J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dave Mac

This could takeover from watching webcams, methinks......

Ian Wickham wrote:Many times forecasts stipulate 10cm of snow and it always ends up nearer 30 :thumbup:

Glass full man! beats the wotsit out of all the Negatives.

NellyPS wrote:

Iceman wrote:

NellyPS wrote:I'm with Tony, and I need to use my brain. But not just yet, still in my PJs.

This post was 3 hours ago....you still in PJ?!?!?! :D

I've been off work all week sick, so I have an excuse :)

Fair enough, Nelly, what's Tony's excuse? :twisted:

Kinda reminds me of 2001, skiing Klosters and Davos, great conditions, then drove through to Arrabba in the Dolomites. The whole of the Sella Ronda was a white strip among green fields. Wierd but still good skiing. On the third week, drove over the Brenner pass to the Wildschönau. Again full cover, great skiing.

The slopes that face north are now heavily frosted, and the machines are switched on.

If anything, the berglift companies will be spending less on snow machine use this month, because they have started two weeks later. The limitation on snow production is usually the flow capacity of the water pipes & pumps.
The BBC are just reporting something that happens almost every year.

I would echo Keystone and Breckenridge. Keystone feature is wonderfully groomed slopes. Beaver Creek is also a good possibility.

I put great store in re-building the quads. You can do this with home exercises, while watching the telly.

This is not an easy issue for me, I have been skiing for 44 years, and have had extraordinary good fortune, and met some brilliant people.

It is true that, like many others, I have experienced waist deep snow, and the tears of joy that go with the first discovery of deep bottomless snow.

I have also experienced some leaner snow years. In 1971, the snow cover had receded almost back to the trees, about a mile from the village. Even in those days, I was on the lift at a quarter to eight, and skied what I could, ended up hopping from snow patch to snow patch, four or five turns, then....you get the picture, Lake District style. When I reached the end of the snow, I put the skis on my shoulder, and jogged the mile down to the village. I kept going all day, and it cost me a good few beers at night, because, I discovered later, the liftmen were desperate to close up, and there was only me on the mountain.

My best and worst days involve people, not snow.Theses are the kind of best moments in my skiing memory:

Skiing with blind people and disabled skiers, for most of the past 10 years. Also, with their carers, some of the most wonderfully generous of folk. Having an opportunity to talk with them. So many people seem to worry about when it will snow, but skiing with these lovely people certainly gives me a sense of perspective.

Meeting very briefly, with a one legged skier, whose crutches were being fitted with ski ends. When I looked into his eyes, all I could see was ambition and hope. A very humbling meet-up, but one where I have since regretted not taking some kind of contact reference. Again, perspective.

Helping a 10 year old laddie progress his skiing, at the most amazing rate. He was autistic, but his learning rate was outstanding. Pure joy.

Just dozens of other people-related moments, some including the friendliest of J2skiers.

One truly bad time~ the death of a mate, killed skiing into the gorge above Niederau, with his wife and unborn daughter in the village. Ellis Brigham was solid in his assistance, and I still arrange for the grave to be maintained in Niederau churchyard.

I also like it when a painting works well, you lot don't get to see the really bad stuff!!!!

Errm, maybe the packaging was torn at one corner, and the driver caught sight of the colour ~ he thought he was helping you out SB4B!