Skiing/Boarding 13-14

Will Gill · 17 Oct 2013 at 16:40

i'm booked for alpe d'heuz, chamonix and three weeks in courchevel

apparently i might have to go to tignes too in order to refresh my basi certification to fall in line with yet another french law change preventing me from teaching....

randomshenans · 17 Oct 2013 at 16:55

I love French laws

When you're in Courcheval you'll have to say hey to my good friend Alice, as she's there again this season. If I can remember where she's working this year.

I'm popping up to the mountains this weekend. My mother is over at their place, so thought we'd stop by. May as well drop off our skis and want to check the kids ski boots still fit too.

I'd love to do my BASI, just to say I had, what's it like to do?

Will Gill · 18 Oct 2013 at 23:08

randomshenans said:
I love French laws When you're in Courcheval you'll have to say hey to my good friend Alice, as she's there again this season. If I can remember where she's working this year.

I'm popping up to the mountains this weekend. My mother is over at their place, so thought we'd stop by. May as well drop off our skis and want to check the kids ski boots still fit too.

I'd love to do my BASI, just to say I had, what's it like to do?

alice beer?

basi is reasonably easy but I've got a lot of ski seasons under my belt, the french course times are the hardest, that takes a lot training to get the right times, apart from that its just shadowing and teaching, good money for you once you have it

Alex_6n2 · 19 Oct 2013 at 00:33

Just booked my La Plagne week for 1st February. Accommodation, transfers and flights for £275

There's 6 of us going so it should be mega. Got my new park board so can't wait to test it out.

7 weeks till my Arabba trip too.

Now, where to go in January?!

Russinating · 19 Oct 2013 at 00:39

Off to Val Thorens in March

. Getting the ski train/Eurostar with about 10 of us so should be good.

randomshenans · 19 Oct 2013 at 09:05

Will Gill said:
alice beer?

basi is reasonably easy but I've got a lot of ski seasons under my belt, the french course times are the hardest, that takes a lot training to get the right times, apart from that its just shadowing and teaching, good money for you once you have it

lol I see you already know Alice...! :eek:

Will Gill · 19 Oct 2013 at 13:24

yeah, alice bubble bar beer, she is awesome

KaHn · 20 Oct 2013 at 15:14

St Anton in January, will probably do a trip to Norway in December as well as a few to aviemore/glenshee.

KaHn

randomshenans · 21 Oct 2013 at 09:15

Will Gill said:
yeah, alice bubble bar beer, she is awesome

She's working somewhere else this year I think. So she can actually get some decent piste time in. I keep saying we'll go down there, but it's about 6hrs from us and our place at c.2hrs is just so hard to do!

iamtheoneneo · 21 Oct 2013 at 10:54

Think me and the mrs have decided on Tignes for our first trip of next year. Crystal are doing a £770 deal with everything included, flights, accom half board, transfers, ski passes.

tlrBeta · 21 Oct 2013 at 17:13

Some cracking deals over at wastelandski ... I used them a lot at Uni and still seem to be pretty good!

platypus · 23 Oct 2013 at 09:29

iamtheoneneo said:
Think me and the mrs have decided on Tignes for our first trip of next year. Crystal are doing a £770 deal with everything included, flights, accom half board, transfers, ski passes.

Any link to that ?

iamtheoneneo · 23 Oct 2013 at 09:42

its in the brochure, You have to go and see a rep. Its not online as far as I know.

platypus · 23 Oct 2013 at 10:27

Ah pants.

rjk · 24 Oct 2013 at 14:35

off to chill factore tomorrow evening with some mates.

they have one of those Air bags for doing tricks into.

backflip time

Guy · 28 Oct 2013 at 14:37

I'm looking at the moment, wouldn't mind getting out to Alpe d'Huez for the first week in Jan, but need to have a proper look around. A couple of the people I usually go with are not committing to anything yet, so might be going solo or try and get in with a group or something.

rjk · 7 Nov 2013 at 21:11

Anyone have any board opinions?
Looking at the Ride buckwild or the Lib skate banana.
Doing jumps and stuff already so my Salomon eBay pro model is failing me a little, plus its too long for freestyle.

Opinions welcome.

AGD · 12 Nov 2013 at 22:02

First trip booked! Off to Utah in Jan. Excited!

Weazle · 13 Nov 2013 at 01:48

rjkoneill said:
Anyone have any board opinions?
Looking at the Ride buckwild or the Lib skate banana.
Doing jumps and stuff already so my Salomon eBay pro model is failing me a little, plus its too long for freestyle.

Opinions welcome.

Both look to be pretty good boards for park, if money was no limit then I would lean towards the Lib Tech.

Have a look at the Capita Horrorscope, Capita Outdoor Living, Capita Ultrafear, Stepchild Jibstick, Never Summer Evo or Nitro Rook. Models depends on if you want just a pure park board or something that is mainly park but can handle some all mountain.

lucky13 · 14 Nov 2013 at 09:16

Does anyone have any experiance of UCPA, my friends are not so interested in going so was thinking about booking a trip for myself.

Also has anyone skiied in Norway (near Oslo) as I am based in Gothenburg with work Mon-thurs so was thinking of planning a few weekend trips as apparently there is a bus service from Gothenburg to the resorts.