50 Good deeds Skiers can do.

To help Ellistine get a pair of Salomon bondings free he needs your suggestions of "possible" god deeds a fellow skier can do to another skier!

Can you help him, since he is not sleeping nights thinking of possible deeds.

Pavel

Two good deeds performed last night at the dry slope;

Applied some of my Datawax 'Soft-and-Slippy' to a fellow skiers skis as his skis weren't running too well.

Showed a lady (who claimed to have had a previous lesson but somehow I doubt it) how to plough and control her speed and tried to convince her that as her speed increases and she attempts to plough that she won't actually fly over the front of her skis - never heard that concern before!

More suggestions please...


PS Talking of ploughing - I wonder how many good skiers can plough properly. It's one of those things that you do when you first start and occasionaly when joining the queue at a lift but generally give it no thought what so ever. I though I could plough OK but apperently I do it whilst leaning back. An instructor at the slope pointed this out to me rightly saying that if I'm going to demonstrate a plough then demonstrate it propperly.

Usual stuff like if someone has a wipe out and loses poles and skis I pick up what I can and return it to the owner and see if they are unhurt.

More etiquate than a good deed, but it is nice to inform fellow lift riders that they have yucky boggies (boogers) hanging from thier nose. This save them wondering why other are avoiding looking at them or grimacing when they do.

Light snot on the upper lip requires no mention as this is so common when it's cold.

Not such a problem at good resorts with boxes of tissues at the lift.

:D Trencher

Let skiers who look cold sit in the middle on chairlifts.

ellistine wrote:Two good deeds performed last night at the dry slope;

Applied some of my Datawax 'Soft-and-Slippy' to a fellow skiers skis as his skis weren't running too well.

Showed a lady (who claimed to have had a previous lesson but somehow I doubt it) how to plough and control her speed and tried to convince her that as her speed increases and she attempts to plough that she won't actually fly over the front of her skis - never heard that concern before!

More suggestions please...


PS Talking of ploughing - I wonder how many good skiers can plough properly. It's one of those things that you do when you first start and occasionaly when joining the queue at a lift but generally give it no thought what so ever. I though I could plough OK but apperently I do it whilst leaning back. An instructor at the slope pointed this out to me rightly saying that if I'm going to demonstrate a plough then demonstrate it propperly.

How the heck do you plow right!? Please !! I think the correct way of plowing isn't supposed to involve snapping your knee out the opposite way then falling back on it. Would one compare it to plowing when ice skating? ie using your inner thigh muscles instead of knees?

Don't cut other skiers up, or take someone's line who is coming down quicker than you.

Don't be mean to snowboarders - they are just out there having fun like us.

Don't carry your skis on your sholder in queues.

Take your rubbish with you (and that includes cigarette butts).

Give your old gear away.

Hirsty,

Thank you so much for your suggestions. So appropriate!
The one about rubbish really was on the mark! It amazes me how skier/boarders love the outdoors, love the beautiful scenes yet I see ever year persons thrown down from chair; bottles, wrappers, cigarette cartons, old sunscreen tubes etc...

Every year I take some children from foster homes and we go on a "treasure hunt" in a ski resort. We have a prize for the most "unusual" treasure found!

We climb up under the lifts ( it is June) and with garbage bags we "collect" treasures! It is amazing what 10 children can pick up!

At end of day we "treat" them to some "Macdo" and open all our bags!

The most unusual "treasure" we have found were some metal handcuffs!

What do skiers need these for?

Please we all love clean nature, by all means take out your rubbish!

Thanks, Histry for comments.