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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Oh - liked that. Thanks.
We didn't manage to get all the way aorund when were were there the other week due to high winds, but recognised most of these pistes from the bits we did do.
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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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albob, lovely video, definitely not this year as there is a new lift up towards Campitello this year and the video shows the old one. (I am not a lift-nerd, it's just that it is a vast improvement - the start is lower so no uphill skiing and also no rather dangerous corssing of the piste).
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there is a new lift up towards Campitello this year
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oh?
will watch teh vids later (not doing yuotube from work).
quite a few MTB sella ronda tours on there too (similar, but slightly different routes), and some 3D goggle earth view over-flight vids.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Gnarlies might scoff at the 'motorways' but the beauty of those mountains is hard to beat. Just gorgeous, I can't wait to go back there. According to my photographic record, I last did the Sella Ronda 33 years ago!  In fact that's the only time I've skied in the Dolomites, though I've hiked there quite a bit. I stayed in Canazei and remember that the first uplift of the day was up the old Campitello chair: I was so cold by the time I got to the top, that I was often forced to consume a large grappa before 1000am - not my normal hour to start drinking!
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| Pedantica wrote: |
| Gnarlies might scoff at the 'motorways' but the beauty of those mountains is hard to beat. |
We found it very dull indeed, and are not 'gnarlies'. Certainly stunning, but not even a mogul in the entire Dolomites, just miles of gently sloping pistes with no need ever to make a turn, some of the pistes actually going UP hill requiring loads of pole use. Very sadly we're not rushing to go back.
Not a place I'd imagine anybody goes for the skiing; for the skiing holiday, maybe.
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James the Last, you may not be a gnarly, but you're a champion scoffer.
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| just miles of gently sloping pistes with no need ever to make a turn |
That's simply wrong.
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but not even a mogul in the entire Dolomites
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Quite a claim for an area of 1200Km of piste.
I am sure I saw one or two...
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albob, Chris Bish, 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Chris Bish wrote: |
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but not even a mogul in the entire Dolomites
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Quite a claim for an area of 1200Km of piste.
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Isn't that the point though? Moguls are man-made. The Dolomites are famously uncrowded thanks to their 12,000km of pistes. The pisteurs are famously diligent (given how little snow they had to play with, no surprise). Therefore there won't be (many) moguls?
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| just miles of gently sloping pistes with no need ever to make a turn |
That's simply wrong. |
That's absolutely correct. Lots of pistes with very, very long run-outs back to the bottom.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Well I think it looks most enjoyable. I don't feel my life is incomplete without moguls.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I enjoyed my recent Dolomite trip. I was disappointed that there wasn't any testing terrain or new snow but it was great to do big, sweeping turns and pretend to be a ski racer. We had competitions to see who could do the least turns on a particular slope. The area is incredibly scenic and the runs incredibly long. What's wrong with that? I did find moguls. Moguls are created by tentative skiers sliding, don't you think?
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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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The moguls I found (at Arabba and alta Badia) were on the blacks just off the circuit - I thought it was quite a challenge to do as many as possible all the way round - could includes two world cup blacks in one day. I am gnarly. Having said that I would say the sella ronda area is just different from anywhere else and very special
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