J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

maybe try the AA?

My best information is that the highway code really only exists in the UK and in other countries there's not a single document like that. I don't know if other countries do a written or theory test and if there's a book for that for example but living in three European countries over the years I've asked for something like the highway code and they've no idea what I'm talking about.

brilliant question though!

I must have picked so much up over the years it's hard to know where to start :?:

put your headlights on it tunnels is a good one.
priority right if there's no marking to the contrary, or better still slow down, get eye contact before proceeding

andyhull wrote:I can recommend piste to powder, their guides are excellent.
If you're venturing well away from the pistes then a guide is essential as is full backcountry kit and knowing how to use it.

Another vote for Piste to Powder, that's Graham Austick's outfit and they're very good. There's some serious off-piste around the area both in terms of technical difficulty and access and you would need to use a guide to get into that. There's an amount of more accessible stuff, around Stuben was a favourite of mine, where the normal precautions are required but you'd not need a guide and there's a number of fun ski itineraries which obviously get skied out pretty quick.

Possibly the best off piste in the area is off the back of the Valluga for which a guide is compulsory or they won't let you take kit onto the top lift section. It's a an amazing start on a steep slope and you ski back into Zurs. Highly recommended!

excellent, that's about 7ft diameter, I think we'll do a 11ft one next :D

bandit wrote:ise your local newspaper Le Nouvelliste have this cartoon by Casal. I think you missed out on the door in your build )

look again, there's an entrance tunnel :lol:

seems to be surviving although I think it's only been above zero a couple times since we finished it.

bandit wrote:

RoseR wrote:
I would be petrified driving on that road, just a little wall around the edge...........no way

That is the main road, it's 2 way, and you share it with lorries carrying whole tree trunks, locals and the Postbus (which has right of way of course) )

I'd not worry about the postbus, the reason Switzerland has no world class F1 or WRC drivers is all the drivers drive postbuses in the mountains :D They're pretty good and I'm the least worried about meeting one.

RoseR wrote:
I would be petrified driving on that road, just a little wall around the edge...........no way

We got hit by a rockfall just there at the start of our first winter here, Mrs Ise's car was only a couple of months old and it made a nasty mess of the body work.

Ian Wickham wrote:
MMMmmm It's really not too far I've driven to Sion many times :wink:

About Ihr 45 mins Now thats not far !!!!!!!

the valley town is Sierre not Sion which is a little further west, then there's the drive up the hill which takes a little time as on that viedo Ross posted :lol:

Neiltoo wrote:Now, assuming one wanted to visit the area where this movie was shot, which one obviously wouldn't due to factors mentioned above, what hotels would be recommended, hypothetically of course? )

In Grimentz :

Hôtel Becs de Bosson, small B+B type thing
Hotel Alpina
Hotel Crystal

Zinal

Pointe de Zinal
Hôtel Europe
Besso

I really wouldn't bother though, there's a lamentable lack of facilities for advanced skiers, most of the mountain hasn't even got prepared runs :!: There's a whole side of the mountain here where they can't be bothered to prepare it and just claim it's a freeride area (whatever that is)