J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ellistine

Try these on snowheads.com, they've just been out there.

Thanks. Now can I bring myself to register with snowheads to view them :shock:

:lol: :lol:

bennyboy wrote:Why cant we have mountains and lots of decent snow here... lol

Perhaps we should be thinking outside of the box - If we can't have big mountains then lets dig a big hole! 1500m deep should do the trick. That just leaves the snow to sort out. We're halfway there :mrgreen:

After my usual gaze at the Saalbach webcams this morning, I was amazed to see how quick the snow is still melting down in the village. Yesterday it was all white, today it's nearly all green again.

Just goes to show how the ground temp must still be quite warm.

Admin wrote:After that... looks a fair bit colder and maybe a wee bit of precipitation too...

Now if you could let me have that in writing... :D

Thanks Admin, It's like having my own private weather man!

Bandit wrote:For the skis,, unless you are planning to rent a lane and run some gates, a Universal Wax, and a Zardoz Pocket Puck should see you through.

This would be the least costly solution - I have both already!

Having been all reved up by Pavel's tuning class I now face a dilema. We're skiing on the Tignes glacier in three weeks time and I can't decide how to wax my skis. Normally with glacier skiing (summer) you would expect the snow to get quite wet in the afternoon. I'm starting to think that by mid November it will be pretty much cold all day. Forcasts for the top have been in the -10's lately. At the moment I have some all round wax and some ultra hard (-16 to -20) wax which I use on the dryslope. It may be that I need to get some less extreme cold wax.

Anybody any thoughts or experiences of the temperature on the Grande Motte?

When we adjust the cuff alignment, are we aiming to make the boot match the alignment of our legs or are we trying to use the cuff to correct the alignment of our legs?

What I mean is, I'm bow legged so my ankles angle inwards from my far apart knees to my close together feet. At the moment my cuffs are aligned outwards to match the angle of my ankles. Is this correct or should the cuff be adjusted to try and straighten my bow leggedness?