J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by verbier_ski_bum

I have finally sorted my accommodation in Verbier, so will be skiing there again. But next season I am thinking of switching to Chamonix. A trip to Hakuba also appears increasingly tempting.

Yeah, snow is forecast on Wednesday, but temps are expected to climb little bit by the weekend. Hopefully this snow will melt - the ground is too warm at the moment to provide for a stable base.

I thought that Butler's most recent problems with French law were not because of HIS lack of qualifications - this was sorted some years ago, but because he started employing lower level instructors who don't have appropriate qualifications for teaching in France.

Research restaurants and book well in advance to avoid dodgy meals :) happens everywhere when you don't know a place where are you going and your choice is limited because everywhere worth going to will be full.

Cervinia opens on November 1. There are some resorts closer but they are not in the North of the country and not very high, so while is nice to hope for an early, cold and snowy winter it's probably not very wise to count on skiable snow at Rome's latitude that early.

Coincidentally they can't ski :)

LOTA wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:There are only two types that matter - people who can ski and people who can't.

That's a touch arrogant, Mr Bum, who decides who can ski and who can't? :)

I prefer to say there are two types: those who go skiing and those who don't! :)

It's not. People who can't ski are those who always complain. Slopes are too busy, there are too many beginners, too many snowboarders, wind is too cold, chairs are too slow, there are too many gondolas or too many drags, runs are too wide or too narrow, snow is too hard or too soft and grooming doesn't stay perfect for long enough. They are worried too much what other skiers are doing behind them instead of watching their own lines. They will stay forever on top of an empty run until the crowd catches up with them and then complain that hearing others approaching makes them nervous. They want the mountain to accommodate them instead of sucking it up and adapt. The rest can ski. Regardless of their level. They just go and do it.

Dave Mac wrote:Volf, that is a bit insulting towards English, and young people.
There are young people of all nationalities that work in ski resorts, including Scots, Welsh and Irish.
It is a choice that people make. There is a market rate, set by the amount that people are willing to pay for their winter holidays.

That's the problem. People want premium holiday destinations at third rate prices. They want to ski in Switzerland when realistically only can afford Bulgaria. And they don't want to self-cater. They want to be "catered" for and their hands held, but don't want to pay the price of it. And then they claim they don't understand why holiday in one country should cost more than holiday in another country. Too bad.