J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dave Mac

Piece of cake. I've been to the Tetons.

Wound the car window down for a moment.....and drove on.

Seriously though, these guys are just a bit cavalier, I mean, not carrying any avalanche equipment, probes 'n stuff. Where's Ise when you really need him?

Bandit! You are thread drifting! Glacier walking is not skiing or boarding.
To look at Ally's restriction, there would be a number of folk that have:
a) enough experience to be capable of going off piste, without having to pay for supervision.
b) enough experience to make a judgement about safe conditions,(taking into account local guidelines)
So, DT is likely to be unsuitable for Ally, but so far, appears to be most suitable for me. Which leads us back to my first proposition that we need to select the policy most appropriate to our individual needs.

Is the percentage based on Numerics or Planar, and if so is this %height or % distance.
See, you guys are jumping the gun, you gotta understand the question.

This will be difficult. The 502 & 503 both run to Glenshee, but are summer only. The only winter service I could find would be to Braemar, and you might get a local bus up to Glenshee. If your son skis he will get to join the Uni ski club. Car hire would be the most convenient. The road closes at Braemar on a regular basis.

Carrying on from where we were, before admin, quite rightly, set a bomb off under Chapter 1! Bearing in mind my previous thread, "Kindness on J2ski", if anyone messes this up, goes off thread, is rude to someone….. I'm gonna kill ya! )
Seriously, this was/is an important topic, and was developing nicely.

It does seem evident that there are disparities between ski/board insurance offers, just as there are widely differing requirements. Insurance companies do not know about our individual capabilities or our specific needs, and yet they have to try to offer a product that covers all of us. Just think of the possible range of needs:
Beginners/intermediates/advanced/piste only/some near off piste/mostly off piste/back country.
It therefore follows that it is for us, as individuals to try and locate the insurance that suits us best.
Bandit & I are exploring Direct Travel, we have both used them in the past, as offering a common sense view of off-piste coverage ~ so far. Others will look for different coverage. You can follow the links on the original thread.

La Tania would be good. Group of chalets, lining the hill road, with a strip of woodland on one side. 30 yard walk through the wood, and put your skis on. Ski back to the same place at night.

Emma, clarity, at last.

rossyhead wrote:Livigno and Bormio had plenty of snow to 1200m last year from the 5th December-Bormio is higher but Livigno has more pistes

My point is that you cannot predict a good year. Even on the Dave Mac "This is going to be the Greatest ski year ever scale" which, by the way, gets better every year, when there is no pressure to book, it doesn't make make sense to do so.
Patrick has a point, the snow history in the Dolomites is good, but then the resort levels are high. Having said that, in Jan 2001, the Sella Ronda consisted of a strip of artificial snow set amid green hills. That can happen any year.
If you are blessed with the flexibility to wait, you can maximise the conditions and minimise the cost.