J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by steverandomno

You would have thought that the recent avalanche activity to lookers right would have given them pause for concern. Glad they were OK though.

I'm amazed that nobody was seriously hurt. That was a monster slide.

The UK needs more successful engineers and designers, but please learn that that is not the only skill that is important to the success of your project. If we had all been sat in a room together discussing this, some people would have left after your last comment. This is a forum for opinions and discussion. You will find many opinions here, some of them you may agree with, some of them may be irrelevant, some unwelcome or unnecessary, but very few of them will contain insults. Please keep it that way.

Admin wrote:

steverandomno wrote:Don't leave the piste unless you and your companion(s) have a transceiver, shovel and probe, know how to use them and ski in a manner that ensures at least one of you has a good chance of not being caught but can attempt digging you out should the worst happen.

GPWM. :thumbup:

Reminds me of a story somebody told me about a couple of guys who ended up in the situation of wanting to go out of bounds. One of them, having remembered his tranciever but forgotten his shovel and probe, asked if the other didn't mind going out anyway. The more experiences guy who had remembered his shovel and probe, wryly said that he would happily go out if the other would take his shovel and probe. On that, the other guy changed his mind.

Not sure if they ever skied together again.

Sobering stuff.

I'm far from an avalanche expert, and I know it was a casual reference, but the above should really read:

Don't leave the piste unless you ensure your companion(s) have a transceiver, shovel and probe, know how to use them and ski in a manner that ensures at least one of you has a good chance of not being caught but can attempt digging you out should the worst happen.

There are lot's of courses available to help you identify bad terrain and conditions but the above are the absolute basics.

Sorry to be pedantic.

rossyhead wrote:I can't believe how elitist some of these opinions are!

Each to their own i suppose you are welcome to your opinion

I don't understand. It's not elitist it is just straight forward discrimination. There is nothing elitist about discrimination.

Trencher wrote:

steverandomno wrote:Has anybody oon here skied a skier only resort. Did it realy make any difference?

Yes, Deer Valley. And yes, it does make for something different. It basically removes teens and twenty somethings from the environment. So things are more civilised because most people there have fully developed frontal lobes. If you excluded everyone between 13 and 25 from any resort, it would have a similar effect on the experience. Nothing really to do with snowboards. As I mentioned above, there seems almost a class aspect to Deer Valley as well, just like an exclusive golf club.

A bit of a generalisation :shock:, but I can see what you mean. It is basically a crude way of increasing the average age of the resorts customers. This is another reason why it won't last I guess.

OldAndy wrote:

steverandomno wrote:Has anybody oon here skied a skier only resort. Did it realy make any difference?

Only before boarding was invented :mrgreen:

Still the same issues ....
Some too fast and out of control and the ever present difficulty of the unexpected manoevre.
People stuck in the middle of pistes too difficult for them etc etc etc

I don't see this as an issue, if an area doesn't offer what you want then take the custom elsewhere - simples.

Bit like a watersports lake that doesn't allow powered vessels really. If you jetski then you go elsewhere.

Ha ha ... you got me there. How stupid of me to forget that all resorts were boader free before snowboards were invented.