J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

Tony_H wrote:

ise wrote:I bet Hattie's got it confused with the La Joue du Loup that has Super Dévoluy in it and is in the Hautes-Alpes. Easy mistake to make I think, I thought that's where Hattie meant as well :oops:

I was joking, you know.

No I didn't and nor would anyone else unfamiliar with your particular brand of wit.

Dave Mac wrote:
The force on the pole is a function of your body mass x the square of your velocity. I am not sure that touring poles are designed for this.

Surely not, isn't force equal to mass times acceleration for a start? and acceleration is the rate of change of velocity .

More to the point even with the correct maths the assumption that a pole plant converts all angular momentum to force in the plant is obviously wrong, the only way it could be correct is if the pole plant caused a complete stop.

I don't think alpine poles are designed for that either. So clearly only a small proportion of angular momentum is converted to force in the pole plant.

Dave Mac wrote:
The force on the pole is a function of your body mass x the square of your velocity. I am not sure that touring poles are designed for this.

Please correct me bandit. I don't know a lot about touring poles.

I ski with touring poles every day, they're more than able to withstand the force I place on them and like a lot of free rando skiers I use more force than the average piste skier.

tomski wrote:geoff is chamrousse and chamrousse bachat-bouloud different places because if that is the case my apologies to the people of chamrousse ,i hope i got it wrong ,

That was it, Bachat, I knew I'd read the story :

http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/0639-chamrousse-bachat-bouloud/

Near but a little different.

tomski wrote:thank you for the info ise, geoff when you skied chamrousse did you see apartments that had been vandalised and left to fall down or did it look ok,we are thinking of booking up chamrousse appartments which is at 1700 i think and all the pics in the book look great ,but on the web site i stumbled on it looked like a war zone,

are you sure that's Chamrousse? I heard that story about derelict apartments but for one of those other defunct stations near Grenoble although which one escapes me right now.

bandit wrote:A quick look at ise's kit list on snowslider should put my kit shopping habits into perspective :lol:

http://snowslider.net/reviews/

how much of that would you need? ) you should try carrying it as well :-o

That's Transmontagne who also operated Dévoluy of course, I'd not made the connection until you posted that. I thought the lifts were operating last season but I've no idea what's supposed to happen next year or who's operating the lifts. I did think they were in operation to maintain it as a going concern though.

hopscotch wrote:We went to Super Dévoluy a couple of years ago at half term so it was very busy. La Joue du Loup was a lot easier on the eye than Dévoluy (70's block), the skiing was pretty good in the main but there were some long drag lifts.

Dévoluy has that reputation, one of the grand projects of the French ski industry supported by the state and propped up with soft financing with some rather Stalinist architecture as most of those centres were. People I know that go speak well of it. JdL is apparently much nicer though.