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bandit wrote:Plenty of folks ride and ski alone. The ones that survive tend to be well educated in Mountain skills

EFA 8)

W.r.t. to your F1 - keep it for practice! If we get another hard winter next year you could leave it in the car to help you find it each morning... :wink:

Trencher wrote:Recco is normally within minutes of the scene if an avalanche did happen

That's only ever going to be true for an "in bounds" avalanche that's spotted immediately in a resort that has a Recco receiver!

Trencher wrote:unlikely any one would have a transceiver on the scene much faster.

:?:

Unless, of course, you and your group have them with you. Your absolute best chance of getting out of an avalanche alive is companion rescue and, as bandit pointed out, that needs you (and your companions) to have transceivers (and shovels and probes and practice, etc... ).

It's worth repeating the oft-observed (but critical) difference between American and European resorts with regard to off-piste skiing here. Off-piste in Europe is anywhere beyond the edges of the marked runs - immediately beyond those lines there is no guarantee a slope is safe. Folk are killed within resorts every winter.

If your clothing / boots comes with Recco fitted then that's fine - no point in cutting it out - but it won't help your friends dig you out while they wait for help that may be a long time coming.

scottbags wrote:Does anyone know if Maroly Sport, near le chatelet lift, has ski lockers if you rent your skis from there?

Don't think they have lockers as such but I'm sure they'd be happy to look after your gear each night. We've hired from them, and had our own skis serviced there, and they always seem to be very friendly and helpful so def worth asking.

I don't recall ever having seen lockers elsewhere in the village but haven't been there for a couple of years.

Mr Wickham may know as he skis from Le Grand Bornand fairly regularly.

The 1984 Winter Olympic venue of Sarajevo which became a war zone in the 1990s during the Balkan conflict has at last seen an upgrade to its life network.

The ski area of Jahorina, which is located in the Republika Srpska sector of Bosnia Herzegovina has installed two new six-seater detachable chairlifts at a cost of 10 million Euros.

The two lifts, which each have uplift capacities of 3,000 people per hour serve the ski slopes between 1531 and 1885mand have comfortable padded seats as well as weather-protection canopies.

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The Herald Sun reports the first snows to fall on the Australian Ski Resorts in Victoria.

A warm autumn day with temperatures in the low to mid-20s gave way to a cold change late yesterday with snow falling on Alpine peaks.

The most snow recorded was at Mt Buller, with the resort saying it had a cover of up to 3cm of snow on this morning.

Weather bureau forecaster Scott Williams said the actual amount of snow that fell would have been more than that, but ground temperatures were still warm from record high temperatures in April and most snow quickly melted.

Snow also fell at Falls Creek and Mt Baw Baw with Mt Hotham getting a small amount.

The 2010 ski season starts on Saturday, June 12.

Intrawest, one of the world's largest ski area operators, has successfully refinanced its corporate debt, paying off existing creditors with a new loan due to mature in 2014.

Intrawest owns eight major North American ski areas, a number which has declined in the past 18 months as the company has sold off properties as it struggled to pay interest due to creditors. After several last-minute agreements in late 2008, followed by the company's apparent inability to meet debt repayments required in December last year, the fears of creditors went public and hit world headlines in February this year when a group of them advertised Intrawest's assets for sale by auction during the 2010 Olympics at Intrawest's flagship Whistler Blackcomb resort.

The new finance package, details of which are not being made public, should offer the company a period of stability as the North American ski industry sees marked signs of recovery during the 2009-10 season.

Intrawest had sold its European ski resort interests in the French resorts of Les Arcs
and Flaine and abandoned another project for a development near Verbier in Switzerland. They also sold their interests in Panorama resort in British Columbia and Copper Mountain in Colorado, USSA.

However along with 2010 Winter Olympic host venue Whistler Blackcomb the company continues to operate the leading East Coast resort of Tremblant, in Quebec, as well as Steamboat and Winter Park in Colorado, Stratton in Vermont, Mountain Creek in New Jersey, Snowshoe in West Virginia and Blue Mountain in Ontario, Canada.

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Mastropiero wrote:the kind of ski I am looking for: it was the Salomon X-wing Tornado

Ok, obvious question then... why aren't you buying some Tornados? I've not skied on your other two options but really enjoyed the Tornado last season.

Lift manufacturer Leitner has reported that the leading Austrian resort of Kitzbuhel has ordered two new lifts for next winter – a 10 passenger cable car and another eight-seater chairlift.

The new Maierl gondola will be Austria's first ten-seat gondola, and will replace a double chairlift and a drag lift on the route.

The 2.7km long lift will take users up more than 671 vertical metres and transport 2,400 passengers per hour. It will also offer heated seats.

The new Ocsalm chairlift will be 1.16km long and can carry up to 3,300 skiers per hour. Like the new Pengelstein eight-seater that the resort installed for this winter, the new lift will also have a pull down weather protection hood.

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