J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Thanks Col,
At least we know how to spell her name now and we can look her up! Go back a couple of pages and you'll see what I mean :D

Ally

Hi Michael,
We have skied twice at Val Thorens in the Three Valleys, and you certainly don't need to use the ski bus there, although I believe there is one. You can ski down to the lifts from pretty much anywhere in the resort, and they have drag lifts to get you back up to your chalet/apartment/hotel, or you can choose the run that ends up at the back of the resort and ski back.

The whole place is basically ski in and ski out as long as you aren't a beginner. But it's not particularly pretty, because it is all purpose built, and there are no trees, so it depends on what you want. Courchevel in the 3V's is much prettier with trees but more expensive.

I don't know how busy it is at the beginning of March, but I don't suppose it will be busier than during Feb half-term when we were there, and the resort seemed to cope fine with the vast number of skiers because there is an excellent lift system, so although the queues look very long in the morning they also move very fast.

Ally

My daughter has worn Dare2b ski trousers for a couple of years now, and they seem to be fine.

Ally

Hi Everyone,
I'm glad you enjoyed looking at my photo - Dave Mac, Tino, and Tony, even if it was only to look at the old fashioned bindings and boots on my feet.

As I said somewhere before, I don't remember falling over at all with those bindings and skis when I was only 8 - just as well!

What I do remember about the slopes in those days (around 1970) is that they were much less crowded. And although I was very naughty 8 year old and bunked off my lessons to go hurtling down the slope on my own, I did stick to beginner's slopes. I didn't try going down a black. I'm amazed at the number of beginners who aim to go down a black by the end of the week - even some of the ski instructors seem to be happy enough to allow this.

The only way to stop this, I suppose, would be to stick compulsory labels on beginners with L or D (for debutante) on them and have the piste patrol and lift operators on the watch for them so they can't go down any of the really hard runs. But it would cause an awful lot of extra trouble and clog up the lifts even more, and I suppose they'd find a way of getting the labels off (come to think of it they could do it with the lift passes but it would be pretty complicated in practice).

The new skis are definitely much better than the old ones. When I first tried out the new ones, after 30 years without ski-ing, I was amazed at how easy it was to turn them - in fact I was accidentally ski-ing in zig zags for a bit until I got the hang of how to ski straight.

I have found that in lessons they do usually do an informal test on everyone at the beginning of the week to group them according to their ability, and also at the end of the week to tell them which group level they should ski with next ski holiday. But I have never had a proper piste safety talk, which ideally should be given at the beginning of the week.

I did a quick search just now and found an article and a website on piste safety

http://www.chalatlaw.com/articles/skiercollision.html

http://www.ski-injury.com/research

Ally

Pipe-dream

(And before anyone says that's not connected with ski-ing, it is because I can guarantee that everyone here spends quite some time day-dreaming about going ski-ing!)

Thanks Finn,

All I could find on google was one who was a German archaeologist!

Ally

(Who's that?)

Snowbandit,
It sounds pretty much like a 50:50: situation you have here, head versus heart.

I guess only you know which one you will regret losing the most afterwards -the holiday or the job.

And you will never, ever know whether you made the right choice, because you won't know what would have happened if you'd chosen the other option. Such is life!

What I generally do, in these situations, is make a choice based on the best information I have at the time, and then stop thinking about the other road I didn't take before it drives me completely mad.

Just make a choice, and move on. I reckon whichever one you choose it will turn out fine.

I have to say, though, if it was me I'd choose the job - but that's just because of my puritanical upbringing. I am always ruled by my head, not my heart :cry:

Ally