J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dave Mac

I used to wear Matalan polo shirts, £4.00, a fresh one each day. A sweater over, then a jacket. Then I discovered Merino. The under layer costs about £40, the top about £80, although you do occasionally find a good price.

The under layer lasts a week with no wash, the top lasts all season without a wash.

Another advantage is the reduction in baggage weight over the two scenarios by about 4Kg.

I reckon my baggage weight would be permanently well under 15Kg, including boots and painting gear, if I did not persist with taking my Wildschönau racing club sweater, heavy wool. Nostalgia weighs deep......

Oh, and spot on, Young Andy. I have used slippers in the ski room since my twenties. Absolutely common sense. It is also polite, at least in Austria, when you are visiting a private house, to take a pair of slippers with you, and change into them just inside the hallway.

OldAndy wrote:

cem wrote:more like carpet tile than cardboard,(on offence to carper tiles) but mostly unsupportive cheap soft mush which gives little or no support

Wait till DaveMac turns up !! He had great success with carpet tiles as boot foot beds when a poor and penniless something or other. Or maybe just being a Scot. :lol:

Tis all true, Andy, (apart from being just a naturalised Scot) Long before footbeds or orthotics were invented, and my boots had bedded down. I was in Niederau for my second season, and had no spare gelt. I found a way to resolve the boot issue, but when the house frau came to move the bed at the end of the season, she found a carpet tile with two size 10 cut-outs under the bed area!
I remain a very good friend of the haus frau..... We visit the family every year. She also used to give me a row for spilling hot wax onto the kitchen floor. I told her it was Lancashire soup......

Hinterglemm has a couple of wellness hotels, but as Coop says, Bad Hofgastein is also a good shout.

That will be the week after the Hahnenkamm,you will have just missed seeing the great racers. Remember that we tend to think of half term in UK terms. The whole of Europe will have some holidays around that time. That is, apart from the well known skiing nation ~ Scotland!

Hi Geo. The last four seasons in Kitz have recorded snow levels for February, Lower/Upper slopes, 2007~8 first as:

8cm / 106cm

64cm / 170cm

51cm / 121cm

50cm / 86cm

FerdinandOskam wrote:maybe a tip, before you spent all your budget to expensive topmark tyres (or cheap ass tyres who have no grip on ice and snow):

Why don't you rent winter tyres?
Here, in Holland we rent them for about 100euro's a week, and it's cheaper than buying a set..

My winter tyres, (Land Rover Freelander), cost me £550 a set a year ago. Thats 600 euros. Thats 11 euros a week......
And they are only half way through their life......

The Pallavicini in Arapahoe Basin. Here is the link, and if you watch the video, it will explain why. I have to say I had double the amount of stops this guy had....

Johnny Cash's family came from Falkland, near to where I live. His daughter visits every couple of years, and my reporter son has interviewed her. I saw Pete Seager play in Manchester, when I played the folk clubs.

Anyway, back to US rooms. Yes, I can figure out the family room offer, but the UK offer of ski resort rooms is aimed at two adult couples, and the charges for one couple in aroom reflect this. Is this a lifestyle in America?