J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dave Mac

Cairngorm opening Saturday.....

There are always good ski things to do in bad weather. As Trencher say, some drills. I bore my friends to death, because I take a bit of time just about every day to do some routines, or experiment.

In poor light, ski right beside the tree line, to get maximum reflected light. I real bad weather, stay safe, stay on manageable slopes, T bars, with people.

The main thing is thinking about what you are doing, what you are trying to achieve, and how you are going to improve.

My first season was exactly 100 days, and I never missed a day, 8 hrs a day, 800 hours.

Minus 4 hours, 2 hrs for 2 funerals a week apart, and errm 2 hrs the morning after Fasching night, it was 10.00am before I could pronounce my own name......

I do recall being at the birth of my first, and we did not know if it was to be a boy or a girl. When the wee thing popped out, I leaned forward, and said to the midwife ~ "What about the sex?".

The frosty reply came back, "Hmm, well, I would leave it for three weeks, Mr Mac......"

I agree with SF, Daisy. It is likely that all of the hotels will be at,or near full capacity. Pre-booking is particularly important in view of the size of your party.

The Eggerwirt and Postwirt are good. Also the Gansleit, owned by Steve, but this is a 10min out of the village. One that I have wanted to go to, but have not yet managed is the Soller Stuben, small, but good traditional Tyrol food.

Be sure to book an early table, you want to be finished and ready to go out when the fireworks start. You will see fireworks right round the whole horizon. All very friendly.

Hi Sarah, welcome to J2ski! Help us out ~ what are your best departure airports? It makes a difference.

J2skiers have different areas of expertise, so if they know where you are coming from, they may be able to offer specific help.

The two main issues now are flight and hotel availability and cost.

I have my name at the top of my skis, so that is a deterent, and in Niederau, the lifties would know.

We also split skis, and try to do them at least three ways. We take our time, and have a good look around at the people sat near. If there are baddies, and they see you have clocked them, that is a deterent.

If I am on my K2 200cm skis, I just drop them in the rack, few people are likely to be attracted, and if they are, I could probably catch them up.......

This is for Clay, (Oh, and welcome to J2ski!).

The guy on the left is the person I am trying to locate. We played together in the Bichlwirt, Niederau. All I know is ~ good skier, very good guitarist and singer.