Next season

Next winter, I will be aiming to see more of this view....



More often

caron-a wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

I am delighted to confirm that I, and 7 others, will be going to St Anton on 4th Jan 2009 for a week. Looking forward to it already. 

what happened to bad gastein?

 

Quite simply Caron, I was about to book it, and I was sent an email from another company I had used before and not only did they offer a chalet at a great price, we got 2 lift passes for the price of 1.

It was a no brainer.

just booked for tignes with the group again next easter. hoping to get a last minute deal in somewhere beforehand too. do such deals exist over half term?

caron-a wrote:

just booked for tignes with the group again next easter. hoping to get a last minute deal in somewhere beforehand too. do such deals exist over half term?
 

Ohhhhhhhh yes

Banff. I think.

I'm going to ski somewhere in West Colorado or I'll live in Austria longer and ski the shit out of Tux

I'm going to Alpe D'Huez in April. It's such a long way to go.

I will hopefully do;

2 long weekends early on the Tux October/November (slumming it)
North America or Canada, in late December for a week (expensive treat)
2 long weekends on the Feldberg locally in early December and January (next to nothing)
A week somewhere new in Austria in February (relatively cheap)
Mayrhofen for a week in April (bonus permitting)

30 days is the plan, but recent circumtances have left my finances in a sorry state.

I may even head for the Tux next weekend if I can persuade my friend

Mayrhofen mid December for 9 days.

A week in St. Anton from 6th Jan with Tony_H, his missus, "kids," Ellestine et al.

And a week in March, venue to be decided, when I hope to persuade my other half to get off her sorry backside, put all that new kit on and actually do some skiing with me!

Just booked a flight in December, thought I'd grab some early snow. It's before the official lift opening, but I should be able to skin up, if the co. decides to hold the opening.
Or I may pop round to ise's hill and steal his pow. It's only a bus ride away

Only Obertauern so far in Feb half term (sister at college and mum is a teacher so limited there). Wanna try get somewhere mid Jan and then last week or March or something like that. Or maybe a pre christmas trip? dont know yet. Might try get to Canada for 10 days in Mid Jan as well. Tonnes of ideas at the moment, but limited cash and time

Have just got invoice for next January,s trip. Going to Ruka and trying self catering for the first time. We think the price is excellent.
Trip includes:
BA flights from Gatwick to Kussomo, plus half hour coach transfer to resort.
4 person luxury log cabin, with d washer, w machine, sauna, log fire, drying room, m wave, c machine, tv, radio, dvd player etc, linen, cleaning etc. Had to pay supplements ,cos there,s only the two of us.
Hire of thermal boots and suits for the week, it will be a lot colder than we have been used to.
Three quite expensive pre-booked trips, husky safari, reindeer safari, and snowmobile excursion.
Use of snowmobile for the week.
We did get £280 discount for earlybird booking and internet booking.
Total cost £980 for the two of us.
I know this does not include lift passes, food etc but I still think thats not a bad price.
We do not usually buy weekly lift passes because 1 day we ski, the next we hike up a mountain and board back down, then we might rent sledges for a day and mess around, then we might have a day of cross country ski. We just do what we feel like, so buy appropriate pass by the day. If what I am led to believe Ruka has one of the cheapest lift passes of all.