Comments on: Things you learn skiing

By: rockie

rockie — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:39:08 +0000

I am off to lech in april, does anyone know a good snowboar instructor there?

By: mig

mig — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:25:29 +0000

I know. Some of them were in the hotel we stayed at (seriously).

By: bauke

bauke — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:20:09 +0000

Lech is where the dutch royal family goes skiing…..
talk about Ritzy!

By: mig

mig — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 15:07:01 +0000

This is the only place I’ve really ever gone skiing, so I can’t say how it compares to other resorts. Rereading that post, I seem awfully enthusiastic, but then I did have a great time. I was in Lech once, Lech am Arlberg, real name, which is a very ritzy expensive spot, but was a non-skier at that time and stuck in the hotel with a small child. I never went skiing in the States, although I lived within an hour or so of decent slopes, because as Jessica mentions in her comment it was a rich person’s sport.

By: D

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:34:10 +0000

/seething with jealousy

Christ I miss skiing…

By: Anita's LOL

Anita's LOL — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:37:29 +0000

Metamorphosism on Skiing

Mig from Metamorphosism on things you learn skiing (sounds like a category on Pyramid).

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 10:16:27 +0000

When I was 20, my then-prospective father in law got me and the now ex a sweet housesitting gig for his fellow Kiwi nuclear resonance imaging exec’s home in Incline Village. The catch was that I had to promise to learn to ski, and I had huge issues with steep slopes and speeds of over 10mph, naturally, from growing up in S.F.

So he showed up, one weekend, and dragged me bodily to the ski field. Like seriously over his shoulder. Paid for one 2hr lesson, the gear, a week’s lift ticket. Expected me to only need the 2hr to get the hell off the bunny slope and onto the t-bar.
It worked.
I even wore the goofy bright fuchia jacket.
Hooray for being 5’2″; I think the low center of gravity helped. I was snow ranger Jess at the end of that first day, but the little kids still made me feel like a big oaf all the way through the week. Thanks for the divine memories.
(I haven’t skiied since then, mostly because out here it’s a rich person’s sport. And I am not yet wealthy.)

By: mig

mig — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 05:05:46 +0000

Daily. website: http://www.kasberg.at/en/ webcam: http://root.riskommunal.net/gemeinde/gruenau/gemeindeamt/html/kasberg.htm

By: peggy

peggy — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 03:22:37 +0000

Wow, that sounds like a great, fun trip. Usually, I can break a limb just reading about skiing, but nope! not this time. It was safe and fun, so I think I will do all my skiing through you from now on.