Messages posted by : iLoveSkiing
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SaTrinxa, Have fun. Where are you going?
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Looks fake to me. If you watch carefully you'll see the edits especially when he is going from the 3 o'clock to 1 o'clock part of the turn.
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About chaletslovakia's comment, in case I wasn't clear, the gondola takes skiiers to the sking area and once there the beginners area is the first available skiable terrain.
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debtony, When I was there a few years ago the one and only gondola took most people up to the ski area. There is also a road going up to a car park at top. There is also a chairlift or two from resort level to the ski area but I never used those.
If you don't like chair lifts it's difficult to avoid them if you want to reach the top of the bowl and ski down. A couple of chairlifts take people part way up the bowl while another one right to the top from the nursery slopes. Once at the top there are blue runs leading down and there's a shortish button bar ride at the top should you want to ski the same part of the blue a few times. Any good for kids? I've been to other resorts which appeared to have more to offer kids but having said that the ski schools and instructors are excellent and the princess parc hotel has a few indoor leisure facilities( swimming pool, bowling alley,games room, etc). I don't know what else the resort has to offer kids though. It's a very small narrow thin resort stretching along a mountain road. One more thing, the beginners area has a netting enclosed area served by a magic carpet. Beginners of all ages use it including ski school so it does get crowded. |
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Wanderer, If you're in the UK and google Pro tec B2 helmet you'll find sites selling the B2 and some other Pro tec helmets for less than 25 quid. For what it's worth they meet euro BS and CE certification.
Lastly I do wear a ski helmet. I don't do off piste, ski between trees, ski near rocks or ski recklessly so the helmet is worn more to protect my head from being hit by chairlift safety bars, t-bars, skis being carried in the gondola queue, and head plants when falling backwards onto hard pack or ice. They could be described as trivial matters but they matter to me. |
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Your first paragraph: No, what is bizarre is how you can interpret what I wrote as quote 'you're now saying that you're prepared to wear a helmet to prevent trivial injury in the full knowledge it won't protect you from serious injury?' What I said was a cycle helmet is better than not wearing a helmet at all. your second paragraph : This is where you actually acknowledge that people don't just suffer serious injury but can also suffer trivial cuts, grazes and bruises and for those types of injuries a bicycle helmet may be good enough to prevent those. That was my point when I suggested a cycle helmet is better than no protection at all. To me if a person has only a cycle helmet then protecting themselves from trivial injuries is still a good thing, i'm not sure if you do. |
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Well you are know updating your view by saying it applies to serious injuries. I never said a bicycle helmet will protect a skiier against higher speed collisions. What I said before to you was correct until you added the bit about serious injury. If the OP was talking about high speed collisions I wouldn't have wrote what I did. High speed collisions are a different matter entirely. If you manage to find any reports on the internet about the effectiveness of ski helmet in high speed head on collisions with fixed hard solid objects like trees you may find ski helmets may not be that much use. |
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If people think anyone was saying a bicycle helmet is a 100% like for like substitute for a ski helmet or that every skiier should save money by wearing a bicycle helmet instead of a ski helmet then they need to re-read what's been written.
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