Messages posted by : Dave Mac
Enschuldigung! And thank you for the info, I will check out the bus situation. |
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Well it was worth exploring. For the most part, have had great fun meeting up with J2s.
From your knowledge, Lola, when based in Obergurgl, is it logistically possible and sensible to have a day in Sölden? If so, how wouldyou organise the lift pass? |
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Of course Schnapps, you are quite right. It was downright bad mountaineering. It also involved complacency, involving an easy, but fast, section of a run that I had completed more than twelve thousand times. A mindset of "easy".
I have lost a number of friends to the mountains, and almost all of them were due to error combined with an unforeseen circumstance. In my case, the circumstance should have been foreseen. This, by the way, is not the only time. A long time back, I was involved in a 50 mile fell race, when a snow storm came on during the night. At one point I sat down in the snow, and started to fall asleep. I realised what was happening, and got going again. Three guys died. A few years later, I was kayaking down a mountain river in Australia. A rip took me and the kayak under a tree, and I became entagled under the tree roots. I got out. This was lack of experience. I got stuck on a mountain in Wales, when mist decended, and it was a one thousand foot drop on high percentage of the surround. Also, on a sheet ice Striding Edge, two ft wide path, and a thousand ft drop each side. Also had a glider crash in New Zealand, but didn't concern myself too much. I had no control anyway, so could not do anything about it. The pilot was the New Zealand number two. He made a mistake, but he fixed it. The wing was a mess, though! :roll: I believe that generally, I am a good mountaineer, but will readily admit my mistakes ~ that is the only way to learn. Many times, I have turned back from a mountain walk, when adversity appeared. In the past two weeks, I have come off the mountain when there was a white-out. I also stopped for a while, when, due to an afternoons heavy chopped snow, a number of people were skiing with an attitude of "just take it straight, and sort it out at the bottom". That is one of the most common causes of accidents. I have to stop. Now I have started this trip down memory lane, more close shaves are being recalled. I'm gonna burn my ski boots. Where's my slippers....... |
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Was once racing my son down in the Schuss, (egg, crouch)position, head down, "he's never going to beat me". It was a cold day, and I did not have my normal woolly hat on, rather a Canadian/Russian style enclosed hat with ear flaps. So I did not hear the piste basher. Nor, because I was head down, could I see it. When I did look up, the churning blades were 10/15 ft away, and I executed a 50mph left hand turn and stop, just before a fence. My wife, skiing just behind, was already mentally digging out the insurance information, in the "cost of returning the body" section. No I will not listen to music when skiing. |
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I will be in Obergurgl from the 10th, but will prob spend the Sunday getting the family sorted. Be good if that worked out tho.
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You can just buy a return gondola ticket for the particular area.
For ski hire, visit: http://www.skiset.co.uk/partner/j2ski/ Cannot say if this is the cheapest, but it is the outfit I use every year, and the price includes a discount. |
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When you see someone skiing deep, it can look like they are sat back, but if you follow the line, their CoG is over their feet.
Def don't put weight forward, or you may be inspecting the snow closely. There is a different technique where you can sit back ~ Downward Unweighting, or Grundscwung. (Avalamont, if in France) It can give some people a "safer" feel about skiing deep. |
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:-) HaHa ~ I'm still not ready to concede the point, yet. It was my mountain! |
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