 Poster: A snowHead
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This poster from the Swiss resort of Flims-Laax-Falera is the best I've seen for a long time.
Who says the Swiss don't have a sense of humour? By the way, if you've not skied Flims-Laax, give it serious consideration. It's persistently ignored by the mainstream tour operators but has some of the finest intermediate skiing in the Alps, across a vast and sometimes very beautiful mountainscape. Best to ski it mid-winter, as it's lovely and sunny and therefore tends to thaw early.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nice one David, The one on the right definitely touches a nerve!
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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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Sorry David, us ordinary mortals aren't allowed into that link.
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It worked for me, but I'm also linked into the other site which is open in a different window.I'll try it without.
Back in a minute!
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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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I've just logged off SCGB and still get access. Is there a big brother watching and restricting web access?
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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nope... me can't see it neither 
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I can't get it to work now....it worked fine earlier 
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No go for me 
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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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No good for me still
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Maybe one of our tech-heads can take the image into another web-host and re-post a different URL to access it?
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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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it was working for me earlier, but the website now appears to be offline
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Still not here sorry David 
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You know it makes sense.
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Weird. I get the photo every time I click. We'll get this sorted.
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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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not been able to access, either.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Yep I can see it, dont know why though!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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If it still works for you David, right click on the image and save it to your computer. then mail me a copy and I'll host it
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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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Doesn't work for me either.
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It may work for some because your browser has cached the image. If you cleared your cache you would probably find you could no longer get through.
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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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Thanks DB. I should explain that I borrowed the photo from DB (Dangerous Brian), who lives in Vienna and has a talent for spotting amusing things on the internet. He is also well placed for spotting some of the world's finest cakes, which are a speciality of Vienna.
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Hey DB! good to see you on here. Is the third picture one of your creations?
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David,
We know all too well where you got the photo. You send me two Vanilla slices and a packet of Jammy dodgers and I don't send the 'boys' round. 
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Hey Mark,
Apparently I'm the father but I still haven't worked out where she got her good looks from.
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Lol! Just make sure she gets added to the Blue ranks...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Not sure which face is scarier!!!
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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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They look like chalet staff! 
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I can't tell you why Hannibal crossed the Alps, other than to give the Romans a bit of a well deserved duffing-up, but I can tell you where he crossed the Alps. He went over the Piccolo San Bernadino pass. Which close when it gets snowed up in Oct and doesn't open again until at least the next May. It does happen to provide super skiing now and the natives are much friendlier than they were in Hannibal's day.
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You know it makes sense.
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| David@traxvax wrote: |
| Hannibal went over the Piccolo San Bernadino pass. |
Unless he crossed at the Col de Montgenvre - which is what Livy seems to suggest and a number of modern historians support this view amongst other possibilities.
Interestingly the second classical account of the Punic Wars by Polybius refers to the tribe near the pass greeting Hannibal with branches and wreaths so it doesn't sound like they were that unfriendly either... or maybe they offered you a bottle of Piat d'Or?
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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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From the accounts that I have read, most of the elephants died on the journey, and those that were still alive were so exhausted, they could not be used in battle.
The image of elephants in a battle is still one I find difficult to visualise.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Have you not seen the new Lord of the Rings film then, Peter?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'm no expert (but what the hell!), but my understanding of elephants in battle was that in practical terms they weren't particularly effective in battle - but they scared the bejesus out of the opposition!
When I was in Val Cenis they claimed that Hannibal had come through there (my alpine geography is not so hot though).
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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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| nbt wrote: |
| Have you not seen the new Lord of the Rings film then, Peter? |
Yes, but those things were significantly larger than your average African/Indian elephant. I think Hannibal would have had difficulty putting 20 archers on the back of your average "Nellie". I accept that the site of an elephant to somebody on the battlefield who had never seen one before would be unnerving. The ancient equivalent of a tank I suppose 
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A rather deranged tank which was as much a risk to its rider and fellow soldiers as the opposition 
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