J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Rebelski

Hi all,

I found out that my wife is buying me ski's for christmas, happy days :D! She's able to get the above ski for £345 (new) including bindings, her Uncle is a ski instructor and can get a special rate. Is this a good price? Does anyone have experience of there performance, etc. I'm mostly a piste skier, but always looking at pushing the boundary!

Any pitfalls I should look out for? I know I should try them out first, but in Ireland there is limited opportunity to do so, and if I wait to go to Austria in January to buy, I won't be able to avail of (what I believe is :)) a good deal.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Rebel

To all,

Thanks so much for your help and suggestions, looks like Hintertux is going to be a runner. All I have to do now is look sad when I collect my cheque! Jager's are on me for anyone one who's out there in Oct!

Any recommendations for accomadation in this area?

Thanks again

Hi all,

So to give you the background to my "silly" question, I'm being made redundant in a couple of weeks time, and wish to bring my darling OH for a week as a treat. No need to feel sorry for me, I start a new job on Nov 1st :wink: We have just returned from Spain (33C, beautiful), so I was thinking an early sneaky ski week would be great (we have Mayrhofen booked for late January) Is it possible to ski in Europe at this time? Where would be snow sure?

Thanks in advance for your expertise.

Rebelski

Just spoke with a ski instructor friend of mine in Soll, they are expecting snow tonight, fingers crossed, and ski conditions are very good upto roughly 3pm, where it starts to get a little slushy due to volume of skiers. Snow management team coping well with conditioins. Next week is to be quieter than this week, but still busy enough for St Patricks week......so to hell with it, I'm going on Saturday!!

Hi BK

I find www.skiwelt.at/en very good for snow reports, webcams etc.

Right now, its showing 45cm up the mountain, 30cm lower down, and only 5 cm at the valley/town. Latest snow was yesterday, but J2ski 7 day forecast thinks thats it for the week!

While it is a low resort, my experience has been typically good snow in March. Problem is, this is not a typical season.

Fingers crossed for you.

Tony,

I know you have recommended Mayrhofen in the past, and I'm going there for the first time in 3 weeks....but what would it be like mid march? I'm getting great deals out of Ireland for there for March 12th, and would have no problem going there twice in one season!!

Thanks

Thanks Tony, To be honest, we're looking at St Anton as its has the height and the Apres Ski, we tend to go a litlle mad when we get away. Obergurgl looks great for skiing, but I believe its a little quiet there. Thing is now we have to try to please everyone with varying budgets, not easy. If you've any idea of some good hotels/B&B in St Anton I'd appreciate it. (Location near the Gondola is kinda important - 200/300M.....we can always stagger home from the pub!)

As ever Tony, a legend......

sm4sh wrote:looking at trousers theres some in the shop 3000mm. what does that mean? think its something do with waterproof?

When buying jackets or salo's, 1,500mm to 5000mm is rainproof (will get wet sooner rather than later), 5000mm to 15000mm is weather proof (will get wet eventually) while 15000mm to 30000mm is water proof, Goretex quality, etc. Go for the later, expensive, but worth it long term. :wink: