 Poster: A snowHead
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| tarrantd wrote: |
Reading this thread prompts me to ask if everybody sets up the safety and emergency options on their mobile? I ask because despite being tech savvy and a long term mobile user, I only found out about them recently.
This allows first responders to call your emergency contacts, and see your medical info, without unlocking your phone and can be set to send your location to the emergency services when you dial them. One of the options allows you to instigate an emergency call simply by pressing the power button multiple times. |
This is a very good reminder. I have set up ICE on my phone but didn't know how to use it... or have forgotten. Just checked it's simple. I'm also very bad at knowing the local 999 number when skiing and any other numbers that I might need
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Gaz_H, I believe that 112 will get you emergency services in a lot of countries, which is a good start.
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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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Ha, ICE is the US is Immigration & Customs Enforcement 
...but some good ideas/reminders here.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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@Scooter in Seattle, it's also In Car Entertainment, but I'm guessing Gaz isn't talking about fitting a new Alpine head unit 
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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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Done many, many solo trips over the years - next is to Switzerland in March. I tend to do it myself (tour operators are not really geared up for the solo skier) and use resort websites for accommodation etc, book my own flights and use trains for transfers. Single rooms are easier to come by in hotels in Switzerland and Austria. The great advantage of solo skiing is going where I want, when I want, eating when I want to, having a drink or two when I want! Complete freedom...
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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@SnoodyMcFlude, in a car with an Internal Combustion Engine?
Alpine still making "tape decks"? That name takes me back to the 70"s! 
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| LOTA wrote: |
| The great advantage of solo skiing is going where I want, when I want, eating when I want to, having a drink or two when I want! Complete freedom... |
Exactly this.
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| Scooter in Seattle wrote: |
@SnoodyMcFlude, in a car with an Internal Combustion Engine?
Alpine still making "tape decks"? That name takes me back to the 70"s! |
Good guys!...... being from the motor trade in a previous life, made me chuckle.... I need to stick ICE (In Case of Emergency) in the Glossary
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Done quite a few solo trips - a couple of BAS ski clinics and several SCGB 'turn up and ski' weeks that are always a good laugh if you are ok with mixed ability groups / a slightly older demographic. Also done several Ski Miquel weeks solo - if you can bag a single room then they are also great value as they include a weeks 'guiding' . . .usually consisting of a fast and slow group - different lunch venues also booked daily which takes away the agg . . .
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I thought about doing a solo trip for ages, mainly as trying to get people to commit to a trip is hard. I liked the idea of going and if folks wanted to join they could, if not no problem. Found out about the SH bash last year and it was a great solution.
At least it was till end of day 3. Which is where I may have some advice... A broken leg meant I got a transfer in a white van directly to the hospital. A super kind snowhead (heid) drove and dropped my basic bits to the hospital for me and the guys in the room stuffed my stuff into my ski bag and put it on the transfer bus. Another friendly snow head dragged it into departures so I could get home. The logistics of all that had I been on my own in a hotel room twist my melon. I'd definitely have got blood wagoned of the slope but that would have just been the start. I'm sure I could have sorted something out but when you're dosed up and confined to a bed that's not so easily done.
So, most folks aren't as unlucky, or evidently skill-less as me, but it's still worth considering how it might work in the worst case. A TO would probably sort most of that out for you but if you just book accomodation, flight etc. separately then no one is really responsible. So I'd think about going with a TO or somehow getting on a SH event. Timing aside they sound perfect for you.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@B., major bummer, and a good point. That said, if we live our lives planning on the worst case scenario happening, our lives would be pretty tame. You're probably good to go for many more solo shots, now that your name has already been called!
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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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@B., a great consideration, thanks, and sorry your trip was spoiled by the leg-break. @Scooter in Seattle, also a good perspective. I think I'm going to see if work can bend such that I might go on the PSB or PIPAU.
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Yea, I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just saying given the options I'd think about trying to do an organized trip of some kind so you might get a bit of assistance if it comes to it. Assistance getting off the slope is one thing but assistance with all the other logistics is another.
I'm going to do a super cautious, and super slow, pre-BB week at the end of the month so it's not put me off. You should def do it. I was just pointing out the above as it had literally never occured to me before last year but is now something I'd think about.
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You know it makes sense.
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@B., I must admit this thought did cross my mind as I skied alone over Christmas. I had no worries about getting off the mountain or to a hospital but I did wonder what the solution would be to clear the apartment I was in. In particular as I had a lot of kit strewn across the place, it would have been quite the task.
In reality I think most of us have a network of friends and family that we could call on in the worst case
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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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| Snow&skifan wrote: |
| I’d advise doing something like Ski Freshtracks, they have lots of solo traveller weeks (and disregard the snowheads sniping against all things scgb). |
I've done and enjoyed and got a lot out of the couple of Freshtracks holidays I've gone on, but let my membership lapse, as in my view there are a lot of options where your (my) money goes a lot farther: Inside Out, Snoworks, UCPA, sH bashes if you're available in the relevant weeks, probably plenty more that I'm less aware of.
Case in point: there's a Freshtracks holiday in Chamonix that I'd potentially be interested in; it's bookable for £1825 (excluding flights and transfers, not to mention lift passes and any equipment hire). The course-only cost is £755, which as far as I can see means that they're charging £1070 for a week's chalet board in a twin-share: that looks on the steep side to me, even if it does include 'a three course evening meal on 5 nights, crémant and canapes on the first and last evening, delicious local cheeseboard on two nights, plus a prepared a meal for a sixth evening' and wine with dinner, and I have to wonder what the money's going on (even after subsidizing the costs of the SCGB rep). I've not looked at alternative accommodation in the area for that week, but it's a good deal more than I've spent on catered chalet accommodation for courses with other operators.
In my experience, the Freshtracks holidays get first-rate guides and instructors, and I'd happily go back if they were the only alternative -- but all in all I've got more out of trips with other outfits.
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Poster: A snowHead
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My OH doesn’t ski and doesn’t like travel so I’ve been solo skiing for the last 5 years. I love it! I book everything independently and the last couple of times have shelled out a bit on a decent hotel but only B&B.
I love my own company, and am more than happy skiing on my own all day and having breakfast and lunch on my own, but the one thing I’m not so keen on is sitting eating dinner in a restaurant at a table for one. So I tend to eat a decent lunch so that in the evening I can just get a takeaway and eat in my room or people watching somewhere if it’s not too cold.
I do usually only go for a few days rather than a week.
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