J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by tino_11

For the J2Ski 2011 Zermatt trip? I'll be organising nowt other than drinks ;)

Not a problem Tony, you and Mrs H will love Zermatt. Also there will be no messing about with maps and routefinding by that point, just be sure to keep up ;)

bandit wrote:Tino's No.4 ambition will allow him to ski on my local hill without extra charge :shock: (Must talk to lifties about this)

I'll wear a cunning disguise, so they don't recognise me. You know, pants that dont fit, large wet t-shirt, etc. Rather than the skiing clobber I wear now. Must look odd to the kids, me dressed as a skier with my board under my arms.

Seems everyone is looking to improve language skills, the BBC has a good resource for this....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/comedy/waiting_for_verb.shtml

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Welcome!! Great post. I can't talk to most of that cos I've never skied :) but I do snowboard! I started 3 months after my 30th birthday and it's definately not to ambitious to play in the powder. My on/off piste split is currently about 75% vs. 25% but I aim to get it near 50%/50% and with my 35th coming up and Christmas, I think an avalanche kit and some training may be the order of the day. I actually spent 2 hours last night researching, split boards, base plates with interchangable crampons, skins and telescopic poles.

@ 34 I feel as fit now as I have ever done, it's just the après après ski that kills me now ;)

plenty of folk on here will give great advice on the best options for you, whatever you choose, have fun and be sure to post some NZ reviews and pictures.

Tino

I actually encouraged her to ski, as I figured she was less likely to be put off early on. But no, she wanted to ride, and will be doing her 5th lesson in Glasgow at the weekend. She will probably have better technique after a week in the mountains than I did in 2 years as I chose the "sans-instruction" course!!

As to the German, I have to put that on the back burner and learn a completely new language ) Walliserdeutsch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walliser_German

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Dave Mac wrote:Yes Tino, but that is Milan Central, wheras the OP is going intp Malpensa. There will be link up and waiting times that take it up to at least the 4.5 hours. (Given that MM is 48km from Milan Central).
Having said that, this still appears to be a better opton than GVA.

I guess a lot depends on the time of flights as well. But the direct option sounds infinately better to me, far prefer trains to planes 'specially ones which dont go directly to your destination.

This looks like an interesting site....

http://www.ski-transfers.com/