J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Well done Snowbandit, but don't gamble away all the money from selling the house in Las Vegas :wink:

Ally

I still haven't been able to find anything out about Tenna as a ski resort. It must be a really tiny one, and I don't get why they'd go to the enormous expensive of installing a solar powered drag lift.

Ally

Maybe we should get back to discussing solar powered ski lifts .... :D :D :D

Ian Wickham wrote:You mean you do not wear Tenna pants :lol:

Certainly not, Ian, I was very good about doing all my ante and post-natal pelvic floor exercises :D

I got waxed once, including a bikini wax, and it hardly hurt me at all. I think maybe the amount of pain it causes varies from person to person.

Ian,
I don't know the altitude of the Tenna resort, or indeed anything about it at all, since it's not listed under Swiss ski resorts. And when I tried googling it all I got was a whole lot of stuff about urinary problems :lol:

Ally

Thanks Pablo,
That's very kind of you :D

Ally

Pablo Escobar wrote:

Second edit
I phoned the editor of natives.co.uk and she phoned the resort at Tenna, and yes it is a drag lift.

Wow :shock: :lol: :lol:

Pablo,
You should know me well enough by now to know that I don't stop until I have the answer to whatever it is that is currently bugging me :D

And thanks to my phone call the editor of natives.co.uk has corrected their web article on this ski lift so that it now says:

First there was a solar-powered rope tow in Westendorf, Austria in 2008, now solar power has been incorporated into a T-bar in Tenna, Switzerland - and manufacturers claim the panels will geneate enough electricity even in overcast conditions...

But I still haven't really cleared up the issue of how much electricity the cells generate, or how much the T-bar uses. I am hoping that a J2skier fluent in German will watch that video and tell me what it says.

Ally