J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Far Queue

:( :(

Oh nasty. I was there when that happened. I saw the air ambulance (I'm assuming it was for this, as I only saw it twice all week), but had not realised the outcome, and the reps certainly said nothing during the week.

My thoughts and sympathies go out to her family, it is very tragic.

However, like the argument over Natasha Richardson not wearing a helmet, the fact that she was wearing one does not change my feelings over the benefits of wearing a helmet, just as it will not change the feelings of those who do not wish to wear one.

Well, what do you know, those things we have called cable cars for years are actually Aerial Tramways. :shock:

Best get all the map makers to change their lift descriptions :twisted:

@Brooksy,

hmm, actually, a gondola is a type of flat bottomed boat as usually seen in Venice )

There are many ways you can use the term gondola for things which are suspended and used for carrying people, and I can appreciate that you would call something as large as the one I was talking about as a cable car. However, I would personally call a cable car something which goes back and forth on the same cable, like the Wengen cable car up to the main ski area. The lift I was talking about in Kitzbuhel actually has many gondolas hanging from the cable and it goes round in a continuous loop, never actually stopping for loading and unloading. Personally, I therefore would class it as a gondola, but each to their own.

Why not carry a blow torch with you when skiing? Simples, no snow every time :twisted:

On a serious note, I am a boot tapper/ski pole user to clear snow from the underside (unless of course one of my ski buddies happens to be close and falls for the old "Have I got something stuck to my boot?" trick). I never liked the idea of scraping on bindings, for the simple reason that the snow will often fall down into the binding area, ready to be squashed straight back onto the sole of your boot again when you lock and load.

:shock: :shock:

That's global warming for you :twisted:

Iceman wrote:who? :roll:

Julia Mancuso, you know.. Jules, Chemmy's chum :lol:

The US Female skier who was unlucky enough to be a racer at the same time as Lindsey Vonn :cry:

NellyPS wrote:Bit of yoga helps me in the morning, not much, just some down dog / cobra gets most things stretchy.

And I'm being serious. No rude comments please.

My friends wife just about manages to stretch to some yoghurt!

And she does not even ski :shock:

AllyG wrote:I forgot to say, the other thing the ski instructors do is take the class down a comparatively easy run first thing, as a warm up.

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I don't do running at all thank you! Way to much like hard work.