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Season 14/15 Banter thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    hawkwind23 wrote: »
    Are you at Kilternan next Saturday?
    Taking the daughter down for the afternoon all being well.
    Are they small learner groups? Might be worth putting her in to learn a few pointers from ya :)

    I think I have the one day course next Sat, so I will be there. Classes on Sat afternoon at this time of the year are generally small and quiet as it does not get busy for a few weeks!!

    Come find me if you are up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭hawkwind23


    Fattes wrote: »
    I think I have the one day course next Sat, so I will be there. Classes on Sat afternoon at this time of the year are generally small and quiet as it does not get busy for a few weeks!!

    Come find me if you are up

    will do , daughter gets into dublin at 1pm so hope to be there around 2pm.
    ill look out for you and say hello :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭G2DG


    Fattes wrote: »
    I think I have the one day course next Sat, so I will be there. Classes on Sat afternoon at this time of the year are generally small and quiet as it does not get busy for a few weeks!!

    Come find me if you are up


    Are you doing the 1 day course on the 29th? Myself and the wife are booked in! Looking forward to getting started.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    G2DG wrote: »
    Are you doing the 1 day course on the 29th? Myself and the wife are booked in! Looking forward to getting started.

    Nope, sorry I will be packing up my car as I am leaving for the winter the next day early morning!

    I will ask around and see who is on for you so they look after you!!!

    Our resorts shiny new rotating gondola is finally up and running and opens to the public on Friday this week!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭cormee


    Fattes wrote: »

    Our resorts shiny new rotating gondola is finally up and running and opens to the public on Friday this week!!

    What altitude is that resort at? A lot of snow cover for this early in the year.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    cormee wrote: »
    What altitude is that resort at? A lot of snow cover for this early in the year.

    Top is 3,020 you are looking at 2,400 Meters up to the top. But this is from this morning 2,400 down to 1,800 :) no snowmaking in either shot!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭fmlarnapairce


    Fattes wrote: »
    Top is 3,020 you are looking at 2,400 Meters up to the top. But this is from this morning 2,400 down to 1,800 :) no snowmaking in either shot!!

    is that then entrance to the laub?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    is that then entrance to the laub?

    Yep it's Johan Jonsson's photo! Bastard!!!!! Must stay calm only 2 weeks to go


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,637 ✭✭✭prunudo


    Fattes wrote: »

    Yeah there's some great shots of the Matterhorn covered in snow knocking around this morning.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    Its making me itchy! I have 2.5 weeks before I am back in the alps, getting restless!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭a148pro


    Fattes I am cervinia bound this early Jan any tips specifically hoping to get some heli skiing in as it seems absurdly cheap


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭cormee


    Some nice snow falling today in the Alps :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    Cervinia, is great mostly cruisy reds but you can nip across to Zermatt if you want something a little more challenging! Do not get caught in Zermatt a Taxi back to Italy is around 380 Euro! Its cheaper to stay overnight!

    Weather can be an issue as with most high altitude resorts! Be mindfull of the heli skiing the price is probably only for one maybe two drops!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭AlternateID


    If you have a facebook account this is worth a look. Stubaier glacier off piste run on Saturday I think.

    https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=982727778408389


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭a148pro


    Fattes wrote: »
    Be mindfull of the heli skiing the price is probably only for one maybe two drops!!!

    I figured that, Monte Rosa run is seriously high though but I've a feeling it might be pretty boring

    I secretly think the less time spent in a heli the better, vis a vis risk of death but if there was a run that involved a few steep without being crazy colouirs it would be great


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    Dont get me wrong, if you think you can afford it do it!!! Every one should heli at least 3 times, Europe, N.America and New Zealand if they can! Have done N.America 3 times Europe once and hopefully will be making that 2 this year ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭a148pro


    Its something like 230 for a few of the one run trips, the descents will prob last half a day, may end up saving that day's ski pass as well (although not if we go down to Zermatt)

    bit of a no brainer if it involves a trip to the shoulder of Europe's second highest mountain. feck it what have I got to lose?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    a148pro wrote: »
    bit of a no brainer if it involves a trip to the shoulder of Europe's second highest mountain. feck it what have I got to lose?

    Thats the Spirit!!!! Plus you will have a life time of people going :D:D:D:D:D when they see your photos!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭masseyno9


    First day out coming up on Sunday at Sunshine village. Should be fun. Not sure how much is open, but they've built a little jib park so that should at least be fun for a few hours if the rest is crap! Heading out next Friday too with the office ski-passes. Always nice to get a free day! The rest of the weekend is a stag party, so probably won't get any more boarding done. We're booked in to go curling on Saturday afternoon - it's a surprisingly fun sport...especially when there's a bar at the rink!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭a148pro


    Jesus Christ that's stunning, irrespective of snow cover. And the snow cover too!

    Engelberg again this year Fattes?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    this is where I booked

    this is where the travel company has reassigned my booking after telling me that others had booked the same deal at the same time.

    equal distance to the centre of town probably same distance to the lift

    there seems to be a huge difference in the quality. if you get that call from the tour operator get the actual name of the place and say you will check it out on trip adviser first.

    to be honest I'm not that bothered got it cheap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    a148pro wrote: »
    Jesus Christ that's stunning, irrespective of snow cover. And the snow cover too!

    Engelberg again this year Fattes?

    Yep! Funny they are actually lift accessed easy spots to get to in the resort!

    This is what I am kind of feeling like right now!!!



    sheesh; Pensions are normally very close in standard really! But try and screw something else out of the TO for compensation! They deserve it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭cormee


    sheesh wrote: »
    this is where I booked

    this is where the travel company has reassigned my booking after telling me that others had booked the same deal at the same time.

    equal distance to the centre of town probably same distance to the lift

    there seems to be a huge difference in the quality. if you get that call from the tour operator get the actual name of the place and say you will check it out on trip adviser first.

    to be honest I'm not that bothered got it cheap.

    The reviews for the second one are fairly poor :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    cormee wrote: »
    The reviews for the second one are fairly poor :(

    Yup! I'll have to bring a sleeping bag line with me by the sounds of it! And sandals for the shower.

    yerra amn't I going on a ski holiday...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    sheesh wrote: »
    Yup! I'll have to bring a sleeping bag line with me by the sounds of it! And sandals for the shower.

    yerra amn't I going on a ski holiday...

    I shall light a candle to the snow gods, that your trip may be balls deep in snow, and you only catch one variety of crabs in the penison :P:P!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    Conditions are looking good!!!

    http://youtu.be/XcGxoWE5MWc


  • Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭fmlarnapairce


    jaysus, antiparallel skiing at 1.08. that would be bad for the old knees if it went wrong


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    A gorgeous final day on the plastic before a week of packing my winter life into the car and making the trip to the Alps.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭a148pro


    Drive carefully fattes. You are banned from posting envy inducing powder shots unless it's in the 72 hours immediately prior to me heading out and I'm due some of the same


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭am i bovvered


    Worrying day on the ski webcam watch, snow melted again !!! I'm in les Saissies Bisanne 1500 for a family holiday (14 of us ) on the 3rd Jan, I've been assured it has had reasonable snow conditions for the last 10 years in a row.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭cormee


    Worrying day on the ski webcam watch, snow melted again !!! I'm in les Saissies Bisanne 1500 for a family holiday (14 of us ) on the 3rd Jan, I've been assured it has had reasonable snow conditions for the last 10 years in a row.

    Same in Les Arcs, couldn't believe it! The week ahead has loads of rain forecast, so it's just a matter of waiting for the temperature to drop a bit.

    [ EDIT - Morzine is actually only 1000m, sorry... removing the paragraph referring to its altitude in relation to snow cover]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    Worrying day on the ski webcam watch, snow melted again !!! I'm in les Saissies Bisanne 1500 for a family holiday (14 of us ) on the 3rd Jan, I've been assured it has had reasonable snow conditions for the last 10 years in a row.

    Calm yourself! 1,500 is plenty high anywhere, that has a village that high will normally have another 500-800 meters of skiing and you should be ok! It is early yet.

    We have skiing from 3,300 down too,, 1,800 right now and the off piste around the glacier is skiable without fear of rocks. That said, no snow forcast for the next couple of weeks and bright blue skies and sunshine so it will be piste skiing for a few weeks now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,637 ✭✭✭prunudo


    I know there's still plenty of time, 2 months to be percise but I can't help but feel slightly on edge about the mild temps and snowless webcams for Morzine


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭cormee


    jvan wrote: »
    I know there's still plenty of time, 2 months to be percise but I can't help but feel slightly on edge about the mild temps and snowless webcams for Morzine

    You'll definitely get snow in Avoriaz, which is either a 15min (free) bus trip, or a 30 min ski/board, away.

    If you do get the bus, you then get a gondola up to Avoriaz. At the end of the day, if you're a competent boarder there's a great red that can take you the whole way back down to the bus - let the crowds take the gondola down while you sip beer in a pub, then when the last gondola goes, take that red down, most of the crowds will be gone by the time you get down there, and you'll have a great time getting down there. As added bonus you'll get jealous looks from those who were scared to board/ski down, when you slide up to the bus stop and unstrap your bindings like a boss. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,637 ✭✭✭prunudo


    cormee wrote: »
    You'll definitely get snow in Avoriaz, which is either a 15min (free) bus trip, or a 30 min ski/board, away.

    If you do get the bus, you then get a gondola up to Avoriaz. At the end of the day, if you're a competent boarder there's a great red that can take you the whole way back down to the bus - let the crowds take the gondola down while you sip beer in a pub, then when the last gondola goes, take that red down, most of the crowds will be gone by the time you get down there, and you'll have a great time getting down there. As added bonus you'll get jealous looks from those who were scared to board/ski down, when you slide up to the bus stop and unstrap your bindings like a boss. :D

    Do those buses run often? Can't beat boarding down a nice red to finish the day, polished off with a beer or 3


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Dr Nic


    So is it good bad or indifferent winter so far? Val d in 2 weeks... Eek


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭cormee


    jvan wrote: »
    Do those buses run often? Can't beat boarding down a nice red to finish the day, polished off with a beer or 3

    Yep, every 5 minutes or so. They bring you right back to the centre of Morzine.

    Re. beer for the last run, in Kaprun I used to love having one or two at the highest point of the mountain at the end of the day, then putting on the headphones, playing Fat Boy Slim, (Sunset) Bird of Prey, and heading down the empty slopes, back to town. After a day of packed slopes it was bliss! :D

    I've seen people having BBQ's and a beer (with those disposable BBQ's) I'd never be organised enough to get that together.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    Dr Nic wrote: »
    So is it good bad or indifferent winter so far? Val d in 2 weeks... Eek

    Normal is probably the answer! I tell this story often, but here it goes again, in the 60's and 70's the village elders in Kitzbul, agreed not to market or promote the resort as a ski destination untill christmas and after, as the snow was not reliable enough.

    Since the introduction of snow making and advanced above freezing snow cannons this attitude has changed considerably in resorts. In reality its way to early to call the weather, personally I think it looks pretty normal so far. Neither bad or good.

    Its funny any resort that advertises 100% snow coverage should raise questions for anyone booking rather than provide comfort :rolleyes: Its amazing what marketing can do.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭pgibbo


    Fattes wrote: »
    Calm yourself! 1,500 is plenty high anywhere, that has a village that high will normally have another 500-800 meters of skiing and you should be ok! It is early yet.

    We have skiing from 3,300 down too,, 1,800 right now and the off piste around the glacier is skiable without fear of rocks. That said, no snow forcast for the next couple of weeks and bright blue skies and sunshine so it will be piste skiing for a few weeks now.

    Where are you based Fattes?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    I do like this a Lot!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    cormee wrote: »
    You'll definitely get snow in Avoriaz, which is either a 15min (free) bus trip, or a 30 min ski/board, away.

    If you do get the bus, you then get a gondola up to Avoriaz. At the end of the day, if you're a competent boarder there's a great red that can take you the whole way back down to the bus - let the crowds take the gondola down while you sip beer in a pub, then when the last gondola goes, take that red down, most of the crowds will be gone by the time you get down there, and you'll have a great time getting down there. As added bonus you'll get jealous looks from those who were scared to board/ski down, when you slide up to the bus stop and unstrap your bindings like a boss. :D

    That's a post that really gets my snow holiday juices flowing!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    The season starts now!!! Let's role baby


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭a148pro


    Drop cliffs not bombs!

    Hurls are also essential avalanche kit. "Get away snow, get away or I'll hit you a whack o this hurl!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    Life is not complete without a Hurl, skis and beer :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭fmlarnapairce


    nice clean hurls! i'll try and source a luminous yellow sliothar for ya!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    nice clean hurls! i'll try and source a luminous yellow sliothar for ya!

    One is used plenty! The clean one is I has a grip colour scheme of our rival club! The moral of the story never send a friend to pick up your new hurls


  • Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭fmlarnapairce


    craobh ciaran?


  • Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭G2DG


    Did the 1 day course in Kilternan on Saturday and loved it. More importantly my wife loved it too. Fattes, we had Tony (I think) doing it. Great guy really pushed everyone to get the most out of it. He brought a couple of us up to the top of the main slope and side stepped down the green area a little before we took off down the hill. I did get to the bottom while remaining upright but found if hard to keep the speed down.

    Anyway the reason for the long intro is I'm now wondering what level we should consider ourselves at. I think he told others not to bother doing the beginner lessons, instead book the intermediate ones where we would be tested and allocated into groups. I'm wondering if we should also do the same?
    Also because it is only myself and wife we'd like to stay together or relatively close by. Just so we can get lunch together and stuff. We know we'll probably be operating a different levels but shouldn't be too far apart. Also hoping to get a 3 hour practice in Kilternan before heading off to Austria at Xmas.

    In summary, looking for advise on what level lessons to book and how the whole testing / being allocated to groups works in Austria.


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