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Drink-skiing?


Have you ever skied under the influence of alcohol?
Of course not, it would be dangerous and irresponsible
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Rarely, and just the one
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A couple of glasses with lunch, maybe a vin chaud...
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Occasional bad lapse - but I'm always in control
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Yes why not, ok I fall over a bit more but it hurts less
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I always thought it was fennel. My mate always thought it was the scrapings from under the fridge.
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I must admit to carrying a flask* but I don't count that. I only take an occasional small sip. It's for the taste you see. (Ahem)

* normally Lagavulin, for those who know their whisky.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
That seems to be tough stuff to buy at the moment.
They didnt have any (except the double matured sherry version) in
Heathrow and didnt think they would get any for another year or so.
Have they oversold themselves or something?
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Terminal 4 in Theifrow has a specialist whisky shop. All sorts of exotic stuff with prices to match
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Yea - thats where I went.
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I'm surprised: I never had any trouble getting it in the past, though sometimes it's the 10 year and sometimes the 15.
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There is a 10 year?
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Yeah, it's been decanted.
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PG- yup certainly wove my way down, unfortunately gravity was a little too strong for the upper body to bear, hence the horizontal descent of most of the course!

Talking of whiskies has anyone tried Te Bheag or Poit Dhubh?? Got given some by a friend, no idea where he got it from but it was very good! Otherwise the Balvenie 15yr old goes down very well!
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Nadenoodlee wrote:
I never ski under the influence- usually even the sight of alcohol during the day is enough to make me very ill. I do all my drinking after I take my ski boots off! and to be honest so did most people I met and skiied with on holiday in March.

Our daily routine was
11am- get up, eat, ski
5pm - finish skiing- go to McDonalds etc
6pm- Sleep
10pm- get up and get ready to go out- commence drinking
10:30pm- go out- drink solidly and constantly until 6/7am
Sleep til 11am and then start again

The only exception to the rule is if I dont have a hangover the next day- then ive been know to drink myself stupid in a mountain bar with my snowboard instructor and we had to walk back down in the dark, leaving our boards there!



This year skiing holyday dayly routine was:
07:00 am wake up.
07:15 wake up the children
(More often than not, it was the opposite)
08:00 breaakfast
08:30-09:00 Rendez-vous with other componets of the group
Skiing till 16:00-16:15
Have the last drink in some mountain bar
Ski down
17:00-18:00 Children's homework
18:00 Go to the spa, swimming pool, sauna etc.
19:00 Dinner
20:00 till 22:00ish Chat with friends, I drank mineral water and lemon....
22:15-23:00 bed time
Repeat

Routine did not vary much, children or not, in the past years.
While on the mountain I'm there to ski. Nothing else.
(I'm a bore, I know, but I don't care)
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Matteo, Don't you eat between 8.00pm and 19.00? You must be very thin Skullie
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skanky, if I wasnt at work I might have seen a very bad pun there...
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Mark Lehto, sorry, not one of my best. Embarassed
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You know it makes sense.
maggi, yes, I do eat, usually a sandwich or a dish of pasta or a cake. This means I stop for about 15-30 minutes. If I have children or family or friends with me, that is.
When alone, even less.

And, I wish I were thin, as it is, I'm not.
170-175 cm x 72-75 kg
I'm never sure how tall (or better, short) I am, thus the 5 cm tolerance..ehe
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Matteo, In French mountain restaurants it takes 15-30 minutes before the waiter deigns to come over to take your order Evil or Very Mad
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maggi, 15 minutes, fair enough, that can happen (rarely) ... anywhere!. And 30 minutes Puzzled Shocked I don't think so! At least, not in the last 500 times I've eaten in a French resort restaurant.
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PG wrote:
maggi, 15 minutes, fair enough, that can happen (rarely) ... anywhere!. And 30 minutes Puzzled Shocked I don't think so! At least, not in the last 500 times I've eaten in a French resort restaurant.


I presume she must have been joking Very Happy Who on earth would wait that long?
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I've known it take 30 mins for them to bring the bill. I keep saying we should just get up and go, they'd bring it soon enough then. That can happen in any country, though.
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Maggi, that said, Easiski and I did have to wait a helluva long time in La Notte restaurant in Bourg St Maurice the other night... the owner seemed to have laid off all his seasonal staff and was the only one serving a packed restaurant. Good meal though, made up for the wait...
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skanky wrote:
I've known it take 30 mins for them to bring the bill. I keep saying we should just get up and go, they'd bring it soon enough then. That can happen in any country, though.

Why wait, just go to the bar and pay, I do that more often than not....
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As Martin(?) Sheen said in Apocalypse Now!, "I don't see any bar".

Yes, we've been to the till or wherever sometimes, but it's not so easy in some restaurants. Also, if there's a load of you paying, it's a bit difficult with say eight of you all standing round it sorting out whether to pay £13.60 each and leave a tip or round it up to whatever each, especially if the alcohol content of the meal was large enough....you get the idea.
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Joking? Not really! I'm rubbish at attracting waiter's attention. When I do catch someone he says, "J'arrive!" with a big smile and disappears back inside (I always eat outside if poss) never to be seen again! Or I get the one who says he only collects the dishes and he will tell the waiter - and doesn't. Or the one who says he not taking any more orders as he is now going to lunch rolling eyes True. Alpe d'Huez - this year.

And I have walked out on occasions. But that means finding another restaurant when everyone is starving and starting the whole thing again!

And yes, we do go to self-serve restaurants if possible, but the first time, you don't know what to expect. They don't tell you on the piste map Shocked
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How on earth can anyone get trashed in 1 hour unless the "or so" means hours.

My observations are that very few drink much at all whilst skiing.

On earlier questions on the boiling out of alcohol with vin chaud, try a couple of large ones and then answer.

Hic!
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The worst (or best) place for skiing under the influence is St A after leaving either the Moosewhirt or the Krazy Kangaru, that is the only time I have ever done it.
In April I witnessed people skiing home at about 8.00pm in deep slush.
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handyman, Wine with goldschlanger chasers would do the trick!
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handyman, I take it you were never a student....... Wink Just don't sip your drinks, also it helps if you can neck a pint in just over 3 secs...........plenty of time to get pissed in a hour!!! Infact an hour is long enough to get pissed, sober up and get pissed again, obviously having a TC during that period to create space Razz Razz
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As handyman reminded me, some 20 or so posts back
kuwait_ian wrote:
Picky but does Vin Chaud count as alcoholic ? Thought it all boiled off at 78C leaving just a hot drink with no inebriating effects.

What an interesting suggestion. I was convinced I got pleasantly merry on Vin Chaud, but was this just placebo?
Definitely needs some thought.
1. Boiling point falls with altitude due to reduction in atmospheric pressure. So what is the boiling point of water at 2000m? Answer: 93.4C
2. Vin Chaud is not stored in open containers bubbling away, but in closed containers which will reduce the loss of alcohol
3. Even at 93.4C, not all the alcohol would evaporate off immediately, in the same way the water does not boil off immediately either, but it would be disappearing faster than the water
4. But Vin Chaud is not stored at 93.4C as this temperature would cause severe injury .
Points 1 – 4 are facts. Now comes pure conjecture:
Conclusion: Vin Chaud is stored in sealed containers at about 50C: alcohol strength will be less that standard red wine (11%), but still more than beer (5%). A couple of Vin Chauds can definiitely an old guy pleasantly merry.

There is probably a proper scientist out there who will tell me I am talking rubbish.
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exactly Jonim, it's not boiled only simmered for a few hours in a sealed container and then kept "warm", usually in one of those big kettle urns you see at tea time in cricket matches. Therefore there's not much loss in volume let alone alcohol. Not quite sure why a couple of vin chauds make you feel pished quite quickly though...........maybe just all the fresh air and a day of canning it on the slopes..? Puzzled
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Jonpim, the alcohol will not boil off because ethanol and water form an azeotropic mixture. This fascinating site is worth a visit Laughing
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Alan Craggs, and Jonpim , STOP IT!! Alcohol does not need to be analysed etc

It wasnt put on the earth for us to ask questions, it was put on the earth to totally incapacitate us!
Now revel in its wonderousnesslyish NehNeh x
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On my seventh finger of redeye as we speak Nadenoodlee Eh oh!
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is that a teletubbie smiley? have you sold your soul to cbeebies too?
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all souls are mine (see off piste thread)
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Yeah, but what about gluwein? Puzzled
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gluwein is boggin - see poss this thread or possibly another one- cant remember

everyone should drink malibu and pineapple juice, drinkable at any hour of the day wherever you are (except if ur in Tennesse and other non alcohol places (dodgy spelling) and arent alllowed to drink- in which case you should move, quickly) NehNeh
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Nadenoodlee, malibu is mingin
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maggi wrote:
Matteo, In French mountain restaurants it takes 15-30 minutes before the waiter deigns to come over to take your order Evil or Very Mad


During the day I usually go in self-service places....not in places where there are waiters taking orders!!! So, I may correct my previous statement as:
"According to the queues at the self service and my lust for skiiing, presence of youngsters and or oldies in the group, lunch time may vary from 15 to 45 minutes"
Is that better?

BTW I never check the clock, so that is a guestimate (and I may well be surprised if I were to actually clock my lunch time...)

And I've started to eat again at midday only since the "boys" have started skiing. In times long gone I used to ski whilethe rest of the company stopped to eat. And have a double portion of everything at dinner Wink
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So getting back to the original subject, the survey shows that 20% of snowheads either don't care two hoots whether they're endangering others on the piste, or think they're in control when they're clearly way over the limit. rolling eyes
(Just to liven debate up a little..... Wink )

Could be worse - the Natives poll currently shows a majority (57%) that fall into these two categories combined as "Yes indeedy. I rode like a demon although I fell over more."
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Well as one of the people who dont care - its always an end of the day thing
so if you wait long enough you get quiet pistes! Or was that quite pissed?
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