Ian Wickham in LGB

Ian Wickham wrote:

1. Approx. 10% of skiers wore helmets
2. No ski instructors wore helmets
3. Restaurant prices increased by 15%
4. Half litre of house wine €9
5. Small beer €3.5
6. Plat du jour €11
7. Spag bol €8
8. Pizza €10
9. Cola €2.8
10. Small plate of chips €3.5
11. Large plate of chips €6
12. Menu Enfant €6-€8

Interesting Ian. Regarding prices, many of the places we ate at in ADH were cheaper than those, but its still not bad for France.

As for helmets, I reckoned on about 50% of skiers wearing helmets in ADH, so a definite increase on last season at other resorts I went to.
Good point re instructors, as I have never seen one wear a helmet.

Tony_H wrote:
As for helmets, I reckoned on about 50% of skiers wearing helmets in ADH, so a definite increase on last season at other resorts I went to.
Good point re instructors, as I have never seen one wear a helmet.

Easily pushing 75% wearing them in Schaldming I reckon. I don't know if that was due to the low amount of British there???

Large Weissbier €3.80 - Not too bad I thought.

Glad you had a good week and got home ok. Incidentally we had no problems going by train, I even got some sleep :wink:

Interesting prices there, very similar to Val D'isere, although it depends which restaurant you go to, hot chocolate could be as much as 4 euros but the cheapest we found was 2 euros.

Most expensive large beer was 8 euros (!), cheapest was 3 euros (at happy hour, 5 euros normally).

A lot more people wore helmets there too, I did a quick check in the gondola one day and out of 12 people, 10 were wearing helmets, and luckily for hubby he was wearing his as he had a nasty fall on our last day and banged his head. Weather was atrocious I might add, no visibility and 2 foot snow drifts on piste.

I wore a helmet for the first time this year in ADH and I must admit I felt a lot more comfortable.
I cant explain why that is.

Stewart Dowling wrote:I wore a helmet for the first time this year in ADH and I must admit I felt a lot more comfortable.
I cant explain why that is.

Comfortable or confident? From what I saw, you were a lot more relaxed skiing in a helmet.

Sorry for turning this in to a helmet thread Ian, as long as we can leave the 'helmet/no helmet' debate out of it and make it genuine observations from the slopes then it should be OK. If it does turn in to that I think it should be locked.

Quite a few instructors (and ski friends) in Banff (LL & Sunshine) were wearing helmets. Most people on the slopes were wearing them too, even a lot of the English tourists and beginner skiers. I wore mine a few days but it is very snug fitting so when it was especially cold it became a lot more rigid and uncomfortable. Also haven\t had my hair cut for 6 months which can't help. Either way, the wearing of helmets for whatever reason is definitely on the up.

Ninety per cent of skiers/boarders in Arosa wearing helmets last week.

Lots of instructors, too, were wearing lids.

Pablo Escobar wrote:Sorry for turning this in to a helmet thread Ian, as long as we can leave the 'helmet/no helmet' debate out of it and make it genuine observations from the slopes then it should be OK. If it does turn in to that I think it should be locked.

Quite a few instructors (and ski friends) in Banff (LL & Sunshine) were wearing helmets. Most people on the slopes were wearing them too, even a lot of the English tourists and beginner skiers. I wore mine a few days but it is very snug fitting so when it was especially cold it became a lot more rigid and uncomfortable. Also haven\t had my hair cut for 6 months which can't help. Either way, the wearing of helmets for whatever reason is definitely on the up.

Ross, it's a free world talk freely your with friends ...... I certainly do not get protective over threads, freedom of speech brothers :wink: