J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by andyhull

This is what this pocket is for isn't it?

I was only going away once this season, but I said if we still had a place left last minute on our Mayrhofen trip.... Well suddenly we had more people than places, we've now added 4 extra places and are taking 34 including me.
Off on the 10th March.

A first attempt at a ski vid, using some of the GoPro footage I shot last week.

The last three days have been superb, on Thursday we again failed to follow the easy day plan and notched up our highest mileage of he week. Some great little off piste bits and pieces.
Friday we stayed fairly local, skiing down to St Martin, then working our way back towards our valley. Some more great bits of off piste, lots of Go Pro editing to do!
Today we had a blast, Courchevel 1650, across to 1850, down to Le Praz via Jean Blanc black. After a great lunch we did a load of off piste bits and back to base.
8 days in paradise! Amazing week. One of the best.

AllyG wrote:Thanks for the updates Andy - it sounds like you're having a great time :thumbup:

Thanks Ally, my knees don't think so! I've promised them a rest on Monday!

4th day we headed across to Val Thorens, overnight snow leaving powder on piste as well as off. Heading up to the highest point in 3 Valleys we dropped off the back into the 4th valley via the black. Awesome snow, moguls everywhere by afternoon. Epic day. Very achey legs later!

The bashers had done their thing overnight so the 5th day was a cruising day, though it did give the opportunity to feel the speed, 48mph according to ski tracks.
The plan was to have a good ski in the morning then meet a few of the others for lunch and have a very gentle ski with them in the afternoon. We covered a lot of ground during the morning, dropping into the Courchevel valley an working our way back to Meribel via La Tania.
The people we were meeting for lunch turned up in walking shoes, so we weren't skiing with them. Instead we ended up hooking up with a few more of our group and ended up doing a load of filming off piste, so much for an easy afternoon! An amazing day. Everything aches this morning!

I don't know what ESF expect to get out of this, I suspect they will do themselves a lot of damage. It's not that they even want to offer a piste guiding service.

Hi admin, I just replied to a pm, noticed some of the message I was replying to disappeared from view. Viewing on iPad.