Messages posted by : Marksman
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So close and yet so far, thanks anyway.
Wherever the boots end up I'll leave the cat on guard duty. Owen. |
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Evening all.
Does anyone have a set of old bindings they no longer require? I'm loathe to pack new shiny boots away in the loft but clamped to the ceiling sounds like a plan to me... Payment by paypal or transfer. Ta, Owen. |
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Perhaps a little swimming or cycling nearer the time? (Something to gain fitness that allows you to put as little or as much pressure on the injury as is sensible.)
Owen. |
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Morning all.
Not an earth shattering topic this one but one I'm curious about as it's pi$$ed me off in the past. In European resorts many kids seem to think they have a god given right to barge through lift queues so they can get on first. Not a subtle thing but forcing their way though and around people. When I was a kid it would have been unthinkable to barge an adult out of the way! Now the one time I skied in Canada there was not a hint of this. Everyone took their turn down to several queues merging and people automatically taking alternate turns to move forward. My question is have these European kids been told that they are allowed to go first? Is it the polite and the right thing to let them through? My instincts when I see it are to block them or stand on their bindings but that would be bad if they're doing nothing wrong? :twisted: If socially it has been deemed that kids may go first then why not give them their own line at the lift? Cheers, Owen. |
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Good intentions Emma, like your style. :thumbup:
Personally I'd rather return with a tank and gently massage the offending snow lump-let back into the mountain. I tried to melt ice with an oxyacetalyne torch once and was amazed at how much energy it took. Owen. |
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Glad to be of service...
Perhaps if you'd glare at this demon for a while he'd melt? |
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Nasty bloody stuff I tell you! Imagine a smooth innocent bit of piste, flat as you like but with the odd bit of chopped track from previous skiers. Now imagine those tracks have morphed into solid granite for no apparent reason so any reasonable attempt to nonchalantly glide over them sends ones skis clattering into each other and much pointing and laughing from onlookers as said skier wipes out on the easiest bit of the hill... :oops: As I say, nasty devious stuff, probably banned in the Geneva convention somewhere. Owen. |
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Interesting thread, mostly for good reasons.
I'm certainly interested to hear what people have to say concerning varying conditions. I'm pretty inexperienced having only skied freshly pisted new snow under blue skies up until last year. Next trip consisted of some of that but also slushy snow, rippled concrete snow, and some visibility such that on the chair lifts you couldn't see one support tower from the next. I'm back to Les Gets in a couple of weeks and so far reports are of negligible new snow in weeks and hard packed snow on the runs. Hence anything I can soak up from here means I could be better prepared when I get there. (Especially after a minor head injury in the party last time out in good snow.) So although the odd old hand may find this topic less than captivating it is certainly of interest to others so cheers Emma. :thumbup: On the banter topic I'm new here but have moderated another forum. We had huge amounts of pretty aggressive but tongue in cheek banter and felt that the overall freedom stopped real flair ups of aggro. However as the newbie it is hard to tell the difference between long standing in-jokes, banter, minor irritation and full on aggro. This thread seemed to cover all of them in a couple of posts! I was surprised partly as so far everything I've read on J2Ski seemed fun or constructive but also because this topic deals with safety. When people are looking out for their safety and those they ski with why would you mess with that? Skiers generally being a thick skinned lot though I hope it wouldn't ultimately put anyone off asking what others may perceive as daft questions though. Cheers all, Owen. |
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