J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by andyoneil

I'm sure there will be an English speaking group for kids most weeks but, as that isn't a holiday week in Uk AFAIK, then there is the possibility there wont be the demand as most people wont have taken their kids during term time

Drop them an email and ask

Iceman wrote:

andyoneil wrote:Top stuff - off to VT in 2 weeks myself

Meant to have a bucket next week, will try and leave you some - thats if the boarders dont scrub it all off!

Good man

Top stuff - off to VT in 2 weeks myself

Huwcyn wrote:

Brucie wrote:
Please lets discuss this for what it is... a tragic ACCIDENT. I find your attempt to turn it into an insurance/off piste issue a bit distasteful Tony.

I suspect that what he was trying to do was defining what 'off-piste' really means, rather than being distasteful. There are no grades of 'off-piste', and particularly if any of us have to make an insurance claim.

I think that's exactrly what Tony was trying to do to be fair - as soon as you are past the markers you are off piste, you dont have to be skinning up the middle of nowhere or heli skiing

If he paid 7.50 for a small beer then he's an idiot. As those of who go France regularly have stated many times before (though no-one chooses to listen to hard evidence) you probably CAN pay that but we DON'T. I'll be paying half that in VT in two weeks. That's a hard fact (despite the nonsense some spout about the so called "mega resorts")

We'll also have great snow.....

And great food (Raclette, Tartiflette, Fondue......)

Each to their own (I persoanlly love Austria too) but please accept that those of us who actually go to France find it no more expensive (and I think we can all agree that Switzerland is another country entirely)

I too never have an dprobably nevr will own my own skis

BUT

You'd think that with Mr Schumacher's money he probably skis several weeks in a year (he is described as an accomplished skiier in all the reports) and thus I'd have thought he'd have his own

He's not short of a bob or two now is he?

Not important, indeed irrelevant given the greater story, I was just musing

Rental skis?

Seems odd for a man of his means

Regardless though lets just keep hoping / invoking the help of whichever deity you're cmfortable with that he pulls through

Triffolet is always an experience after fresh snow as you get all kinds of pockets forming. L will likely stay shut all week as they can't easily blast it to settle it.

Santons is probably my least favourite way down from Bellevarde (including the head first fall down the Face)