Who’s going skiing and where 2019

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Logan777 said:

It sounds interesting! My wife and I like skiing. This year we won't go anywhere as my wif is pregnant and we are waiting for the birth of our daughter in December. But I'll keep your suggestion in mind for future! Thanks!

You can always do a short weekend trip with the boys whilst still with family.
I’ve had years where I simply couldn’t take leave at Xmas half term or Easter so frankly couldn’t go skiing with the family no matter what - so I do go without as and when.

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S100HP said:

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You can always do a short weekend trip with the boys whilst still with family.
I’ve had years where I simply couldn’t take leave at Xmas half term or Easter so frankly couldn’t go skiing with the family no matter what - so I do go without as and when.

You can indeed, and there are companies who cater for skiweekends

I wonder do they do setups where like minded people can go - it’s not easy ranging leave with work and friends. Likewise some friends can be very good or very novice so you’d likely see them a few times in the day

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Looks like heaven.

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What’s the predictions on snow fall this season?

Last year was peak El Nina so logically should have been max winter and it was, Will this year be much less snow or not?



Looking at Bansko whole mountain and currently there isn’t any snow what so ever anywhere and 10+ degrees at the mid Station.

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lemmingjames said:

For those that have skied Japan in particular niseko, is 6 days enough or do you need more time there? I'm booked on a group tour thing but you make your own travel arrangements

Plan is to do a day in rusutu, day cat skiing and probably a day or two with a guide.

I know there's never enough time in a ski resort but would still look to do a further 1 or 2 weeks in Europe or america.

Also metal folding shovel with getting instead of the normal shovel?

Surely the answer is clear - anyone travelling significant distance to what would be a rare destination would want to spend longer than they would closer to home.

Would anyone seriously fly to Oz for a week? No

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4Q said:

Just got back from an amazing week in Tignes/Val d’Isere with a bunch of Snowheads. Conditions were fantastic with fresh snow and blue skies it was a perfect start ready for the season.


Just waiting for my season pass to arrive for the Grand Massif as we’ve rented a chalet in Morillon for the season again

Edited by 4Q on Sunday 9th December 10:17

Rented a whole chalet for the season in one of the top resorts .... that’s doing it properly.

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chandrew said:

That's great going! I live in a ski resort and I don't think I got 60 days last season, and they tend to be half-days when I do go out.

I've had 5 'days' so far this season. We've got 3 days continual snow until Wednesday, so I'm busy rearranging meetings on Wed to let me get out at 8:00 when the children go to school.

30 weekends ....or assume possibly a few full weeks so it really still is pretty much every weekend from Dec to early April.

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FOR THE SEASONED SKIERS HERE do you change your ski boots every 3 years like a car and trade them on eBay?

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popeyewhite said:

lemmingjames said:

You avoid resorts because people ski fast?

I'd say 106 kmh is a little more than 'fast'. And yes, I'd stay way from what you call 'fast'. Don't know what it is about big French resorts that attract this kind of person but speed skiers, beginners and boarders with a paucity of survival instinct and manners seem to throng there.

I cannot imagine most normal holiday skiers will be regularly doing 66odd mph more like 25-45mph. I used to love fast and kept pushing but then realised if I come off at the speed I was doing on one run I was borderline out of control/not comfortable (Piste was empty and I don’t go crazy fast unless that is the case if I catch up I back right off and go with the flow.) so chilled out and instead of no skill but billy big balls going straight down runs I enjoyed trying to get better at technique plus skiing with others usually means there are always those hugely better and also some who are total novices/just onto the runs. So a blend of style is required.

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A few years ago I was at the side of a Piste and a mate went on ahead I lost track of him but noticed some chap in black face palming the snow - so I set off down the hill to see if I could help/if he was ok. Turned out it was my mate he’d caught something in the Piste that flipped him hard into an icy patch. He’s smashed his chest into the ice. I managed to get him up he hadn’t broken anything and felt ok to ski to the nearest coffee/bar on the slope to relax. That adrenaline wore off and he was in agony coughing agony etc.

He couldn’t ski again that trip and it took at least half a year back at home for the sternum injury to recover.


Another friend was skiing in the alps - day 1 run 1 Piste looked good, it turned out to be a very tricky black. He carried a lot of speed lost control and sped down the slope then he was seen with his leg going one way and the knee in what was the totally wrong direction.

Piste ambulance down the slope crutches - caught the earliest flight back home. Needed knee reconstruction surgery. Cannot ski for at least two seasons and even then might never be able to again.

I know I take risks / don’t realise I am but those incidents and accidents I’ve seen and tried to help where some poor person is screaming in agony waiting for the ski patrol to come with morphine. That really really helps me slow right down and also not to do too much distance

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In the news so much of Austria is snowed in.

One resort wouldn’t hold the ladies tournament so L Vonn and others didn’t go. Hope that doesn’t spoil anyone’s skiing.


As an aside - how are the U.K. ski resorts doing? Is it really worth a quick drive up there for a l2 day ski weekend trip (From Reading)

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downthepub said:

I haven't, and I've read other stories of breathing trouble. We will be overnighting in Denver before driving out to the mountains, so that should help. Been to Colorado before with work, and drove up Pike's Peak - was fine with that at 14000ft but no physical exercise. Driving a Pontiac Grand Prix isn't terribly strenuous. Cheers for the reminder though!

Are you part of the high BMI folk if so might be worth a few weeks on a tony calorie diet to drop those LBS and try to do some exercise even if it just walking more than you do otherwise you’ll be wheezing and sweating having done barely any work at all.

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Need some help
16/2-24/2 range half term.

Want to go skiing family of 5. Kids age 7/4/nearly 2.
Want it to be a family ski HoLIDAY not a SKI holiday.

Would have gone to Bansko but it’s really busy then plus missed buying flights when cheap now it’s nearly £5k return flights which is ROFLOL.

I’m wondering if Hemsedal or some of the Nordic resorts would be good - want lots of things for young ubs to do play in the snow etc without needing gondolas. Also don’t want to be spanked on £.

Appreciate the help.

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SPR2 said:

Some neighbours returned at the weekend. They had to stay overnight on flight arrival, transport to their venue took 6hours instead of normal 2 and no skiing due to amount of snow.

That’s dire if your going for 2-3 days skiing and only ski trip of the season.

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Fattyfat said:

Heading to Pamporovo at pretty much the end of season in March. Never skied before....

Any tips?

If possible take a few lessons first in the U.K. so you are able to stop (pizza) and turn else your first 2 days will be on a very very slight gradient nursary slope.
You will then be able to go up the mountain and explore some great blues.

If it were my first week again I’d not try to go on reds instead simply have a blast on as many blues as possible.

The food is great value you’ll have a lot of fun.

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Rojibo said:

Just under a week until we go to ADH, getting pretty excited, going to pop some PH similes on my ski case. My girlfriend stubbornly refused to have any lessons whatsoever at the indoor slope, so it'll be the first time she's ever even put the boots on when we get there, could be quite interesting. I guess I'll just leave her with the ESF group in the morning, and try my best not to say I told you so...

I do hope it's not going to be too busy with the French school half term...

That’s a shame she’s will likely instead the whole holiday on. E bursary slope and maybe just manybe get up to a blue run if she is lucky.

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Rojibo said:

C'est la vie. Will have to see if I can teach her anything in the afternoons.

Edited by Rojibo on Sunday 3rd February 15:30

That’s a 100% for arguments.

Put her in full day lessons 4-5 hours a day not just mornings. She needs a blast to get her good quickly.


In The Telegraph a while ago here was an article about a family of great skiers but the daughter had a fiancée who had never skied. So they paid for 1-2-1 all day lessons with the challenge to go down a red by the end of day 6. Somehow he managed it by midday day 4 and is happy to do all runs now.

So worthwhile investing in lessons hard and fast at the start else it’s goibg to be painful and drawn out + most people cannot afford / justify or have he annual leave / or have the annual leave approved for multiple ski trips each year as such it could be 3/4/5 years before she gets to speed.

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Rojibo said:

You're knocking on an open door, problem is that she's very... strong willed. Will just have to play it by ear and adjust as the holiday goes on, I don't mind taking it easy in the afternoons, and if she annoys me I can always ski off, not like she'll be able to catch me

Make sure she does 4-5 hours every day lessons is you not helping her in the PM it being an instructor instead.

Is she expecting you to give up half your ski trip coaching a novice when you have no training to support it?

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CAPP0 said:

Rojibo said:

if she annoys me I can always ski off, not like she'll be able to catch me

Allegedly I did that about 5 or 6 years ago. (Sadly) MrsC has never skied with me since. Play that one however it best suits you!

Which frankly kills it for you - skiing with the wife and kids is brilliant. Going with mates is fine but you want to be there with the Mrs.

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interstellar said:

Well the snow has been amazing in chamonix since last week.

We have had an awesome time in deep powder and perfect conditions.

Now on the way to the airport where my pals are flying home but not me!!

I have taken the rest of the week off and am joining other friends in Alpe D’Huez tonight for the rest of the week. Result!!

I want this lifestyle.

A weeks skiing about to head home but then on the fly decide to stay out for another week. The wife would kill me kids hate me for not seeing them and be AWOL in work/HR issue on return.