Ambitions for season 2010/2011

Afer failing in reaching my goal of sixty days riding last season (managed 42) I am again thinking about what to aim for this coming winter. Don't think 60 days is gonna be so hard this time round ;)

1. To snowboard in full Highland dress on Christmas day, I reckon snowboard boots will go grand with a kilt

2. To heliboard the Monta Rosa to Zermatt via Furi, 4200m - 1650m, a full 2.5km of vertical

3. To see my girlfriend happy and confident riding red runs in her 1st season on snow (especially the very long red 7 from Plateau Rosa to Cervinia)

4. To own a Valais SkiCard NO LIMIT for year long access to 2,800km of slopes http://www.valais.ch/en/Wallis-SkiCardVS-SkiCardNolimitVS.html

5. To stay healthy enough to do it all

Anyone else got any particular ambitions for the coming season?

Respect for your 42 days, that was the same as I did. From your list, I think no 3 is by the most important~ this is your long term future. Just a shame that she is not getting to ski!

1. To achieve 6 weeks skiing
2. To wear the kilt on New Years eve in Scheffau, and maybe skiing the following day
3. Not really an objective, but similar, to own a season KitzbuhleAlpen All Star season pass ~ covers almost all of Tirol.
4. To continue to improve my ski technique.
5. To ski with Disability Snowsport people again
6. To continue to improve my German. (plenty of scope!)
7. Maybe, just maybe, to shave a few seconds off my time down the Marbachjoch.
8. To help people where I can.

I actually encouraged her to ski, as I figured she was less likely to be put off early on. But no, she wanted to ride, and will be doing her 5th lesson in Glasgow at the weekend. She will probably have better technique after a week in the mountains than I did in 2 years as I chose the "sans-instruction" course!!

As to the German, I have to put that on the back burner and learn a completely new language ) Walliserdeutsch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walliser_German

:shock:

To continue breathing..... :lol:

Not to break anything this time, or indeed injure myself in any way at all :D

Ally

Tino's No.4 ambition will allow him to ski on my local hill without extra charge :shock: (Must talk to lifties about this)

For me:
1. Ski 40 resort days again.
2. Improve my French
3. Face the fall line in deep snow
4. Stay injury free
5. Stay off the rocks, it' too expensive!

1. To make some new friends.
2. To be good at my new job.
3. To improve my French.
4. To be really confident in powder.
5. To look like I know what I'm doing on tough blacks!

6. To win free tickets for the London ski show. :wink: @ Sir Admin.

bandit wrote:Tino's No.4 ambition will allow him to ski on my local hill without extra charge :shock: (Must talk to lifties about this)

I'll wear a cunning disguise, so they don't recognise me. You know, pants that dont fit, large wet t-shirt, etc. Rather than the skiing clobber I wear now. Must look odd to the kids, me dressed as a skier with my board under my arms.

Seems everyone is looking to improve language skills, the BBC has a good resource for this....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/comedy/waiting_for_verb.shtml