Ski GPS

Wanderer wrote:Anyone who has let them go on the Trolles black run down into Tignes Le Lac will know what speed on skis feels like - I've not idea how fast you actually get up to and Ise is probably right - not as fast as you might like to think .....

..... but, as you pick up speed schussing down that hill, praying that you don't catch an edge, absolutely crapping yourself, it feels like a 100kph+ :shock: :shock: :shock:

I watched my 11 and 7 year old come down that run with my heart in my mouth. I honestly don't think I've been so scared in my life as when I saw them tuck :shock:

in fact, I think I screamed

bandit wrote:I dread to think what speed the woman who hit me and broke my collarbone was travelling at, suffice to say my collarbone was broken before I hit the ground. By the time I touched down I was generally out of it anyway.

was that in val thorens by any chance? I hear it happens a lot there :roll:

caron-a wrote:

bandit wrote:I dread to think what speed the woman who hit me and broke my collarbone was travelling at, suffice to say my collarbone was broken before I hit the ground. By the time I touched down I was generally out of it anyway.

was that in val thorens by any chance? I hear it happens a lot there :roll:

Hole in one :evil:

It's not just speed it is people hitting the slopes with no lessons my experience just last year, my six year old daughter was skiing between the wife and I and an out of control skier skied over the back of my daughter skis.
I sew red and hammered down the slope, stopped him and while gently grabbing him by the throat only to see he was the young lad who handed us the keys and inspected the chalet at the start of the holiday, we got a text message to leave the chalet keys under the door mat on our departure.
The morel is I spend a lot of time teaching my daughter, nieces, nephews about slope awareness and etiquette and about keeping themselves safe on the slopes but we still seem to be missing a number of people, it is one of the reasons I keep out of half term holiday periods and the more popular resorts.

what you really want is one of these ..no price yet...

http://www.satski.com/

Thanks daved it's my sort of gadget,but at the moment not enough resorts to rush out and buy.

My new Suunto S6 arrived today, could not wait until Thursday to open it, it was also relatively
easy to set up.

Did you now my stairs at home are a 25 degree gradient !!!! :lol:

Ian Wickham wrote: My new Suunto S6 arrived today, could not wait until Thursday to open it, it was also relatively
easy to set up.

Did you now my stairs at home are a 25 degree gradient !!!! :lol:

that's surprising, building regulations suggest your stairs are going to be around 1:12, 25 degrees would be around 1:4 if my maths are right in which case the council can come around and demolish your house )

on a course last week we concluded that the rule :

to err is human, to really screw up takes a computer

has a mountain corollary of

to get lost is human, to really screw up you need a GPS