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Madness, though, isn't it? When stopping for a bacon sarnie somewhere like CYB or Glyncorrwg, we'll either sit with our bikes, or put them away first. But, when skiing, we just leave our skis lying around and head in for a beer or two.
Given that skis can, and do, cost the same as some bikes these days, is it any wonder people are stealing them?
[b]I_Ache[/b] - Member
Has anybody tried both skiing and boarding with a dodgy ankle?My ankle is still knackered from 18 months ago and am torn between the two, I can probably ski better than I can board but turning right really hurts.
Have you tried a "wobble board" - I have been using one for my knee rehab and they are recommended for ankle injuries too. I will buy one as it's easy to use at home every day
By the way was "torn" supposed to be a joke 😉
Always use a board lock. They're pretty skinny but might be enough to deter the sneak thief.
I've just checked, and I didn't post pics of this in the 2012 thread.
New board. Never ridden, but I demo'd one. Flippin amazing fun. 😀
clicky bigger, nice understated graphics, the backround grey design on black is just sanded/etched finished rather than polished.
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ZOMG!!!! Just booked up my first ever mountain holiday....going to La Plagne Feb half term....one is rather excitable this evening!
woo!
Back to the skis being stolen thing though, I'd urge everyone to either get a lock or split them with someone else. Mine were stolen in Verbier of all places, thought it would be safer there.
Do boards get stolen much?
Maybe a lot less bikes get stolen compared to skis, relatively speaking?
Tom B - Member
ZOMG!!!! Just booked up my first ever mountain holiday....going to La Plagne Feb half term....one is rather excitable this evening!
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🙂 Cheers chaps....I'd like to say that I have calmed down, but if anything I'm more excited now that I've realised that goggles are now a 'must buy'.
I'm more excited now that I've realised that goggles are now a 'must buy'.
Fire up the shopomatic!
Be sure to try them with your helmet, to make sure they work together. Far more important with a ski helmet/goggle interface than bike/sunnies.
Do boards get stolen much?
Never happened to anyone I've snowboarded with and we used to frequently leave them sitting unlocked outside an après bar till the small hours. Only incident I can remember was someone's rental board going missing and another rental board that looked almost identical being left on an adjacent rack. 😆 (easily sorted out at the hire shop)
That said I've also watched in horror as some numpty crashed into a pile of gear outside a restaurant and sent a board flying off down the slope. Away it went, picking up a fair bit of speed, till it got to the bottom and launched itself off the edge and deep into the woods below!
I sometimes wonder if said numpty hung around to explain to the owner where their precious board had gone.
^^smooth!
Friends have had skis nicked. One guy was loaned a pair by the restaurant to get back home. Other had skis nicked from outside the restaurant, right next to the bus stop in Tignes.
I very rarely leave skis or stop at restaurants by top stations of gondolas, cable cars, or bus stops.
In 4 seasons we've only ever had one guest have a board nicked from the slopes and no skis. The board got left out of sight in a whiteout while the guy went for lunch.
We carry a cheap cable bike lock to secure boards but at the end of the day it is only a deterrent. If some one wants the board the can just undo the bindings and scarlet but it stops your casual twokker. Always tell guests to split and mix skis.
Well I've worked 3 seasons and had quite a few holidays so have heard of a fair few robberies. More skis than boards but both have gone. The worst was Les Deux Alpes, my mum had her boots nicked from the ski locker below her hotel! Also a guy I worked with had 1 pair of skis nicked from the ski locker, and a 2nd hand board he had bought nicked from there too. The wierd thing is that they walked all the way to the back of the locker to get his board (which was quite beaten up), past mine, and past another really top end board. The same guy had 2 sets of skis nicked whilst up the mountain. We all had Professor Messer names, his was Professor Messer It's been nicked.
2nd place for thievery was Tignes. Quite a few mates had stuff nicked from outside bars, on and off the mountain. Mostly snowboards that season.
3rd place was Meribel. I don't think any freinds actually had anything stolen but 3 or 4 of the guests did up the mountain. I was chatting to a guy there who ran a bar up the mountain and he said quite often at the end of the day there would be a few sets of rental skis left. He would call up the company and they would have been stolen in the morning, and then left at his restaurant when the fu€kers had found some really good skis to nick. Easy pickings.
I am not saying these resorts are any better or worse than other, these were just my experiences on a few different seasons. I'm sure It's different every year.
its not just outside/inside buildings either.
my friend had hers taken from the outside of a ski bus. she ended up with a horrible old pair when she alighted to lift hers off at her stop.
Had one board stolen a few years back, only one in fifteen+ years of riding. Insurance paid up as it was locked with one of those retractable wire combination locks. Apparently there'd been a spate of high end kit being stolen to order. Always use a lock now just to be on the safe side.
Tignes seams to be popping up quite a bit. I had some friends who had their 5 boards stolen from their balcony whilst in Tignes 3 years ago. Yes it was silly to have them on the balcony but even when I saw the place, I thought the thieves must have had huge brass knecks. The balcony could be seen from miles around so they obviously weren't scared of being noticed.
I'm usually skiing with the other half who boards so I have one of those cable locks for us both. You could easily snip through it, but it I can see why it would put off the opportunistic.
Love the look of the new Bent Chetler!!! If only I was lucky enough to have these as my one quiver ski 🙁 .
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Those waterskis look ace!
One quiver ski? Not too sure, myself. Fine on the bigger stuff, but for a day cruising in the sunshine?
Oh a better way of putting it, if only I was lucky enough to have the right snow conditions every day to justify that as a one ski quiver!!! 😀 ..I'm sure they suck for carving in the sunshine.
Ah, right you are! In that case, crack on! 🙂
I'm glad I bought my Line Prophets the year I did, the new ones looks god awful imo, cheesy graphics... which seems to be a bit of a trend in skis these days!
Well movies seem to be dying out a bit in the mtb world but they seem to be going strong in the ski world! New Teton film...
I'm glad I bought my Line Prophets the year I did, the new ones looks god awful imo, cheesy graphics... which seems to be a bit of a trend in skis these days!
Not too keen on the Sir Franks this year, either....
As an aside, Snow&Rock website is currently down, which means only one thing - The [s]shopping[/s] season is upon us already! 🙂
Just sorting out 2013/2014 fun at the moment. So far it's looking like:
Lake Louise/Banff for start of Canadian season
Chamonix in early January and April
Alaska in March
Plus i've got a splitboard on order, so plenty of big mountain days in Scotland all season.
I bloody love winter!
Deposits paid for Meribel and Dolomites 8)
Trying very hard not to press buttons on Sport Conrad. They don't sell Stöckli anyway. But it's tempting to just hit submit on something else.
Have €100 voucher to spend by 31/12, so might have to take a trip in to Frankfurt, cos I think SportScheck accept them. New jacket perhaps?
Alaska in March
Oooh! y'bugger! Whereabouts? You going to be heli-ing it up some?
And what split did you go for?
Oooh! y'bugger! Whereabouts? You going to be heli-ing it up some?And what split did you go for?
Just trying to work that out with a friend at the moment. I'd like to do a week in one of the resorts close to Anchorage, then do a week of heli somewhere. A couple of our friends are pro (not coming with us though), and have done a few video/promo shoots in Alaska, so they are sending us some details of where they've been. Will need to balance against the cost though obviously! 3 of us are definite, but hoping another 2 of our friends will come too which will really help with costs.
A friend has helpfully donated a 2014 K2 Panoramic 🙂
Really, really excited about this season.
Alaska in March
I've wanted to go there for years. I'm green with envy!
I've wanted to go there for years. I'm green with envy!
Me too. I've always put it off because I thought it would be prohibitively expensive. After comparing the costs against last time I was in BC over Xmas/NY, it actually seems like a good deal (was paying $100 per day for lift pass). Depends on how many drops you fancy though I suppose, since I would have thought that it's a bit pointless to go there and sit on lifts all day admiring those immense ranges around you!
Think the going rate is about $1,000 a day per person, but you can get individual drops for about $150. So a bit of careful planning is required 🙂
You can pick up deals which include accomm, meals, transport and 7 full days of heli drops for about $5000-6000
[b]peterfile[/b] I'll be interested hear who you use in the end and how you get on. I definitely have to go there once before I'm too old (and/or scared) to do the riding justice.
Does anyone know if there is EVER ANY powder days in Andorra? I might be able to get work there. 😕
From what I know of it, powder's rare in Andorra. Not to say it doesn't happen, but inconsistent, I believe.
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By the way does anyone know of any ski schools anywhere in Europe hiring ski instructors for this season? I'm a BASI level 2.
It certainly looks like the snow is coming in early this year anyway!
^^WEBCAM WIN!^^
drove past aviemore today but didn't even look left to see if there was anything up cairngorm - doubt there would have been as wasn't too wet and 11C on car thermometer.
It'll melt off, sure enough! However, the plethora of berries in the hedgerows presages a hard winter........
Hard winter I can take or leave, but a late late spring in the Alps would be good as we're booked for Easter (last week of the season where were going).
Last year that would have been fine - some years not so much.
Edit: actually snow is better than grey rain so on balance go with the harder winter.
Back to Les Arcs for us!
Back to Les Arcs for us!
Nice! Went to 2000 for my first ever ski trip. Clad head to toe in a green C&A onesie, I was teh shizznizzle on the slopes!
Remember a lovely cruisy blue (Cascades?) and also that fateful third day when a few of us (school trip) felt we could ski. Yeah, we've got this nailed. So, let's go to the top of the mountain up there and ski down. 😳
Remember a lovely cruisy blue (Cascades?) and also that fateful third day when a few of us (school trip) felt we could ski. Yeah, we've got this nailed. So, let's go to the top of the mountain up there and ski down. [/i]
Sounds familiar Captain....we'd have made a great pair with me in my C&A Red one piece!
I actually decided to go to the top of the big hill on my first venture out rather that dabble with the boring looking nursery slopes.....made it down a few times, but sadly not much of it on my skis! 😳
Had a C+A "ski" jacket and "ski" gloves when I was 14.
Fortunately I wasn't skiing in those days, cos I know for a fact that I'd have found the limits of the jacket probably before even stepping on the piste, and would probably have been put off for life.
Actually use those gloves now when scraping the ice off the car.
Arcs 2000 was my second ever trip - it wasn't that long ago really so there was probably less C&A!
We've booked into a lovely chalet in Courbaton. Just trying to organise travel now and wondering whether to fly into Geneva or Lyon. Flight and car from Lyon would be £100 per person cheaper, but means an early flight on the return leg (leaving LA at 5.00am and definitely losing any chance of an 8th day on the slopes).
Are there any other pros or cons to consider between the two?
Val Cenis for us again at half term 🙂 Driving from Cheshire on the Friday, stopover in a Premiere Classe cheapie hotel near Lyon and in resort before 9am to hit the slopes.