J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

I have a couple of playlists, the shorter one is below.

"Catch The Rainbow","Rainbow","Dio","Catch The Rainbow: The Anthology" "Soldier Of Fortune","Deep Purple","D.Coverdale/R.Blackmore/Ritchie Blackmore","Stormbringer" "Angel","Massive Attack","Massive Attack","Collected" "We're No Here","Mogwai","Mogwai","Mr. Beast" "Nothing Else Matters","Metallica","James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich","Black Album" "All Along The Watchtower","Jimi Hendrix",,"The Ultimate Experience" "Riders On the Storm","The Doors",,"L.A. Woman (40th Anniversary Mixes)" "Black Velvet","Alannah Myles",,"Songs You Know" "Shape Of Things To Come","Audioslave","Brad Wilk","Revelations" "False Flags","Massive Attack",,"Collected [Bonus Disc]" "Stormbringer","Deep Purple","D.Coverdale/R.Blackmore/Ritchie Blackmore","Stormbringer" "Wide Awake","Audioslave","Audioslave","Revelations" "In the Air Tonight","Phil Collins",,"Face Value" "White Rabbit (Stereo Version)","Jefferson Airplane",,"Surrealistic Pillow (Remastered)" "Brothers In Arms","Dire Straits","Mark Knopfler","Money For Nothing" "No One Knows","Queens of the Stone Age","Josh Homme"," Mario Lalli & Nick Oliveri" "Seven Nation Army","The White Stripes",,"Elephant" "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing (Remastered Version)","Chris Isaak",,"Best of Chris Isaak" "Will You","Hazel O'Connor",,"A Singular Collection: The Best of Hazel O'Connor" "Broken","Unkle featuring Gavin Clark","G.Clark/J. Lavelle/R. File.C. Goss","War Stories (Bonus Track Version)" "Down In A Hole","Alice In Chains",,"KERRANG! THE ALBUM" "Hallelujah","John Cale",,"Scrubs" "Sinnerman (Stereo)","Nina Simone","Nina Simone","Verve Remixed 2 / Verve Unmixed 2" "The Valley","Los Lobos",,"The Town and the City" "Comfortably Numb","Pink Floyd","David Gilmour & Roger Waters","Delicate Sound Of Thunder"

after the snowshoe tour I've got back on the skis today for the first time this season over at Grimentz. Lifts aren't running yet so it was a climb on skis and skins before a run down in untracked powder :



some more in the blog http://snowslider.net/2007/11/16/earning-the-turns-in-grimentz/#more-255

Kymbillie wrote:But for Europe I wouldnt worry, It never gets too cold. (too cold I mean during the day its rarely below -5 even in the coldest months at the top of the mountain)

Well I live in Switzerland and I can tell it most certainly does get colder than that on a regular basis. The fact the snow doesn't instantly melt is a bit of a give-away :D

Round here temperatures of -10 or -20 are pretty common without wind chill. It's -12 now :D

Admin wrote:

ise wrote:That's been widely reported and it's not really entirely true.

Ok, fair point... should have said Eastern Switzerland perhaps...

But it looks like there's more snow in the forecast for "ise and surrounding regions" next week... :mrgreen: 8)

Verbier and Les Diablerets should be open this weekend - and I'd assume a fair few of the smaller resorts too; any of your local hills opening ise?

SLF are now saying

SLF wrote:Snow depths in northern regions are in many places greater than have ever been recorded in mid November.

Cold though here, down to -15' overnight and around -11' now.

Anyway, I also hear Tresspass are pretty good.

Tony_H wrote:They sponsor the British team as its one of few skiwear manufacturers in the UK. I hardly expect to see the Brits sponsored by Schoeffel.

I don't see why not :?: Anyway, it's not very important but they do not sponsor the British team at least not the seniors, they do sponsor the juniors and the freestyle team. I think that's more consistent with their brand as well. Sadly UK/GB snowsport's made up of a thousand different organisations which rather dilutes sponsorship.

I think the current clothing partner for the seniors is Besson the Italian company which I can't see any difference in principle from Schoeffel.

goff wrote:Hi guys we are looking to buy some when
we go down this year.We are in the Jura so
the snow is heavier at times than Alps.The shops
have a large selection,is there any thing we need to
look out for in particular.
CheerS Goff.
Love the pics .

Here in Europe we largely use composite raquettes, in much colder weather you need aluminium ones and a larger footprint for really, really deep powder. TSL are pretty much the market leader I think and their website has a product selector that's quite good.

The local store's given me some demo Inook Experts which are French and I really quite like them but Tubbs and MSR both do nice composite models as well. For me there's not much difference. The product selector on the TSL site will give you an idea about the length you need which should basically transfer between models.

Otherwise, good waterproof boots, I use Lowa mountaineering boots, gaitors are absolutely essential and some trekking poles and you're away.

Raquetting in the Jura is pretty popular, where will you be?

pavelski wrote:Ise,
Just viewed your excellent pictures. May I ask, what camera do you have?

I have three, all canons, an EOS 5D, EOS 350D and an A95. I used the 350 today, not as good as my 5D but much lighter and easier to use with my arm injury. They're all shot raw with 2/3 stop underexposure and manually white balanced.