been collecting slalom poles and skiing down with them, in the nonchalant way they have. But he tripped and fell with the lot - it was like the beginning of a game of Pik a Stiks.
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I was in a group in Chamonix following a very experienced mountain guide who fell. Very funny.
Especially as it was just a warm-up run on a blue piste in La Tour.
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I had a private lesson with a high profile verbier based coach a few years back. We headed straight up to the top of Mont Fort on to skier's right. He missed his first turn and did half the slope on his butt. It doesn't matter how good a skier you are, you still look a pecker when you fall and are flailing around helplessly trying to stop. I skied down to him to see if he was ok. I still can't believe I never hammered him about it he caught me on a good day!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I've fallen over once in front of clients (and livetoski IIRC). There was also a BASI course running at the same time so a couple of Trainers saw it as well.. If you're going to do it, do it properly is my motto 
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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A couple of weeks ago in Avoriaz, I witnessed the Ski Club of GB rep try to take a short cut to one of the bars and hadn't spotted that there was no snow cover - sudden grind to a halt - look of realisation - and then head over heels front flip before crashing a few feet below.
I don't know the guy's name but he was skiing with a female rep. Until I realised it was a SCGB rep, I was trying so hard to suffocate my guffaws into my neck buff but let rip as soon as I saw the jacket!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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curry-queen, So good to know you can rely on SCGB guides to be really well up on the local conditions.
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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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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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pam w, Quite! He even had his shovel and probe attached to the back of his rucksack!
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skimottaret, Saw a classic today in Courmayeur - Interski instructor comes barreling through the (empty) lift line at Pra Neyron, just manages to squeeze through the gates as they shut, then lost it onto the moving carpet... He took the round of applause from my clients very well... 
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offpisteskiing, that... i'd have liked to see
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offpisteskiing, the standard of skiing of the Interski instructors seemed quite "variable" some quite handy with L4 tech passes and a few very average skiers...
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year before last in rosiere
instructor with a bunch of kids , who i passed were all a bit upset because they were falling ( first week very young kids - so they were all falling over Except the instructor)
30 seconds later instructor passses and does a very contrived & controlled fall, gets up and skis down a bit more, only to repeat the performance a bit further down
kids all start to follow ( a lot happer now ) - as i passed him i congratulated him on his Noble performance for the kids as it showed them that everyone falls sometime
it was then he admitted that he only planned to fall once !!
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Out with a Scottish instructor at Keystone a few weeks ago, I was thinking how well he was skiing the fresh powder on his short & narrow SL skis just before he buried both tips into a snow drift and double ejected into a face plant.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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MEfree30, As long as he was not part of the attempt to have the most kilts skiing at one time, it was not as bad as it could have been...
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