Niederau Report '11

billip wrote:Interesting; so it's nigh impossible to be leaning tooooo far forward ?

Have you ever fallen forwards on skis?

Tony_H wrote:

billip wrote:Interesting; so it's nigh impossible to be leaning tooooo far forward ?

Have you ever fallen forwards on skis?

Yup, several times, ripping down off piste, both tips under the snow, and under a fence wire! Taking a blind jump, and discovering in mid-air I was going to be landing on a combination of rock and mud, and the fence wire trick again, one ski under, one ski over. In each case I was definitely too far forwards!

And I think Bandit had one a couple of weeks back.

Theres always one.

Tony_H wrote:Theres always one.

Mmmm, I count two?

Hmmm, from your description I'd say you were out of control, and it was not caused by leaning forward.
Your description made it sound almost reckless to be honest!

Tony_H wrote:Hmmm, from your description I'd say you were out of control, and it was not caused by leaning forward.
Your description made it sound almost reckless to be honest!

True! :oops:

Ooh I forgot to say in my report, that because little bruv got ill on the holiday we had experience of the local doctor's surgery and pharmacy. The pharmacists double as receptionists for the dr, and we dealt with a lovely young girl who was extremely helpful and spoke excellent english. She checked symptoms, asked us on each occasion whether we wanted medicine for stomach cramps, sickness and... ahem. We chose to get all three. Whilst she was collecting them we did a money check - 50 euros between us. No idea how much she'd charge. It came to just over 10 euros. Given the situation and how worried we were (little bruv was violently ill) I have to admit it was very reassuring that once again the locals had shown how helpful they were, when they could have easily taken the P.

It remains debatable whether the medicine fixed him in the end, or whether it was the special schnapps we made him drink the following evening (he was still to ill to get out of bed for long). It was recommended by a ski instructor who said that he didn't know a single person it hadn't worked on. This stuff smelled like cow dung so god knows what it tasted like. In any other situation I wouldn't dream of giving high octane schnapps to someone with a bug, but we were convinced so it had to be done. The following morning he was up for breakfast and managed a ski in the afternoon.

Perhaps he was allergic to something or somewhere :D