J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by steverandomno

Ian Wickham wrote:
Did you see the "Royal Bodyguard" I think it was supposed to be a comedy 8)

It was the only original thing on as far as we could tell and it was terrible.

My folks have very basic cable, so I could only see on the schedule that sky sports were running a Warren Miller marathon on Christmas day. This is what I imagine skiing purgatory to be.

Like somebody said, thank goodness for Eurosport.

Skiing when you need a day off is a sure fire way of injuring yourself and putting an early end to your season. Most of the incidents or near misses I've had have been due to fatigue.

I like the massage idea, but have never tried it.

tspill wrote:What ever happened to the pin off High Altitude. I actually enjoyed this more.

Me too.

Going by the TV over Christmas, it seems that the BBC have given up making anything decent or informative for the 100 quid license fee. The best they have to offer these days is David Jason falling over several times or Victoria Wood wittering on about Jaffer cakes or something. Awful.

crispyapplepie wrote:I'm not sure what the place is called (maybe someone will tell us) but the restaurant at the top of the 2 Lacs chair in VT is a very nice place to eat. Big outside area if it's nice weather too..... Great burgers, and really nice spag Bol...

Chalet Deux Lacs?

For good value apres ski in Val Thorens, we found this place to be great:

http://www.rhumbox.fr/RhumBox_Val_Thorens_-_La_plus_haute_rhumerie_dEurope/Accueil.html

It's a small place tucked away at the side of Galerie Peclet. owned and run by a very nice chap.

It has a pleasant relaxed atmosphere.

A very large measure of infused rum is 6 Euros (two ladles worth = probably about 100 ml) . There are 30 flavours to choose from. We found two of these was plenty and were surprised not to have a massive hang over the next morning.

We recommend Rum 44 (orange and coffee), ginger, vanilla, and the violet flavours.

Well worth checking out.

TowerBridge Andy wrote:I have two lenses for mine which cover both sets of conditions. I just pop in the one which will suit the days forecast the best. If you go to the anon website they have a section that describes tints in detail.

http://anonoptics.com/lens_tints/

I believe that the decision to wear goggles is a personal choice... hang on, that's a different debate.

Ian's Bolle modulators look like a good choice and they seem to get good reviews from people who have tried them in flat light conditions.

Andy, I was reading the PR blurb in the link you sent and I will now only refer to cloudy days as "Greybird" days!

I could have done with some decent flat light goggles this weekend. Miss randomno and I narrowly missed skiing of a cliff.

Heading back from 4 days in Val Thorens. The first few days were frustrating, lots of snowfall but zero visibility and high winds. But what a day today was.

Today was one of the best ski days we have ever enjoyed. New terrain was opened progressively throughout the day in areas that had not been skied since the 3 day powder dump. We had fresh tracks in powder all morning and a couple of amazing, long, untracked deep powder runs off the portette lift.

To have skiing like this in in December was an unusual treat.

How was Verbier, Val d'isere etc...? I expect the same?

Tony_H wrote:Ironic isn't it that people were complaining about a lack of snow, and now many pistes and lifts are closed because of too much snow!

Ironic indeed!

This afternoon in Val Thorens easily made up for the limited skiing on Thursday.

Waist deep powder, fresh track everywhere, some decent terrain open and even some sunshine. All from a handful of chairlifts. Tomorrow should be a good day.