 Poster: A snowHead
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Features a piece on "learning to ski in August"
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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watching it now I would have missed it if you hadn't put this up. 
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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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IncogSkiSno, Watching it now 
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Oh b*gger, missed it. 
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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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Nice to catch a glimpse of Les Deux Alpes.
Didn't see Easiski though
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| erica2004 wrote: |
| Oh b*gger, missed it. |
You'll have to learn to ski in September, then
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Missed it then 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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damn, missed it, was out cycling with friend
but i already know how to ski!
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I'm not going to say anything, for fear of being hospitalised.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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mark_s, ?????
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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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Renry Many thanks for that link.
I had the forms from the Post Office for ages but never got round to completing them.
Much easier to do it on line.
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You know it makes sense.
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Hywel, no thats cobblers! It takes about 25 minutes on the Jandri gondola, although for some reason you have to get out halfway and then get back into another car, even though the lift is capable of taking you all the way to the top. I think its something to do with them wanting you to patronise the restaurant at the mid station, but seeing as thats closed in summer it seems rather pointless. The Jandri spits you out at the foot of the glacier, and you can then either t-bar it up to the top or theres an underground railway through the bedrock to the same point. Full marks for exposing easiski's pricing strategy
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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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Easiski does not charge for the journey up to the glacier, or for the time it takes to acclimatise over the coffee at the top.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| easiski wrote: |
| No, I find that journalists never do any research |
Really?
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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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Is this prog repeated?
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David Goldsmith, If they did research then they would find the smaller operators in places where they're doing articles/progs etc. They never do - they only mention companies who offer freebies and write to them saying so. Sorry - that doesn't sound like proper research to me. If a programme airs and says it takes 3x as long as it really does to get to the glacier, where's the research? If they say it costs €60 to get there, then where's their research on that. I'm fed up with constantly hearing false statements by journalists who purport to be serious, and therefore could be expected to do some research and print/show actual facts as they are, and not fantasies shown as fact.
Helen Beaumont, It sounds to me as though they were charged from a meeting point at the bottom of the jandri Express - jeremy did say that they needed 3 instructors (why?). So maybe that's what the cost was. I missed the programme sadly, and how they came up with 1.5 hours to get to the top I don't know. Cheeky bu**ers.
Hywel, The daily liftpass this summer was €30 or €24 (after 09.30) per adult. that's all anyone should have to pay.
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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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I kid you not, they called me and my friend up last night to ask to follow us round Ibiza!
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easiski, OK I'll accept that the typical travel hack does little research and I agree - having observed it at first hand - that the freebie culture renders much travel journalism to the level of a joke ... but ... there are travel writers out there (Adam Ruck is a good example in skiing) who really do search things out and present readers with original insights.
I know your view is widely held, though, and it's mainly the result of editors and publishers wanting to fill space between adverts ... treating their readers (or in this case, TV viewers) as idiots.
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