J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

I have had another think about this.

On a French website about Les Menuires, they say that 'bons skieurs' should get the entire 3 valleys lift pass, and the other 2 classes of skiers they describe are 'moyen' (medium or intermediate perhaps) who should get the combined Les Menuires and Val Thorens pass (same valley), and 'debutants' who should only get the Les Menuires pass or the special beginners pass which only allows them on blue and green pistes.

Anyway, I'd still go down it. I don't think it could be any worse than that ice at Tignes in October. And I have skied the whole 3 valleys in a day, so I would think I'd count now as a 'bon skieur'.

Ally

I am buying myself some new ski socks for Christmas. Other than that, our ski holiday will take up all our surplus cash.

Rose - 73 pairs of shoes :shock: :shock: :shock:

You are about as bad as Marie Antoinette! You surely don't actually wear all 73 pairs!

Although, now I think about it, that's pretty much the same number as the number of teddy bears my younger daughter used to have in her bed :D I had to make them a hammock out of rasberry netting above her bed, hanging from the ceiling, in the end, because she kept growing in size, and they kept growing in number, until they no longer all fitted in her bed.

Ally

mfc,
He really can run that fast. Our old, sadly departed collie, used to be able to run at that speed as well. If you've ever had anything to do with collie dogs you know that one of the biggest problems with them is to stop them chasing things, particularly cars. Of course, it's very handy when they're chasing the right things, like cattle and sheep that are refusing to come out of the field.

I trained our dog out of chasing cars when we first had him, because it's so dangerous for the dog and the occupants of the car, but the other day I was driving home down our road, and he was sitting at the side of the road waiting for my husband who was helping on a neighbours farm. Anyway, he spotted it was our car and decided to race home. I kept an eye on him and the speedo, and he was definitely doing 30 mph.

Ally

Dave Mac,
I have 3 pairs of shoes as well. One pair of sandals, one pair of trainers, and one pair of smart shoes. Most of the time I wear welly boots (outside I mean).

I always wear trainers in the ski resorts, apart from the year when I couldn't ski because of my broken shoulder, and I wore my wellies everywhere - they were ideal for walking down the side of the piste through the snow, and perfect in the puddles when the snow started to melt.

Minus 30 does sound rather cold. I should think your breath would freeze at that temperature. I found even at just minus 20 my goggles froze on the inside when I hung them round my neck.

And I can remember about 30 years ago we were milking cows with bucket units here and it was minus 16, and one of the bucket units froze to the iced concrete with warm fresh milk inside it straight from the cow! I only put it down for a second, and I couldn't lift it back up :shock:

Ally

You can tell he's going quite fast from looking at the dogs. We have a collie as well, and he can run at 30 miles an hour when he's going flat out (racing our car!).

I would think it would be perfectly possible to ski on wet grass without any snow at all. Anyone fancy trying my theory out?

Ally

Tony,
I wouldn't do any of those things. I'd ask someone about it (using my fantastic new French skills if necessary!). And if there wasn't anyone to ask, I'd just ski down it. It says 'good' skiers, not fantastic, or expert skiers.

There was one of those signs on the T-bar lift at Tignes, and I didn't even notice it for a bit. We just went straight up. I mean, how bad could a T-bar be?

Ally

Well,
You needn't get your panties in a twist Tony :D. I never was any good at party games :cry:. You'll have to persuade someone else to play :P.

Ally