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Trencher wrote:I really suffer from the need for control. My worst nightmare is big fair rides.

Snap! Love to ski steep slopes and rarely bothered by lifts (although don't enjoy it when they stop and sway in the wind!), but wild horses wouldn't get me on a big roller coaster.

Once took my (3-year-old) son on a "baby" roller coaster painted up like a caterpillar - I was bloody terrified as it plunged, oh, maybe two whole metres before slowing down! :lol:

But back to the original post... does sound like a confidence / comfort zone challenge rather than vertigo so go with the earlier advice; take it easy, build up technique on gentle enclosed (by trees, whatever) runs and let your wife decide when to gradually push the boundaries of her comfort zone.

Careful choice of resort may help - you may have to go on a lone recce mission / weekend break first (damn I hate it when that happens) to check out suitable locations... but don't give up!

James Bushell wrote:we're renting from the Swiss side of Geneva airport having read that elsewhere on here..

Almost certain to have chains in the boot when you collect it - and if it doesn't, have a word with the staff; you're very unlikely to need to buy your own.

jobster wrote:how AWESOME is Les Arcs ski area!

Excellent... glad you had a good time. Not yet stayed at 1950 but may well do in the future, given your positive experience. Hope to be heading down that way myself in March, fingers crossed.

Jugglerski wrote:- La Clusaz links into Flaine which is an excellent ski area.

That would be quite some feat of engineering! :lol:

Did you mean Les Carroz... which does link to Flaine?

souldrive wrote:Any opinions anybody?

Oh yeah, proper French village with a friendly vibe, coupla good patisseries (sticky cakes after skiing - top) and some good restos down in the village centre (good pizza right in the main square I think).

With good snow it's a fun ski area and you can get across into the bigger Flaine bowl easily enough (the linking runs can be very busy at peak times but no real problem).

Whereabouts are you staying? If in the upper part of the village you'll be close to the bottom of the home runs which is always nice.

Been too long since I've been to either (hopefully Zermatt this year but we'll see) so very briefly :-

Snow - both are very high, and if either is suffering lack of snow in January then the season will not be a good one...

Ski Area - Zermatt is one of the world's must-ski resorts and for good intermediates or above will have the edge over Saas.

Scenery - both spectacular and awesome; can't really miss the fact you're in high, rugged mountains! :lol:

Charm - Saas Fe prettier but doesn't see the sun much in January.

Won't be much in it on price, and you'll benefit from going in mid Jan.

Personally? I'd pick Saas Fe in the summer and Zermatt in the winter.

Jan I Stenmark wrote:I love it when you talk technical 8)

Go on say something really technical ... :D

Ok, just for you...

The Smart Techy's guide to Global Forecast System interpretation :-

a) Watch the wiggly lines.
b) When the wiggly lines go wibble wobble... it means the weather's going to change.
c) When the wiggly lines go wibble wobble wildly... it means the weather's going to change a lot.
d) When the wiggly lines go wibble wobble wildly in different directions... it means the weather's either going to change in a random and concerning fashion... or it'll stay the same... or it won't.
e) When the wiggly lines go wibble wobble together... it means we have a vague clue that the weather might change in the manner implied by the direction of the wibble wobble.

To distil that down to the essentials, here is...

The Skier's Guide to GFS interpretation :-

a) When the top set of lines go wibble wobble, all together, in a nice downward bump... and the bottom set of lines go wibble wobble, all together in a f.off big spike... that's GOOD.
b) No other sort of wibbling wobble is of any interest... except for those lightweights concerned about things like sunshine.

Got that?

Excellent, to save you having to click the link, here are the latest wiggly lines for you to check out the wibble wobble...



Personally I blame Ellistine and Tony H - looks like they used up all the snow last week...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.............

Imagine what Pav could have made from that lot - anything from another fiendish quiz to a follow-up to the boot-liner toast-holder...

Tom from Austria could have cut them all in half and put fins on them... 8)