Skiing - What to Pack

trotter_inc

Hey lads...

Heading ski-ing on saturday for a week and not sure of what to pack...

I know I need the ski suit and accessories but what else?

Would I need a jumper under my suit for example? What do people wear around in the evening?

First time ski-er...

(Im male by the way)

nj23

i would say to bring thermals anyway and probably a fleece or jumper under ski jacket, you might need another top as well depending on how cold it is.
For night time anything goes. bear in mind that while it is freezing out, its roasting in the bars. so bring teeshirt or shirt and maybe a jumper over that you can take off if you get too warm.
Get good quality ski socks and gloves. you might want to bring sunglasses too. i ended up wearing them more than goggles but it wasnt snowing.

where are you going??? i was in sol in austria about three weeks ago and weather was fab, clear blue skies and sunshine, although it did get cold when sun went in.

trotter_inc

nj23 wrote:

i would say to bring thermals anyway and probably a fleece or jumper under ski jacket, you might need another top as well depending on how cold it is.
For night time anything goes. bear in mind that while it is freezing out, its roasting in the bars. so bring teeshirt or shirt and maybe a jumper over that you can take off if you get too warm.
Get good quality ski socks and gloves. you might want to bring sunglasses too. i ended up wearing them more than goggles but it wasnt snowing.

where are you going??? i was in sol in austria about three weeks ago and weather was fab, clear blue skies and sunshine, although it did get cold when sun went in.

thanks for that nj23... will bear all your points in mind...

we're going to meribel in france this saturday... cant wait! checked the weather forecast and its estimating it an average of about -5 each day!!!

nj23

friend of mine was in meribel a few times and said it was fantastic. really good night life too. enjoy! i'm very jealous, its a great holiday and really good fun. I dont know if you'd ever have as a good a laugh as on your first ski holiday.

trotter_inc

nj23 wrote:

friend of mine was in meribel a few times and said it was fantastic. really good night life too. enjoy! i'm very jealous, its a great holiday and really good fun. I dont know if you'd ever have as a good a laugh as on your first ski holiday.

nice one!! cant wait for it now....

thanks nj23

Big Nelly

trotter_inc wrote:

thanks for that nj23... will bear all your points in mind...

we're going to meribel in france this saturday... cant wait! checked the weather forecast and its estimating it an average of about -5 each day!!!

-5, thats nothing. I was in Bulgaria and it was -30 some of the days, The warmest was the first day and that was -12.

Bring long johns, termal vest, wear them under your suit. I got ski suit from Lidl and it was great but there was about 50 people on the same slopes with the same suit, about 150 Irish in total with Lidl suits. Was funny.

On some of the days when around -12 to -20 I was just wearing a t-shirt and ternal vest under jacket, on a colder day then would throw on a rugby top on top of that.

I brought a suit case full with jeans/shirts etc and didnt use half of them. So cold you more or less wear t-shirts and then a jumper on top and ski jacket to keep warm, shoes where no good because you where slip sliding along so runners/boots are a must.

I found people never really dressed up very much and just wore the warmest thing possible so track suit bottoms and so on people where wearing to pubs/nite clubs.

Last nite got all dressed up with shirt etc and froze myself silly in process

Oh yeah a hat and sun glasses for the slopes

Big Nelly

trotter_inc wrote:

First time ski-er..

Get used to everyone roaring "SNOW PLOW!" all the time, very funny. Was my first time this year as well. Was brutal first day and spent most of my time on my ass, second day just concentrated on getting "SNOW PLOW" correct, once I had that mastered was flying. First time down green slope took me 30-40 mins. On last day was taking less than 10 mins.

Tried the blue slope and it was mental, only 3 from class allowed. Other 2 fell and hurt knee/shoulder. Lucky I stayed on my feet but thats just cause I went parrellel most of the way down so I ended up miles away from the rest.

Best thing is to learn how to fall. 3 coming back with broken legs on our plane. One broke leg in 6 places, another smashed her knee cap. Also a few broken arms with snow boarders!

Imposter

If you can't get down a blue slope after a week (even if it is slowly) you should never go skiing again. I've had a complete beginner going nicely down a green slope after 2 hours, turning, stopping, snow plough and parallell skiing. One more day at this place and a few runs on the blue beside the green and he'll be ready for a proper resort.

Falling is important initially as is common sense! How can so few people break so many major bones! Are the slopes dangerous there? If so why? Are the instructor's any good? Doesn't sound like it.

Big Nelly

Imposter wrote:

If you can't get down a blue slope after a week (even if it is slowly) you should never go skiing again. I've had a complete beginner going nicely down a green slope after 2 hours, turning, stopping, snow plough and parallell skiing. One more day at this place and a few runs on the blue beside the green and he'll be ready for a proper resort.

Not sure what blue slopes your on but this was mental, there was sections of blue off the green where you could cut off to go faster and I had no problem with these but then the main blue slope was mental. Ok at the top but then you came over a ridge and it just dropped and then kind of leveled out and then hit another steeper slope. It was very icy as well which was the main problem. GF had gone skiing before and other bloke with me had when he was in the army. Both of them fell on it.

Imposter wrote:

Falling is important initially as is common sense! How can so few people break so many major bones! Are the slopes dangerous there? If so why? Are the instructor's any good? Doesn't sound like it.

yeah instructor was good. Two people in our group found it hard so kind of slowed us up for the first 2 days but after that we just went off on our own and he stayed with the slower people.

Not sure how dangerous they are. First time so can't rate them on other slopes. GF said they where faster than the ones she was on in NZ.

Not sure about how they broke legs but I know the woman who broke her leg in 5 places was in the training class beside us, they had about 3-4 muppets in there(one was her son) and they wouldn't listen at any stage to the instructor. Son kept coming up past our group and then skiing down(we where on a better slope than them) past all of us and into his group.

From what I heard he went up the second day and the mother followed him with no instructor. She fell, leg broke. Shouldn't have been there in the first place. Don't think it was a problem with the slopes but the gobs**ts that where skiiing on them