"Steve Haigh" wrote in message
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DMG wrote:

Just come back from Les Gets where my skis and poles were stolen from
outside a restaurant near the top of a mountain while I was having lunch.
I waited around for 2 hrs to see if they had been taken by accident but
they didn't re-appear. (My poles were fairly unique carbon composite
ones so not easy to take by mistake.) Two points:

How do they do it? I mean, how did the thief get up there (crappy old
skis maybe) and why bother? Wouldn't it be easier to steal them lower
down or in the resort?

Probly just chucked them over his shoulder and off he went.

Probably not considering the OPs next sentence.

I was amazed on one occasion when I carried a pair of skis down for
someone who was injured, no one even thought to ask me why I was carrying
a pair of skis over my shoulder.

The lift operators wouldn't let me hitch a lift down; I had to walk and
that was a real pain. Took me 4 hrs in total to get back.
B@stards.

*******s indeed.