J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dids1

Your extremes are good looking? Have I misinterpreted that... :oops:

Don't let worrying about the snow ruin your anticipation Smokey.

I've been skiing a lot longer than 10 years and only had one bad week (2007, it was the same everywhere).

It's been very cold this week, so snow should have been maintained.

Maybe in the future if you're not tied to dates you can wait and book late, where the snow is.

But I bet you'll have a great time....

Hi,
I haven't been to either of the resorts you are looking at , so can't comment on their suitability for you.

However, I have taken children of that age skiing and it was hard work!

My daughter was 4 when we 1st took her and we went to Schladming in Austria.
The kindergarten was a bus ride away and it was really hard work as the bus stop was a 10 minute walk.
As she was so small we had to carry her skis, she wore her normal shoes and she carried her boots in a backpack. My son who was just 7 was able to manage his own.
So, I would avoid having to walk far - the bus was ok.

I gather 2 hours morning and afternoon could be the norm in Austria - the creche was all day 10 -4 and they skied for 2 hours morning, 2 hours afternoon.
They had lunch at the kindergarten too. You paid for all day whether they stayed all day or not.
If I did it all over again I would make sure they were in a creche where there were other English speaking children. There was only one other and she wasn't in my daughter's class. She cried a bit when we left her - you have to be quite tough and actually I am really glad I don't have to do it again!
Sometimes we would see her with her class and she was fine once we had gone. The instructors always had helpers to wipe noses and pick them up.

Are you hoping to go with a tour operator? If so, give them a call - they might be able to advise you.

There are some English operators that provide nannies and creches - you might be lucky and get a late deal with one of them in term time. Missing school at that age won't do them any harm.

A friend of mine went to Les Gets with ski famille and said it was very successful.

Take a video camera - We love watching footage of them when they were small - before they got better than us!

I love that webcam - you can see a chap shovelling FRESH snow.

Sorry Boo_yay never been to Neiderau - looks lovely though.

Edit - as it's a live cam the chap has now gone in...!

Just had a look at Tignes webcam
http://www.tignes.co.uk/webcam.htm
looks ok to me - whether it's hard pack, hard packed or machine groomed it's hard to tell!

And I am :mrgreen:

With regard to keeping your speed down and getting down a hairy run as best you can.

I think using as much of the slope as you possibly can could be less tiring and less scary than side stepping.

If you can traverse from one side of the slope to the other bending as low as you can and pressing the top of the boot that's facing down the hill you can slow your speed.
Pressing the top of the boot should hopefully force you slightly uphill, thus slowing you down.

It's worked for me in the past, it isn't pretty I admit, but who cares if it gets you down in one piece.