J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by IceGhost

Jenno wrote:Hello people, can I have your thoughts on the following please:

This season coming up my loving wife has given me permission to go off skiing for a week whilst leaving her at home looking after the brood (we all went last year but financial restraints have meant calling off another family skiing trip till 2011). However my 2 skiing friends , (who are of similar intermediate standard) have decided this is the year they CAN'T go, one having jacked work in to go back to Uni as a mature student and the other one too tied up with work (have you ever heard such a thing?! ) ')

So it looks like for now I may well be travelling alone which I don't have a problem with at all but the questions are:

1) Do I return to a resort where I 'know the ropes' i.e. Kirchberg/Kitzbuhel/Niederau and where I know ski school staff, bar staff (at least if they haven't changed!), ski hire shops and the resorts in general etc
2) Just go somewhere new in any case
3) Just wait until last minute deals are out there (can't go Jan. needs to be Feb or Mar) and way up the costs against likeability of resorts
4) None of the above or a mixture of the above!

Thanks!

Tony_H wrote:This is a family forum Dave, I dont think nudity is acceptable.

farostegui wrote:Hi All!!
I need to be able to ski rather than roll down the slopes in 3 months.
I`m now a human spare tyre in need to fit into my already XXL sized ski attire.
All my inmense humanity would be grateful for some not very complex exercises and "mise en point" to both lose weight and increase the muscle fitness for ski.
I lazily stopped going to the sports centre when came back from skiing in WONDERFUL SOUTH LAKE TAHOE RESORTS 6 months ago. Typical excuses:jetlag, Easter, mañana,mañana.
I am positively resoluted and commited to start a diet and restart my swimming( used to swim 2500 m daily, those were the days....) and gymm.
Could work out 6 or 5 days a week along 1h30 min, maybe 2 hours.

Please I know there would be a charitable soul out there with a passion to
make this world, and me, lighter.
Thanks

Kimmer wrote:Hello

I'm a total newbie to Skiing, after beating depression and overcoming social phobia I am now making the most of my life & want to take my first holiday in years and decided I'd love to take up skiing :)

Planning on doing a "learn to ski in a day" course at one of the indoor snow domes before embarking on a holiday, most probably by snow train (not overcome the flying phobia just yet :?

I will be going with my sister (also beginner) we are both in the later half of our 20's, not that that really matters!

I guess I am looking for advice on where to go, what tour operators are best to use for a "smoothly" run trip (don't want to be left stranded on a train station somewhere - que anxiety!) and any other hints & tips I should know before embarking on skiing holiday.

:mrgreen:

ParalyticSkiCrazie wrote:Last year we flew into Grenoble with the dreaded RYANAIR at half term from Prestwick (flights were incredibly cheap and we had lent our driving friends our roof box for free ski carriage!!) All the flights from UK landed within a few minutes of each other and we had to queue for an hour and a half to get our car - nightmare. The combination of Ryanair and Grenoble airport is not a good one - no boots or helmets in hand luggage, you have to wear all your clothes to keep within the 15kg baggage limit, smallest car hire unit ever at an airport and only one desk for the cheapest car hire company.......

To back up Dave Mac driving from Innsbruck to N last year we saw the traffic (on the other side of the AB) from Germany. If the public transport links are good I would use them OP.