J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

I tried to find out how far it was from the new Tignes 1800 development, where there is a bus stop for the free ski bus from Le Lac, to Les Brevieres using one of the route finder websites. And it was very annoying, but also quite amusing, because I tried 2 different websites and they both insisted on trying to make me go down what I know perfectly well is a blue piste in the winter!

In the winter the direct route between Tignes Les Boisses and Les Brevieres is closed, and you have to go back out to the main road, over the dam and back round.

Old Andy found out somehow, and he says it's 6km going the winter route. And I phoned the Les Brevieres tourist people and they said it takes between 5 and 10 minutes. I've also got the number of a Les Brevieres taxi firm now and it shouldn't cost more than about 20 euros, so we should be OK even if it is dark by the time we've finished our epic 'pub crawl on skis' :thumbup:

Here is the list of J2Skiers off ski-ing/boarding in 2012/13, updated to today, Saturday 3rd November

I've only got 70 days now, until I'll be ski-ing :D
It's amazing how fast the time is going now!

If anyone else wants me to add them to the list please just post on here and say so, with the date and destination and Excel will work out the number of days/sleeps.

Verbier_ski_bum going to Verbier in 28 days on the 01/12/2012
Bandit going to Grimentz in 37 days on the 10/12/2012
Geno68 going to Davos in 48 days on the 21/12/2012
Colinlambert_1 going to St Gervais in 49 days on the 22/12/2012
Joe Colin going to Morzine in 49 days on the 22/12/2012
Snapzzz going to Les Arcs in 56 days on the 29/12/2012
Bedrock Barney going to Val d'Isere in 57 days on the 30/12/2012
Snowy0000 going to Morzine in 57 days on the 30/12/2012
AlistairS going to Lech and Zurs in 64 days on the 06/01/2013
Smartski going to La Plagne in 64 days on the 06/01/2013
Oldboarder going to Les Arcs in 70 days on the 12/01/2013
ATOO going to La Tania in 70 days on the 12/01/2013
Caltonhat going to Les Arcs in 70 days on the 12/01/2013
Ian W going to Manigod in 70 days on the 12/01/2013
Old Andy going to Tignes in 70 days on the 12/01/2013
Catp going to Tignes in 70 days on the 12/01/2013
AllyG going to Tignes in 70 days on the 12/01/2013
Tiger7 going to Tignes in 71 days on the 13/01/2013
Daved going to Tignes in 71 days on the 13/01/2013
Ade73 going to Tignes in 71 days on the 13/01/2013
Joe Colin going to Tignes in 71 days on the 13/01/2013
Felthorpe going to Tignes in 71 days on the 13/01/2013
Far Queue going to Tignes in 71 days on the 13/01/2013
Brooksy going to Tignes in 71 days on the 13/01/2013
Lindylou going to St Foy in 76 days on the 18/01/2013
Andyhull going to Meribel in 76 days on the 18/01/2013
Andyoneill going to Val d'Isere in 77 days on the 19/01/2013
Tony_H going to Champoluc in 78 days on the 20/01/2013
AlistairS going to Sauze D'Oulx in 91 days on the 02/02/2013
Scarletgirl going to Mayrhofen in 91 days on the 02/02/2013
NelliePs going to La Plagne in 97 days on the 08/02/2013
Caltonhat going to Arabba in 98 days on the 09/02/2013
Dobby going to Risoul in 99 days on the 10/02/2013
Lizzie-B going to Morillon in 105 days on the 16/02/2013
Dan55 going to Yllas (Finland) in 106 days on the 17/02/2013
Michelle63 going to Sauze D'Oulx in 106 days on the 17/02/2013
Far Queue going to Lech in 112 days on the 23/02/2013
Brooksy going to Obergurgl in 126 days on the 09/03/2013

SwingBeep wrote:AllyG, J2SkiNews is a bloke http://www.thesnowhunter.com/ Your not implying anything are you? -)

She/he was definitely a woman last year. How awful. I wonder what happened to her/him :shock: :lol:

Actually Andy, I think Admin and Miss J2Ski News had such a good laugh about the Romance thread that none of us got told off individually - Admin just posted something about how everything had to be suitable for 10 year olds and deleted the whole thread :cry:

Anyway - this particular thread is meant to be about helmets and insurance.

I wonder how large a share of the ski insurance market these particular insurers have?

Brucie - Miss J2Ski News is not Admin. She's the one that got us all into trouble over that Romance Thread - don't you remember?

I think she gets bored sometimes, and decides to get us all going again - on either helmets or XXX :lol:

Far Queue wrote:

ewanmalone wrote:i gather its a little blustery up on the Glacier in tignes today. tignes spirt tweeting about 100kph winds :s

Hey hey, kite skiing weather :shock: :twisted:

Like this, you mean, Far Queue:

OldAndy wrote:Skiing and boarding is occuring on the Double M in Tignes now - nice, like to see the first openings of the season.
They are also winding up the Lanches chair.

Andy - could you put up the webcam link please, so we can all see it :D

felthorpe wrote:If you are not back by supper time, shall we alert the authorities??

That's very kind of you to offer Felthorpe, but if we can't get back before dark I was thinking of phoning for the life-boat - i.e. one of you with a car to come and rescue us :lol:

I was just thinking that probably what they call Tignes 1800, rather than Les Boisses, is probably closest by the winter road to Les Brevieres. Les Boisses, at 1850, is the end of the free ski bus route, and it's by the piste down to Les Brevieres, but I think the new development at 1800 might be closer to the main road. I am sure that they're both much closer to Les Brevieres by road, than Le Lac is.

I will think about it and have a look at a road map.

And I was going to suggest, anyway, that we tell each other our mobile phone numbers before we go, so that if anyone gets stuck or whatever we can help each other.

If Andy and Catp and I get held up somewhere so that we can't get to Les Boisses before 5 p.m. then we could try ringing all those of you with cars and hope that one of you has arrived at the chalet and is prepared to come to the rescue and give us a lift back to the chalet!

We will probably be very tired after carrying out all this essential research on the mountain restaurants!

And if we can't get an answer from any of you then we will just have to get a taxi! There seem to be at least a couple of taxi firms in Les Brevieres. I will find out what their phone numbers are and put them on my phone.