Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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mistral_ski, Smoothpark is at Super Chatel and is free. A fun boarder (or ski) cross alongside it. Usual rails, boxes, jumps etc ( can't myself imagine what the interest is (though my son loved it). Accessible by two of the drag lifts.
If your 9 year old will be on the smooth park (I'm guessing it is not for you ) then there are plenty of small person friendly areas including a rope tow that you can skate up quicker than the rope goes and a very mild drag. I think at 3 they get a free Chatel pass.
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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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Are there any mandatory items that I need to carry while skiing with me?
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If Off-Piste I'm sure there are a host of recommended items - I don't know enough to advise
On piste - well some people have phone, money lift-pass, that's probably the only essentials. With kids I will also ahve spare gloves, first aid kit for minor bumps, hats, tissues, drink, snacks etc as well
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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mistral_ski wrote: |
Are there any mandatory items that I need to carry while skiing with me?
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A rucksack full of beer or a hip flask is mandatory in most resorts, big fine if your caught without one or the other
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If you're skiing with kids and they are anything like mine then carry some chocolate, the cold and skiing combined seem to sap their energy quickly and a quick injection of chocolate revives them (and I'm a dentist and usually look horrified at such suggestions )
I usually have a smal rucksack with spare gloves and maybe a thin fleece for them as they will moan if they get cold
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Are there any mandatory items that I need to carry while skiing with me?
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lift pass, but I cannot think of anything else
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Thanks. For the tips. I am planning on the other half carrying a ruck sack so will defo add some snacks in there.
The kids are 9 and 3. I think the 9 year old will prob like the park, but was asking for me. Hahahaha.
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Mistral, if the other half isn't a very good skier I would think hard-ish about how much stuff you put in the rucksack - it can really mess up your balance.
Assuming you have never been skiing before I would advise that you carry a piste map and make sure that you know your way back down and are aware of what times the lifts shut.
It may not be an issue if you are not very experienced, but you don't want to ski down to point X planning to get the last chair back over the ridge to home and find that the chair has shut down for the day.
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mistral_ski, Do not over estimate how quickly a 3 year old will tire, and how little a 3 year old can control his/her body and respond to instructiions. A couple of hours at most on the snow will be enough. You will not be teaching skiing, but having fun in the snow together.
Make sure you put the emergency piste patrol number in your phone before you set out - it is usually found on the piste map. 99% of times you won't need it. But if you do...
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So trying so hard to be organised for my trip in January, and as I havent done this before
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Have you skied before? If not, are you planning on getting lessons, or just figuring it out on the mountain?
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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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I ski a lot, I've been on snow also once about 16 years ago so remember a little
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mistral_ski wrote: |
I ski a lot, I've been on snow also once about 16 years ago so remember a little |
Unless I'm missing something, that doesn't make a lot of sense. Care to clarify?
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You know it makes sense.
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bagginsmum, Hello missus!
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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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mistral_ski wrote:
I ski a lot, I've been on snow also once about 16 years ago so remember a little
Unless I'm missing something, that doesn't make a lot of sense. Care to clarify?
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I think he means he's been on a snowboard once about 16 years ago.
Don't think English is mistral_ski's first language and a lot of French people refer to snowboarding as "le Snow" for short.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Sorry. I am English. Just a bit lazy at typing when I'm on an iPad. And I'm a she
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hi dbaskls! Funny where you meet other board buddies!
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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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mistral_ski, just to confirm at most ski resorts kids are free until 5, sometimes 6 (Paradiski).
I've never been to Chatel but we went to places with "conveyer belt" type lifts on a diddy slope. Great for real little uns. Also, ironically, cable cars work quite while as they are easy to mount and dismount. So if there is any of those with nice cruisy blue runs down, again that works well for 3/4 year old. Slow drags are obviously OK too. Chairlifts are more tricky. Quite a lot have a little ramp that is on the side where the lift attendant stands. The ramp helps them and often the liftie will help them on for you.
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There is a road (green run) served by the Pierre Longue chair at Pre La Joux which would be ideal
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Slow drags are obviously OK too
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Hmm. Depends. Not if a child falls off at a spot where it's a trek back to a pisted run. And you have to get off behind them and get you both back to the piste. Been there, done that, across a pretty flat area of crud. Hard work.
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pam w wrote: |
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Slow drags are obviously OK too
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Hmm. Depends. Not if a child falls off at a spot where it's a trek back to a pisted run. And you have to get off behind them and get you both back to the piste. Been there, done that, across a pretty flat area of crud. Hard work. |
It's called 'character building'
I learnt to get myself across the cruddy flat bits as a kid, and soon learned not to fall off in the first place. And this was in Scotland where they have double black diamond pomas
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And this was in Scotland where they have double black diamond pomas
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I consider mysef to be pretty a-ok at drag lifts on my snowboard - my god those scottish ones are difficult!
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pam w,
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Not if a child falls off at a spot where it's a trek back to a pisted run.
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I was thinking of ones where that isn't the case for the reasons you state. For a 3yo it would have to be fairly short and flat, if they are to travel on there own.
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