 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi Everybody
This is my first post!! Wowee!
A question for you all: I am a member of SCGB, but I am getting increasingly irritated by them...it all seems to be an excuse to sell Freshtracks holidays, and the magazine is next to useless because the resort articles are all 'advertorials'...they are therefore all written by a fan of the resort or even by the resort itself, so it is biased tosh and isn't worth reading.
The end result is that I'm only a member because they seem to have the best insurance deal - I want to ski for up to 12 weeks, go off-piste without a guide etc...
Am I alone with my negative views?
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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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I was a member for a year via membership was actualy a competition prize, however all the so called discont deals i ended up better discounts via other websites, with the exception of our transfer we booked. All in all though i just didnt get enough from it to warrant paying for it when it came to renewal time so I didnt
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ibendzeeknees, welcome to snowHeads
as NBT points out - sH arises out of the SCGB forum - when non-members were booted off in a badly mishandled move - although there were some interesting and very specific legal reasons why this needed to be done... but bygones...
I'm a snowHead and a SCGB member and for the last 10 years have skied with freshtracks each year, and for the last 5 years with snowHeads also. And family in between times. And there is a lot of SCGB and sH overlap... I know about sH from chatting with Achilles on a SCGB holiday,
So:
SCGB
The Magazine totally sucks - compare to fall line or Powder and no wonder it sells almost nothing on news-stands... The content is skewed towards advertorial, Arnie's heli-skiing and rather lame reviews. There are some gems - eg Andreas Hofer, but generally it sucks...
The website has got worse and become "modern" but hard to navigate
The forum is well hidden, seems unimportant to the club, and very very quiet... even compared with 4 or 5 years ago
BUT - reps can be brilliant, I've been on some great holidays to places like Fernie, La Grave and Engelberg with Freshtracks, and the insurance is good value, and the discounts are ok.
snowHeads
Has a great forum, but the chatty bit is getting quieter. Is developing holidays more, but still not offering as much range of gnarl as Freshtracks can. The snowHeads insurance is embryonic and looks costly for what I want to do.
I have made friends from both. Both have their pros and cons.
Please hang around - the single-issue SCGB bashing days are over here. And feel free to give some dosh to snowHeads
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