J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by andymol2

Easter's relatively early this year so the choice is greater than in some years.

If you can comfortably walk 5 miles then you are probably fit enough to learn to ski.

Ideally you want an experienced/wise instructor who understands that teaching adults is not the same to teach children, adults and mature people.

Teaching kids is about making sure that they are safe and happy & by and large they will find their ski's like they learned to walk. (Trial & error and watching others)
Adolescents and younger adults have the strength and stamina that allows them to be pushed in different ways to an older person who perhaps hasn't the strength or balance they once had but perhaps a greater sense of fear!

I'm hanging on - they've not fixed the troubled economies and the UK's choice not to lend money it hasn't got may have upset some of the euro economies, who are doing what they can to avoid printing (Euros and seeing their own wealth devalued). Once Germany & France have converted their assets into £, $ Yen, SF etc they will print more Euros the Euro will devalue further but at least it won't cost so much to bail out Greece, Spain, Italy....

My preference is for sunglasses. Most sunglasses are too dark which is a nightmare when the light goes flat and hopeless when it snows. However - a lot of the sports ones have interchangable lenses.

I only tend to wear my goggles when it's snowing even though they have photochromic lenses - but that's a personal preference rather than a tan thing.

Nothing wrong with second hand boots per se.
However overly stiff boots are not suitable for most skiers.
I know most of us think we are flying down the mountain but compared to a racer we put far less loading on the boots and a stiff boot will affect your skiing as well as comfort.

My eldest daughter, on our first week's skiing did a hockey stick stop, or rather got it wrong, and as she fell the tips of her skis shot up - one passing through the crotch of my salopettes!
Missed a mountain vasectomy by the thickness of my y fronts!

Brown sauce in your luggage - no problem - in your hand luggage & it will get treated like any other liquid & get binned at security.

However a jar of proper English mustard would be far better....

Driving isn't a big problem but the economics vary depending on how many are in the car, whether you are taking your own skis, and how it stacks up against a package deal.
Ideally you will be sharing the driving as it's a long drag and, should you get injured, you can get your car back to the UK.