Are you going to tell him?
Skiworld have good last minute deals that are also on Iglu/ ifyouski.
Alpine Answers also do list alot of holidays
Avoid Alpiine Elements .
Look at Sella Ronda , or Milky Way in Italy for your level its perfect
For value,- Rocketski , but avoid Claviere.
Just booked last week in January with Esprit in Bella Plagne with the family.
Been to La Plagne a few times but never stayed in Bella Plagne, anyone stayed at the Esprit hotel there?
Going to bite the bullet with school and risk the fine.
40 days and counting.
Continuity - they are teasing you because both Wallop and nbt are wimmin 😉
Second Austrian or Italian resorts. The food would be cheaper in Italy and the Milky way would be great for intermediate and learner skiers.
Edit. You could try the 'Snowheads' site. There maybe someone on there that can either help you a with self catering apartment or point you in the right direction.
Snowheads is the skiing and snowboarding equivalent of singletrack world.
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It's been snowing recently but only high up. Looking down from about 2000m:
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Pushy parents 😀
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-42332491/the-one-year-old-who-snowboards-in-us
Junior started skiing at 1 (well 22 months but that's still 1). At 6:
That baby isn't wearing a helmet or sunnies, tut, tut 😯
I presume it was published on their instagram or facebook or other look at me bullshit social media. 😥
other look at me bullshit social media.
STW !
We have unfortunately been witnessing a bit of drama in Morzine today - a fire! Underground fire in The Tibetan Cafe. Hopefully nobody hurt.
Pics here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/33457127@N02/shares/yf85C8
Last time I got burned there was when buying a round.
There is so much snow. I am so tired!
I hate you.
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Also, a reminder that Ski Sunday is back. Last week eyes, but whatever! Nice interview with Woodsy. Ripper!
I couldn’t work out if he was from Sheffield or the Antipodes!
Full day of thigh deep powder in grands massif. Awesome skiing and only a few mishaps in trees and cliffs!! Oops....
Hot bath (tick), Mt Blanc Weiss Bier (tick), ibuprofen (tick), supper to come....happy days
The last time I was in powder like this I was in US. So deep that at times almost impossible to move downhill 😉
You need a board for that THM. 😉
Indeed igm! What a waste!
Have fun teamhurtmore!
What's a board?
Did see some snow bikes stuck in the deep stuff, poor guys
Certainly needed to ski very fast to ensure that you did not get stuck in any mini bowls etc.
Thanks HYD1 - special long weekend with one of the mini THMs. First time I have realised that I am thirty years older! Still think I am 20 on skis but did get a wee bit concerned in one very narrow steep tree lined chute today. Decided on a prudent sideslip instead of blasting it!! Must be getting old.
You need to try going tray, THM. 😯
Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it. 😉
Powder on a snowboard is something you only have to try once and you won't go back.
There is a place for planks but get powder and there is only one winner
Having used both skis and a board in powder I prefer skis, each to his/her own. In the past you needed a higher skill level on skis than on a board to enjoy the powder but as skis have got more like a board on each foot I suspect it's now the other way around. I still haven't used any of the "water ski" generation skis but some park'n'pipe double spat' made things very easy in the fresh yesterday. Today I was back on slalom skis (and rando skis when things on piste got busy).
One things for sure, the skill levels required to float through powder on either a board or skis are now so low that every patch of fluffy stuff that can be reached from a lift will be tracked out within an hour of the lifts opening unless you're out mid-week between the holidays.
Lunchtime yesterday
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We don't normally go the wrong way but it was officially closed
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Pottering about in the woods earlier
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As above modern skis so much easier in powder than they where 30 years ago.
Lucky you TMH, I’be been watching all fhe updates / resort facebook pages, all looks awesome. Mrs B asked whether I wanted to go to new Club Med in Samoens this week but my knee isn’t strong enough to deal with the powder I’d want to ski 😐 Dr says no excersize for a month following jab anyway. Other “good” (ie less bad) knee tomorrow.
Probably the correct advice Jambalaya - my thighs are burning with all the deep snow so a recovering knee could be under a lot of pressure
More awesome fun OP and in the trees plus some v fast piste bashing. Surprisingly hard backed lower down so v fast.
I did not know there was a club med in Samoens. Peissey Vallendy x2 was last club med experience.
More snow forecast tomorrow
Meanwhile in Banff it's hard snow or ice. I think the term bullet proof might have been used. Snow in the forecast and much needed.
I'm pleased to say that the new shorter skis helped sweajnr and this morning full laps of the majic carpet with no assistance including turning around the cones.
Snowboards in powder are all very well until the inevitable flat spot. It still brings a smile to my face remembering when one shot past me then stopped...then (having forgotten 2m snow pack in thrill of the moment) unfastened and stepped off his board and in up to the chest.
It was freaking epic in both Tignes & Sainte Foy today. Also in Les Arcs yesterday.
I love my new job.
the inevitable flat spot
Choose your resort wisely. It’s more inevitable in some.
I did not know there was a club med in Samoens.
Just opened, I think - looks very nice!
Snowboards in powder are all very well until the inevitable flat spot. It still brings a smile to my face remembering when one shot past me then stopped...then (having forgotten 2m snow pack in thrill of the moment) unfastened and stepped off his board and in up to the chest.
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Choose your resort wisely. It’s more inevitable in some.
Sunshine village I'm looking at you... still amazes me how many I see there when Lake Louise is so much more snow board friendly.
ok now I really don't know what you are talking about Sweaman2, sunshine has a few flat spots, jack rabbit being one I remember, but don't be slow, new or bad and you'll be fine :D. If you are, you'll get over it and learn to not be. No reason not to go to it over lake l. Just follow the snow , as that's what we all love, snowboarder or planker
Just found ou I will be spending a couple of days actually skiing (as opposed to boarding) in Idre in Sweden over Christmas. Nice.
I love my new job.
The old one wasn’t bad !
Peisey Club is nice we where there 2 years ago on our mini road trip (wirh Zermatt and Verbier 🙂 ). Club Med is a bit strange my wife and her friends never pay website / brochure price - if you know someone there and are flex on last min booking discount is 30-50% - we even booked Cancun one year by creating a new account with a Mexican address we just looked up on Google. It was 65% discount vs European website price !!! Bizarre business model. It was sort of the same back 15+ years ago when we used to go to Turkey for May half term.
Anyway wife got a facebook update from a staff member saying they where oart of the Samoens launch team. Have my eye on it for March and July for biking
Edukator nice video with Junior
Snowing in Morzine this morning
Had a bit of a lie in and heading up the hill now!
nice Willard that's about 3 hours south of where I am
Seems like the snow has improved in the last week at Val Thorens, nearly 2.5 metres of powder on the upper slopes.
Might have to push further down the valley below the tree line for off-piste though - 3/5 avalanche risk...
Only a week to go 🙂
Same here, ADH on Saturday 😀Only a week to go
Quick question - will I need a mid-layer in Les Arcs - end of Jan/beginning of Feb? And if so - any suggestions? Cheers!!!
Dumping down today. Awesome skiing but bigger all visibility. Goggles freezing on outside
The only problem with wider skis is they are hard to carry easily !!
Have we do Snooc yet?
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As featured in the Sunday Times this weekend. (In Serre Che, no less!)
A big phatt no from me!
THM. One in each hand carry from toe binding or clipped together drag from tips. HTH
^^ what DT says or ask young fit son to carry yours in return for you having paid for his holiday 🙂
CFH
The up, fine.
The down - isn’t that let’s take all the worst bits of skiing, boarding and sledging and put the together with added changeover time?
[ChewinTheFat] Just no [/ChewinTheFat]
