Ski instructors and convention

Unfortunately, the kids seem to end up with the less experienced/less mature instructors. As a general rule, I find female instructors, much more reliable than male instructors when it comes to kids. I don't don't think this is because of maternal instinct stuff, it's just the way the female brain works. It's why my wife can find things I can't, even though I thought I'd looked in that place already

Trencher

I still can't open the photos. I just get a message saying 'forbidden'. What have I done wrong now? (More axe-men lurking somewhere after my head again?)

Ally

photos posted, hopefully you can see them now. And AllyG your story is bone-chilling! I mean if the instructors cannot find the kid, an immediate distress call should go out to Ski Patrol..no?

my son is 6 by the way..

Hey, I can see them now

Thanks very much - they're great photos!

Ally

Dustyfog,
Were you paying the instructors to look after your kid at lunch time? I know they do that sometimes with young children, and I would have thought if that was the case they should have been keeping an eye on your son, especially if he is only 6.

I thought what happened to my friend's kid was truly awful as well, and I thought she should have put a complaint in, but she didn't. The problem started because the instructor didn't check how many kids he still had in his class after the slalom race, because some of them went off with their parents.

As you probably know by now, I have been farming for many years, and it is standard protocol to check the numbers of cattle/sheep etc. when moving them from one field to another, because you never know what might have happened to one of them.

Once, I was bringing the cows in for milking, and I was counting them in, and I noticed one was missing, and I went to look for her. I found her lying in the field, on a piece of barbed wire which had punctured one of the blood vessels in her udder. In spite of the fact that we got the vet, she still bled to death. But at least I had noticed she was missing. On other occasions I have gone back to look for one, and been able to save it because it was something less fatal like milk fever, or grass staggers, which we could treat.

One would expect ski instructors to at least give their pupils the same degree of care that I used to give to our cattle, and notice when one is missing. I have found that instructors are generally very good about this, but not always, and I think sometimes they forget that to us, reared far away from the ski slopes, the mountains can be very frightening at times, especially when we are lost.

Ally

Carving brings us closer to our inner self, especially when we see our kids shredding it! ...lech-zurs is something else!


Oberlech from across Lech on the Ruffikopf Gondola :

Well paid for lunch as requested by ski school. On another note, the instructor was a woman..not sure I agree my son has done well with women instructors mostly but guys have been terrific too..

dustyfog wrote:Well paid for lunch as requested by ski school. On another note, the instructor was a woman..not sure I agree my son has done well with women instructors mostly but guys have been terrific too..

The hatchet man will be after you, great photos, but you might want to make them a tad smaller