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Any advice or recommendations for single mum with three teenage boys 18,15 & 13 who all now ski harder and longer than me!! They all ski really well but enjoy company/hosting reassuring for me knowing they are with other people ...would be great if I could find someone to ski with too!!
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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,
Not an easy question - and well done for posting. Many people post queries about skiing with young children, but often skiing with older ones is more of a worry, especially if they are independant.
You've got a couple of options:
-Think about joining in with another family, or some friends, so that you've got someone else the same level to ski with, and a bit of back-up for chasing the kids!
- book on a package holiday which includes hosting such as Mark Warner or Silver Ski. Often groups are mixed for ability, or at least you won't be on your own.
- book on a do-it-yourself type option but in a chalet with other people, or self catered with ski club membership so that they have someone else to ski with. This is less formal, and gives you the oppertunity to book them an additional lesson or two (maybe in the park or off piste if they're pretty good) if you want to.
- get them a couple of mountain safety related lessons, and then let them loose on their own. more fun for them, but less re-assuring for you!
In general, chalets will be better for meeting people than hotels, but anywhere with other people (inc the snowheads bash??!) will give you the chance to catch up, and ski with, other folk.
Happy holidays!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Alison Leather, welcome to snowheads.  A fairly large chalet (or a chalet hotel) offering ski hosting would indeed seem to be the best solution. In a fairly large chalet there's more chance of their finding other teenagers.
If the budget permits, the suggestion of getting them lessons is a good one - find the right instructor, and he/she will ski them off their feet and give them a real challenge.
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Go on a trip with a company that has ski hosts, and at least two or three groups of ski hosts/guides. The boys can go off with the advanced group, you can pootle with the intermediates.
No point in them pushing you too hard, or with you holding them back. This is a common problem, just need to make it very clear to the teenagers that they have to stick with the guide, and to the guide that there will be a decent tip at the end of the week for making sure they keep an eye on them.
You will find others in the groups to socialise and ski with, the boys get the gentle supervision they need.
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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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Find companies that offer properties or weeks with ski hosting for adults & older children only. Check the have several hosts, for groups of differing abilities, and that the groups meet up for lunch & possibly apres-ski, so you can reassure yourself that the lads are OK/sober. From memory Mark Warner does this at Moris (Val D'Isere) and Toviere (Tignes Lavachet); no doubt other TOs do similar.
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Fletcher
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Get your parents to a good insurance company before letting them to the snow board station.
Last edited by Fletcher on Sat 13-08-11 6:39; edited 1 time in total
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Silver Ski - Chalet Bon Coin. Job done! There is a really good ski guide there this year and the chalet is big and has just been refurbished. Food is always top there too as its where the owners stay.
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If you've enough money Freshtracks through the SCGB have hosted family holidays. You could achieve the same though by hiring a private guide for half a day to take the 3 of them off to wear them out so you can ski together after lunch, staying more economically. Skiworld has been a good company for our teenagers in the past, but I see that they don't have the chalet hotels in Les 2 Alpes any more that suited us so well.
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Last time I looked 18 was considered an adult and I think at 15 I'd have been pretty miffed if it had been considered I needed childminding on the slopes. Why not let 18 yr old take responsibility for them all supplemented by a bit of ski hosting? Don't know how young guides will take kids but a day of off piste guiding with an emphasis on safe pratcice might be valuable for them all.
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fatbob, +1
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