J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dave Mac

There is a warning about star ratings on this site:
http://www.reviewcentre.com/Travel-Agents/Sno-Ski-Holidays-www-sno-co-uk-reviews_1412542

I just tested them for Wengen next weekend,and they came upwith identical results as Iglu.
That does not mean to say that all results would be the same, but we have used Iglu before.
In the case of Iglu, (and I suspect sno.co), they are an intermediary, and you are booked with a normal TO.
We have a great deal from a TO to go to Wengen, allocate on arrival, to one of the top 3 hotels, for just over half of the published price ~ booked directly with the TO.
So, ~ check your Sno offer against Iglu, find out which TO they are with, and see if you can get a better deal direct.

Yes, they stay at the Sonscheinn, run by Gill, Herbert's English wife, always the same time as me in January. So I normally get to ski with the DSUK guys, but this time I put in a bit of effort, and helped out on odd days.

I was pleased to do a drawing of a sit-skier and instructor. Something totally different.

I also have, over the years, skied with, and met socially, many of the blind skiers. I agree, they show the most amazing courage.

Yes, it is different Doug, but Herbert has been a mate for well over 40 years, I forgive him a few foibles.
Every year, I give him an update on where he can improve on service and marketing. He agrees with everything, then just carries on as ever!

As young fellers, he and Walter regularly skied the mountain in around 2 minutes ~ and that was before piste machines! I'm slightly over half a minute slower than that, and I need total sheet ice conditions to manage that!

Well, I was late up the mountain, taking some sunset photos. Went into the Jochalm to have a gluwein. Chattering away to some locals, when in come two Race Coaches, (English). Rather unwisely, they were laying into the beers. We were having a good old natter, I had a second gluwein.
Then I looked out of the window, to see it was pitch black. I got the guys outside, gave them a lecture on safe skiing, then we set off down the Marbachjoch. It was too dark even to see the snow. They got their mobiles out and switched on a tiny torch. I skied across the slope until I felt an area where two piste machines had come up the mountain, turned and skied down, feeling for the piste machine tracks.

Got down Ok, went straight into the Harfenwirt, ski boots and all, and had dinner. Coming out, I headed up the road towards my apartment, when the two racers staggered out of the Bichlwirt. They told me they had been sat writing my obituary! I didn't have the heart to tell them I was down 10 minutes before them....

billip1 wrote:Gosh, that'll need quite a few litres of Dulux Dave .... :)

You have no idea how little paint I can get away with Billip. After all, the page is white, and I am painting snow......

I will be skiing and painting the Schilthorn quite soon.....

When I saw the course, I thought there was a good chance of an upset. As Admin identified, it is a very technical course ~ Olympic courses often are. Hence you quite often get Leonard Stock kind of results. The turns were very tight, and on thejumps, if the pre-jump wasn't quite right, the skiers took a lot of air.

Also, consider that the form skiers, have trained for many years on the Hahnenkamm, Lauberhorn etc. (I will be on the Lauberhorn in a couple of weeks!) Klammer had skied the Hahnenkamm, or sections of it, hundreds of times.

Switching to a newly cut course is a somewhat of a leveller.

In the event, it was just as well that a good early lead was built up by Mayer, since it ended up quite close.