J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by bandit

Ian Wickham wrote:

Thanks bandit, I'm even greener with envy :hunf:

You're welcome Ian, anytime :D

ise wrote:

bandit wrote:Just back from a morning earning my turns. 520 metres vertical in 1 hour 55 mins.

well done! 260m/hr is pretty good, around guidebook time

Thanks :D I was quite surprised and pleased at the progress I made. Not bad for an unfit fat old bird. The first climb up the main piste seems to be the toughest bit, though I did find one spot where ski crampons would have been quite useful to stop me sliding back down, and that was the very last bend on the route :lol:

Just back from a morning earning my turns. 520 metres vertical in 1 hour 55 mins.
i still don't have any crampons for my skis either! The lengths I go to to get some fresh pow :D

I saw a couple on snowshoes, and the basher drivers, and no-one else....

It's actually stopped snowing at the moment and the sky is blue :D

ise wrote:

clubman wrote:ise, please let us know how the BCA repair works out.

As I suspected, it's not going to be repaired, they're going to overnight me a new one so I can stop using the old F1 I've had to fallback to all week.

Bummer..you get a whole new one :D

Fancy having to make do with the most widely used, utterly reliable analogue transceiver available....poor you :lol:

However did you cope?

I use one BTW :D

ise wrote:

bandit wrote:The roads are looking fine, plenty of traffic around, (relatively speaking) If you are not sized by crippling apathy and make it over here to ski and want to meet up, call me. :D

sure :D I just prefer it when the bus is running, less hassle. Do you know how much they're planning to open at Grimentz though?

Yes, except of course, that you have a car with you, and won't need to catch 2 buses as I will next week!

You can use my parking space, it's private and empty, and it got ploughed at 6am today :roll:

All of the fast chairs ran last week, not totally certain if the drags will open tomorrow. I saw one skier yesterday, and I heard a piste basher somewhere on the Bendolla piste, near the top.

ise wrote:

bandit wrote:
Yes I'm here all weekend, and if all goes to plan I shall ski 3 days next week as well :D

I may ski at Grimentz on Saturday if I can be bothered to get the car out and the road's not under a couple of metres of snow :D

The roads are looking fine, plenty of traffic around, (relatively speaking) If you are not sized by crippling apathy and make it over here to ski and want to meet up, call me. :D

ise wrote:

bandit wrote:
ise What are you studying?

so very many things )

I didn't you think you were still there for the weekend?

Beanz spill :D

Yes I'm here all weekend, and if all goes to plan I shall ski 3 days next week as well :D

It's still not stopped snowing here. I went snow shoeing this afternoon, and fell over ) Visibility is rather poor :shock:
Discovered just how steep our home run is when trying to walk down it!

Skins on my skis tomorrow, unless the weather is too dodgy.

ise What are you studying?