I cannot do ten! I try to prioritise, but I have to do them all.
1) Rear entry boots, perform well but need a couple of tightening cables replacing and edges smoothed off.
2) Strip bindings on K2s, degrease, and apply new grease. Take to
Niederau next winter.
3) Same procedure on Rossignals, based in Niederau, do in July.
4) Fill sharpen and wax K2s and one other pair.
5) Replace pole baskets, one has split.
6) Review winterpacking list. Managed to get rucsac weight down to 14Kgms, including ski boots and painting gear. Can do better.
7) Cut a bit from the upper centre of goggles, don't wear them much, but when you need them.....
8)Buy new ski gloves and salopettes. Glove thumbs now 90% duck tape, 10% glove.
9) Try to get my lovely Wildsconeau Ski Race Club sweater repaired. It's over thirty years old, and showing the odd hole. But those proud gold dragons on dark blue...
10) Maintain/resume daily ski-specifice exercise routine. This is a big commitment, with a big payback.
11) Finalise research into Austrian beginner and experienced skiers ski week for next New Year.
12) Arrange Jan & March Niederau ski fortnights and one other ski week.
13) Search for a buy new photo frame for an old
Manchester friend, long since buried in Niederau, after a ski accident. I take responsibility for the grave maintenance.
14) Learn all the words of "Kufsteiner Lied" I do a John Redwood on most of them, the Austrians don't realise this yet. I just enjoy the yodelling.
15) Have promised Herbert blow up photos of times past in Niederau, for the walls of the Harfenwirt extension. Already am consulting all my older ski friends, (just in case you think I'm part of "times past".
16) Replenish my winter first aid pack.
17) Consider commitment to assisting with Disabled Ski Club.
18) Find out how to load pictures from my computer onto J2ski.
19) Organise dry slope/Xdome lessons for two friends in our village, taking their first ski trip next winter.
20) Buy another ski bag, forgot that I left mine in Niederau.
That's enough, I know there are heaps more. However, this has turned out to be quite a good exercise in creating a "to-do" list.
With all the building projects, tennis, hill walking, dog training, mountain biking, painting the outside of the house, blah di blah, how am I going to get through the ski list?
