J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

This is one of CatP's photos - but I have no idea where she was when she took it :shock:
It is somewhere in the Espace Killy :mrgreen:


And here is Cat's photo of her frostbitten toes (and part of our bath!). You can see that the toe is starting to go black under the nail.



She didn't ski on Friday because her toes were hurting so much, and when I came back in at 4 p.m. I told her I thought she should go to the medical centre.
The chalet owner told us where it was in Le Lac, and Daved very kindly drove us there (because the chairlift up to Les Boisses had stopped running).
If anyone wants to know where it is, it's under the shopping gallery, at the top end, and there's a spiral staircase to get down to it.

I've never been to one of these centres before, on a ski holiday, so I had no idea what to expect. It was actually a very efficient place, and we didn't have to wait long before they looked at her toes, said 'yes' it was frostbite, and wrote a prescription for her and told her to buy toe warming pads in the ski shop. It was pretty cheap as well - they only charged her 40 euros.
So then we went to the pharmacist and the ski shop, and the bus ticket office (to change her e-mail for a proper bus ticket to Geneva), and got a taxi back to the chalet (which cost 27 euros!).


We arrived back at the chalet just in time for supper at 7-30 p.m. which was just as well, because if you weren't sitting in the dining room bang on time you lost your starter course :shock:
I suppose this was Bonjour's method of disciplining us to be on time for meals. And if anyone was missing they'd actually go up to their room and knock on the door and tell them to hurry up!

The food was very good :)
It wasn't up to the standard of the 4 star hotel I stayed in once in Zell am See, but I wasn't really expecting that!
They did their best to cater for all of us, and although it was a set menu they posted it up on the blackboard in the morning and if there was something you didn't like you could ask the chef to change it. And he cooked me very nice vegetarian food all week :)
My favourite meal was the one where we had salmon and vegetables for the main course, and apple crumble and ice-cream for pudding :) I've forgotten what the starter was.
What was particularly good for me, was that they allowed us free tea all day, because the tea bags were always out, the hot water boiling, and the cups and milk were freely available :)
And they didn't mind me filling my flask with 3 cups of tea in the morning, which lasted me and kept warm in my rucksack all day, even though it was below minus 20 degrees Centigrade :)

The others seemed happy with the free wine served at dinner :)

CatP lost 2 days of ski-ing because of the frostbite, but she managed to ski the final Sunday with Old Andy and me. She's back in the U.S. now but she informs me that her toes seem to be healing OK and they're not about to drop off (which is what she was worrying about!)

This is another of Joe Colins' photos :)
I'm not too sure but I think this is the top of the Aiguille Percee chairlift, with the red Cyclamen piste in front of you.
This chairlift was the long way home for us, via either the black Sache, the blues, or the reds down into Les Brevieres (which is behind you as you look at the photo) from 2,748m down to 1,550m.

This is another of Joe Colin's photos. It's of me, ski-ing down the red Cugnai piste at the top of Val d'Isere.
I really liked this piste, and there was no-one else on it apart from our small group, and our ski host, Bonjour Andy :)
At the top it was extremely difficult, because it starts off as a very narrow steep bit of road (which I side-slipped down although one of the others managed to jump-turn down it). And then the piste turns sharp left off the road and it was really wide and fairly deep in powder.
The first time we went down it the powder was practically untouched, but I liked it so much I asked Bonjour Andy if we could do it again, and this photo is taken during our second run down it, after we'd chopped it up quite a bit.
In fact I fell over on it the second time, but it was a very easy gentle fall - I just overbalanced and sat down with my skis still on, and it was so steep that getting back up was easy :)
And after this unpisted section they'd pisted it and we rocketed down it, carving our way down like on a roller coaster, and it was brilliant fun :)



This is part of the piste map to show where the Cugnai piste is - it's centre top of the piste map.

Here is another photo, taken by J2Ski member Joe Colin, who skied with me and another member of the group every day, either with the chalet ski host or in our private ESF off-piste initiation lesson when the chalet staff had their day off on Thursday.

It's the Alpage restaurant, where we met the chalet ski hosts each morning at 9-30 a.m.
To get here in the morning in time to meet them, we had to leave the chalet by 8-55 a.m., walk 400 yards down the road to the piste and the Sache gondola (which opened at 9 a.m.), take this gondola, ski a very short way on a blue to the Aiguille Rouge chairlift, go up this, and then ski down about 100 yards on a red to the Alpage restaurant.
There were never any queues for the lifts, once the gondola had opened. In fact, the only time I ever had to queue for a few minutes was to get the funicular out of Val d'Isere, and on the last Sunday when they delayed opening the lifts whilst they made the pistes safe from risk of avalanche.

Anyone not there by 9-35 a.m. got left behind, and if they were in my group they had to text either me or the ski host, nicknamed Bonjour Andy, to try and catch up with us somewhere :-)




I've edited a bit of the piste map to show where this restaurant is, in relation to where we were staying in Tignes Les Brevieres (I've circled Les Brev in black - lower right corner, and labelled the restaurant).

We often came back home this way as well, because it's at the top of the Chaudanne lift which is the quickest way back from Tignes Le Lac. It's also a handy hot chocolate/lunch stop :)

Oh dear - how annoying! I hope it's better soon, and be careful going about the resort on crutches - I found the pavements in Tignes far more dangerous than the slopes!

For latest ski chat all I have is a list of stuff about 3 years old - been like that ever since the 'improvements' started :cry:

And I've cleared out my temporary internet files. It makes it awfully difficult to find anything :cry:

I don't think I'm going off ski-ing again - look what happens the minute my back is turned :wink:

Hi Rustyinn,
I think it's a total disgrace myself - 2 months! What! They should have sent you the money back by return of post, together with a formal letter of apology.

OldAndy wrote:

AllyG wrote:
Just noticed you said 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wondered how long that would take.
:lol:

According to the times of the messages, it took me 11 minutes to work that out, Andy :oops: