What have you learnt from this year's skiing?

Also, Tony H has almost 9,400 Posts!!!!

smartski wrote:Its been a good year:
two trips are better than one.

And next years lesson will be that 3 trips are better than 2.

To never hire boots ever again!!!!!!

Being coached 1-1 is an effective way of learning for me.

1. How to ski in deep powder - managed to do 4 James Bond style bounces before it all fell apart.

2. What it feels like to ski on a really decent pair of skis - Dynastar Contact 4X4's.

3. That French people can behave very oddly at times - there was a French DJ in a big bubble playing music for a motley crowd of various nationalities to dance to in the snow on the Chaudanne in Meribel.

4. That the Russian Christmas is celebrated on January 7th according to the old Julian Calendar, whereas we use the Gregorian calendar. There were loads of Russians celebrating Christmas Eve on the 6th and it felt pretty odd

5. What a car cemetery would look like - all the cars buried in snow with just the tips of their wipers sticking out

6. That the New Year's Eve celebrations in Meribel continue until 8 O'clock the next day - there were still drunks struggling to make their way along the street when I was having my breakfast

7. What monoclonal antibodies are (daughter's revision).

(Maybe think of some more later),

Ally

Ian Wickham wrote:Don't ski with a hurty knee

Same here!!! Although it was skiing that caused the hurty knee in the first place when I knitted my legs together and Mr jocrad74 had to untie them for me - oops!!!

jocrad74 wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:Don't ski with a hurty knee

Same here!!! Although it was skiing that caused the hurty knee in the first place when I knitted my legs together and Mr jocrad74 had to untie them for me - oops!!!

Darn stupid things knee's

Iceman wrote:Also, Tony H has almost 9,400 Posts!!!!

I think we should have a party for him when he reaches 10,000