 Poster: A snowHead
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| helmets with a built in device that if it detects you take a bang to the head and it starts beeping, you then have a minute to reset the device, or it automatically calls for help. |
Not so good if you're skiing in powder/trees. It takes ages to get back up.
(although it's hard to get a 'bang' in powder. Trees a different matter)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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abc, true, but hopefully you'd be able to hit the reset button within a minute, before getting up.
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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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Wear The Fox Hat, I could have done with your special helmet last time I fell in trees: I was tripped by a small bush and ended up hanging upside down on a near vertical bank with my skis caught in the bush. I couldn't release myself and nobody heard my shouting. (However I would have had to have bought it and been wearing it - and probably wouldn't have.)
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| abc, true, but hopefully you'd be able to hit the reset button within a minute, before getting up. |
Hopefully, that is.
I was in a situation like that of snowball last week. I got 'tagged' by a low branch and fell into rather soft and deep snow (not a tree well, fortunately). My skis were uphill of my body. My poles (the only source of leverage) underneath the skis. And every time I moved, I simply sank deeper into the snow...
It took a long time to sit up, let alone get back up on my feet.
(I don't know how long it actually took. But it was long enough my friends were worried enough to shout and ask if I were ok. And I did consider it might be faster to ask them to track back to me to help extract me  )
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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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| Peter S wrote: |
| ... uncrowded slopes, moguls and obstacles rather than bland motorways everywhere ! |
Why not, just convert the groomed pistes
into FUN PISTES with elements like
- Artificial HILLS in various forms and sizes, piled up on originally flat piste (there could not be enough of them, they are the best avalanche protection).
- LOFTY PATH is a 2 to 3 m wide path winding down the slope on 0.5 m earth dam like a lofty slalom.
- STAIRCASE is really a staircase covered with snow. The best of us master 45° gradient and 3 m width. Adrenalin comes at 60° / 1.5 m.
- CHIMNEYS are steep chutes 50-70° or semi opened chimneys with ski-turning possibilities in the flanks. After every 30 or 50 m there must be a secure landing.
- SOFT WALL is very steep but short slope covered with soft snow
- HARD WALL, the same as above, but hard and much shorter (guess why ?)
- HALF- and QUARTER-PIPES known from fun parks
- STEEP SLALOM is an adrenalin slalom on 40-60° gradient, soft snow.
- CASCADE is a very steep slope with built-in cliffs and soft snow landings between them.
- DIVING BOARD is a 1 to 5 m long, gently declined board, fixed on a steep slope covered with soft snow. Facing the depth under the board, skier/rider slides slowly over the board before he/she „dives“ under. Leaving the board before the end shortens the free fall.
- TRAMPOLINE is a robust ski-friendly trampoline fixed on a steep slope. Skier or rider comes down the hill, jumps in, shows some tricks and finally jumps over the border in the depth.
- GORGE with skiable flanks is winding down the steep slope.
- CREST is a pleasure known to few freeriders, as natural crests are hardly skiable. Artificial crests could be long descending with gradients up to 60° or short ascending up to 90° .
- HELIX is a half-pipe or couloir having bottom as steep as 40-50 °. Every 10 m there is an arc spanned over the half-pipe. The arc is a skiable bridge with a protecting fence on the downhill side. The trace left has the form of a spiral.
Turn ski highways into playgrounds for adults and kids !
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Why not, just convert the groomed pistes
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But if they don't groom ALL the piste the first place, you have all that naturally (without any costly "conversion")! 
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Loads of boozed-up Brits will be enjoying cheap holidays in the Himalayas and buying apartments there through dodgy multinational corporations.
Good news for the Himalayas which have been sadly neglected and going to waste for all these years.
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| helmets with a built in device that if it detects you take a bang to the head and it starts beeping, you then have a minute to reset the device, or it automatically calls for help. |
That'll go down well with the attention seekers then...especially some females....
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FAQ
The future is bleak for skiers as years from now resorts will be covered in people sitting on tea trays talking about that freak sport where people had planks on their feet 
Oh the horror wont someone please thinkg of the Children.
