 Poster: A snowHead
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A great piece of nostalgia for fans of Cairngorm... http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=2949
(For those following the Skiing Europe thread, it features Weekend Ski Club busses... run by the infamous Chris Reynard no less)
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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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Great footage...thanks for posting that. 
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cathy, It was pretty much the same when I started going there in 1980
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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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| cathy wrote: |
Now did I see in DG in one of those shots?  |
No, but he did used to use that Weekend Ski Club bus that left Hendon Central Station on a friday night. There are a couple I recogniose - at 03:45 there's a youthful looking Hans Kuwall (one of the founders of BASI) and, in the red with beard, John Shedden who ran English Ski Council for years. Nice to see the Shieling hut with waitress service (before it burned down mysteriously in 1985). The Woodshed Bar looks just the same as it does today from the outside. And yes, never complain about your equipment again.
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Dangerous material to have posted on the web disgusting to see public transport running on snow covered roads, Only a single helmet in the entire film, not a beginners snowplough in sight, not to mention spending a day on the hill in only a wooly jumper and twill pants
What is worse is to see a public body spending money to actively promote the ski area to a clearly southern audience.
Fantastic film Bode Swiller, thanks for posting
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A couple of years before we started, but by 'eck it brings it all back...
Thanks Bode Swiller, excellent stuff.
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| kevindonkleywood wrote: |
| What is worse is to see a public body spending money to actively promote the ski area to a clearly southern audience. |
Good point! Why on earth don't they do this kind of promotion now, joined up with 'package' deals of sleeper train & lift pass 
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Some seriously "bad" memories there - I went to Aviemore for the first time around about then, quite a few vaguely (through the mists of time) familiar faces.
worst memories - the boots and the lack of real comfortable bad weather protection - those cags were a death-trap! 
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| cathy wrote: |
| Good point! Why on earth don't they do this kind of promotion now, joined up with 'package' deals of sleeper train & lift pass |
They don't even have to go so far as package deals. I'd settle for return train fare from London to Scotland that is cheaper than return business class air fare on Swiss from London to Geneva!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Brilliant stuff and not a Subaru in sight - how on earth did they do it?
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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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sunnbuel, renaullt 12 estate it went anywhere hand painted aswell by my dads fair hands,Samerberg Sue, cags and itchy knitted jumpers and nylon ski pants just turned you into a big ITCH I dont think i ever had a day skiing as a kid with anything dry in Scotland,best days of my life I reckon me and my brother flying around
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Bode Swiller, good name-checks; it is also possible to spot Dieter Bartsch in that film.
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You know it makes sense.
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And weirdly some footage of a military (brass) band marching up and down an ice rink, whilst the music being played on the soundtrack is "The Black Bear" - a rousing pipe march, with the interspersed stamp 'n' shout of a battalion of Jocks.
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