 Poster: A snowHead
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ex-bbc.
Most of the 14 major mountains, including Everest (Davo Karnicar) in 2000, have been completed, extreme skiing site wildsnow.com suggests. But K2, Makalu and Kangchenjunga, in the Himalayas, remain un-skied or un-skiable from the summit.
I'd never heard of it. Site seems slow.
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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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Wild Snow is an excellent resource particularly for off-piste stuff but it does on-piste too.
Can tend towards gear freakery but always seems to have the latest developments in rapidly changing areas like avvy backpacks and the merging of downhill and touring boot technology with good understandable and helpful reviews. Well written. And the owner/editor/legend Lou cheerfully acknowledges that people actually ski outside the US and some of them are pretty good at it too. He even regularly visits Yuurp on gear fact finding missions.
In contrast to the testosterone-fizzing, superhuman and exclusive gnarly world of TGR where everyone hucks 50 foot cliffs in their Stars n Stripes Y-fronts before breakfast while changing binding positions with their teeth in mid-air ...or so they say...Dude...incomprehensible at times
Luckily we have the warm, fuzzy, all-encompassing world of snowHeads which gives you all of the above plus, in its proper common sense British way, the best spag bol recipe to feed a chalet of 20, how to make a decent cup of tea and endless helmet threads. And bashes, don't forget the bashes!
Anybody recommend any other handy snowsliding sites?
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Luckily we have the warm, fuzzy, all-encompassing world of snowHeads which gives you all of the above plus, in its proper common sense British way, the best spag bol recipe to feed a chalet of 20, how to make a decent cup of tea and endless helmet threads. And bashes, don't forget the bashes!
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Don't forget the ever important season weather thread, the endless Winter tyre threads and the reason I found snowheads...... The how to boil an egg in the mountains thread....
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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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Wildsnow pops up quite often in search results if you're hunting for information on AT gear, but I guess there's not much reason to have heard of them if that's not your cup of tea.
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wildsnow should be in your favourites bar if you are into touring/backcountry... lots of good info comes up there. As for site speed it loads way faster than snowheads for me!
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offpisteskiing, Don't need it in my favourites bar - it comes up as I start typing "wil..." 
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I stumbled across wildsnow and it was extremely useful for touring gear which can be a real minefield for newbies like me..
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