J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by andyhull

Tony_H wrote:Its also made me think for the first time about buying a helmet.

Just seen this:
Skiworld are delighted to be able to offer the very popular social skiing service once again to guests staying in selected resorts in France. Skiworld have teamed up with a number of ski schools in resorts across the Tarentaise region including Val d'Isere, Tignes, Les Arcs and Val Thorens.

The service is completely free of charge and on a first-come-first-served basis for up to 12 guests of red-run standard and above. Each group will be accompanied by a qualified instructor from a local ski school and a Skiworld Rep. No ski instruction will be given, it is simply a fun and sociable way to become familiar with the local ski area and meet other Skiworld guests.

Sessions will run on a Sunday afternoon for 2 hours. Once the group is full, Skiworld may be able to arrange a local guide (subject to availability) which is payable locally.

Skiworld continue to run their social skiing service in other resorts in Austria, Switzerland and USA, subject to local regulations and weather conditions.

Good to see an upgrade of the 3valleys 1&2 chair lifts, it was quicker to ski further down and take the Plein Sud lift. Now this gives more choice and will make that main area a little less busy with more skiers taking a more direct route.
Better performance in the wind will be welcome too, closure meant queues late in the day for Plein Sud.

The appeal has been delayed at the request of both ESF and Le Ski. It won't now take place until the spring, so no resolution to this mess for a year or two.
The appeal was expected to go ESF's way and that the case would then be taken to the European court.

I used to have a ski lock, one of those with a wire and a combination lock. Ok until it went wrong and we couldn't open it. Solution was to cut the wire which was ridiculously easy. Zero security beyond the deterrent really.

I've run a ski club since 2000, every year we've run at least two holidays with an average of 28 people on each one.
That's well over 700 places over 13 years, in some of Europe's larges resorts, yet we've never encountered a problem with theft of skis.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I do believe the problem is exaggerated. It seems to be part of the standard TO blurb, which makes it sound like it's a daily occurrence.
The only problem we've had is people taking the wrong pair of similar looking hire skis by mistake.

And of course they deserve a poor review if the weather wasn't perfect...

Wanderer wrote:Incidentally, I see that Lech has now been connected over the other direction to Warth adding another theoretical 100k or so to the lift pass. I doubt it would be practical (or worthwhile) to try to get over there from St Anton :evil:.

That shouldn't be difficult, ski to Stuben bus to Lech, the new lift is a lift and a run away. Shouldn't take more than an hour either way.

We're off to St Anton on 5th Jan so will report back.