J2Ski Holiday 2014

PistePaul wrote:I wonder when Admin will say 'enough' uploads?

Oh - surely not - he wouldn't be so cruel!!! ;)

I was watching that video and I wondered what it reminded me of and all of a sudden I realized! It was the training CD I had a go on for the hazard perception part of the theory driving test when my daughter was doing it! If that was the CD I'd have been going clickety click with my mouse all the way down through the crowd of skiers!

The guy standing in the middle of the piste facing the wrong way with his ski stick stuck out sideways is really going too far!

Mind you, by the end of the week we were all experts at overtaking slower skiers and boarders safely :)

And you can see in that video that my skis are very fast on the steep stuff but no good when it gets flatter :(

They were Rossingol Pursuit's 163 and I think they were too short for the flat stuff, but I kept them because they were very handy in the powdery lumps, and they even managed OK on piste 70 - the unpisted piste :)

And you can also see the way we skied as a group - I slowed down at about 050 and looked round to check the others were still there, and then stopped at the junction sign and waved to make sure Simon and Billip1 went the right way, and then took off after Simon to overtake him before he'd gone too far ;)

Thanks Paul - another lovely video :)

Try this one - Black No1 back into Folgarida - pity it was so foggy at the end, and I probably had some snow on the camera lens - why I cant say!!

Thanks Paul :)
You went down that first section most impressively fast!

I skied down the whole piste very slowly and carefully, as I don't like powdery lumps, but at least I managed to ski all the way down without stopping! There's a pretty steep section somewhere around the middle, and the whole thing is 1.85 Km long.

I found this about that black 1, the Nera Folgarida, on here:
http://www.valdisole.net/cms-01.00/articolo.asp?IDcms=47510&s=1124&l=en

Nera di Folgarida - Folgarida

The black slope of Folgarida was built during the summer of 1967, as a result of a consultation by the well-known Technical Director of the F.I.S.I. National Teams at the time, Ermanno Nogler. The slope was already approved for international races back in 1969, and in 1996 important changes were made to enlarge and define certain features of the slope. In 1998, floodlights were installed along the final part of the slope, giving skiers the chance to also try night skiing.
Equipped with one of the most modern artificial snowmaking system, the slope can be completely prepared and groomed using programmed snow. It is a technical slope, with a vertical drop of 600 meters and an average width of 35 meters, wedged into the forest: it is a challenging descent but a fun and varied slope. Numerous ski competitions have taken place on this slope including the ISF Snowboarding World Championship in 1999 and numerous editions of the Snowboard Trofeo Topolino. Skiers that can ski down this slope without catching their breath definitely deserve a pat on the back.

my favourite slope...

It is an Italian black so only really red ........

Ian Wickham wrote:It is an Italian black so only really red ........

true ..but I still liked it.... :roll:

All sounds very good. Glad you all had a great time.

Will there be a j2ski 2015 holiday?

Ian Wickham wrote:It is an Italian black so only really red ........

I think 70 would be a black, even in France, and even if we'd been going the right way (according to Daved and Cat).
I mean, with a 70 degree slope at the end of it even the French in Val d'Isere could hardly call it a red! ;)