J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Bandit,
Why did you think that what I wrote was spam? Admittedly I didn't edit the content, but just copied and pasted it from the Tignes website, which wasn't perhaps up to my usual standard, but I was very busy this morning and I didn't have time. Sorry everyone. I was hoping that someone else would do the same for the other summer ski resorts so that we could compare them.

Thanks Ian, and Ewanmalone :D
I thought it was quite interesting myself. Before I went to Tignes last October (and looked it up on the internet) I had no idea that you could jump on skis into the lake during the summer. And having sat there myself, I can verify that the view from the cafe at the top of the funicular is quite amazing and a real suntrap.

Ally

This is what you can do in Tignes during the summer (from the website Tignes.co.uk). I think the most important thing to note is that you can only ski in the morning, from 7-15 to 13-00, presumably because it goes all slushy after that.

Tignes has great summer skiing; 16 ski lifts and over 20 kilometres (130 hectares) of runs & a vertical drop of over 750 m, gives you plenty to do. For the summer ski season, the Glacier will be open from 19 June until 29 August 2010 & then reopens late in September. A popular hangout is the snowpark, offering 2 half pipes, rails, bumps and jumps of all sizes. Often there is a BBQ, music and you can watch some of the pro's that spend their summers practicing here. There is a multitude of other activities to do, see the activities organised by Evolution 2 below. The Grande Motte glacier ski area will be open every day from 7h15 to 13h00 from 19th June to 29th August 2010. In the afternoon ski lifts are open for mountain biking if you're interested in this activity.

The Glacier opens from 19 June until 29 August 2010

Tignes is like a different town compared to its winter counterpart: the Le Lac nursery slope is covered in tennis courts, a football pitch, basketball, volleyball, beach volleyball, table tennis and table football. Behind which you can see the volleyball nets and an amalgamation of skateboarders, BMXers and roller bladders in the skate park. There is also " Acroland" with it's acro-bungee, trampolines, water slide and of course the spectacle that is 'the water jump' where people on snowboards, ski's and roller blades, are hurling themselves off one of the four jumps and flying straight into the lake. A great place to practice the acrobatics of these sports, also a good place to sit in the sun and watch the madness.

FREE BIKE PARK ACCESS - Click for more information
(scroll down the PDF for information in English)





On the lake itself you can hire sailing boats, windsurfers, canoes, rowing boats and pedalos, for some of which lessons are available. You'll notice Europe's highest golf course on either side of the lake, horse riders and fishermen. As you arrive in Val Claret the scenario can look quite odd with some people in shorts and t-shirts but others in full skiing outfits. You can take the Funicular to the Beautiful Panoramic Restaurant.

As a matter of fact, when I had my boots fitted a few months ago, I offered to show the boot fitter the video of me very carefully ski-ing through the giant slalom in Courchevel. And he said he wasn't interested, he could tell what my ski-ing was like just from listening to me (and reading what I'd written on their sheet) and looking at my legs and feet.

But actually I agree with both of you, I think a video would help sort out those who over/under play their ski-ing abilities.

The write-up on the boots he picked for me say the flex on them is suitable for intermediate to advanced, so I suppose there is a fairly wide range - maybe 3 main flex types? Beginners, intermediates, intermediates/advanced, and then of course the more special types like racing boots (which sound as though they are so tight/unflexible that they must be extremely uncomfortable).

I would have thought this means that if you buy boots as a beginner you would have to buy at least one more pair, if not two more, as you progress (the same as for skis).

I don't know if it's correct or not (maybe someone will help me out here), but it was explained to me that beginners wobble about a lot and one wouldn't want all those extra movements transmitted to the skis, so the boots are more flexible, and then when one improves more one should be making more of the correct leg, foot, and body movements (less wobbling about) which one wants transmitted straight to the skis, so the boot is stiffer.

Ally

Hi Brooksy,
I wondered what you meant, so I had a look at the survey, and it's got a whole section on helmets!

Ally

rossyhead wrote:I only actually ski with one in which gives me the best of both worlds!

Rossyhead,
My daughter does the same, unless of course she has a particularly irritating ski instructor, in which case she puts them both in :wink:

Ally

Oh no Brooksy, don't tell me I've broken the rules again! :shock:

Are we only allowed to post information we've found on Google, now? :lol:

Actually, the euro/pound rates are, as usual, off the Visa website.

Ally

Pablo Escobar wrote:Or just keep to the topic?!

A present for you, Pablo ... :D

'The Visa euro rate today was 1.20 euros to the pound'.

Who reckons the pound is going to continue to improve against the euro, and who thinks it's going to go back down?

Ally

Of course the earth is flat - how could it be otherwise? I mean, if it was round, we'd all fall off :shock:

And as for ipods and ski-ing, I'm with Ian on this one. It's not our fault that no-one (as far as I know) has done any research into the incidence of ski-ing accidents while listening/not listening to ipods.

I know it's very dangerous when cyclists (our road is a cycle route) are listening to them, because they can't hear me coming round the bends in my car and I nearly run over them - in fact I nearly squashed a whole batch of them the other day - they were right across our single track road on a bend.

Ally