J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by karen72

Just checked the piste map and it looks like St Gervais is more suited for intermediates (not many blues on the piste map). Maybe keep it locked away for a couple of years time.

Salski wrote:

Eggman wrote:Ally, the weather was a bit poor over the New year early Jan, it was a bit wet when we skied with Salski.

Ally, it was great over Christmas. Eggman brought the rain with him when he came for New Year! :( We've self-catered both times we've been to St.G so I can't help with hotels or chalets I'm afraid. We normally ski 3rd week in January & have always had great conditions. We're now tied to school holidays so risked early season this year & got away with it - just (apart from the Eggski day).


23rd December 2009

what an absolutely gorgeous photo. (sorry I havent read all pages in the thread) but I assume this st gervais. Is all of the terrain like this (tree lined skiing), it looks lush, I want to be there! and it might make myshortlist for next year (even though I am a bit "off" France at the min as it is so expensive) but never say never

Karen

Hi guys, I have only read the last 2 pages of this thread and I can see it is starting to get a bit heated.

I think that whilst the choice to wear a helmet in resort is there it should be exactly that, "a choice". Some people prefer to wear one for whatever their own personal reasons.

We choose to wear helmets. One of the main reasons I chose to wear a helmet is because I expect the kids to wear a helmet and I want to lead by example. That is my own personal choice, I am not saying that all parents who have kids wear helmets should wear a helmet themselves, that is up to me and no one else.

To be honest, I never really took any notice about who was wearing helmets on the slopes or not and certainly wouldnt look at them any different if they didnt have a helmet, that is entirely up to the individual.

Anyway I wanted to lighten this up a bit and as I like my kids to wear helmets I thought I would make them stand out from the crowd, and they certainly got a few comments and while their kids, they can get away with it, I refrained from getting me and hubby a mowhawk for our helmet.

I have embedded a pic as I think they look cute, (but I am biased :wink:) Not only that though, it helped me identify them on the slopes straight away when I went into panic mode when they zoomed off without me lol.

tahiti when you say food and drink was quite high what were some rough prices for say a coke, a hot chocolate, burger and chips on the piste? we were paying 3-4 for a can of coke, 3-4 for hot chocolate and 12 euro for burger and chips in valmorel oh an 9-10 for spag bol

Tony I have looked at Serre Che and dont think it would be for us, now come on, elaborate, I know you want to lol

Ok so I casually mentioned to hubby that I am looking at next years holiday and I dont know if he was in a good mood, but he just said are you? rather than no way, so I am taking that as a green light :wink: lol

So far I have been to the following

Soll, Austria twice (20 years ago)
Niederau, Austria 2009
Valmorel, France 2010

What we are looking for is somewhere that has quite a few runs (the size of Valmorel was ideal, wouldn't really want something smaller but would go somewhere bigger. We have had 2 weeks of skiing and are confident on blue runs although would try the reds in Austria but not France. (we could all ski red 19 in Niederau).

We are a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 kids), although my oldest will be 12 and a lot of tour operators class children under 11 and over that they are classed as an adult.

We are looking for something quite cruisy. We would be looking at going the first week in March (taking the kids out of school again) We have a budget of about £500 each.

We would not like to go in a catered chalet but we would be willing to go half board in a hotel which offered a buffet (as we are such fussy eaters). We also would not want to go anywhere that you have to get a ski bus to the slopes.

I have been to Soll in the past and really like the ski welt (from what I can remember) but the thing I didnt like was that it was so far from the slopes. I would like to go back there and quite fancy either Ellmau or Westendorf. I have also fancied going to Saalbach.

Ideally I would like tree lined skiing. I dont mind the odd bit out of the tree line, but it would be nice to be able to ski psat the trees.

I know there are hundreds of ski resorts out there so I am open to suggestion. I havent really looked at many piste maps in Italy or Swizerland but willing to try anything.

thanks in advance.

great video Dave. I have to admit I was looking at it asking myself "was I actually there last year"? it didnt even look familiar, (apart from the end of red 19 on the run home). My youngest was over my shoulder watching it and he wanted to know how you were skiing so fast past all the other people that looked to be standing still lol.

I think it was snapzzz who had that great helmet cam what he got from amazon for about £50. that is definitley going on my xmas list. The conditions look really good too.

Hi tony. we chose valmorel as when i originally posted asking for long cruisy blues, valmorel came up a few times (along with chamrousse, les saisies) when i looked at the piste map, valmorel definitley seemed to tick our boxes and on the whole, we had a great holiday, its just some areas could have been improved upon. it was great being able to ski nearly the whole area without worrying about avoiding red runs.

I also found that the grading of runs in france differed somewhat to those in austria. i think the austrians have a better opinion of what the standard of runs are like ie blues thtat are easy and not stumbling onto a really hard blue.

i definitly wouldnt rule france out as my next ski holiday will be based on wants and needs rather than what country the piste is in. saying that, I found france to be soo expensive compared to niederau last year so I dunno.

I have been looking at saalbach for next year, but hubby is pretty keen for a summer holiday. I will just have to get the thumb screws out.

Edit:

Just thought of another plus for Austria and that has to be the accomodation. (unless we were totally spoilt when we went to Niederau as our accomdation there was fantastic), it had 2 separate bedrooms both with ensuite and a massive living room and a kitchen that had a cooker!