J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dave Mac

TheoBane wrote:Hopefully we don't need another snow dance, but if needs be im sure we can get a good one :D sure OldAndy can make mark 2 verson

Vorsicht!!! Avalanche warning!!!

Hi Daisy,
I offer a few thoughts. If your main group are booked in a Soell hotel, (which I think you are), email the hotel, and ask them if they will suggest a local place. A local b&b would do it, and the lady can join you or the evening meals.

Secondly, go through to the Skiwelt tourist board. It is really good. Ask for what you need, and they will email to all hotels.

Thirdly, do a search for b&b, or pensions in Soell.

Try J2skis own: http://www.j2ski.com/ski_resorts/Austria/Soll_hotels.html

Report back your results, and we can continue to help.

OldAndy wrote:I learnt to drive on a Mark I Cortina .......
Two tone blue, 1965 plate.
:mrgreen:

Toldya you weren't old!

Hi VonGohren,welcome to J2ski. There are many people on this site who ski at Saalbach, but may not know the detailed info you are looking for. If you want to talk to a local, try:
https://www.facebook.com/saalbach.hinterglemm.9
The guy who runs this is local, so you are likely to get some direct answers.
Great ski area, good choice!

daved wrote:I'm off to Italy in Oct for a long weekend so am keeping an interested eye out ..not bought any currency yet..but am looking at the rates with interest

October? Travelling by Vaporetto? :wink:

FYI, this is the recent snow history around Arabba for January, Low/High:


2008/9 105cm / 260cm

2009/10 91cm / 184cm

2010/11 82cm / 184cm

2011/12 34cm / 52cm

I have stayed in Arabba, and other villages in the Dolomites. It was during a lengthy drive around Europe ski trip, so a direct booking. Hotel was a hike up/down the hill. That apart, Arabba is a good location.

Charlie_95 wrote:Yeah that's a good thought! I don't know about chatting them up?, but I'll try and make sure I get a higher end pair of ski's haha!

No, it isn't chatting up. Youwill be there for a season, and the hire people either are the same, or they live there.
I was in a similar season position, and although I did buy skis, I also got to know the locals well. So much so, that many years later, I hosted one of the ski hire shop owners children, when he reached student age. We looked after him for a summer, found him some local farm work, and introduced him to all our friends. It is a two way relationship thing. That student now has an architectural practice in Innsbruck.
Another that we hosted in Scotland is now a writer in Colorado.
So, not chatting up, but having a genuine interest in people.