 Poster: A snowHead
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I go skiing a few times a year and I'm worried that I don't have enough to worry about. Sometimes I don't even book accommodation or a hire car until the week before or even take a punt and rock up somewhere and get accommodation on spec. Sometime I get up in the morning and don't even know where I'm going to ski let alone preview runs on youtube.
Should I worry more? What would you advise I should work on first in my worrying technique?
Weather conditions 30+ days out? What skis to take? Whether I can take my boots in handluggage? What the exchange rate will be? Do I wax my skis for warm or cold temps? What edge bevel to use? Whether my budgie smugglers are skimpy enough to pass muster in the municipal pool?
Any hints and tips appreciated.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Tue 28-02-12 23:40; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Whether it will be cold enough to freeze your ski lock and if you don't have one whether to buy one or not.
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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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Whether you should carry your helmet in your hand luggage or hold baggage - should you wear a helmet or not
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whether or not to visit a therapist? 
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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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Whether to have a laminated checklist of things to worry about!
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ooh i like the laminated checklist, but what if you forget to laminate it? or there is a fire or a big gust of wind?
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kioksor, Laminated paper weight?.
fatbob, Gold.......... Love it!!
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Whether to have a laminated checklist of things to worry about!
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Count the thumb pins into little piles of the same colour, do you want to score will you remember to throw them away before you get home?
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| fatbob wrote: |
| Whether my budgie smugglers are skimpy enough to pass muster in the municipal pool. |
I'd like to suggest a solution to this one. Ditch the pool. Stick to saunas and travel to Austria - no need to even worry about whether you've packed the budgie smugglers at all, let alone how skimpy they are. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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fatbob,
After reading your post... I worry about you 
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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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could also worry if your bum looks big in your ski gear or if its totally last years style!
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i worry that i dont know enough about weather charts and what the difference is between high and low pressure. Also, why does the high pressure stay over the western alps and not let the cold front come. Why is it drier in the eastern alps?
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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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You must start worrying that you won't be able to buy food/snowchains/lift passes 30 days before you leave, and also whether any lifts will be shut due to bad weather. It happens you know!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Should I worry that the Eosb wont happen and I'll have to spend a week in snowless Morzine instead
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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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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Should I worry that they'll have put the shovels away by then ?
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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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PS Admin, thank you for the updated snowMedia Zone functions
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Shimmy Alcott, Very nice now go and ski on it!!
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fatbob, All of what you say is the snowHead's Very Lonely Burden. It must be carried (wo)manfully in stoic silence with broad shoulders and a quiet, sly grin across the Flatlands of the Everyday.
Your reward for bearing this heavy weight throughout your life is the ability to travel at speed under your own power across a rapidly changing terrain while buried up to your bllx in deep white powder under a clear blue sky. You are therefore blessed.
Embrace your Inner Worrier. What you really need to worry about is that skiing may NOT be the Meaning of Life.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Whether you have the right phone app to show you the right runs and tell you how fast you skied them, then worry that you're not skiing fast enough
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Should I worry that I stop for lunch instead of having a bag of rabbit hutch sweepings on the lift ?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Should I worry about starting a new thread about helmets?
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You know it makes sense.
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Michelle, ah, well you learn something new every day.
Thanks Yoda 
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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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zellmaniac, I think I could wear it, another thread on unnecessary fashion items providing an income stream for manufacturers.
On a safety theme more people are breaking sternums these days and a friend just happens to make a protector used by our F1 drivers that could be worn with the other entire kit, armadillo, wrist and ankle wraps, knee protectors or was that a carpet fitter.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Buy the Daily Mail and quit worrying about yourself.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Will I get snow tyres at Munich/Salzburg?Geneva
Should I hire car on Swiss or French side at GVA
Have I accidentally booked to drive to the Hoff on a race weekend and doomed myself to 6 hgours of motorway hell
Will the Austrian polis spot that I have no snow tyres/vignette
Will the waitresses in the Schneekar Hutte be better looking/worse looking than last month/year/decade
Would DIY/TO have been cheaper
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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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Cynic,
You always should think about protection - condoms anyone?
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The only thing you have to fear is fear itself... and those spiders that lay eggs in your brain... Oh dear God! FEAR THEM! FEAR THEM!
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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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You'll need to Register first of course.
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I've never worried about a ski trip.
Now i'm worried I've been missing something!!
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Mosha Marc, after some of the stuff in the Chalet hosts blogs, you should probably worry about what your toothbrush has been up to while you've been on the mountain - particularly if you've been a PITA to the chalet staff.
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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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I'd be worried about whether your insurance actually covers you to ski between those two pistes 
That is of course once you are done worrying about whether you are actually defining it as 'off piste' and whether your analogue transceiver and lack of airbag heightens the chance of you dying on your drive to the slopes.
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