Poster: A snowHead
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Ive been having a proper look at this skiing in Chile thing and I was almost swayed until I looked at the brochure a bit more closely and it mentioned these strange things called Sling shot lifts!
Now I have visions of myself lining up to be loaded into a catapult and launched up the mountain bungee style!
Does anyone know what these are really like? Im thinking if they have to highlight it in the brochure its a bad thing!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We had a thread on this on the SCGB forum a while back. It's a unique lift, built by Poma, above the resort of Portillo. The idea was to minimise pylons in an area that's prone to avalanche. Five skiers are pulled at fairly high speed up a slope called the Roca Jack (which has been a venue for the world speed skiing record).
The lift is called the Va et Vient. There's a photo on this page.
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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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Sounds like it might justify the airfare alone...how fast does it go?
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Crikey - I bet that makes for more pile ups than a t-bar
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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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Maybe they could install one at Gatwick it would save on the airfare. Just change the angle for different resorts - a stewardess could hand you a drink and a food tray during the launch.
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Ive been having a proper look at this skiing in Chile thing |
Is your dad a millionaire or something? I'm sure I read on another thread somewhere that you're a student, WITH A DISHWASHER!!! In my student days we couldn't afford washing up liquid never mind a machine to do the dishes for us. We had to lick the plates clean..... |
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Aye, but you were lucky.
We used to lick t'walls o' t'chip-shop to get t'spatters o' grease off 'em before working 28 hours a day down't mine for thruppence a decade.
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