J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Pablo,
Thanks, but I still don't really understand what happened to you! Did you mean you went over a large natural jump too fast and damaged the ligament in your knee? Maybe I should have told you I fractured my GT, rather than simplifying Greater Tuberosity of the humerus to shoulder. I'm not up to date with the modern lingo, as my children will agree.

Caron - your injuries sound horrendous, but I'm glad you're back to playing tennis now.

Allie - I sympathise with you about the boot room episode. A similar thing happened to us on the train back, with our luggage. I made space for ours, and we only had one suitcase each, and when I went back to check on it someone had moved mine out into the corridor (where you're not allowed to put luggage) and put theirs in the rack (so I had to re-organize all the luggage again to make room for mine again). I felt really upset with whoever it was who chucked my luggage out of the rack, much as you did I expect.
And I believe they are now introducing speed limits in some resorts, to stop people racing through areas like beginners pistes, which will be patrolled. I hope they take the perpetrators lift passes off them. I've seen fast skiers, myself, using beginners like markers for a slalom run.

Ally

Pablo,
What does 'damaged my PCL in a pretty nasty overshoot' mean?

Ally

Thanks Snowb4ndit,
Maybe I won't give up ski-ing just yet, then.

Ally

Well, I am very glad to hear it Pablo, although I'm not too sure I like the way you qualified it with 'to the point where it has stopped me ski-ing'.

I was ski-ing last holiday with someone with cracked ribs, and my instructor happily told me he'd skied several times with a sprained ankle, and my other instructor told me someone had crashed into her once and broken her wrist, but she still skied with it in plaster.

I am beginning to wonder if maybe I should switch to something less dangerous, like swimming with sharks, or sky-diving or something, especially if people are going to appear out of the blue and crash into me and carve me up, like poor Bandit.

Ally

Is there anyone here who hasn't been hurt on a ski-ing holiday? It's beginning to read a bit like a hospital Accident and Emergency support group!

Hi Pablo,
I totally agree with you about the weight issue and finding a soft landing.

When my younger daughter was 9 years old and on her first ski holiday in Bulgaria, she went out of control on a blue run doing snow plough turns in a lesson, and I was there watching (because as I said elsewhere the teacher was really horrid and I followed the kids all week to make sure they were O.K.).

I was horrified because she was heading off the blue run at increasing speed in the directon of a very vertical-looking red run through the trees, but over to her right was a queue of people waiting for a drag lift. And I kept saying 'hit the queue, hit the queue' to myself, as a sort of mantra - she was well out of earshot - and fortunately she came to the same decision as me (my daughter is a very smart young lady) and headed as best she could (she wasn't totally out of control, she just couldn't stop) for the queue.

And fortunately there were several adults there who'd also been eating large dinners, like Ian Wickam, and they broke her fall, and she was O.K. Afterwards she told me none of them even told her off.

Ally

IceGhost,
I just saw your message after I'd posted mine.

Do you think some resorts are worse than others, in this respect? Were you in the same place both times? And were you really left lying there for 5 hours - I thought the ski patrol people check the pistes?

Ally

Caron,
That was pretty mean of everyone ski-ing past. Were you O.K. or had you hurt yourself? I always ask if I see someone fall over,even if they're not in my ski class.

In fact, I was ski-ing in a lesson and someone came down out of control from above, and whizzed right over the front of my skis, and crashed in a crumpled heap somewhere below me. And I still asked if they were O.K.

I've had 6 ski instructors in 3 holidays, and only one of them has told us anything about the right of way ski code, so maybe quite a few people don't know what it is, except that I have even seen it written on a piste map somewhere (in French unfortunately!).

I also think that, unofficially any way, very young children have right of way, especially if they're in a lesson. Imagine how awful it would be to flatten a 4 year old on their first ski holiday! I always try to keep right out of their way.

Ally