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    Ski Season 2019-2020

    What are your plans?

    I have a season pass at my local, and a week in January on Hokkaido for some powder!

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    Re: Ski Season 2019-2020

    I've never tried skiiing, not even a dry slope. I'm sure it's fun and an adrenaline rush. It's just too spendy.

    I'd rather drink my grappa in a warm location and go clubbing.
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    Re: Ski Season 2019-2020

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    Re: Ski Season 2019-2020

    Love it, but wife had some idiot ski through the back of her in a whiteout last time. Left her concussed and shaken. Last day of the trip so no chance to get back on the horse so to speak. That memory stuck. Now she's not interested in going again. Tbh I'm also hitting a point where I know I don't bounce anymore either so we'll probably sell our stuff, call time on it for now and just be thankful for the happy memories.

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    Re: Ski Season 2019-2020

    Quote Originally Posted by Millennium View Post
    I've never tried skiiing, not even a dry slope. I'm sure it's fun and an adrenaline rush. It's just too spendy.

    I'd rather drink my grappa in a warm location and go clubbing.
    once, long ago, I thought the same.

    then my (ex) girlfriend of the time convinced me to go for a week with some mates.

    I had 5 dry slope lessons in the UK, and they were valuable. Not to learn to skii, because nothing prepares you for skiing.. but to learn to move in skiis, to turn 180 while stood, to slither badly down tiny slopes that seems immense at the time.

    and then.. I went.

    First day, I had a 4 hour lesson where I learned just how much food I actually need to consume to maintain energy... and how much water. And just before I was ready to throw the skiis in a hedge (if I could find one) and burn the boots... I had a small victory and then the instructor dropped me off with my mates who were all pretty good at skiing. I crashed a lot but man.... I had a day. I ate all night.

    Day two - same, but with more food in me, bananas in my pockets, and I made progress..

    by Day four, I swear I was in love.

    by the last day I was in heaven... in heaven that may never be improved upon. I never laughed and smiled as much in my motor sport days.
    I went the following year and it was even better....I was better at it

    and the third year, while me and the (ex) missus were arguing a lot, I went skiing with other people and had the best week of my life.
    And I went away with two buddies for a 3 day trip to skii and ....that was it...

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    We split, my wife now doesn't skii, we have never been but the magic remains in my heart.

    If you can go.... go... save every penny, with every molecule of your soul and go skiing.
    To be atop a mountain and to have miles of snow ahead... to choose skii lifts and slopes that takes you across the mountains for lunch in a different town, and to skii home after, is a thing that nearly makes me cry with such happiness.

    It's a 10/10

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    Re: Ski Season 2019-2020

    Probably be back in the French Alps again. Would like to go back to La Plagne or Alpe d'Huez this time. Earlier this year we went to Val d'Isere and that was a blast, my only concern is that my knees may not be up to it this season as I've been having trouble with all year.

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    Re: Ski Season 2019-2020

    Quote Originally Posted by jimborae View Post
    Earlier this year we went to Val d'Isere and that was a blast,
    that was my favourite too... costly but the best.

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    Re: Ski Season 2019-2020

    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
    that was my favourite too... costly but the best.
    TBH we didn't think the cost was too bad. The hostel/hotel we stayed in was only 3 star but perfectly adequate but the ski area was superb both interms of range, conditions & facilities.

    Normally we like to stay in a catered chalet but finding good deals on them is a real lottery. That's why La Plagne was so good, we got a catered 4* chalet, ski in ski out, flights, transfers, lift passes, ski hire etc all for just under £900/person. And then to cap it all off the weather was unbelievable, massive dumps of snow in the 2 weeks before we arrived and then on arrival unbroken sun for the next week! It was literally skiing in tee shirts and jacket weather. Never had it so good.
    Last edited by jimborae; 13-11-2019 at 05:24 PM.

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    Re: Ski Season 2019-2020

    Ya know... I might just get into skiing if I can do it like this:

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    Re: Ski Season 2019-2020

    what's that you say? Hexus ski trip 2020....? Well now...

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    Re: Ski Season 2019-2020

    Quote Originally Posted by TeePee View Post
    What are your plans?

    I have a season pass at my local, and a week in January on Hokkaido for some powder!
    Gutted we've already been. We usually got to Norway but this year we went to France instead.

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    Re: Ski Season 2019-2020

    Austrian Alps still my favourite.
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