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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'd be even more impressed if they weren't all so in the back seat.
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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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Masque, One foot in La Grave. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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PJSki, who gives a fcuk if they are in the back seat????? They are out in the mountains having fun and not vegetating at home in front of the telly with a cup of cocoa and a pair of fluffy slippers
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| kooky wrote: |
| PJSki, who gives a fcuk if they are in the back seat????? |
I give a feck. By simply lifting their hands up and pushing them further forward they would be more controlled and efficient. Nothing half a day with an instructor couldn't sort out.
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PJSki, They seemed to have survived this long with that technique who are we to say it is wrong!
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| Fattes13 wrote: |
| PJSki, They seemed to have survived this long with that technique who are we to say it is wrong! |
Well it is wrong and that's all there is to it. So what if they're in their seventies, they can still improve.
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Tue 22-02-11 10:13; edited 1 time in total
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Quite an inspiration really. Not so sure I'd be keen being driven around by a guy wearing ski boots, though.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Fattes13, skied with Mick from Kiltiernan before christmas, he must be older than those featured! Mrs. RH was impressed! Not an easy thing to do is impress Mrs RH on the slope!
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PJSki,
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I give a feck. By simply lifting their hands up and pushing them further forward they would be more controlled and efficient. Nothing half a day with an instructor couldn't sort out.
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Gee it must be hard being as perfect as you, mind you, if you care enough to give a feck about how some random pensioners the other side of the world ski, then you must be a truly caring indivdual
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| kooky wrote: |
PJSki,
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I give a feck. By simply lifting their hands up and pushing them further forward they would be more controlled and efficient. Nothing half a day with an instructor couldn't sort out.
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Gee it must be hard being as perfect as you, mind you, if you care enough to give a feck about how some random pensioners the other side of the world ski, then you must be a truly caring indivdual |
I don't see why you're getting all upset. All I did was say they are too much in the back seat and that they would be much better off if they moved forward. Hardly a crime to comment on someone's skiing in a youtube video, even if they are in they seventies.
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You know it makes sense.
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If I'm still on a mountain with my mates, skiing powder in my 70s I'll be very happy indeed. Feck the style, good on them.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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PJSki,
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I don't see why you're getting all upset
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you don´t want to see me when I am getting all upset.
I just fail to see why you can´t just appreciate why some people have to do everything perfectly for it to be acceptable, they are out having a great time , why the snidey comment?
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Poster: A snowHead
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PJSki,
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I don't see why you're getting all upset
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you don´t want to see me when I am getting all upset. |
Feck off. 
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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?
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The above bitching-fest has distracted you all from a perfectly good joke by geepee...
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Jamster, I laughed
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Very inspirational 
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Jamster, not quite a flower left to blush unseen, though, was it?
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achilles, when you're working to my standards, most things are an improvement...
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I'm surprised no-one's also seen fit to criticise them for skiing what are technically backcountry lines* without conspicuous shovel & probe etc.
 , let alone riding unsecured in the back of a pick up.
(I also assume that they know the terrain and avy traps of the backside at WH20 very well indeed and therefore are skiing within acceptable safety margins). Total stars and not atypical in the BC interior, some very good "OAP coffee clubs" laying tracks out there.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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I learnt at 65, never looked back, just wish I had done it sooner.
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Fattes13, Thanks so much for that link. As feel-good moments go, that gave me a great one. And geepee, thanks for that neat joke. Wish I had thought of it first.
By the way, a member of the Scottish Ski Club gave up skiing a little while ago - in his 90th year.
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You know it makes sense.
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That is really impressive rayC!
How long have you been skiing now?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Handbags at Dawn girls! Is life really this serious for some of you people? It was just simply fun....technique and health safety obsessives chill out...off piste is officially dangerous but that's part of the point
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Poster: A snowHead
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As someone who wishes they had taken up skiing earlier in life that really is great to see, . Maybe their technique isn't textbook but they look to be getting down just fine and having fun, which I think for most of us is the point!
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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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There really are some conceited ladies' front bottoms on this forum. They are just some wrinklies having fun and enjoying the powder. They are an inspiartion to us all, just enjoy PJSki. I skied with a guide this year who had his feet bolted together, not my idea of style but he was 20 times the skier I ever will be and he represented France in two Olympics. Old school/New school/cookery school/School of hard knocks - who gives a  poo-poo. skiing is about enjoyment on a personal level, it's for the young and old and everyone in between.
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Morrissey, Well said! Have fun and enjoy! Life is toooo short
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Fattes13, fabulous! Thanks for posting.
PJSki, killjoy.
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I just gave away a nine-day pass to a 77-year-old.
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one of the best things I saw last season was a masters race here in Salzburg, old guy 82years old in full race gear still enjoying his racing! what an inspiration!
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There's a company which used to be called "Over the Hill" but is now called something else I think, which specialises in holidays for the older skier. I met some people on one of their trips, in early February. One guy was over 80 - he was "taking it easy" following an accident when he fell off a step ladder last summer, trimming some creepers or something, at his house in France. He looked very fit, tanned, enjoying it all very much. Gives you hope.....
One of my friends, on the other hand, sent me a sad email yesterday about an ex-colleague she'd visited in hospital, after a severe stroke. She was 69.
So we need to get out there and enjoy when we can. Never know what's round the corner. I do admire somebody skiing after knee replacements - that takes some guts.
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I took a strange delight when my granddaughter asked her mum what these things were in the hall and I heard her mum answer, "These are Grampa's skis."
A bit daft perhaps, but it made me feel good. 
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pam w, amen to that - and of course it applies to so much more than skiing
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
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