J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

acarr wrote:Ally - me too. I know what people say about proper base layers blah blah, but when money was tight we spent it on outerwear. And we wear the much-maligned tube socks, shock horror! :twisted:

I've been wearing tube socks for the last 6 years as well, without a problem, but this year I've bought a couple of pairs of the merino wool fitted ones to see if I can notice any difference.

And my first few years back on the ski slopes I wore my ordinary jacket, with a zip in liner/fleece, because it is a perfectly good jacket - Peter Storm - and I didn't see why I should buy another one. The only reason I bought a new jacket was because my daughter said I was embarassing her, and actually I don't think my new ski jacket is as good as my Peter Storm normal jacket. Maybe when she leaves home and I start ski-ing without her I'll go back to my old jacket :wink:

Ally

Allie,
I don't know how you're supposed to do it, but when I was using one at Tignes with my daughter, I did a 'one, two, three' countdown so we could let go at the same time at the top. I did find the T-bar much harder than the ordinary button lift, although it was the first time I'd used one for 35 years, so maybe I just need more practice.

Ally

Allie,
I'm glad you like your D2B jacket. I had a look at their sale (thanks Sm4sh) and I've bought some new larger ski trousers (in case I can't slim down in time - if I do I'll send them back) for £39 after a 40% reduction, and base layer leggings for £10 after a 60% reduction, and a base layer top for £10 after a 66% reduction.

I'm ashamed to say I've been wearing some ordinary leggings and ordinary cotton T-shirts under my ski stuff for the last 6 years :oops: :D

Ally

I may well be wrong, but I think Regatta own D2b. My daughter has D2b ski trousers and has no problem with them.

Sm4sh,
112 is supposed to work across Europe, and not just in countries belonging to the EU, plus a few other countries like Israel, whereas 999 works only in the UK and a few other countries like Ireland.

http://www.sos112.info/

http://www.112foundation.eu/view/en/vertical/the_112/when_to_call_112.html

However, I did read somewhere that certain mobile phones will put through 999 calls when you are in other countries, although I don't know how it works or even if it's true.

And I rather think that 112 is supposed to work even if your phone is locked (or has no SIM card), and try and find another network if your own has no signal (query whether the 999 and 112 mobile roaming service is working yet in the U.K.), and presumably will work even if you have no credit. They are also supposed to be able to locate you from your 112 mobile call, in case you don't know precisely where you are.

However, it is only meant to be used for life-threatening emergencies (which I reckon would include being left on a chair lift 50 feet up in the air potentially for the whole night).

I think we should all program 112 into our mobiles. I have :D

Thanks Ise, I hadn't heard of it before you told us.

Ally

Thanks Trencher,
It seems I just have to stop worrying about that noise.

You're quite right, the one time I've been hit from behind it was a skier trying to get through the small gap between me and someone else in my ski class, and I never heard anything at all - I had no clue there was anyone coming up from behind me until I was flat on the ground wondering what happened (and it was a wide, gentle, blue piste with plenty of space both sides of us).

And another time, a skier came down out of control from above and actually skied over the back of my skis, and I never heard or saw anything until afterwards. But that time I was okay, although it must have been extremely close :shock:

I always ski very carefully. I've never hit anyone - snowboarder, skier, pedestrian, whatever, since I was 8 years old :D

Ally

Tino,
I'm glad you're okay. I'd never deliberately hurt anyone's feelings in any of my posts.

I know skiers can be awful sometimes. As I said, I could describe plenty of incidents where I've been frightened, or even hurt, by other skiers.

I think it's that noise the snowboarders make that frightens me, coming from behind me, and I don't know where they are or which direction they're coming from, and what is the best way of getting out of their way (because I'm not good enough to be able to ski while I'm looking behind me).

Perhaps if you could give me some guidance about what to do when I hear that noise behind me, and how not to get in their way when I get off a chair lift, it would help both of us and more particularly any snowboarders I might come across in future :D.

Ally

Snowbandit,
Yes, it is interesting, isn't it?

Was it you that gave me 5 stars on my next post, to make up for the one star you gave me before?

Ally