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General => Random Chat => Topic started by: jedi-knight83 on December 12, 2011, 10:48:04 am
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Yes for all your boarders and skiers out there .... how happy are you its snowing at last.
Im off to Morzine in 4 weeks and up till last weekend it was bone dry and all the mountains were brown... But then they had 60+cm last week and are due another 1meter or so this week :)
http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Morzine/6day/top
Cant wait now. New board is all waxed and ready to go.
Where is everyone off to this year?
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Yes for all your boarders and skiers out there .... how happy are you its snowing at last.
Im off to Morzine in 4 weeks and up till last weekend it was bone dry and all the mountains were brown... But then they had 60+cm last week and are due another 1meter or so this week :)
http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Morzine/6day/top
Cant wait now. New board is all waxed and ready to go.
Where is everyone off to this year?
Thank god! Im going to Morzine to on the 26th Jan, can't wait. Not driving down this year though, which sucks! :smiley:
You been to Morzine before? I've bin to Courchevel a number of times but trying somwhere different this year :happy2:
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No not been to morzine before.. we have all area passes for the porte du soleil as well. Looking forward to it.
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Still no snow in Tahoe.. Leaving in 9 days..The blowers have done the business on the slopes but the off piste is looking grim. :booty:
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Still no snow in Tahoe.. Leaving in 9 days..The blowers have done the business on the slopes but the off piste is looking grim. :booty:
I've only done one trip to america for boarding but I'd never go back there just to snowboard... Fair enough if I happened to be there.. I'd never say no to a few cheeky days on the slopes... but when we have the alps on our doorstep.... I really cant see the point.
Hope you get lots of snow this week though dude!
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I know what you mean fella.. Its tahoe for xmas and newyear then frisco and onto vegas so its not just Boarding..February last year my mates went to Whistler..Came home winging how crap it was.I said I was going Fort william,they all came and it was EPIC!..Should have seen their skint faces.. :laugh:
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Fellow boarders, im off to les Deux alpes on saturday (17th December) with 9 friends, this is the 1st trip of the season. This will be my first time to Les Deux although have been to its sister resort Alpe D'huez (was good and was EPIC as there were 53 of us on the trip!!, pretty much everyone I knew was on that trip!!)
A few weeks back was getting a little worried about the snow (or lack thereof) but 53cm in last 7 days and a predicted 94cm in next 4 days sounds good to me, just hope it stops snowing when we get there (at least during the day!, it can snow all night I wont mind :wink:), as boarding in a white out aint fun :grin:
Snow report for les Deux Alpes below.
http://www.igluski.com/france/les-deux-alpes-snow-forecast_2380
I am also going to Ischgl (Austria) in feb with 3 of my friends who could not make the les deux trip, been there twice before in last 5 years and its an awesome place if you LOVE your apres!! :jumpmove: :star:
Think this is my 19th snowboarding trip in 16 years (missed 2 years or 4 trips due to living in Singapore)
My Board has been pulled from the loft and given a wax and edge this weekend (done it myself, have done for last 8 years!) and my boots given a clean and wax/seal and packed away in my board bag ready for weekend!.
Just gotta pack my bags on wednesday night ready for the trip up to manchester on thursday (night out on thursday with the lads who cant come this year!) then recover fridaya dn oof saturday :wink:
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Good Luck Tamiyo.. Post some pics when you get back..Thankfully the snow gods answered you're call..
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:signLOL: aye one of my friends wives sent me a text around 10 days ago asking us all to do snow dances, it must have worked :happy2:
Will try and get some pics and videos of the melee :wink:
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Normally go to Terminillo or Campo Felice once a year when I see my sis in Rome, but there is no sign of any snow yet :sad1:
Going on Wednesday till 11th of Jan!!! :jumpmove:
Rome is Ace… Historical City with 1hr drive to the Beach, or 1hr drive in the other direction to the Ski Resorts :pomppomp:
:santa: :santa: :santa:
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Well I just checked weather report again for les deux alpes and its been snowing again (another 10cm yesterday) and a predicted 107cm of snow in next 5 days, looks like its going to be chilly on arrival day tho with temp of -22c with wind chill of -34c brrrrr.
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i so need to get away boarding this season!!! :(
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I know the feeling, last time my board was out was January 15th this year and i can hear it pining for snow :wink:
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I'm off to Val Thorens in Feb for my 25th..... Folie Douche here we come! :laugh:
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We did a day in VT when we were staying just down the valley at Les Menuires, (great runs but apres seriously lacking!!), we only stayed till 5pm when our taxi picked us up so missed the apres :sad1:
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Saalbach Austria on 14th Jan
Can't wait to get on the mountain!
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We did a day in VT when we were staying just down the valley at Les Menuires, (great runs but apres seriously lacking!!), we only stayed till 5pm when our taxi picked us up so missed the apres :sad1:
I'm back to VT in January for the 4th year running. The apres is getting better and better there now! I cant wait!!
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Best Apres ever has got to be Ischgl in Austria, its awesome!, you need a big wallet tho it aint cheap, 2 double Vodka and Cokes £32!!!!.
Me and my best mate sat in a bar one afternoon (about 6pm) and a bunch of young russian kids (all likely around 16 and mainly girls) went up to the bar and bought a 5L bottle of Vodka for 1000 Euro, she just peeled off 10 x 100 euro notes off a bundle, I was gobsmacked :surprised:
Its full of Russian oligarchs too you see these massive blokes who look like bouncers wandering round the shops with supermodels on their arms!.
Oh and its normal hotel policy to go in sauna naked which is ace when 80% of the guests at the hotel are Russian :evilgrin: :signLOL:
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..... And its STILL snowing in Morzine / Avoriaz. Morzine town is white again today too so its snowing nice and low.
Cant wait to go now!
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Best Apres ever has got to be Ischgl in Austria, its awesome!, you need a big wallet tho it aint cheap, 2 double Vodka and Cokes £32!!!!.
Me and my best mate sat in a bar one afternoon (about 6pm) and a bunch of young russian kids (all likely around 16 and mainly girls) went up to the bar and bought a 5L bottle of Vodka for 1000 Euro, she just peeled off 10 x 100 euro notes off a bundle, I was gobsmacked :surprised:
Its full of Russian oligarchs too you see these massive blokes who look like bouncers wandering round the shops with supermodels on their arms!.
Oh and its normal hotel policy to go in sauna naked which is ace when 80% of the guests at the hotel are Russian :evilgrin: :signLOL:
Exactly the same as Courchevel 1850. I have been to Monte Carlo etc etc..and have never seen money like I did in Courch. Full of Russians just throwing cash about like it's going out of fashion. Took the ex out there for a meal one night there. Two starters, Two pastas and a bottle of wine, was north of 300 euro! Didn't fancy going for the 28,000 euro bottle of wine that was on the wine list!
Driving up the mountain one night there was an Enzo, F40 and F50 stuck at the side of the road, what a sight that was! :drool:
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Well im back online after my Holidays in les Deux Alpes, never seen as much snow in 13 years of snowboarding holidays!!.
I think while we were there we had approx 1.5m of snow!!.
Good resort with good apres but a word of warning some of the blue runs in Les 2 Alpes are more like UPHILL Cross country runs!!! :fighting:, so basically when you approach blue runs in les 2 aples, its maximum attack mode im afraid, I also found a free app for Iphone (called Les 2 Alpes) which logs your maximum speed, number of descents and total km distance covered which is handy.
My highest numbers for a day from the holiday were as below.
Descents 23
KM Covered 116.54
Maximum speed 86kph (53.75mph) (attained on a nice steep(ish) blue run coming down to the cretes chair lift (nice and smooth and not too busy).
I also managed to get wiped out buy a skier who was not looking where he was going!, I was probably doing about 45mph at the time and that did not tickle!!, not a happy boy and the frenchie got a mouthfull for that!.
Bar Crawl on Monday was hectic and next day was oh so slow lol.
We also won the Thursday night quiz in the Hotel, we won by two points, one of which was a tough one and all but one of our team looked at each other puzzled?.
Question:- In the Kids TV programme "Postman Pat"what is Postman pats Surname?.
Wer all looked at each other and were like whaaatttt?
It was then that my mates girlfirned quetly whispered in my mates ear that she thought it might be "Clifton", we asked how she might know that and it turns out her mother used used to say to her when she was younger that as her family name was clifton and they both knew the TV programme they decided to name her after Postmans Pats Cat "Jess" so our team meber "jess Clifton" helped us win the prize (worth 100 Euro) :P