J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by OldAndy

ooops :oops:
Took me a while to catch on !!
Didn't realise the pic was Trencher !!!

andyhull wrote:
Just hope the clouds reward my hard work! I won't be impressed if we only have the Tignes glacier to play on for a week!

This is a view across to Bellevarde in VDI showing OK and Diebold,
encouraging amount of snow.
Might not be skiing back to the town but there is bound to be some varied skiing up high.

aaaaaaah!
:thumbup:
Hope he has better things to do today than live on here like the rest of us s** s* and s***
:oops:

I think the snowplough is invaluable throughout ones skiing career whether or not there is aspiration to become a great skier or simply to enjoy the activity as a great winter holiday as so many do.
I use the snow plough on a daily basis (when skiing - not gardening!), so useful when you come up behind some slower people on a narrow run, joining a lift line, anywhere where a way to dribble to a halt is needed ...

I lived in Les Arcs for 3 years - the home to ski evolutif. I saw some hundreds of beginners go through the non snowplough at all graduated ski length technique and, for the most part, the progress during the first weeks skiing was quite remarkable when compared with a more traditional way to learn to ski.
I never understood why "everyone" didn't teach this way.
But .....
The problem was for 2nd week skiers going to a different resort, they were pretty much back to square one because of no snow plough.
During week 2 of a ski evolutif course the snow plough was taught - once learners had graduated from 1m, through 1.2m and 1.5m skis onto something more height appropriate they were then taught to snow plough and when and where it was useful.

bandit wrote:

Trencher wrote:My day was brightened last week when I went to the shopping mall and found myself skiing outside Macys :D

Were you there signing Autographs? :D

On his cheque book ...
:mrgreen:

bald-eagleman wrote:but at my age I do need to keep my fluid uptake OK so its down the pub at equally regular intervals to balance things out :lol:

Jogging?
Cycling?
Walking at the very least :lol:

Crawling back???????
Very good exercise - crawling !!
So I am led to believe.
:wink:

Chris - the snow reports are correct.
Murren - High = 30cm, that's the Jungfraujoch I presume??? really high up.
Tignes is 55cm "High" - this is between 3000m and 3480m, low it says zero which is correct and only glacier runs open.

Christmas and Easter - go high!
Every season is different.
Worst sking conditions I have had was Morzine in 2007!
In February! Rain, rain, right up high and green pastures lower down - but Avoriaz was good snow - the real reason this was "worst" was it was unexpected.
But I do like to see the white stuff coming down and the webcams looking interesting and people sliding around - it's all part of the excitement over a long dark winter :lol:
I am sure that most resorts will have the snow when they expect it this year.
High resorts opening early, lower ones a bit later.
We will all chear when there is a dump.
Boo when "our country" is low on snow and Austria/Switzerland/France/Spain/Poland/Slovakia/Andorra/Scotland etc etc - delete as necessary - have had a big dump.
And wonder if this year we really should have braved the long flight and jet lag and language difficulties and gone over the pond to ski.
:thumbup:
Here's to skiing, boarding and sliding around on the snow.