J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dave Mac

I did my best to join you, and had discussions with Old Andy. However, in the end, it wo.
uld have been such a short time, late Saturday evening until lunchtime Sunday, I decided it didn't make sense.

Another time

Hi Sal,
This is an unusual causal situation for a ski condition.

Rather than looking at self help with a support, I suggest a different solution.

You may well respond positively to physiotherapy. My reasoning for this is that if you believe the cause may be from sitting at a computer for long hours, then you will need to mobilise and flex the back muscles.

However, if you do choose this course of action, I suggest that you do some homework in terms of finding a sports physio. Start at your local sports centres, sports club. Personal recommendation counts.

Good luck.

LOTA, first of all, well done you!It is a great thing to do, one that you may repeat in years to come!

Second of all, I am the worst person to respond, since I had my several seasons in Niederau, in the days that we only ever skied in the local village. Nowadays, I buy an area pass, Allstar or Tirol.

It was made easy for me because a good friend and I drove out to Niederau for a couple of weeks, slept on the floor of a house full of ski instructors, and I was thereafter committed to both seasons and lifelong returns.

Your situation is much more difficult. Not from the accommodation point of view, that is generally easy, but from the choice of resort! Don't you have any idea where you would choose to spend a season?

Moving on, I want to introduce another train of thought, lifestyle cost. Unless you are minted, going out on the town every night for a season may be OK in Austria and Italy cost wise, but not so in France, and to some extent in Switzerland. Likewise with the mountain day cost. Eg, a lunch/drink cost variation, Austria/France could be €7/€15, ie €800 a season pp. there are other location cost variations such as season pass.

More broadly, you will need to cost in season travel/health insurance.

Coming back to your specific query, an email to your chosen location tourist board would generally provide long term rental information, or to the resort FB page, but this is only part of the cost of staying in a resort.

Go for it!

Brucie, I tried to follow the issue using your connection. I can see the daily depth forecasts. The only reference I can see to 1.79m is 1.71m, whhich refers to the current depth of snow at various heights, this information generally being supplied by the local tourist board.

On your connection, I cannot see a 10-14 day prospect? Can you provide a pointer, please?

It has been another tough winter here. All ski areas have had snow, but generally accompanied by high winds, 90 mph yesterday, thus scouring the snow from the slopes. The machines will be able to move the snow about, and the winds are abating, so in a few days we may see the best skiing of the winter.

Glenshee is still quite thin. (That's the one I need, just over an hour from here)

http://www.winterhighland.info/

dobby wrote:Schnapps was erm interesting. Some tasted good, some bad. All had the same effect...

Obstler, (farmers schnapps) is the best for me, but stay away from the Krautinger. In the Wildschönau, where Krautinger is made, it is treated like god. I can vouch that I have, on many occasions, surreptitiously poured the Krautinger into any handy plant pots.

There are many modern variations, some quite pleasant, Blaubiere, Hazelnusse, Peach, etc.

Every winter, I meet with my friend Walter and taste a few. "Dave, I have this special schnapps, from my cousin, uncle, nephew, friend, at the other side of the mountain, far end of the valley, from Alpbach, Westendorf, Kitzbuhel......
They mostly tasted the same, as they have for the past 40 odd years, but it's the cameradie that counts.....

I have been reading J2ski's snow reports for at least 100 years, (is that right Admin?), and they are generally informative. It is weather. It changes.It is a forecast. not the ten o'clock news.

J2ski is a highly regarded site, and any suggestions that snow reports are geared towards attracting users are pretty low level.

I am reminded of the time, as a young instructor, someone asked Franz, our head instructor, when the next snow would arrive. "Wednesday morning, at 10.00 o'clock" (This was the previous Friday)
"Amazing! How do you know?"
"Well earlier this morning, I saw two crows flying upside down, and that told me when it will snow"

Come the following Wednesday, it started to snow, a few minutes after 10 o'clock.

I met with Franz again last summer, now in his 80s, he is still going strong, so he might be available for weather consultation Admin, if only to provide reassurance to some of your more doubtful readers.

Oh, another crow story. Last season, going up a chairlift in Vail, a crow flying towards us, suddenly turned a flew over our heads upside down.
"That crow will probably vote for Donald Trump", says I. Two Americans on the chairlift burst out laughing. The guy next to me got really angry, defending Trump. After a short conversation, it was established that he worked as a manager in a US investment bank.....

The ski school is on the opposite side of the road from the gondola, and towards the village centre.