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Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:03:50 GMT

So its my first day home from my first Ski trip and now i am all sad........how do i cope without another trip till next year?
How do all you guys get through the year?

Don't say book another as i can't, i cannot get time off work or afford another full family trip so i have to wait till next Jan at the earliest...boooooo.....i want to cry.

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:19 GMT

You won't cope.
Sorry, would love to say different, but there it is..

Sometimes I can afford to go twice a season, but not this year. What I do is go as late as possible in the season, then it's not so long til the snow melts and you have something to look forward to all winter (when people like you have already been)

Feel for you.... :cry:

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:09:43 GMT

ditto what Dids1 just said !! at least you have been mate dig the piccy's out

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:16:40 GMT

Yep same hear looking down the back of the sofa for some money at the moment!

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:17:57 GMT

There's no cure...Sorry.

You'll find yourself watching webcams anyway, downloading ski dvd's and going to ski shops to do window shopping. What I also do sometimes is go out in the cold for a long walk and then go to a nice warm pub that has a log fire and order a jagermeister. Then sit there thinking about good times had and the good times to come.

I forfeit all my summer holidays now so that I can have more than one ski holiday. :roll:

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:50:30 GMT

snowb4ndit wrote:There's no cure...Sorry.

You'll find yourself watching webcams anyway, downloading ski dvd's and going to ski shops to do window shopping. What I also do sometimes is go out in the cold for a long walk and then go to a nice warm pub that has a log fire and order a jagermeister. Then sit there thinking about good times had and the good times to come.

I forfeit all my summer holidays now so that I can have more than one ski holiday. :roll:

snowb4ndit- i am seriously considering sacking off the summer hols too but with a family its hard as they want their poolside holiday too. Right now i am gutted....heartbroken in fact. I look at my gear, my pics, my blisters, my vids and shed a tear!!!

Looks like its the snow dome for me.

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:00:34 GMT

Missing summer holidays :shock:

No way :lol:

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:30:41 GMT

snowb4ndit wrote:then go to a nice warm pub that has a log fire and order a jagermeister. . :roll:

I do far too much of that anyway - maybe that's why I can go downhill quickly - as Manny Osborne Paradis said on Ski Sunday yesterday (he does it with a lot more style and control than me though....)

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:35:06 GMT

I am going from 2 weeks in summer to 1 this year, so I can get 3 weeks skiing in again next season. I have had a long weekend, and a week so far, with another week to come in March, and maybe a long weekend at Easter too.

Problem is, the more you go, the worse it gets and you pine after it more and more.

It is, officially, an illness.

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:40:25 GMT

Awwww - bless your wee cotton socks. Know exactly how it feels. It is sooooooooo depressing. I am with Snow4bandit. This season, I have done exactly the same, and I am having 3 ski trips and no summer holidays. My kids are all grown up now though, so can do whatever I please! Your turn will come :D

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:55:52 GMT

It's exactly how I felt after my last skiing holiday....way back in 1998!!

Since then, small trivial things like buying a house, having a couple of kids etc have got in the way of me and my skiing obsession. Oh, and the wife didn't (and still doesn't) fancy going skiing...anyway, this year the kids are old enough to start skiing and so I put my foot down and we're all going skiing (6th Feb, Niederau). I'm 100% sure the kids will be addicted and I'm hoping to make this an annual thing. I'd love to go more than once a season but my lot have expensive tastes when it comes to holidays and want to see more of the world than just ski resorts!

Oh...and 'squash knees' haven't helped matters either :lol:

Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:06:12 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:So its my first day home from my first Ski trip and now i am all sad........how do i cope without another trip till next year?
How do all you guys get through the year?

Don't say book another as i can't, i cannot get time off work or afford another full family trip so i have to wait till next Jan at the earliest...boooooo.....i want to cry.

Leave the kids at home :lol:

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:10:25 GMT

Coop wrote:so I put my foot down and we're all going skiing

PMSL.....Put ya foot down. Since when does a married guy get to put his foot down? Seriously, what did it cost you??? And i am not talking financially.

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:19:37 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

Coop wrote:so I put my foot down and we're all going skiing

PMSL.....Put ya foot down. Since when does a married guy get to put his foot down?

Hello 8)

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:24:15 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

Coop wrote:so I put my foot down and we're all going skiing

PMSL.....Put ya foot down. Since when does a married guy get to put his foot down?

My husband does it all the time...I just take no notice of him! :lol:

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:25:07 GMT

My husband thinks he does. Love him...

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:03:24 GMT

You just need to take up an equally exciting summer activity! I only started dinghy sailing because I was becoming completely obsessed with skiing.

It worked! I'm off to Schladming on Saturday and I've only just started to get excited. Once I'm back I'll only have to wait a few more weeks before the dinghy racing starts again.

Splendid!

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:52:07 GMT

All righter Dorest boy

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:03:36 GMT

ellistine wrote:You just need to take up an equally exciting summer activity! I only started dinghy sailing because I was becoming completely obsessed with skiing.

It worked! I'm off to Schladming on Saturday and I've only just started to get excited. Once I'm back I'll only have to wait a few more weeks before the dinghy racing starts again.

Splendid!

You've got a point.

Last year we went out on my husbands newly acquired motorbike. Loved it so much and it was a high a bit like skiing. Not quite as good, but deffo really enjoyable.
We're going to go away weekends on it in the Summer and that's something to look forward to.

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:12:05 GMT

ellistine wrote:You just need to take up an equally exciting summer activity!

I used to Skydive quite a bit but packed in when i met the good lady and settled down. Everything since then has been an anti climax apart from the Skiing.
Maybe i will buy myself a mountain bike or just stick with my guitar.....either way its going to be long year........

Re:Just home from my first ski trip.......how do i cope now?

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:22:59 GMT

Well, I find Eurosport to be a great comfort. The winter sports coverage starts toward the end of October, and with the Olympics this year, there will be major snow overload for me in Feb.

I have really started to enjoy the Sports I guess people would not usually watch, like the Biathlon, Ski Jumping, Luge and Skeleton.

Plus if you get really lucky, they show the summer versions of these events too :) Skiing on roller skis shows off the mountains in all their summer glory.

I also now watch the cycling tours, especially for the mountain stages. It can be a real boost to my day to spot a 10' section of snow still hanging on in the shade in the middle of July up one of the big hills :) And my mates think I'm sad :shock: