 Poster: A snowHead
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I absolutely love Alleghe, but its sports centre really is a blot on the landscape.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@luigi, Many thanks for this. I will consider it.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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If we're going for only 3 days skiing I'd want ski in/out
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| Origen wrote: |
| If we're going for only 3 days skiing I'd want ski in/out |
Agreed, i did 3 days in Chamonix some time ago, and felt like too much time was spent getting around.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| TheMikeSki wrote: |
| Origen wrote: |
| If we're going for only 3 days skiing I'd want ski in/out |
Agreed, i did 3 days in Chamonix some time ago, and felt like too much time was spent getting around. |
With some very long walks in ski boots from hotels.
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@SnowHounder, every year I take my daughter so it's just her and me and I love the different dynamic to our family skiing holidays. You mention Geneva so would you consider Megeve? It's just over an hour by road. Stanford skiing offer ski weekends for a very reasonable price, Sylvana is half board so you'd only need to sort lunches. While not ski in and out, it's only a 5 minute walk to the Rochebrune gondola and if you rent, I believe you can leave equipment at the ski shop. There are 3 different areas so enough for 3 days.
However being lower elevation, it's not so snow sure. I hope you find and book somewhere.
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| Snowmadmum wrote: |
@SnowHounder, every year I take my daughter so it's just her and me and I love the different dynamic to our family skiing holidays. You mention Geneva so would you consider Megeve? It's just over an hour by road. Stanford skiing offer ski weekends for a very reasonable price, Sylvana is half board so you'd only need to sort lunches. While not ski in and out, it's only a 5 minute walk to the Rochebrune gondola and if you rent, I believe you can leave equipment at the ski shop. There are 3 different areas so enough for 3 days.
However being lower elevation, it's not so snow sure. I hope you find and book somewhere. |
Thanks, will check this out.
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Stanford skiing offer ski weekends for a very reasonable price, Sylvana is half board
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I'd have to second this, although it's a good few years since I went with them. It looks like the Hotel/Chalet has been done up a bit. They also pride themselves in having a decent chef. Not someone who has just done the "chalet cooking" course!
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Montgenevre from Turin
La Clusaz from Genenva
Zell am See / Kitzbuhel from Salzburg
Main thing is to remember your GHIC (was EHIC) card as well as a definitive insurance policy . . .try to get choppered to a main hospital rather than a local clinic.
When my then 7yr old son got his leg smashed into by an OOC adult snowboarder on day 2 in Wengen, a flotilla of bloodwagons arrived instantaneously to zip him to the local doc . . . .little did we know at the time why / what this would entail / the monumental bill / and the near scrap I got into when arguing about insurance paperwork with Dr Mengele . . .
Later on that week my sister got her leg sliced open by another eejit - claret everywhere but saved by ze choppa - straight to Interlaken Hospital with zero fuss and zero fees (EHIC)
Enjoy!
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| v1cky24 wrote: |
I must be in the minority not worrying about being injured like that. Probably sensible to be prepared. I think someone would look after DD in that instance. Or she would accompany you to whichever hospital you would be obtaining treatment from until your wife could get there.
My 12 YO is pretty sensible tbh. |
I disagree. I reckon very few skiers worry about being seriously injured. If we were all serious worriers we wouldn't be skiers... or drive a car... or fly... or cross a road on foot.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Confess I was injured by an ejit when out with 14 yo daughter. Not seriously... well, not hospitalised, but serious enough not to be able to ski, barely able to get boot off, still nerve damage 10 years later: and only after 2 days off the slopes, of being able to drive the hire-car back to Geneva. Just.
Very painful.
I had gone into the trip without thinking about the possibilities or consequences. It's wise to be aware, and to make sure plans are in place. Then you won't need them.
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Not sure if you've booked yet but, I took my daughter to the Ski Welt in Austria a few years ago. If you hire a car, it means you can stay outside a resort and drive to the various areas, such as Neiderau, Soll, Alpbach etc, which all have carparks next to the lifts. So very varied skiiing, the best mountain bars and restaurants/food anywhere, at decent prices too.
We flew to Munich, which was around 1.5hrs away.
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You know it makes sense.
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I have long felt that "one on one" with kids can be extremely valuable. When our two boys were getting at each other, and things were a bit fraught, we did several times split up for a weekend (nothing fancy, just I would go off with one boy to spend a weekend at my parents'). It always helped a lot. Much depends on what, apart from skiing, this father and daughter combo want to do. When my daughter was a bit younger, and about to go to senior school, she and I rented a motor cruiser on a canal. The boat was tatty and broke down and caused various problems but she remembers the time with great affection (I, to be honest, can't remember much about it at all - it was a more "special" experience for her than for me). For her 40th birthday, just recently, we did a few days skiing in Pila, her first time in Italy!
Both those trips were "self catering" and in Italy we enjoyed muddling round the huge supermarket and sorting out the slightly odd "batterie de cuisine" in the apartment in Aosta, cooking a few simple bits, sharing a bottle of wine. Others would find going out to a restaurant more enjoyable. But the key point is that there will be a lot of time when you're NOT skiing, and that time needs thinking about. Just pottering around on skis, stopping for drinks and snacks, will be lovely. But what about the rest - the majority - of the time?
I wouldn't give the "risks" too much thought. Whenever two people do anything together - including driving up a motorway at 80 mph or sailing a boat there is a risk that something will happen to one of them (especially if they're old  I crew a boat with a skipper who will be 91 in few weeks). Risks cannot be excluded. But a sensible 12 year old, armed with some phone numbers, and surrounded by people willing and able to help her, will be OK. And a lot safer than she'd be on the M6 at 70 mph with a grandparent who has a heart attack.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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The discussion about injury is interesting. I don't "worry" about being injured but I don't discount the possibility either. Make sensible arrangements, brief those who need briefing, have good insurance. If the risks seem to great, maybe decide against the venture. But if you go ahead, "worrying" achieves nothing at all and detracts from enjoyment. My husband was a type 1 diabetic. Always at risk of hypos (crashed the car in Fiji as the result of a hypo). The kids were with him a lot because he was a "stay at home" father (I went out to work). They all knew the signs of hypoglycaemia and knew what do do. Eldest son once confiscated the car keys when OH was behaving very oddly, picking him up from cubs, and ran back, white as a sheet, to tell "Brown Owl" that he was worried. Daughter, at 7, long distance flying/travelling with him, always had emergency choc bar in her bag and the astonishing and admirable thing is that though she was quite a piggy little girl about chocolate, normally, she didn't eat it. Had it under her pillow in the hotel room, battered but unopened. We underestimate our kids.
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