Anyone planning a ski or snowboard trip this winter?

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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    By the way, if anyone sees good deals for goggles, a helmet or ski trousers let me know !!!!!
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    Kingstonian wrote:
    By the way, if anyone sees good deals for goggles, a helmet or ski trousers let me know !!!!!

    Aldi next week. I’ll have a SunGod code on Monday if you want spend more on goggles.
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  • eric_draven
    eric_draven Posts: 1,192
    Used to do bit of a regular visit to TK Max could turn up some decent stuff and decent brands,I know it is pot luck sometimes but I have fallen lucky a few times
  • term1te
    term1te Posts: 1,462
    Aletsch arena for me
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  • sandyballs
    sandyballs Posts: 577
    Not looked at current deals but have used Glisshop in the past and they were very good even though they are located in France.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,630
    Tentatively Trysil in Norway in mid-Feb, so that there is at least some daylight. For us ski-in-ski-out and fewer crowds is more of a draw than the number of man-points on offer up the mountain.
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    https://www.sungod.co/shop/custom/revol ... lackgreenT

    20% off those for 48 hours with code ROUBAIXCYCLING20
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    bendertherobot wrote:
    https://www.sungod.co/shop/custom/revolts?id=revolts-rf_blackM-rle_greenN-rs_blackgreenT

    20% off those for 48 hours with code ROUBAIXCYCLING20


    Thanks for sharing, I had my eye on some Anon goggles but will certainly take a look at Sungod too
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Quick snow report .......it has been snowing big time in Austria, with more expected over the next week !!!!! Expect other parts of the Alps have been seeing the white stuff too
  • homers_double
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  • narbs
    narbs Posts: 593
    Looking good in La Rosiere with another metre forecast this week.

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    Quite fancy this as well for a change.

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  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    narbs wrote:
    Looking good in La Rosiere with another metre forecast this week.

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    Quite fancy this as well for a change.

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    Nice knowing you.....
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  • Flâneur
    Flâneur Posts: 3,081
    haha, didn't sound like the heli crowd I'd head off with.

    Currently debating upsetting the Date and heading off somewhere pre christmas. Friend got my excited as he just booked a quick heli job in AK. He does live in Portland though the !!!!!!!!!
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  • RallyBiker
    RallyBiker Posts: 378
    Been saving up flat out since skiing Davos-Klosters this January, which emptied the bank balance but by God was it worth it!
    Off to Saalbach on the 6th. of January for a week with my better half. Looking forward to see what it looks like with snow. The last time I was there was on a Giant Reign!
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    6 degrees in Vaujany village today, 2 on top. Mild for 2 days. Then -14 and a metre of snow in 5 days or so. Off on the 14th. Quite excited now.
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Absolutely banging it down with the white stuff in the Alps over the past couple of days, and more forecast over the next week.
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    Chaos out there today. Honestly, you'd think the French would cope better with a mere 1.5m of overnight snowfall. Amateurs.... :D
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  • lesfirth
    lesfirth Posts: 1,382
    I got the coach back from Alp d"huez one afternoon a few years ago. It had been snowing heavily all morning. All the snow clearing teams had disappeared for a french lunch hour. When they came back there was chaos.The police told everyone going uphill that they had to put their snow chains on. There was mile after mile of cars with Dad holding first time out of the box snow chains being instructed by wife reading snow chain instructions.The few who had successfully fitted their snow chains were stuck behind the vast majority who had failed dismally.
    Any idea that the french know how to deal with these conditions is boll0cks.
  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,019
    Paid the balance of our chalet yesterday. Got the boy to try his sallopets on last night, he really needs to stop growing!

    The trick to getting snow chains on easily is not to do it at night, in the snow, on a slope when it's -15 degrees. I always have a refresher on the drive before we set off for the journey.
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Some enormous snowfalls in France and Switzerland over the past 24 hours or so. Zermatt was completely snowed in !!!
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Kingstonian wrote:
    Some enormous snowfalls in France and Switzerland over the past 24 hours or so. Zermatt was completely snowed in !!!

    Oh that sounds good,i miss a ski in the mountains and come to think of it i miss ski yoghurt too.
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    3 days to go now, super excited. Weather looks good for leaving, getting there and, crucially, skiing.
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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    bendertherobot wrote:
    3 days to go now, super excited. Weather looks good for leaving, getting there and, crucially, skiing.


    Enjoy !!!!!
  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,019
    We pre ordered our lift passes a week ago and they arrived in the post yesterday, an odd way of doing it which we've not done before but the more I get sorted here the less to do over there which = more skiing!

    Also picked up a pair of Tecnica ski boots for the boy off ebay, not far away so he could try them on, £20.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,622
    I'd really like it if some European resorts adopted the N American style of avalanche control and safety in bounds. Plus stopped the grooming nonsense.
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    Good week had. Chalet and food was superb. Vaujany excellent for kids, limiting for adults. So you need to pop over to ADH but be back for kids lessons end at 11.30. Not doable so dad one day, mum the next etc. Getting to ADH in bad weather means lots of cable cars. Getting back same unless the top lifts open then you do a red. No easy way of getting kids to ADH to experience it. So, on balance, no to Vaujany next time.

    Loads of snow days, only really 2 sunny days. Conditions for skiing excellent though, if not too much snow.

    Finally, got back to airport, flight canned to Cardiff. Overnight in swanky Mercure, 5 hour wait at airport next day. Flight to Southampton, bus to Cardiff. 30 hours extra including loads of waiting and travelling. And a rickety Bombardier Q400.

    But all in all, a success. Just avoid Chambery, as the internet says.
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  • bendertherobot
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    Anyone currently in Zermatt or Cervinia?!
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Got back earlier today. We stayed in a great hotel in Zell am See, would def stay there again. Two days skiing in Zell, three days on the Kaprun glacier, and one day across in Saalbach & Hinterglem. The conditions were spectacular, powder for days 1 and 2 then stonkingly great pistes every day after that.

    I’ve not been to Austria before for a ski trip but would def go again.
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Kingstonian wrote:
    Got back earlier today. We stayed in a great hotel in Zell am See, would def stay there again. Two days skiing in Zell, three days on the Kaprun glacier, and one day across in Saalbach & Hinterglem. The conditions were spectacular, powder for days 1 and 2 then stonkingly great pistes every day after that.

    I’ve not been to Austria before for a ski trip but would def go again.

    Crikey that made me sigh,i have not been back to Austria to ski since i was nineteen,it was magical and what you did sounds the same,like you i loved it but i hope you get back sooner than i.

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