J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by bandit

Dave Mac wrote:


Coming to skiing, there are two minuses, lack of village architecture, and the mountain costs, ie food and drink. The pluss points are, ski in/ski out, good lift systems, big mountains.

Fortunately the ski factories are not the sum total of French skiing. Look again and you'll find plenty of real communities with year round residents, who don't live in high rise blocks halfway up the lift system. Try the village of Samoens for starters...

http://www.samoens.com/anglais/DT1196158385/page/Samoens-Village.html

ise, that is a really excellent powder skiing photo. If you've not sold it to an agency already, consider it 8)

Soft spring snow, April 2006 Val d'Isere. Ise on slalom skis, pistes somewhere in the distance :D



Clearly you don't need fat skis to ski spring snow off piste, Stockli slalom skis will do just fine.

freezywater wrote:

bandit wrote:

tino_11 wrote:Piffle, why would I do that?

Because, back then, recreational snowboarding was not nearly as popular or developed as it is today.

Folks would likely have pointed at you and giggled )

and that's different from now how exactly :?: :oops:

Tino...please note, I didn't say this :lol:

tino_11 wrote:Piffle, why would I do that?

Because, back then, recreational snowboarding was not nearly as popular or developed as it is today.

Folks would likely have pointed at you and giggled )

tino_11 wrote:I would go back and start snowboarding 20 years ago instead of 2.

You might have been drawn to make a more sensible decision and choose 2 planks )

tino_11 wrote:Wouldn't that be nice, imagine the mischief )

Quite 8)

tino_11 wrote:Which it just did!!!

I thought I had slipped into a time warp...and gone back in time :lol: