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Ski equipment and transportation survey

 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
Simplified hopefully this one will go down easier
Would be greatly appreciated if it was answered

1. How many weeks a year are you physically involved in skiing


Under 1 week


3+ weeks


5+ weeks


10+ weeks

2. What Problems do you find when carrying skiing equipment


3. How long can you continuously carry your skiing equipment


less than 5 minutes


5+ minutes


10+ minutes


15+ minutes



4. Do you ever pay extra money for taxis or buses for transportation

Yes

No

5. Do you feel like you need access to an easier transportation system for the weight of your skis


Yes


No


Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 6-09-18 11:12; edited 1 time in total
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@Tom Beardmore, still not great, but I will play. see the answers to see why the questions are not great

1. How many weeks a year are you physically involved in skiing


5+ weeks


2. What Problems do you find when carrying skiing equipment

None

3. How long can you continuously carry your skiing equipment

(these answer options are the same)

15+ minutes


over 15 minutes

4. Do you ever pay extra money for taxis or buses for transportation

Yes ..but that's because I am in a different ski area that I can't walk to


5. Do you feel like you need access to an easier transportation system

I don't understand the question. easier transportation for what..me, my skis?



I'm guessing you have invented a "nifty" ski carrier - we've done that lots here
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@Tom Beardmore, you don't deserve answers (why didn't you answer MY question on one of your other three threads?) but here goes:
1) 5+
2) Depends on the weight of the skis. My current skis aren't particularly heavy.
3) 15+ minutes. Though I might award myself a rest and put them down for a moment. Which would then not be 'continuously' of course.
4) If I am going somewhere which isn't within walking distance, I will pay for a bus or taxi, always assuming I can't get a lift or other free transport. This is irrespective of whether I have skis with me or not.
5) Assuming you mean a transportation system for skis, the answer is no.
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@Tom Beardmore,

1 physically - 6+ (mentally....most of the time)
2 getting one hand around two fat waisted skis - seriously. We do a Thovex all the time, one in each hand.
3 15+ - i’d be dead if I couldn’t schlep them all day
4 No
5 No

Supplementary - I don’t want an additional ski carrying device. Really.
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1. How many weeks a year are you physically involved in skiing
Whole season.

2. What Problems do you find when carrying skiing equipment
None.

3. How long can you continuously carry your skiing equipment
From the car park to the lift, that's all that's necessary.

4. Do you ever pay extra money for taxis or buses for transportation
No. I use my car, or a free ski bus.

5. Do you feel like you need access to an easier transportation system for the weight of your skis
No.
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1. 3-4 weeks
2. For some reason I can't just look at my paired skis and KNOW which one needs to be on the bottom when I throw them over my shoulder. It always takes unnecessary thought - and even then I seem to get it wrong 25% of the time!
3. I've yet to find my limit before reaching my destination.
4. Buses - but only to get to distant parts of a ski area served by the standard valley bus, rather than a free ski bus.
5. Not really, no.
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@Tom Beardmore, you're an idiot.

With no posting history, with no introduction as to who you are or explanation of what you're doing, you've generated three separate posts with the same poorly thought out and poorly presented survey.

I'm out.
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He's got me thinking.
Maybe he's going to be offering a European based sherpa service, using illegal immigrants to keep the costs down. That, linked to a Tuk-Tuk service, but with snow chains on them and roof racks for the skis. I am curious.
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@Awdbugga,
Chains are useless, you need winter tyres wink
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1. How many weeks a year are you physically involved in skiing
5+ weeks

2. What Problems do you find when carrying skiing equipment
none

3. How long can you continuously carry your skiing equipment

less than 5 minutes

4. Do you ever pay extra money for taxis or buses for transportation

No

5. Do you feel like you need access to an easier transportation system for the weight of your skis

No
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1. How many weeks a year are you physically involved in skiing

5+ weeks

2. What Problems do you find when carrying skiing equipment

None.

3. How long can you continuously carry your skiing equipment

10+ minutes (swapping skis to the other shoulder)

4. Do you ever pay extra money for taxis or buses for transportation

No (either walk to lift or use free ski bus)

5. Do you feel like you need access to an easier transportation system for the weight of your skis

No
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I once carried my skis up the whole Tetras piste in the 3V. I wouldn't recommend it but it was that or a hefty taxi fare.
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Layne wrote:
I once carried my skis up the whole Tetras piste in the 3V. I wouldn't recommend it but it was that or a hefty taxi fare.
That's a lot of effort to save €20!
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Layne wrote:
I once carried my skis up the whole Tetras piste in the 3V. I wouldn't recommend it but it was that or a hefty taxi fare.
That's a lot of effort to save €20!
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 Poster: A snowHead
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No I don't want a new magic ski carry gadget. If I'm not too infirm enough to ski or snowboard I can get them around by myself or in extremity strap them to my pack if I am walking some distance.
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Raceplate wrote:
Layne wrote:
I once carried my skis up the whole Tetras piste in the 3V. I wouldn't recommend it but it was that or a hefty taxi fare.
That's a lot of effort to save €20!

If it were 20 Euros to get from Meribel to Le Praz I would probably have taken it. Anyway who wouldn't want an early evening stroll in the Spring sunshine followed by a 1000m descent in splendid isolation as the sun starts to go down. Well err, me obviously.... but if I had one Beardmore's ski carriers who knows... NehNeh wink Toofy Grin
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@Layne, Meribel Village which you were above is usually around €20 to La Tania which is a free bus ride to the rest of Courchevel. Or a downhill walk to Le Praz...

Still, something to be said for being last off the hill Madeye-Smiley

I'd have spent the €20 in the pub in MV and then hitched to LT/LP Laughing NehNeh
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@Raceplate, I thought the road from Meribel to La Tania was closed in the Winter?

Anyway please let me think I did what was necessary like I have all these years wink wink Very Happy Very Happy
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And I still don't no new fangled ski carrier wink Skullie NehNeh
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Raceplate wrote:
Layne wrote:
I once carried my skis up the whole Tetras piste in the 3V. I wouldn't recommend it but it was that or a hefty taxi fare.
That's a lot of effort to save €20!

@Layne I remember when you first told me that story about 20 years ago..... Oh how time flies.
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ansta1 wrote:
Raceplate wrote:
Layne wrote:
I once carried my skis up the whole Tetras piste in the 3V. I wouldn't recommend it but it was that or a hefty taxi fare.
That's a lot of effort to save €20!

@Layne I remember when you first told me that story about 20 years ago..... Oh how time flies.

Still one of my go to's Laughing Laughing
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Dave of the Marmottes wrote:
No I don't want a new magic ski carry gadget. If I'm not too infirm enough to ski or snowboard I can get them around by myself or in extremity strap them to my pack if I am walking some distance.


The OP hasn't said what the reason for his survey is, but if as you surmise it's in connection with a new magic ski carry gadget then it's basically a solution in search of a problem. Madeye-Smiley
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Layne wrote:
ansta1 wrote:
Raceplate wrote:
Layne wrote:
I once carried my skis up the whole Tetras piste in the 3V. I wouldn't recommend it but it was that or a hefty taxi fare.
That's a lot of effort to save €20!

@Layne I remember when you first told me that story about 20 years ago..... Oh how time flies.

Still one of my go to's Laughing Laughing


Mine is still chucking a 360 heli spin half way down Dantercepies piste in Selva on my 3rd ever day on ski's. That and doing the Hannenkahm the day after world cup race day (mostly on my backside it has to be said).
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@Layne, ...I have two old-fangled ski carriers on the ends of my arms. They can hold skis, sticks, beer but not necessarily at the same time.
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@valais2, seriously, ski carrying things just p+ss me off. It’s more gubbins in a gubbins-full world. Carrying off-piste planks on packs which are designed carefully to A frame skis and make them a manageable wilderness load is a good thing. And they exist already, well designed, integrated into things which we already carry. No good in a car park but that’s not what they are for. All those 90’s ‘attach your skis to your waist’ things were just a vacuous gimmick. Hanging your skis from a webbing handle just means that they swing all over the place and bash into things, in comparison with simply holding them in your hands.
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Layne wrote:
@Raceplate, I thought the road from Meribel to La Tania was closed in the Winter?
No, (almost) never. It's entirely through forest so well protected from avalanche and rock falls. Occasional tree fall in a storm but that soon gets bulldozed over the side. Suffers a bit from subsidence but they close it in summer for those repairs rather than winter.

Layne wrote:
Anyway please let me think I did what was necessary like I have all these years wink wink Very Happy Very Happy
Well I was going to mention that depending on year and week there has sometimes been a 3-times-a-day free bus from MV to LT, the last of which used to leave at around 7pm to allow for stragglers and après-ers but I won't do that now. wink

On the other hand, as I've seen you mention that it was around 20 years ago I reckon you only saved €15 from Meribel Village to Le Praz. Toofy Grin Laughing
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@Raceplate, you gotta have a story though right Happy
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Raceplate wrote:


On the other hand, as I've seen you mention that it was around 20 years ago I reckon you only saved €15 from Meribel Village to Le Praz. Toofy Grin Laughing


At that vintage it could have been about 100francs.

Are we far enough off topic yet?
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Another invention for special snowflakes who can't shoulder a pair of skis?
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adithorp wrote:
Are we far enough off topic yet?

Maybe someone could invent a way of carrying around a means of transport for when you get stranded in the wrong valley.

Something like an electric scooter that fits in a backpack.
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rjs wrote:

Maybe someone could invent a way of carrying around a means of transport for when you get stranded in the wrong valley.

Something like an electric scooter that fits in a backpack.


Ski Drones.
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@skimastaaah, inflatable skis
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