J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

jonah690 wrote:

Soldeu already has snow and its looking like a bumper season.

you wouldn't happen to have next week's lottery numbers as well would you? :)

they're friends of friends so I have to say they're fantastic :D

Dave Mac wrote:Ise, I thought you were in Scotland?

On a different thread, you mentioned Reinhold Messner. My son interviewed him and did an article, and we are due to see him later in the month in Dundee.

I am intrieged by his Tibetan style South Tyrol castle way of living. And his mountaineering exploits of course!

I leave tomorrow, packed and ready.

I'd be very interested to read your sons article, will it be available anywhere?

bandit wrote:
Maybe I'm a little tired from skiing hard today, but I'm not sure of the point you are making here. Could you expand a little.

I may have misunderstood but I *thought* you were making a point about levels of expertise and consulting those experts. Dentists are hugely qualified and there's a high entrance requirement, that mechanic at the dealer will probably have City and Guilds Level 1 and 2 and that'll take a few hundred hours training over about three years before some ongoing professional development.

bandit wrote:I'm quite astounded by some of the anti bootfitting sentiment on this thread. To me, I liken getting my ski boots fitted to getting the correct tyres put on my car, or visiting the dentist to get my teeth maintained.

to be fair that's not a good comparison, it takes 5 years to qualify as a dentist and you need three A levels, 2 A's and a B' in Chemistry and Biology

Super, for anyone that doesn't speak American I think he's either saying it was quite agreeable or selling drugs.

not sure what you're after, historically there's the Lunn books which make interesting reading although I doubt they're available other than second hand and it's not something everyone would find interesting.

more recently there's Wayne Watson's Off Piste which is actually quite good. I think Chris Davenport did a book about skiing the 14ers if you're interested in US back country skiing. Beyond that there's a number of technical books on avalanche safety or general works on risk and adventures in the outdoors.

no, but if you do find them you can let them know it's over priced and really garish :D

sorry, couldn't resist :oops: :oops:


PS, actually, just checked the spyder site and it's not quite as awful as it was