 Poster: A snowHead
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Voice of Treason
A declaration of members interests would be no bad thing, indeed in any thread where their recommendation might sway an unknowing posters opinion.
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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 take lessons > I ski better > I enjoy my holidays more. There's less pain and effort involved and more of the mountain open to me. Seems perfectly logical to me. (My aspirations to be what Voice of Treason refers to as a "Miller man" are nil.)
As for 'members' interests', my strong impression is that there are quite a few snowHead intructors and other winter sports professionals, who have done considerably more for snowHeads than they have taken from snowHeads, and have certainly made a more useful contribution than those who have nothing better to do than make unwarranted accusations of bias or unauthorised pimping.
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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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Just though I'd add in what we're doing as no one else seems to have said it! There are four of us in our household and we're all at various beginner/intermediate levels - we're all having lessons/classes at our local dryslope (the instructors there are ace and the prices are very reasonable) so that when we go away next year we won't have lessons but can all stay together or in pairs and just have fun!
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cloudy day, absolutely. I've got a couple of weeks booked during which I have not the slightest intention of taking any lessons. Instead, I shall as usual be perfecting my bad habits.  Nobody's suggesting that ski holidays be exclusively devoted to lessons.
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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'm kind of torn, although the idea of spending a week doing what I want sounds great, in truth I'm probably not up to a good enough standard to fully enjoy it yet. But to a certain extent it depends what resort I end up at. If I go to somewhere like Niederau, like I am doing in January, the skiing is fairly limited and jumps up quite quickly, so for a very very early intermediate like myself, going it alone, I would probably end up in a pile at the bottom of the slope - which isn't going to be much of a confidence boost haha .. although saying that, being in lessons the result is likely to be the same ... just with better technique 
Does anyone have any recommendations for resorts with a wide variety of runs with a good mix of blues and reds? I have been looking a Tignes as this seems to have a good variety, although compared to Niederau, I think anything does haha
Al 
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