J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

you might try the Tourist Office at Les Mosses, they're very big on these sort of activities and I've seen people doing it there. I think in part that's because the downhill skiing there is a bit poor but the area is fantastic so snow shoeing, cross country, ski touring are all good options.

Rossfra8 wrote:I'm not one to follow fashion. I know the day would rarely come where they would be required but when it did.....

I'd think in Canada you're getting more of those days though. I guess I see the advantages fairly clearly and we do get the odd day where either it would good or it's actually hard to ski with the 88mm I do have.

It's all the other days though, whenever I think about getting something at 95mm (I like the kilowatts) I think of the days hacking down some wooded gully hopping around trees and rocks. When I was doing the instructor training a trainer told me to ski all season on slalom skis and by the end of the season I was pretty good in a meter of powder on them, I've lost that a bit now of course, but even so, I can hop around any bit of tree on a slalom ski and I struggle even on the 88mm's and sometimes just the length is hard to get into some gullies.

That's always seemed the reality of off piste skiing to me, sure we're on big slopes at the top but the ski out is so often a handful and I sometimes wonder what ski nirvana some people are in if they're comfortable on 2m 120mm skis or similar.

Jan I Stenmark wrote:So, ise, can I take it you have no personal experience of these then :?:

Perhaps it would be helpful if I fully explained the reason for my question ... I have been considering providing a range of complementary sets for our guests who find themselves in need of some extra traction.

so they can slide into the next police check maybe ? )

freezywater wrote:

ise wrote:
Outdoors is different.

how so? If I'm running the local ski school anywhere in europe and I see jaycraig giving his OH some pointers

A snow dome is a small place, a couple of hundred metres square and basically a single slope. It's dangerous if someone is moving either too quick or too slow. A real mountain is bigger, there's many slopes and everyone here being sensible, if they wanted to demo a snow plough would find themselves a quiet, slightly flatter area to do that.

freezywater wrote:
The issue of snowplough turns and wether jaycraig's OH could or could not do snowploughs is mute as is pointed out in the T+C's
"If skiing or snowboarding on the main slope, you will be asked to sign a disclaimer form to state and confirm that you meet the minimum standards, which are; to control speed and direction; to perform linked turns; to stop and to use the button lift unassisted

Quite, so someone who's having problems stopping using a snow plough isn't really in control of their speed or direction. In fact, someone using a snow plough to stop isn't in control of their speed really, it takes too long to stop in a snow plough to say it's controlled, it's just a transition skill before they learn to stop properly.

bandit wrote:

Rossfra8 wrote:I read it first time as fattest skis you've skied not the fattest you own:S.

These!! With the swallow tails please!

Oooh they are quite good value, when compared to the European opposition, for example, the Volkl Kuro:
http://www.sport-conrad.com/index.asp?disp=artikel&art_nr=70001017

Yes, I know they're not swallowtails, but if you really want some they have some Boheme skis in their product range.

swallowtails? aren't they a bit last year? aren't even Salomon doing some? very successful on snowboards though of course.

Rossfra8 wrote:I read it first time as fattest skis you've skied not the fattest you own:S.

These!! With the swallow tails please!

if you skied them and want that's good enough, I was curious how many people were skiing on 2m skis 120mm wide which is normal if you believe everything you read apparently. I'd love to see some figures about what's actually being sold, I know 2 out of 3 pairs skis sold in Chamonix are probably over 100mm but I've met some people who've shopped there and been pretty miserable :D

Jan I Stenmark wrote:Thanks for that useful detour into answering the unasked question but ... Has anyone actually used them?

Surprisingly, I can read the website, interpret the bumf and draw my own conclusions, I hope, as well as then next person – what I find harder is gaining practical knowledge from a user …

Actually that gives me a good idea – Ski equipment reviews based on armchair critiques of other peoples experience distilled from après ski bar chat after a few beers … It’d certainly avoid all that nasty need for familiarity or worse, contact with a product.

So as I said,

Has anyone used these?

Jan

You might think feedback from someone who's lived in the Alps for some years and isn't surprised when it snows in September might be quite useful though, there's a reason why we don't use them after all. If you read the tests from your recent country of residence run by their motoring association you'll see why people don't use them.

bandit wrote:from www.snowchains.co.uk website regarding the "Weissenfels new WeissSock tyre socks"

It is important to be aware that, so far, this type of product is not necessarily regarded as legally acceptable in European ski resorts. Therefore, in our opinion, the ideal solution is to take WeissSocks but also carry a pair of snow chains should the conditions or local legislation demand them to be used.

Why buy chains and socks, to me this would not make sense :?:

blimey, that's a bit of a shot in the foot :D i was just reading the stuff on the autosocks site, it's a fantastic exercise in evasion and spurious comparisons.