Where/when you going this year?!

karl83 · 03-02-2013 5:08pm

Snowbride 2011 wrote: »

Mayrhofen March 9-16th. If anyone is there that week and wants to meet up, just drop me a line

Im going to Mayrhofen that week too, was there already in january. 3 of us going all boarders if you wanna meet up.

Denalihighway · 05-02-2013 2:29pm

Alpe d'Huez in 4.5 weeks

oh baby its close

Shiny · 05-02-2013 5:29pm

A couple of us are looking into going to some resort (to be confirmed but leaning towards Zugspitze) within range of Munich for 2 or 3 days. Looking at going 8-12th of March. I'm literally craving to ski at this stage. :pac:

trashcan · 05-02-2013 10:19pm

Westendorf (again - love the place) on 16 February. Gonna be good. Fifth time skiing, starting to improve now - I hope.

olaola · 06-02-2013 11:18am

trashcan wrote: »

Westendorf (again - love the place) on 16 February. Gonna be good. Fifth time skiing, starting to improve now - I hope.

We're thinking of going next year! What's it like? Can you easily ski to the other resorts in the area? (Kitz, Soll etc) What's apres ski like? Can you ski to the village? Sorry for all the questions!

djb85 · 06-02-2013 9:32pm

karl83 wrote: »

Im going to Mayrhofen that week too, was there already in january. 3 of us going all boarders if you wanna meet up.

Heading there myself that week...
How do you think the snow will be? Bit nervous as it's definitely the latest in the season I've taken a trip.

dzer2 · 06-02-2013 9:43pm

djb85 wrote: »

Heading there myself that week...
How do you think the snow will be? Bit nervous as it's definitely the latest in the season I've taken a trip.

The way its snowing dont think it will be an issue

karl83 · 06-02-2013 10:53pm

djb85 wrote: »

Heading there myself that week...
How do you think the snow will be? Bit nervous as it's definitely the latest in the season I've taken a trip.

ah it should be good, i was there in jan for a week and there was a meter of fresh snow when i arrived, flight got diverted to munich because of it. It dumped the last 2 days i was there too. Alot of resorts stayed open till may last year because the snow was so good. Fingers crossed it'll be like that this year.
Many of you going??

trashcan · 07-02-2013 9:58pm

olaola wrote: »

We're thinking of going next year! What's it like? Can you easily ski to the other resorts in the area? (Kitz, Soll etc) What's apres ski like? Can you ski to the village? Sorry for all the questions!

Haven't ventured out of Westendorf, but as far as I know the Skiwelt area is quite extensive. You can definitely ski to Soll. (Think you can also go to Kitzbuehl, with a different Lift Pass) The Apres Ski is good. I'm not into anything too loud or excessive, but that's available if you want it. Some quieter bars too. There's a few runs back into the village and the nursery slope (and Gondolas to the top) is in the heart of the village. No getting on a bus in the morning. I think it's ideal. Others tastes may vary though. As I said, I'm not a very experienced skier, so it's plenty challenging for me.

Lenmeister · 15-02-2013 12:12am

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Working in whistler right now - amazing place!

Ahh so jealous! But been there done that :P Awesome place would drop everything and do it again if I had the money!

olaola wrote: »

Yup, we went with them last year. Couldn't fault it - great food etc.
We did think it was overpriced, and they try to squeeze every last cent out of you. But if you don't mind spending the cash and letting them take care of everything (at a higher price than if you did it yourself!) then you'll love it.

Are they that good? Always wondered what they were like and thought about using them before but hadn't heard from anyone that did, might have to check them out when I'm a little richer!

olaola · 15-02-2013 11:21am

Lenmeister wrote: »

Are they that good? Always wondered what they were like and thought about using them before but hadn't heard from anyone that did, might have to check them out when I'm a little richer!

They're pretty good. Wasn't too keen on the resort, and I'm sure there are British companies that do the same or better tbh. I'm glad we did it, but wouldn't be rushing back at those prices!

steelbar · 18-02-2013 5:03pm

Meribel on Sunday! CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!

Just hope the sciatic problem I got playing rugby 2 weeks ago clears up.... Very worried about it.

sassyj · 18-02-2013 5:04pm

St. Anton this Saturday

Although a little dismayed to hear it's nicknamed "Steep and Deep" This is my 4th ski holiday, I seriously need to improve this time!

olaola · 19-02-2013 11:21am

sassyj wrote: »

St. Anton this Saturday Although a little dismayed to hear it's nicknamed "Steep and Deep" This is my 4th ski holiday, I seriously need to improve this time!

Start on the Rendl side of the mountain on the first day to get your snowlegs

Some lovely blues over there, and a really nice red back down to the village. All very do-able.

Fattes · 19-02-2013 3:41pm

Its been a busy year but so far I have had

Tignes
Val Thorens
Pila
Champery
Chatel
Avoriaz
St Gervais
Megeve
Garmish

Lenmeister · 19-02-2013 6:09pm

lol omg what? Do you have a job???

mbur · 19-02-2013 6:50pm

Lenmeister wrote: »

lol omg what? Do you have a job???

I'd say he does and I'll guess it involves skiing. Fattes if you need an assistant I'm first in the queue..

OK.

Lenmeister · 19-02-2013 6:52pm

Eh eh back off I'm his new best friend! lol

Fattes · 19-02-2013 10:05pm

Yes I do have a job but am slowly working more towards my job being based in the mountains.

Doing a serious amount of FIS races this year and training so its been busy, 2 more weeks on snow at least before the end of the season.

micar · 19-02-2013 10:13pm

was in Soll last year, so much fun. Really only one bar for apres ski. It;s near the slope on the edge of town. Went full board in soll.
Just came back from Kitzbhule. Very different from soll. Plenty of bars and restaurants. Just had an apartment. Your're able to ski into a few towns either side and get bus back to town.

Both have plenty of blue/red runs. Very few black

Lenmeister · 19-02-2013 10:27pm

That sounds like a great place. I love the whole ski to your apartment or into town with a bus that brings you wherever within 10 or 15 mins etc. And mostly blue/red runs with a few blacks is imo best. I love to go down a few double black diamonds when I'm feeling darish but chilling at a good speed on red and blues and hitting the few natural jumps is most fun for me

I think the only thing about a place with 1 main bar is if that place is crap, it takes a big portion of the nightlife fun away. Can always make your own of course but still. Kits sounds like a good place. How many runs/lifts are there? Actually nvm I'll just google ^^

Where was your fave out of those places Fattes? You were there for training?

dzer2 · 19-02-2013 10:35pm

Lenmeister wrote: »

That sounds like a great place. I love the whole ski to your apartment or into town with a bus that brings you wherever within 10 or 15 mins etc. And mostly blue/red runs with a few blacks is imo best. I love to go down a few double black diamonds when I'm feeling darish but chilling at a good speed on red and blues and hitting the few natural jumps is most fun for me

I think the only thing about a place with 1 main bar is if that place is crap, it takes a big portion of the nightlife fun away. Can always make your own of course but still. Kits sounds like a good place. How many runs/lifts are there? Actually nvm I'll just google ^^

Yep its grand 160km of runs all chair lifts and gondolas apart from 1 drag lift some great reds and blacks longest run is over 8km and the queues not that bad approx 10 min at most. there are 2 fun parks when you google it go to the bergbahn and check out the webcams.:D:D

Fattes · 19-02-2013 10:40pm

few double black diamonds]

Go to Kits around the 20th of January some year and ski the Streif the the after the World Cup Downhill, Bring at least 3 pairs of clean underwear

Its only fully open the 2 days after the race winners normally do it in about 1:50

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH8wDi_XHCI

Lenmeister · 19-02-2013 11:02pm

I think I recently watched the World Cup event there, can never remember the names of the ones I watch. When he comes out of the tree area and then off the side on the right I was like oh man thought that was one massive drop haha.

PS When I said a few black diamonds, I meant rarely! So "some year" is right lol. Looks awesome though.

rjp123 · 20-02-2013 12:51pm

to st.anton am gnarlberg. next week.:D

fobster · 28-02-2013 10:21am

Heading to Tignes from the 16th to 23rd March, out of the country for Paddy's day, visiting the brother who's over there for the season and plus the X-Games are on. Gonna be cracking!