J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by andymol2

I guess it depends on whether Italy will allow travel from the UK.

Fingers crossed for a later season get away if the travel corridors open.

I think it is time to sort out my Norwegian passport in case it's easier to use a Shengen passport to go skiing. Only snag is her indoors isn't a dual national and the flight from the UK may be a problem......one canbut dream

If you recon the vaccines require 2 doses, three weeks apart it is pretty unlikely the vaccine roll out will hit meaningful numbers in time to save the ski season by allowing hassle free travel and given that hospitals are getting busy all over Europe travel corridors are unlikely to be open in the way they were in the late summer.

The resorts may open to locals but it's hard to envisage things changing much for 2 or 3 months.

In the UK the category of tourist isn't on the list of vaccine priority and I doubt it will be any different elsewhere.

We've written this season off with a slim chance of jumping on a flight to somewhere high or North very late in the season.

I have no quibble with it being a black. By no means a difficult black and most of it is not even remotely black.

I have much more of an objection with runs that get mis-graded as blue. Often these are the runs back to the resort that should be called reds but somehow get graded otherwise to make the resort more appealing to less able skiers who don't want to go to a resort that they might otherwise go down in a lift. So at the end of the day you find the home run strewn with bodies and people struggling because the run is not what they expected.

I'll give an example of one of the runs into Corcheval le Praz. There is a red and a green that cross over and at times merge. The steepest part of the red was a section where the red & green ran together. Not sure if it has been reclassified as that was 6 or 7 years ago.

It's certainly long .

Can't quarrantine so need to be able to come and go without.
Looking less promising as days go by.
Have to wait and see. Perhaps I should retire and not worry about quarrantine.

Me too -learned to ski at Swaddlincote.
They replaced the material on the main slope last year back to Dendix type from the carpet.

Went back up for a couple of sessions to offer moral (to family who were coming with us) support before I went skiing in January.

Confirmed just how horrible the stuff is compared to the real thing! However the artificial stuff in the indoor ski places isn't a lot better and doesn't justify the premium over the dry slope.

Hope they don't go under as jobs depend on it and "learning" to ski on it made a huge difference to how much I got from my first ski holiday and the same applies to others I'm sure.

At present there is negligable known Covid levels in New Zealand so probably no reason to limit access until and unless there is a spike in numbers.

Unlike the northern hemisphere when Covid levels were higher and the problem still remains with the inherent risk of transmission with people in close quarters in the bars and hotels and other confined spaces such as lifts.

As gondolas go it was pretty slow and the queue fairly long so I for one won't lament it's passing