Right then you 'orrible lot. I've been meaning to share a few pics to this thread so here's a teaser
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Want some more??
p.s. That was Broken River Bowl last Sunday. We had 20 cm on friday night. With the wind blowing it in, it was a sea of velvet smooth poweder. I wasn't up there early enough to get first tracks but there's enough for everyone to get some fresh. Saturday night we had another 5 cm smoothing it out a bot mor for another day smashing around. Note the rope tow on the far right - that sorts the men form the boys, the boys from the babies and the babies from the snowboarders 😀
All booked for Les Gets for Christmas.
Really excited.
Haven't been skiing in 15 years.
Les Gets?
Burger at K2 then, tarte aux myrtilles at Le Veux Chene saucisson frite at the bottom of Belle Mouille and views from the bar halfway down Tulipe (it's on the right and you can be past it before you see it if you're not looking out for it).
And melted cheese everywhere.
Oh yes and you can ski and snowboard.
Thanks, was just gonna ask about places to go.
Wife and kids have never skied before.
Les Gets is good then. Good variety of beginner to intermediate stuff with nice steady progression between them. ral village too. The two bars I mentioned on runs are on reds though, but the bars round the rim of the bowl (which makes it sound like a toilet) are accessible via blues.
A number of decent non-ESF schools. We use 360 for our boys.
cchris2lou +1 - where to go with wife and three young kids for first trip?
Oh, and when's best?
When?
Low season if you can - perhaps early to mid-March. Weather is a little warmer for young'uns by then but snow cover should be OK.
Where?
Loads of good places. Les Gets tends to be families with parents who can ski and children who are learning. Much less intimidating for beginners than say Avoiriaz that has a lot of teenage and 20 something groups learning to ski.
That said the other nice thing about somewhere like Les Gets is that away from the simpler slopes you just don't see ski schools. Families yes, but with children who can ski.
Three valleys wasn't child friendly in the same way (by my reckoning), Andorra was full of late teens,early 20s learning which isn't great around learner children.
Thanks.
We are flying to Geneva so Les Gets is not too far either.
I was worried about lack of snow at Christmas but people we rent flat said in 20 years they had it, it only happened once.
growing up in france I have been to loads of different resorts, mainly 3 valleys and Tignes,val d isere.
What about Chatel??
Italy??
Thanks for any other pointers
Les Gets is really good for a first trip, we did year 1 & 2 with our kids there. you can get to some good stuff and back for lunch to pick them up after ski school or if you go the whole nanny thing you can get to Avoriaz and do all that during the day.
if you get powder go straight to Mont Chery though. SO FUN.
EDIT year 3 we went to Briancon / Serre Che which was also great and I actually prefer the mountain - tonnes of trees - although we had 6 powder days so that worked out pretty well while the kids were in ski school.
boxelder _ I suggest Italy, though somewhere with a quick transfer, so that rules out Livigno.
Maybe try Folgarida in Italy. Nice food, small resort, very friendly.
Or Passo Tonale, same as above.
Will get looking. We don't really ski either - wife did years ago and I've done a weeks snowboarding, so don't especially need 'escapes'
Who's been to Whistler? What locations are better for good value without being a silly distance form the lifts? (at this stage we're not bothered about preference to either Blackcombe or Whistler)
We'll be in Canadia for about 2 weeks in January - it would be rude not to.
Creekside probably has more budget accommodation than the main Whistler resort and you can still access the ski hill via the Creekside Gondola.
Cheers Digby - I'll check out the accom over there
Some stunning images here commissioned by Mammut to mark 150 years since the first ascent of the Matterhorn.
[url= http://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2014/sep/29/mammut-mountaineering-adventures-in-pictures ]link[/url]
Dunno if anyone else has seen the news, but it's been confirmed that J.P. Auclair and Andreas Fransson died on Sunday while climbing a peak in Patagonia. Properly sad news. [url= http://m.powder.com/stories/news/jp-auclair-andreas-fransson-confirmed-dead/ ]full story[/url]
If you're not familiar with JPs work, here's the street scene from All I Can.
Very news about Auclair & Fransson - JPs work was incredible.
Also incredibly sad news about Liz Daley 🙁
[url= http://snowboarding.transworld.net/news/liz-daley-killed-avalanche-south-america/ ]Link[/url]
Stevo. Soz for late reply. Yeah great car park and obviously some great places for biking.
Need to read up on wild camping in the Zillertal and we might go for a couple of months in the future.
So, if a snowboard distributor send you a shop's stock of snowboards instead of sending them to the shop, what would you do?
Hypothetically of course.
Also I may have hypothetically recieved the a list of the trade prices for those hypothetical snowboards too.
19 boards
If they weren't signed for and any are in the 160 W Region PM Me 😀
Id call and say heeeeeey you want your 18 boards bacck and see if you can snag one for you as a gesture
They weren't signed for by me... And there's a Jones Mountain Twin 161...
I've emailed the guy that I think ordered them - but he hasn't replied.
The markup on a board is pretty meaty - perhaps unsurprisingly.
About £4.5k worth of boards trade or £8k list.
Sadly not enough to emigrate on.
I'm trying to think of things they might send me as a gesture of goodwill, but I can't think of anything I need/want.
They're a ski/snowboard/bmx shop.
Suggestions?
No suggestions?
Set of ski's? A snowboard? A BMX? Those seem like the obvious suggestions 🙂
Actually a set of shortish can rid'em one a straight line carvers might be nice. I fancy seeing if my knees can take skiing 20 years since I last tried and it would have to be parallel from the first minute.
Or maybe boots with the same thought in mind.
Suspect I'd be doing very well to get something that big.
First dibs on the jones if they a come to selling !!!
There was definitely 18 boards .. No jones twin here
You'd have a choice of sizes of Jones Twins that weren't there. And Mountain Twins or Twin Sisters.
They still haven't got back to me. Answephone full, no reply to my email...
How long do they get?
The sisters the ladys version not for my big feet and the colorway oooh - id be interested in the Mountain twin 161 ideally a wide, but my other gun's a 159 zeppelin standard so not a deal breaker .. ok id say till morning ... you need new bike parts don't you :]
May take a while but someones gonna miss 4k's of stock.. next trips not till Jan so i can wait a while - you have done your bit id sit on them .. but whatever happens there were only 18 boards
Edit the 161 is an xl as standard .. oh my
my other gun
FFS. That's worse than "steed".
This is a gun.
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This is a snowboard.
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Gun = fast all mountain board , well it does for me and my homedudes brahhhh 🙂
Jibbing board = park and rails
Powder board = well self explanatory
Sad I know , I'm 36 and have a small knob so begone with your negativity and leave me with my delusion that I'm remotely rad !! 🙂
I'm 36 and have a small knob so begone with your negativity and leave me with my delusion that I'm remotely rad !!
😀
Sikk, braw!
begone with your negativity and leave me with my delusion that I'm remotely rad !!
And of course the delusion that I won't be getting a call in the morning along the lines of "those boards, we can pick them up or if you want to keep them here's the price... "
Of course if I can negotiate trade price in that scenario, who's in?
And yes Captain, that is most very definitely a very nice snowboard - have you seen the light and bought yourself one yet? You know you want to...
Enjoy Montana. My trip to Lake Tahoe today got canned on Friday.
Is there a ‘best' package firm for families/beginners?
That's not a gun, [i]this[/i] is a gun
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That is a gun !!!
Unfortunately i cant surf for toffee-
Yes that other delusion that they wont come back is still present for now .
Would be likely that i would be interested at cost
Boxelder, I've been very happy using Neilson for packages in the past. Used Crystal once, and they were good, too.
Boxelder - unless you are looking for a "family" company that specialises in making sure young children are happy / looked after, then resort and transfer length are probably more important than company. There are of course better and worse companies.
If you have children too young to ski, I've previously been very happy with Ski Famille. Their offering has changed this year so I can't tell you until Easter if I'd still recommend them. I'm hopeful.
With youngish children, later season is slightly (sometimes a lot) warmer and the snow can be pretty good still. You do run a risk, but equally I've watched the rain at 1800m in February in Courchevel.
General tip. Research your ski school - ESF is great in some resorts, poor in others.
Woohoo, job offer confirmed, minimum of 3 months work, plus somewhere to live in Whistler, leaving next month 😀
You won't enjoy it. You'd much rather be in the grey rain of the UK.
And I'm not jealous. Oh no. Not one bit.
Bad news Makkag.
They would like their boards back.
All of them.
Not unreasonable really.
Story of my life -- I was waiting for my dreams to shatter - I didn't need a new board anyway honest ..
What was the trade price on that board BTW - might go and have a haggle with my local shop ?
About 55% of list depending on model
