J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

Tony_H wrote:

ise wrote:I was using my girlfriends car today anyway which has so much torque at low rev's it could probably have ripped out of the ice last week anyway.

Whats she got, a pistey basher?

subaru impreza

AJ wrote:Does this mean you might have to dig your car out again ise :lol:


AJ Adele

it's not that deep, about 10-20cm in the village and I was using my girlfriends car today anyway which has so much torque at low rev's it could probably have ripped out of the ice last week anyway.

It's snowing outside right now, the downside is that conditions in the high mountains are utterly awful, significant avalanche risk, no visibility and fairly cold which has wrecked my plans for the week at least.

AJ wrote:What no photo ise :lol:dont just tell us show us :mrgreen:


AJ Adele

no photo's :oops: here's one of the car not stuck in the same place last season :

LOTA wrote:Spoke to someone in the tourist office this morning.They said Jochstock and Stand areas as well as Rotair,Ice Flyer etc would be open next week. )

super, in that case I may go :D

I probably shouldn't have left my car outside the chalet without moving it for a month :D It's been buried in snow 5 or 10 times and it's melted back to reveal the car.

By this morning the plan for digging it out, i.e. wait until enough melts then drive, looked fairly good. Initially it seemed quite good, the engine roared into life on the first go with no obvious sign it had been stood there so long. Then I tried to reverse out and promptly stalled as the car wouldn't move.

Turns out the tyres had frozen into ruts on the track and the car wouldn't move. First I tried to clear some of the snow and ice from around the wheels but that didn't seem to work. Next, I decided to chuck hot water at the wheels, it might re-freeze but not so solid. That seemed to work quite well, at least the tyres reappeared out of the snow but still no joy actually moving.

Finally, I hit on the idea of jacking each wheel up in turn to break them free, that worked a treat, the jack has a huge mechanical advantage so it can lift the wheel just fine. Obviously it's not a great idea to leave a normal car so long in those temperatures but if you do, jacking the wheels works a treat :D

BTW, In case anyone doesn't know, the one thing you should never, ever do is leave the hand-brake on as it can freeze on.

LOTA wrote:That may be so, but they won't have closed next week!!!! )

I wouldn't count on it, their press release was very careful about stating dates. Apart from the ice flyer etc they said the others would be closing in April with no exact date given. Given it's getting warmer and everyone's gone home I'd not bet on it.

LOTA wrote:Definitely ain't over just yet....looking at magnificent conditions in Engelberg on the webcams....hands hovering over the keyboard to book a flight and hotel for later this week! I understand their winter ski season runs until May 25!

not really, they run the ice flyer and rotair until then but that's only a couple of runs. The lower runs will have closed by the end of May.