Wintersports

[Nanglebadger]

Well, after nearly a year of saying "im not going, im saving for a house, im not going skiing" i sat down yesterday to watch the second round of the FIS tour from Levi, Finland, the womens slalom...and i took a notion.."ah, i'll just put my name on the reserve list, wheres the harm in that"...

...this was followed by my parents saying "you should go, u can always keep saving when u get back, its your only main holiday, just go u fruit, people can help u out with it for christmas!"...this was followed by an abusive phone call late at nite from the others who are going calling me names for not going...

...this was followed today by a text telling me that a single room was available in the B&B for £459 (inclusive of B&B, flights, and transfers)...a little bit of online bank balance checking was done...a little bit of "hmm, should i, shouldn't I? can i miss a month or two of saving for a house?" and i decided u only live once, i could be dead tomorrow, so fuck it. I've managed to do pretty well at the saving so far, and can pick up where i left off when i get back.

so, january for a week in Sol, Austria, bit of a party town by all accounts! SCORE!

but, my trip is not the point, what i want to know is, do we have any other wintersports fans in the house, and if so, where and when are u getting your fix this 2010/2011 season???????????????????????????

Phil.

[daz gt turbz]

i go skiing every year, twice if i can muster up the dosh, its actuly like a drug, the one below was me in jan in tignes, yes cool hat i know . bloody love it.

[Ryan-11]

i went snowboarding for the first time at the start of this year and im hooked! ill defo be going at the end of this year and the start of next year if its snows

[ToyotaTech15]

Being honest winter sports is something ive never tried, other than sledging when i was younger lol.

where did you go Snowbaording Ryan?

Gary

[ryan lang]

went to austria for a school trip once, snowboarding, then me and a mate where going to go to the xbox weekend thingy in france for a laugh, but he pulled out so we didnt go :/

never been at all since

[Ryan-11]

Being honest winter sports is something ive never tried, other than sledging when i was younger lol.

where did you go Snowbaording Ryan?

Gary

haha i still go sledging

we went up to glenshee, its great fun

[daz gt turbz]

austria is a very good skiing spot, i went there with school years ago but never been back since, always end up back at tignes as i made a few local mates so just end up crashing on there couch so accomodations free and just the flights, food, lift pass and beer to pay for.

[ToyotaTech15]

Yeh me to but didnt want to be the only one to admit it lol.

Ive heard of a few people going up there, might try and give it a go sometime soon

Gary

[ro55ifumi]

Had a week in Jan 10 in the italian alps in the Aosta Valley sking an so sweet first time an was sking red runs by the end of the week!!!!

[Nanglebadger]

totally agree daz, it is such a drug! this is more or less what i'll be working toward every year, obv i hope to get a house in the coming year or two, but i hope to continue to get skiin with the group i go with every year, even if i can only afford once every other year, its such a blast.

Austria is immense, the skiing and the apres ski culture are superb! im all giddy. its taken me a few weeks to make up my mind, but now i have booked it theres no goin back! time to bust out my boots and helmet! canny wait!!!

@John - would love to get to Italy skiing, its meant to be great!

Phil.

[Scott-EP]

I've never been but i do want to give skiing a go,

So no doubt i will go for a Skiing holiday in the next couple of years

[Craig_N]

I have never been away skiing i went to a skiing centre once and its safe to say skiings not for me seen as though i started with both ski's on my feet and ended with none just couldnt get the hang of it haha

[daz gt turbz]

totally agree daz, it is such a drug! this is more or less what i'll be working toward every year, obv i hope to get a house in the coming year or two, but i hope to continue to get skiin with the group i go with every year, even if i can only afford once every other year, its such a blast.

Austria is immense, the skiing and the apres ski culture are superb! im all giddy. its taken me a few weeks to make up my mind, but now i have booked it theres no goin back! time to bust out my boots and helmet! canny wait!!!

@John - would love to get to Italy skiing, its meant to be great!

Phil.

Helmets are for fannys.lol

[whiteglanzav]

i am goin with a group of 30 to courcheval in Jan - get ready ;)

i have got some good piks somwhere i prefer the freestyle skis so i can go backwards lol

[Nanglebadger]

Daz - i know man, but i got jumped a few yrs back and got my skull fractured, so i kinda have to wear one lol!

i'd love to be able to ski backwards lol!

Phil.

[durmz]

ok, time for showing off lmao

and gone massively wrong lmao

only pics ive got unfortunatly, I love freeskiing, off piste, snowpark, all of it

Im a huge skiing nut, it was my life for a while, unfortunatly whilst skiing backwards down a red run in march after not skiing for 3 years I caught an edge twisted the wrong way, broke my knee, smashed some cartelidge and tore one ACL in my left knee. im still doing treatment now and have an arthroscopy on thursday to see whats going on

[durmz]

Helmets are for fannys.lol

lol, helmets are for people who take risks, thats why I wear one, go down on a rail or go to big and hit ure head, or hit some bad off piste with rocks under it, youre fubared

[whiteglanzav]

haha i havent tried any 180/360's yet

can you do rails sideways ? its hard to balance !!

[durmz]

540's my vest trick, and that was few years ago. yeah rails are tricky, and suck when you get it wrong. I used to inline skate at skate parks and stuff so as soon as I got on skis i wanted to jump off stuff

[Sparky]

Never done anything like that apart from your usual council board with straps on for a snowboard it is fun though and would love a ski'ing holiday one day

[AndyR]

Tignes is a great resort! You can learn snowboarding on your own and in a week you're enjoying the blacks!

Chamonix next year!!

[Nanglebadger]

i havnt got the balls for air, period. im a big fruit in the air.

my helmet is a WW2 US Army style one with Grim Reapers up the side of it! combine it with my Sean White goggles and a ski mask, I is Snow-Ninja Badger!

Phil.

[durmz]

lol quality phil, air is where its at

[Sanchez]

I haaaaaaaate winter!!!

[riko666]

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