Messages posted by : AllyG
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Valmeinier
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Thanks Dids1,
But we'd better get back to ski buses now, before Admin locks this thread as well, because of my 'wibbling'. I definitely seem to have a problem with 'wibbling off piste' all the time. So, on the subject of ski buses, I have noticed that the schools seem to use the buses quite often, presumably because they are so cheap, and kids seem to be able to stay up all night, all week, and ski, before they go home and collapse. Also, I suppose kids are shorter :lol: Ally |
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I've never been there - but how about Praz sur Arly?
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I don't know why his skis didn't come off. One of my skis came off when I just skied into a pile of powder with my right ski. I got stuck on a run once, like you and your friend. In my case it was entirely my own fault. It was the first time I'd skied on snow for 30 years, after some refresher lessons on the dry ski slope. I was doing really well on the blues, so the friend I was ski-ing with suggested I tried going down a red. Well, it was a total disaster. I couldn't do it safely and under control, at all. But luckily for me there was a blue piste running parallel with it and I managed to walk over the slight incline dividing them and ski back down the blue. After another couple of days of practise I was fine on that red. And about a month ago, when we were autumn ski-ing on the glacier at Tignes, we got stuck on a red at the top because all the snow had come off it and all that was left was the base layer of hard glacial green ice, which is almost impossible to ski on. We side-slipped down the side of the piste until we reached the snow. These things do happen sometimes, and you have to work out a way of getting down safely, and under control. As far as piste maps go - I have long had a 'thing' about them. Every resort I go to seems to have at least one mistake on the piste map. And sometimes a blue seems more like a red, or vice versa. I don't find them very easy to read, myself, either, because they are 2-dimensional and obviously the mountain is 3-D. I can remember staring at a huge piste map once, wondering where the piste I wanted had gone, until I realised that it was hidden behind the shoulder of the mountain, on the map. The best thing to do if you're a beginner, is only to ski where your instructor has taken you, because you can be quite sure it's safe, and you won't get lost (assuming you are having lessons in the morning, and ski-ing on your own in the afternoon). Best of luck with your next ski holiday, :D :D Ally |
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What I do is hire our skis, and pay the extra insurance on them to the hire shop, so that I don't have to worry if anyone nicks them (I already have general ski insurance but I reckon this would save a load of hassle if they did get nicked).
The only worry I have is that I won't know which ones are mine, so I generally get the hire shop to put my name on them. So if anyone comes across a pair of skis with Ally G written on them during their ski holiday, it will mean that I'm somewhere in the vicinity - probably the nearest cafe. Ally |
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Dids1 - your husband sounds like a typical male - does he keep hold of the telly control all the time as well? :wink:
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Rossyhead,
That's great. You can be 'Our man in Bormio' (Graham Greene) for the season. I didn't know you were a wizard at maths :shock:. Ally |
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Tony,
That was really funny. I think it's got to qualify as the best post of yours that I've ever read (I never award stars so don't get too excited though!) :D :D I can see why you don't like coaches now. As I've said before, the longest I can stick on a coach without feeling really, really sick is an hour and a half. So there's absolutely no way I'd ever survive 20 hours on one. Ally |
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