J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dave Mac

Pat, if you want to have a good ski area, with access to Kitz, why not consider the Ski welt? It is one of the largest ski areas, but also has a ski route to Kitzbuhel.

Google the area, and look at Westendorf or Brixental.

Go on then, I have done it for you!
http://www.skiwelt.at/en/winter
Check out the piste map first.

Re the accomodation, have a look at: http://www.pillerseetal.at/en/winter/

Fill in your dates and family information, and let the tourist office do their work. They should email this out to all local accomodation, who would then contact you direct with their offer.

Excuse my rudeness, Pat, I was short of time. Welcome to J2ski. Just as I enjoyed skiing in Australia, I hope you enjoy skiing in Austria, especially Tirol.

I am curious as to why you have chosen Fieberbrunn? It isn't the most obvious choice! An interesting village, although, with good history. I have good connections there ~ the chief of Police organised the radar gun that resulted in my first Austrian speeding ticket! I think I was doing 37 in a 35 zone!

Also, the parish priest gave me a lot of help when I was researching the 1809 history of Wildschoenau ~ his grandfather had written the definitive book.

Back to your query, even if your accomodation is not close to the rail station, ski buses will provide the link up. In Austria, you get a ski bus pass as part of your accomodation.

Also, if you do have specific questions, please feel free to ask, either on the forum, or by PM.

Ski well.

There is a direct train route from Fieberbrunn to Kitzbuhel. It operates about every half hour, and the one way ticket costs 3.6 Euros.

Dids1 wrote:Interesting Dave. I'm left handed, and would always remove my left hand glove to do anything on the lift.
This makes the lh glove ( in my case) the most likely to fall.

Does this mean L handed people are most clumsy (probably)
Or that more left handers ski (unlikely of course)

A high proportion of people, if right handed, use their dominant hand to carry out a task needing the most strength or dexterity. Hence right handers will pull off the left glove first, and then drop it, because their LH is less dexterous.

Left Handers do not have this pre-disposition. (Science Daily 8 March 2011)

And as discussed in another thread, when taking skis off, RHs pick up the RH ski and lift the brake over the LH ski, and vice versa when unlatching skis to put them on.

My two sons are both left handers, and they both THINK they ski more quickly than me. So much for the power of thought of Left Handers!

That's a telling photo, Swing Beep. My buddy and I skied down under the chairlift at the end of season and collected 80 left hand gloves, only 2 or 3 right hand gloves.

Grrr,I am in Manchesterland for the weekend, will be on Kinderscout on the morrow, then a couple of days in the Midlandlands working with guide dogs.

Like Icy, I am up in the Highlands and Islands for a couple of weeks, there is room in the Land Rover for the Atomics and the banjo......

Good question, Ali. There are big differences between fear and actual risk. My riskiest moments in life, involved sitting down in the snow, exhausted, during a 50 mile fell race, feeling my eyes starting to close, and forcing myself to stand and get going.... And being in a canoe in South Australia that was dragged under a semi-submerged tree.... And getting lost on a mountain in Wales in a total whiteout, getting down safely on the wrong side of the mountain,having negotiated two big drop areas.

Fear, falling off the rockface at Leek Roaches, but being held on the rope in mid-air. Eeh, lad, you have to laugh....

Ski wise, risk, almost all whiteouts, where you cannot see, so you lose control of the situation. If at high altitude, I inevitably come off the mountain, if at low altitude, I head for the trees.

Fear, wandering into an avalanche situation on Cairngorm, realising what might happen, forming a plan with another guy who had done the same. One after the other, we both softly skied out. Half an hour later, two guys were buried. My fear was triggered by knowing the downside potential, but not having much choice about what to do. Also, being on the back end of the ackier, on a steepish slope at the top of the Club run in Niederau, not a piste, a run through the woods. We had the broken leg fixed and the guy strapped in. My scouse mate who was on the front, who I knew to be semi-psycho, was ready to roar off, but my skis were facing the wrong way, and the whole slope was unpisted sheet ice. I reached up to a branch above, and hauled myself up one-handed, turned the skis in the air, and shouted "GO". THAT was quite scary, the slope was steep enough that there were any number of outcomes. We brought the guy safely to the bottom, dumped him into the Krankenwagen, and settled for a pint. My mate asked me what my plan was, if it didn't work out? "Head left through the trees" says I. "That would have been interesting", says he "I was just going to head straight down, take a chance with the trees, and sort it out at the bottom."

Nowadays you have helicopters.....