Wow, Ski Club of Great Britain have re-launched their chat forum and it looks good. Simple sign-up, you don't need to become a member plus they seem to have introduced profiles as well. Well this will be fun, who's going to jump ship and start using the Tea Club forum then?
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In fact they have re-done their homepage and navigation, looks a lot more club focused and big drive for personal profiling.
I like it!
Welcome, also, to page 120. It's as useful as a '120 page A4 spiral notebook' ... but there's more in it!
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
The idjuts seem to have updated their website - and you have to redo your password - another ****** password. DO people like this want members or are they there just to annoy their existing members. whilst this sh website will never remember me at least when I put in the first letter of my user name the whole of the rest comes up.
Why is technology which should be so simple so stressful - it should be our servant not our slave.
Hopefully some SCGB wallah will read my whinge and put a boot in the right place in their IT department.
After all it is free
After all it is free
countryman wrote:
Hopefully some SCGB wallah will read my whinge ....
Not quite sure what a SCGB wallah looks like, but as it's sometimes been referred to as the Tea Club I wonder whether a char wallah will do....
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Rosey44 - you have now had your introduction to Mr David Goldsmith. If, with all the upheaval at the Club, it has been forgotten, please ensure that a permanent memo. is put into everyone's induction pack: "On no account should anyone in SCGB engage with this person, nor ever consider accepting a membership application from him" Any online application system must enable the Club to filter him out before he once again claims to have membership rights. It took long enough to get rid of him (several years and talk of legal action). Talk to the Reps e.g. Gerry for more info.
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Still no email with a new password - should I have expected any different. Still I might join the many who cease their membership if that is how they treat me - however I am making allowances at the moment as they are very sadly without a CEO who I am sure would have managed the introduction of a new website properly. I cannot post comments on the SCGB members section as I am locked out!
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
I'm not having a problem logging in but I wish they would pull their finger out and publish which leaders are leading where and the dates. Thought it always used to be done in August but not this year, obviously.
I gather the new website cost a shed load of money but thus far I really can't see why they bothered changing it. It's starting to look like money wasted.
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.
Countryman - your account may have somehow got locked. Just call the membership team on 020 8410 2015 or email members@skiclub.co.uk and they'll sort it out for you very quickly.
esaw1 - Leader details have always been published online in late September. This year will be no different, regardless of whether we have a new website or not.
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
@Rosey44, Thought it was August last year. But thank you for your terse reply!
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
@esaw1, sorry if my reply came across as terse. That was not my intention. However, everything is on schedule to have Leader details online in late Sept - this was the case last year as well. Thanks.
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
I had no problem getting my account sorted, but then I have worked in IT for 30 years (and have a teenage son).
Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
Personal message to Rosey44 ...
Scrumpy wrote:
Rosey44 - you have now had your introduction to Mr David Goldsmith. If, with all the upheaval at the Club, it has been forgotten, please ensure that a permanent memo. is put into everyone's induction pack: "On no account should anyone in SCGB engage with this person, nor ever consider accepting a membership application from him" Any online application system must enable the Club to filter him out before he once again claims to have membership rights. It took long enough to get rid of him (several years and talk of legal action). Talk to the Reps e.g. Gerry for more info.
And my advice to you, Rosey44, is to ignore everything Scrumpy and Gerry have to say about me and make your own fair mind on the basis of what you observe. My membership of the SCGB originates from 1962. My writing and technical editing of its magazine stretched from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s and well beyond, via 6 successive editors of the Club's magazine: Elisabeth Hussey, Tessa Coker, Roland White, Jane Slade, Gill Williams and Arnie Wilson. If I'm such a terrible individual, how come each of these professional editors commissioned and trusted me to write stuff for a period of over 25 years?
I sat directly opposite the SCGB's chairman for lunch at the Houses of Parliament on 17 January 2013 ...
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=2206505
Pleasantries were exchanged across the very expansive dining table. No food was thrown.
I enjoyed a one-hour and extremely pleasant conversation with a senior executive of the SCGB (who's known me for yonks) on the SCGB stand at the London Ski Show in November 2015. This culminated in my rejoining the Club and leaving the stand with a complimentary Ortovox backpack, membership pack and card. I was personally phoned by the SCGB's chief executive the following day.
Unfortunately there is an element (of vocal self-interested individuals) within the Ski Club of Great Britain who do not see the greater good of running the national ski club in the general interests of its members, British skiing and British skiers ... and simply want the status quo of freeeloading and jollies to continue ... until the Club eventually shrinks into nothing more than a snowflake. Check out the demographics and - for god's sake - do want you can. Study the forthcoming 2017 annual report of the SCGB with great objectivity - the clues are there.
Meanwhile, please could we have an update on (a) Who exactly bought the Club's HQ in Wimbledon? 'Caligula Limited' is not an adequate answer! (b) Where is the Club moving to next? (c) What is to become of the SCGB's important library, archives, historical ski collection etc. etc.
Thank you for your care and attention.
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
fu****g pitiful ^^^^
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?
Oh ffs Davina / David - you did not rejoin the Ski Club as your application/ subscription fees were rejected when they realised their mistake.
That is exactly what I was warning Rosey44 against.
And you have never explained why you want to be a member of a Club you despise so much.
And perhaps you were a reasonable person back in your early days of membership. - but no such description could possibly apply to your behaviour and constant criticism over the past 20 years or so that I have been a member!
Oh ffs Davina / David - you did not rejoin the Ski Club as your application/ subscription fees were rejected when they realised their mistake.
That is exactly what I was warning Rosey44 against.
And you have never explained why you want to be a member of a Club you despise so much.
And perhaps you were a reasonable person back in your early days of membership. - but no such description could possibly apply to your behaviour and constant criticism over the past 20 years or so that I have been a member!
I see. For how many of those 20 years have you operated anonymously?
I'm bored with responding to anonymous blobs on this forum. If you want to have a serious discussion about serious things then there's no reason to hide behind anonymity. The Ski Club of Great Britain was not founded by a bunch of people with heads in paper bags.
When is the Ski Club of Great Britain AGM for 2017?
Nominations for new Council/directorship positions are normally invited in August, as I recall - 3 months ahead of the AGM date? It's now 13 September.
David Goldsmith
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
You're bored? What do you think those of us who have listened to your rants for 20 odd years are?
And we have covered my name before - everyone seemed to use a nickname when I joined and so I used an established one. In the last 3 months I have been to events in the U.K. and Austria where 300-400 people know me only as Scrumpy! (- and no, not those weird sex parties in the woods which hit the news so recently!). Some of those I know through skiing too.
As you would not know who I am if I gave you my real name then it really makes no difference anyway. I am an ordinary member and never an employee, rep, or committee member is all that could possibly be relevant to you.
And yes. MEMBERS have been invited to nominate council members. Why would you expect to know about it?
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Scrumpy wrote:
You're bored? What do you think those of us who have listened to your rants for 20 odd years are?
Well your affliction clearly isn't shared by many. There have been nearly 5000 postings to this thread over 5 years, generating over 310,000 views, which amounts to over 60 pairs of eyes reading each contribution. 'The bored' have simply walked away. Others have hung around. It's a free choice.
Scrumpy wrote:
And we have covered my name before - everyone seemed to use a nickname when I joined and so I used an established one.
No we haven't 'covered your name' because you've never had the grace to reveal your name! There's a distinction between deploying anonymity for perfectly legitimate reasons (whistleblowing etc.) and using it to try and damage someone else on a personal level. It ain't acceptable. You're far from alone - millions are at it - hence the current debate and the widespread concern about 'abuse of anonymity':
In the last 3 months I have been to events in the U.K. and Austria where 300-400 people know me only as Scrumpy!
The Anglo-Austrian Cider-making Convention? The European Federation of Freemasons?
So you're saying your nickname 'Scrumpy' is an open secret? Sorry ... this pleading is as unconvincing as the last time you made it.
Scrumpy wrote:
As you would not know who I am if I gave you my real name then it really makes no difference anyway. I am an ordinary member and never an employee, rep, or committee member is all that could possibly be relevant to you.
It makes all the difference in the world. You wouldn't say the things you say if you lifted the veil of anonymity. You wouldn't say the things you say, as the accuser, if you had to face-up to the accused. For reasons best known to yourself you're flapping about on the internet, using a pseudonym, making all sorts of assertions and allegations, defending (?) an organisation which once grew to global strength and importance (1903-1950s) by being anything other than faceless and non-inclusive. This is about a British national skiers' organisation making a future for itself. Get real.
Scrumpy wrote:
Oh, and I have never had a sex change either.
Have you considered the advantages of 24-carat testicles?
Scrumpy wrote:
And yes. MEMBERS have been invited to nominate council members. Why would you expect to know about it?
Because I have a membership card?
The SCGB has publicly announced its nomination process and nominations, in recent years. Presumably the 2017 annual report will appear here in the next couple of months:
https://www.skiclub.co.uk/about-the-ski-club/annual-reports
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UPDATE:
SKI CLUB OF GREAT BRITAIN AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
James Cove, PlanetSki, former SCGB director wrote:
Now, in my former life I worked as a journalist in BBC TV News for 22 loyal years.
Well, mostly loyal (I have always had a rebellious streak).
A large number of those years were at Westminster and I paced the corridors many times.
There were a few recognisable MPs milling around - Dennis Skinner, Tim Fallon and Paul Boateng.
Technical point: Paul Boateng is not an MP. He was MP for Brent South from 1987 to 2005 (including Ministerial career and Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2002-5). He's been a member of the House of Lords since 2010.
James Cove wrote:
To Norman Smith, Assistant Political Editor, BBC:
""Come and work for PlanetSKI?" I mouthed to him as he was about to go on air.
He gave me the thumbs up out of camera shot and turned to address the nation."
And ... to the main business of the day ...
James Cove wrote:
First up in the Terrace Dining Room of the House of Commons was the announcement of the Evie Pinching Award.
Evie Pinching was perhaps the most successful British skier.
Scrumpy ... you've had yet another 24 hours to out yourself.
The fact that 300 lederhosen manufacturers in Austria know your ID is very valuable information, but it doesn't explain why you feel it's necessary to 'represent' the Ski Club of Great Britain in an anonymous capacity.
Come on - out with it!
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Oh! But I do have a serious, real ID on here too, for when I want to discuss real issues with sensible people. I just continue with this one to wind you up 😝
Bye for now, till next time!
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Scrumpy wrote:
I just continue with this one to wind you up 😝
You must be joking. You couldn't wind up a set of false teeth ...
The SCGB has today published a list of resorts where its reps/leaders will be posted this winter ... and including St Anton as one of the resorts that will offer "instructor-led guiding" ...
Quote:
Ski Club Team
Posted: 19 Sep 2017 09:05
Hi Kim - Leader details will be online at the end of this month, the same time as they have been in previous years.
The resorts where we will have Leaders this season are:
i book my ski holidays on the basis of a SCGB Leader being available as I am a solo skier. Extremely disappointed STILL no details of which resort Leaders will be in, let alone who and when. Surely there must be some plans in place? In addition as a solo traveller I have to book early to secure a single room at a reasonable price, so feel very nervy that my fix of the white stuff is in jeopardy.
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.
Being in a similar position I actually contacted the ski club about three months ago. Whilst they couldn't offer any guarantees they did at least give me a very clear indication of their intentions
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Maybe this is a re-advertisement of the Member Services Assistant job that was offered last month and had a deadline of 20 August. That one's still on the SCGB website (on 20 September) ...
Quote:
Member Services Assistant
Contract: Temporary, full time
Location: Wimbledon, SW19
Start month: September 2017, with October also considered
End month: End of April 2018
Salary: £18,000 to £19,000 pro rata, dependent on experience
Closing date for applications: End of Sunday 20th August 2017
All aboard the CEO-go-round.
At least we know why Frank left, bless him.
Did an intrepid journo ever get to the bottom of the scandal of avalanche proportions last time?
The Ski Club of Great Britain Newsdesk went into overdrive yesterday - no fewer than 4 fresh stories on a single day. Enjoy:
https://www.skiclub.co.uk/news
Unfortunately, all this endeavour was undone by the following ...
Quote:
December skiing with Freshtracks
... "If you prefer your skiing outside of the piste poles then December is a great time of year to ski."
To promote December as a month to enjoy "great" off-piste skiing has got to be 'bullshit of avalanche proportions'. Why has the SCGB - rooted in British ski history as one of the great global sources of authoritative information (from 1903, through most of the 20th century) - reduced itself to a cowdooting agency?
'Freshrocks', to be precise, unless the late autumn/early Dec delivers dumps of avalanche proportions ... which does happen occasionally ... but (unless one is loaded and stupid) it makes a lot more sense to save the cash until February onwards. Everyone knows that December is only sensible to book late, usually on a freelance basis with lots of intelligence from the snow reports, in the occasional winters when the skies deliver epic whiteness. And, since ski resorts are invariably empty until Christmas, and transport is bountiful, it makes perfect sense.
Given the choice and the simple fact that snow is a cumulative commodity ... anyone with any sense or knowledge of skiing (or ask any ski guide) knows that post-Easter is generally 100 times better on high off-piste terrain than pre-Christmas.
[end of rant]
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
@thegnomewithnoname,
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?
[quote="Davina Goldballs"]SCGB UPDATES
The Ski Club of Great Britain Newsdesk went into overdrive yesterday - no fewer than 4 fresh stories on a single day. Enjoy:
https://www.skiclub.co.uk/news
Unfortunately, all this endeavour was undone by the following ...
Quote:
December skiing with Freshtracks
... "If you prefer your skiing outside of the piste poles then December is a great time of year to ski."
To promote December as a month to enjoy "great" off-piste skiing has got to be 'bullshit of avalanche proportions'.
Errrr .... they don't promote it as a month to enjoy " great off piste" .... .. got to be a misquoting induced bullsh*t rant of avalanche proportions
@limegreen1, errr, David's quote was accurate. It was a quote directly off SCGB's website.
Quote:
If you prefer your skiing outside of the piste poles then December is a great time of year to ski. Whilst the most recent seasons have not been blessed with the best dumps in December, previous ones have had more than enough to whet the appetite of any serious freerider.
If that's not promoting December as a good, (possibly great), month for off-piste skiing, I don't know what is. Oh, and I'm not particularly a fan of DG but he's certainly telling the truth with this post.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Dear God .. can no one read ??? December is a great time to ski ... is not saying great off piste ...
Dear God .. can no one read ??? December is a great time to ski ... is not saying great off piste ...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
@limegreen1, you seem (three times ) to be ignoring the opening words of the bit which maggi quoted. Skiing outside the poles= skiing off-piste. Sorry, but maggi's right and you're wrong (a lawyer said...)
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After all it is free
After all it is free
Davina Goldballs wrote:
SCGB UPDATES
To promote December as a month to enjoy "great" off-piste skiing has got to be 'bullshit of avalanche proportions'. [end of rant]
I've enjoyed fantastic off piste skiing in December (not every year but most times I've been) with the SCGB and on other occasions with friends, Val D'Isere, Tignes, Argentiere (great run down Pas de Chevre all the way down to Chamonix), pleasantly few people, especially whinging old has-been bullshitters with unfeasibly large chips on their shoulders
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@Hurtle, Oi! Don't be pulling rank
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but maggi's right and you're wrong (a lawyer said...)
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.. got to be a misquoting induced bullsh*t rant of avalanche proportions 
) to be ignoring the opening words of the bit which 