J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

pass :lol: I've got to say, I gave up trying to get from Edinburgh Airport to either Fort William or Aviemore on public transport, it was just impossible so I hired a cheap car.

scott summersgill wrote:hello just looking information if any one has any regarding the kids club.

going in march with a group to tignes and had mixed reviews regading the kids club that are not to helpfull with kids and dont speak english

thanks

I've stayed at the Diva, I thought it was quite good.

How old are the kinds though? We had my niece at 3 years old in a French crèche that was supposed to be English and turned out not to be. I would have been more annoyed but it took 4 or 5 days for us to find out, it was only when she was coming out with French words that I found out :D She came back each day with pictures she'd drawn and making stuff and happy to have been in the snow so we never thought to ask :oops:

Looking back when I worked at an international training centre students used to bring their kids and about 10 nationalities would be happily playing :lol: I think much over 4 or 5 it's a problem though.

I'm surprised by this being a problem. Here in Switzerland I'm struggling to think of places where you can't ride up and down on some sort of lift. Every station here in the valley you can. It's just so normal here, alpine skiers are just one group who use the mountain and about the only ones who want to go down :D I quite often ride the lift down myself after running/walking/skinning/snow-shoeing up in all kinds of places.

Possibly not a good solution though, as a downhill skier this is something to be faced up to or it's going to be awkward. There's other stuff to do in the winter in the mountains though, X-country, snow shoeing or ski touring although you'd make of lifts from time to time there maybe.

This will probably turn out to be one of the biggest snow falls of the season I think.

First I decided to knock a bit of snow off the car in the hope the sun might hit it and melt any ice underneath.



Then off with the hordes for a bit of skiing in waist deep powder. You have to laugh, they only ran the top lift for a few minutes first thing, a bunch of us went up but no one's skied that beautifully prepared piste, I bet they wonder why they bother :D It shut for a while for more avalanche clearance and reopened later.



And back home to finish digging the cars out.

tino_11 wrote:Im gonna have to have words with my mother, I couldnt be bothered to fact check her )

So how far are we talking and is it do-able on trains?

from where? If you mean Germany I'd probably forget it, I looked at going to Aviemore from Switzerland and it was ridiculous both for time and cost. I know coming back I gave a lift to a couple of guys to Edinburgh because the weekend service was so appalling.

Pudding wrote:I had a strange feeling once....whilst in total white-out conditions i thought i had stopped moving, lost my balance and fell over. I suddenly felt all th snow start moving around me and thought i was in an avalanche. In fact i had not stopped but was still moving although very slowly. It was a surreal moment and quite scary!!

In mountaineering on glaciers you can get that disorientated quickly, some people reckon rolling snow balls around helps you gain a perspective on the slope and I sometimes do that off-piste in horrible conditions where I can't quite read the slope in front. I also carry a g3 Rutschblock cord that's designed so you throw and retrieve it to read slope angles. http://www.genuineguidegear.com/backcountry_saws_rutschblock_cord.html

Dids1 wrote:Ok, will do. You are right tho, I am sure it gets easier the better an all round skier you become.

that's the glass half empty view :D

The glass half full, actually nearly full, is you'll never get a better chance to practice a good stance and posture. Normally, if you get in a good posture and relax a bit it pays off. In this light though it pays off hugely and turns the whole thing into a bit of a giggle. You've got to rely on feeling what's going on, partly why I like soft boots to get a good feel, and having a good posture so no matter what force comes up at you it doesn't unbalance you. Like bandit suggests, like having your eyes shut, it's great practice.

Amazingly, I reckon we've had another 10 or 20 cm this evening.

RossF wrote:Lots of snow and snowing HARD when I left. Photos later.. if I can be bothered :lol: Off out...

thought so :D I was just skiing with some scots and they reckoned it was looking good for next weekend back there.