Messages posted by : AllyG
Hi Philip, I'm glad to know you're still here and have broad shoulders :D I'm looking forward to the photos - especially the ones of your new jacket! Ally |
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All in all, a great day painless feet ...
Hi Iceman, I'm glad to hear your feet are feeling better now - let's hope that's the end of the problem Ally |
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Maybe Admin should start a thread on how to be diplomatic on J2Ski, especially with newbies. I'm sure we could all do with a few lessons on this :D
Ally |
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Hopefully Philip will continue to post on this site.
Personally I never notice what anyone is wearing either on or off the ski slope. I mean, if they were wearing nothing then I probably would notice :D but any kind of ski gear looks fine to me on the slopes. And for myself I go for cheap, warm and comfortable, and I don't worry about what it looks like. Anyway, I hope you have a great time on your ski holiday Philip, and welcome to J2Ski :D Ally |
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Thanks for the report Pablo - lovely photos (as usual) :D
Best of luck with your dissertation, Ally |
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Hi Snapzzz,
I'm sorry to hear you've damaged your bindings with your ski pole :cry: Up until my most recent ski holiday I also released my ski bindings with my pole. However - the pace of my ski lessons has increased so much that I found I was getting left behind at the gondola station by doing this, as the others (including the instructor) were stamping on the binding with their ski. So, I've joined the gang and I also stamp on the first binding with my ski and use the released boot for the second. For me anyway, it's definitely much quicker to do it this way. I shouldn't think it damages the ski or the binding because otherwise the instructors wouldn't do it. But I have to admit I hire my skis so it's not my problem anyway :oops: Plus, I had adjustable ski poles and one of them shrank to the size suitable for a five year old whilst I was using it to release my bindings, and I had to ask the instructor for help to expand it back to normal ( I don't know how he managed it without a screwdriver but somehow he did - aren't ski instructors wonderful!). Ally |
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Iceman, The soles of my feet were aching a bit as well, after ski-ing in the Three Valleys recently. Like you, I was a bit confused about this. As you probably know (because I wrote that whole piece about it on here) I had my boots fitted with special insoles and I've been ski-ing in these boots during several ski holidays since without any problems. So I was quite sure that there was nothing wrong with my boots. After thinking about it I came to the conclusion that it was the unusual piste conditions that was causing my problem. I don't know what Val Thorens is like at the moment, but a couple of weeks ago in Meribel there was masses of powder everywhere and the pistes were all either deep powder or ploughed up into an unsightly mogully mess. Our ski instructor told us to 'bounce' (my expresssion) our turns to cope with this mess by pushing down on our skis before the turn so that the skis would rebound up for us to pivot them clear of the powder. Now it seemed very likely to me that it was all that pushing (which I don't normally have to do to that extent) which was making the soles of my feet sore. Anyway, after a few days the soles of my feet seemed to adjust to their new pushing task and they stopped hurting. I think going to see a boot fitter if you have any doubt about your boots is a good idea, but I'm just tentatively suggesting that the cause may be the condition of the pistes, if they are still as bad as they were when we were there a couple of weeks ago. I hope your feet feel better soon and you have a great time. I wish I was back out there now, sore feet or not :cry: Ally |
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Hi Pavel,
Re your number 5 - fog on goggles - I recently heard about a new invention - goggles with an in-built fan! : http://adventuretravel.about.com/od/adventuretravelbasics/gr/SmithTurboFan.htm I wear glasses with goggles over, and what I do myself is lift my goggles up and leave them on top of my helmet every time the group stops for the instructor to do some instructing. This seems to work very well at preventing the fog forming on my glasses, which I guess is caused by condensation of the steam I produce. When I'm actively ski-ing there's no problem, it's only when I stop. And, Snapzzz, I hate those toilet steps as well :evil: Last week I saw a poor little kid try to get into the woods for a pee and disappear up to his neck in powder, and his dad rushed off in hot pursuit to rescue him! Ally |
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