J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Finn,
Well done. That was a great deal :D. I've just paid for our ski-ing lessons with my Visa card and I only got 1.075 euros to the pound, and the cheapest rate I can get in town for cash is from Thomsons and they were 1.065 on Friday.

Ally

andyhull wrote:
One was in Tignes, the sign is at the bottom of the Col Des Ves lift which takes you to an area called Le Spot which is all unpisted.

Thanks Andyhull - bang goes my theory then, that they are temporary signs for pistes which temporarily happen to be harder than they're graded for. That particular sign sounds as though it should really have said 'expert skiers only'.

Ally

Sorry Admin :oops:,

Ally

Caron-a,
Thanks for clarifying.

Well,
One is in Africa, and one is in Europe, but other than that they're both the second largest cities in their own country. I know just about as much about Sweden as I do about any African country (except Zambia as I said because I've been there).

But then, as I have said elsewhere, I have led a very strange life, and I am a pretty unusual person. Do you think most other British people know more about Sweden than Zambia?

Ally

Sorry Caron-a,
It's just wibble, because I said I didn't know where Gothenburg was (in his original post Stewart was complaining about the cost of beer there).

Ally

Tony,
Maybe the PSP has ski games on it. I was surprised to see that the wii machine in the chalet at Tignes had ski-ing on it.

Tony,
You didn't see that T-bar lift at Tignes. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the sign did refer to the lift (or at least the path one travelled on).

It was very steep and icy, and what was even worse, it had huge holes in it, and when you looked down one of the holes it was like looking down a well - totally endless - presumably crevasses in the glacier :shock: :shock:.

I am pretty tough, but it did make me feel fairly sick looking down these holes, and when I had a more careful look from a distance, I could see that the glacier seemed to be slipping to the side of this T-bar lift and I remembered that the lift the other side was out of action because the pylons had literally fallen over.

Was that mogul field the one in those other photos you had? It did look fairly horrible. Well done for getting down it. I guess I'd have had to sit down on most of it.

Ally

Tony,
Presumably it is somewhere in Italy, but the only resort I've been to there is Sauze, and I was only 8 at the time so I wouldn't recognize it anyway.

Ally