J2Ski group holiday to Tignes January 13th 2013

AllyG wrote:

crispyapplepie wrote:Massive congrats on your hard work organising this ally... I've only just seen this post, haven't had much chance lately to get online with the 1 coming along.....

Have all the places been taken?

Thanks

Hi Crispyapplepie,
We have plenty of space left in the chalet if you'd like to come. I'll send you a pm :D

Many thanks :D

New page Ally,
last one only lasted 3 hours.
:oops:

Thanks Andy,
It's a good thing Admin isn't charging me by the page :lol:

Here's another picture my daughter took of the chalet Bonjour-Bonjour in the snow on Tuesday:

It looks really good Ally

It's a pity we have to wait until January 13th before we can go on this holiday. Looking at the photo of that chalet really makes me wish I was back there ski-ing in all that powder :cry:

I have 3 things on my to-do list at the moment for when we do get out there :D

1. Driving a car on the ice track in Les Brevieres.

2. Going through that timed slalom course - the one that Icy said you have to pay your 2 euros at the end or they make you walk back :lol:

3. Ski-ing down the black Sache run from the top of the Aiguille Percee (at 2748m) to Les Brevieres (at 1550m).

brooksy wrote:

AllyG wrote:

Me - carrying out important research for this group holiday :lol:

Good pics & thanks for putting them on, just one thing Ally are those your skis in the pic & if they are were sitting down next to them or do you use giant skis :shock:

--- LOL, I had exactly the same thought (for a split-second before I realized Ally was sitting down)!!! : the skis looked HUGE!!! ... reminded me of my old 2m Spaldings [I still have them somewhere in the basement... I finally had to abandon them after I could not find any place willing to service them; so now I ski on 160cm Blizzards...)

AllyG wrote:...
I'd had lessons in how to ski powder, so in theory I knew how to do it, but I hadn't had such a good chance to practise it before in such nice surroundings.

I am very proud of my powder ski-ing abilities now. Even my very critical daughter said I looked quite good.
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--- I'd love to learn that too! Perhaps I could find some good local instructor to take some lessons next January in Tignes, if we will be so lucky to get some powder days!!

felthorpe wrote:Perhaps we should start planning 2014 now?

Suggestions please, then maybe we can get a few more to come along.

Ally has done a fabulous job and those going on the 2013 trip are very lucky, she is very brave to take this on and we are going to have a great time.

--- I don't know Felthorpe! :) :) I can see that being a 'hot' conversation topic for off-piste times during our Tignes vacation in January!!!
I'll say that many of the places you guys already mentioned on our FB-group sounded pretty good (...i.e. Livigno, Val Gardena, etc). I also heard good things about Zermatt, but it sounds pretty expensive... :(

Incidentally, I just added a comment on another j2ski post, about the thought of skiing during the Summer in the "other" hemisphere: Seeing a few days ago an add for a ski-trip during the 1st week of August in Valle Nevado, got me so sad that I don't have enough money saved to go for something like that! (it's was $5500.00 for single occupancy / $3700.00 for double!!! -- it's true that it included the airfare, but still, too much money for my current budget :( :evil: :cry: ). However, I added that on my mental wish-list of things to plan for sometime in the future!!! ;)

Gosh so expensive in the summer.

it's bound to be contentious trying to find a venue that we all want to go to and some will have been before and have an opinion. We are trying to find a venue that the majority of people want to book together, difficult i know. So lets start early and get the arguing out of the way. For those people that can go more than once a season perhaps we can try to offer a holiday with like minded people for one of their usual weeks, even if it is to a place they have visited before.

Felthorpe,
If you want to start a general discussion going on possible resorts for a 2014 group holiday, I think it would be fairer to start a new thread, so that everyone else can join in :D

Admin said he'd ban anyone from J2Ski if they posted on this thread unless they were thinking about coming on this (2013) holiday to Tignes Les Brevieres.