Forum: European Ski Resorts
September 22nd 16, 11:45 AM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 6
Views: 13,120
Mixed difficulty slopes on a budget
Ede wrote:
A small group of us are heading over to Europe (from New Zealand) at
thestart of next year (February) and are looking for a place to go
skiingfor a week...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 16th 14, 08:35 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 6
Views: 5,593
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 11th 14, 09:14 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,757
Schumi's crash & injury
wrote:
I used to have one of the 1960s
steel motor racing helmets which was very comforting.
Please tell me it had a spike on the top.
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Honda...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 11th 14, 09:14 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 6
Views: 5,593
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 7th 14, 07:25 AM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,757
Schumi's crash & injury
wrote:
He could have just as easily tripped on
some icy concrete steps in his ski boots and brained himself
A lady in the chalet I am presently...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 7th 14, 07:25 AM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,757
Schumi's crash & injury
Ace wrote:
Dr. Sceptic: The fact that he has such a serious head/brain injury
demonstrates very well just how little protection his helmet gave him.
To be fair, like...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
July 22nd 13, 06:02 AM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,034
Best accessible resort
Colin Irvine wrote:
Courchevel has its own airport.
(Spelling corrected).
It has two, actually. There's posh.
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 20th 13, 05:06 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,144
French Protectionism
Mike Clark wrote:
I see the issue of French Protectionism for the ESF raises its ugly head
once again
http://www.planetski.eu/news/4683
"A court in France has...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 17th 13, 07:36 AM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 6
Views: 4,632
Alps this year
Colin Irvine wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:58:18 +0100, Ace wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:58:51 +0000, PipL wrote:
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
December 24th 12, 09:03 AM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,428
Easyjet Geneva queue
Ace wrote:
Not "free" though, if it's BA, as you still have to pay all the taxes
with real money.
Ours was £20 a head. Doesn't Sleazyjet charge that for a suitcase...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
December 23rd 12, 11:39 AM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,428
Easyjet Geneva queue
Michael Chare mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDOTorgDOTuk wrote:
Yesterday the Easyjet queue snaked round the zone 5 end of the
departures hall, all the way down the hall and out of the zone 1
...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
December 16th 12, 06:37 AM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 27
Views: 13,279
Have skis got longer again?
Ace wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:16:47 +0000,
(The Older Gentleman) wrote:
Paul S news_AT_ghweb_DOT_me_DOT_uk wrote:
I...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
December 15th 12, 04:16 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 27
Views: 13,279
Have skis got longer again?
Paul S news_AT_ghweb_DOT_me_DOT_uk wrote:
I shall be
skiing with a newbie this year and was wondering what the current thinking
was about ski length for a person of normal weight.
Sucks...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
December 13th 12, 08:29 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 27
Views: 13,279
Have skis got longer again?
Ace wrote:
I guess. But there you're talking about pre metal-edged ones, so 1920s
and earlier, I'd have thought. And I know you may remember them, but I
don't...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
December 12th 12, 05:48 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 27
Views: 13,279
Have skis got longer again?
Paul S news_AT_ghweb_DOT_me_DOT_uk wrote:
So rule of thumb when I learnt to ski was the type should reach your nose -
what do you reckon it should be now - shoulder?
When I learned, you put...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
December 12th 12, 05:48 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 27
Views: 13,279
Have skis got longer again?
Ace wrote:
My first skis, in ~1994, were 205s. Seems incredible, but there really
was a general belief that longer was better, although very few people
could demonstrate...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
December 11th 12, 06:07 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 27
Views: 13,279
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
October 27th 12, 09:00 AM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe,uk.rec.motorcycles
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,912
Paging the skiers - good obit
In Today's Times. Emile Allais, French skiing champion of bygone days,
who won the downhill on Kitzbuhel's Hahnenkahm in (get this) 1934, and
who didn't give the Nazi salute to Hitler at the 1936...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
November 17th 10, 06:49 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 14
Views: 11,603
Ski Insurance
Michael Chare wrote:
Anyone got an opinion of Insureandgo or able to suggest an alternative.
I have an annual policy with BUPA, and have had it for years. It...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
March 11th 10, 06:53 PM Posted to uk.rec.motorcycles,rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 29
Views: 35,186
When it's not your time to die
Just had a call from an old friend. Like us, she went skiing at
half-term, with her daughter. And she took a tumble and (it turned out)
did her cruciate ligaments in one knee.
Anyway, she was very...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 21st 10, 02:44 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 39
Views: 15,633
Odd
Pip Luscher wrote:
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:13:31 +0100, BrritSki
wrote:
we
skied last Saturday in Terminillo where I first put skis...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 21st 10, 08:09 AM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 9
Views: 14,201
TV documentary on ski lift economics
Colin Irvine wrote:
ICBA to dig out my piste map, but I'm sure I've skied at least halfway
down from Sauze to Sestriere, and all the way down from Sansicario to
...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 20th 10, 03:51 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 9
Views: 14,201
TV documentary on ski lift economics
Ian Blake wrote:
It might get a lot more interesting the current Mayor of Briancon has the mad
dream of linking up to Montgenevre that would join the Milky Way to...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 20th 10, 02:04 PM Posted to uk.rec.motorcycles,rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 7
Views: 5,516
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
February 20th 10, 02:04 PM Posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe
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Replies: 9
Views: 14,201
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