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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Do they have a test track?
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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?
Yes, the wallabies have various trees and climbing frames.

Oh, the ski lifts! Sorry, Alan. I don't remember seeing the test facilities, but I do recall that at that time there was considerable concern about the clamps on detachable chairlifts (which are now substantial pieces of fail-safe engineering). There had been failures on a number of lifts before my visit, with chairs slipping down cables, though I can't remember which makes were involved.

What I do recall was an astonishing video Doppelmayr showed me of a quad chairlift (empty) in a violent storm, where the chairs seemed to be spinning around the cable - they were either doing that or the entire cable and clamped chairs were spinning.

Scotland is a good 'test track' for chairlifts, and lifts in general. The gondola installation on Nevis Range (built by Doppelmayr) had a cabin blown off the cable just after it opened, and the quad chairlift up there was blown off its pylons not long after that.

On Cairngorm they used to lash the White Lady chairlift cables with extra cables to ground anchors to stop them blowing off.
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Hmm, maybe skins and touring bindings aren't such a bad idea after all.
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Actually, the risk of being killed on a mountain is probably 50 times greater going down it than going up it. I've probably raised an unwarranted scare about ski lift safety - when you think about it, the engineering and safety is impressive, bearing in mind the very harsh operating environment. I've a feeling the extraordinary gondola incident on Nevis Range happened before the lift opened to the public - it was certainly empty!
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an enclosure of these charming Australian marsupials

In Garmisch there's a big American army recreational base.
I knew a British ski instructor who taught skiing to the GI's in the Winter and did white water rafting trips with them in the Summer. He told me that one of these trips took them down a river into Austria and that almost every time he announced their crossing of the border, at least one of the soldiers would begin looking around in the hope of seeing a kangaroo rolling eyes

So it appears they weren't as far away as he thought!
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David Goldsmith, I'm sure that it's much more than fifty time greater. Probably of the order of a couple of thousand, I would have thought.
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