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Why only ski Europe?
On 6 Mar, 09:30, "Jérémy" wrote:
(The Older Gentleman) wrote innews:1iw4e9s..poroy63jo65N%totallydeadmailbox@ya hoo.co.uk: You ski in ski resorts, Rather than any old bit of mountain you feel like. Well, obviously some people do this as well. But there's no point in having huge mountains without pistes and lifts, is there? |
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Why only ski Europe?
"TOG@Toil" wrote in
: On 6 Mar, 09:30, "Jérémy" wrote: (The Older Gentleman) wrote innews:1iw4e9s : You ski in ski resorts, Rather than any old bit of mountain you feel like. Well, obviously some people do this as well. But there's no point in having huge mountains without pistes and lifts, is there? You might be surprised to learn that if you go up any of the mountains around here, especially at the weekend, you'll find lots of people on top of them. As time goes on I get less and less tolerant of the Butlins-esque atmosphere at ski resorts, especially in the high season. I've done a fair amount of skiing this winter, but very little of it has been in ski resorts. Mostly it's been on the same hills where I walk and climb in summer. Anyway, the huge mountains don't (fortunately) have pistes and lifts on them, or hardly any. The big resorts are mostly moyenne montagne, and (again fortunately, as anyone who's seen the stations in summer will agree) there's masses of moyenne montagne outside the stations. -- Jeremy R1200RT |
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Why only ski Europe?
TOG@Toil wrote:
On 6 Mar, 09:30, "Jérémy" wrote: (The Older Gentleman) wrote innews:1iw4e9s.poroy63jo65N%totallydeadmailbox@yah oo.co.uk: You ski in ski resorts, Rather than any old bit of mountain you feel like. Well, obviously some people do this as well. But there's no point in having huge mountains without pistes and lifts, is there? Er, yes. To get away from the crowds using lifts and pistes. And to have mountains which are untainted by the scars of ski resort development. Imagine if every mountain was covered in lifts. A horrible thought. |
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Why only ski Europe?
On 6 Mar, 11:36, "Jérémy" wrote:
"TOG@Toil" wrote : On 6 Mar, 09:30, "Jérémy" wrote: (The Older Gentleman) wrote innews:1iw4e9s : You ski in ski resorts, Rather than any old bit of mountain you feel like. Well, obviously some people do this as well. But there's no point in having huge mountains without pistes and lifts, is there? You might be surprised to learn that if you go up any of the mountains around here, especially at the weekend, you'll find lots of people on top of them. As time goes on I get less and less tolerant of the Butlins-esque atmosphere at ski resorts, especially in the high season. I've done a fair amount of skiing this winter, but very little of it has been in ski resorts. Mostly it's been on the same hills where I walk and climb in summer. Anyway, the huge mountains don't (fortunately) have pistes and lifts on them, or hardly any. The big resorts are mostly moyenne montagne, and (again fortunately, as anyone who's seen the stations in summer will agree) there's masses of moyenne montagne outside the stations. Yes, I'm aware of all this. Never mind. |
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Why only ski Europe?
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:15:06 -0800 (PST), "TOG@Toil"
wrote: Yes, I'm aware of all this. Never mind. What point, exactly, were you trying to make anyway? It all got a bit confused somewhere up there. |
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Why only ski Europe?
Ace wrote:
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:15:06 -0800 (PST), "TOG@Toil" wrote: Yes, I'm aware of all this. Never mind. What point, exactly, were you trying to make anyway? It all got a bit confused somewhere up there. I wondered why I couldn't follow the thread. Perhaps we tend to discuss skiing in Europe on this newsgroup because it is called rec.skiing.resorts.europe. John |
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Why only ski Europe?
On 06 Mar 2009 11:53:26 GMT, Ollie Clark wrote:
TOG@Toil wrote: Imagine if every mountain was covered in lifts. A horrible thought. Yes but there are more lifts we want to see. I want a Funicular from Pralognan La Vanoise under the Grande Casse and Grande Motte to Tignes. Minimal environmental impact. I want a Funicular or other lift along the valley from Pralognan La Vanoise up to the ski area of Champagny En Vanoise And the only lift on anyone else's plan from Pralognan La Vanoise to Courchevel 1650. So here we have a lift network connecting Paradiski, Espace Killy and The 3 Valleys. Although we would need planing restrictions on new buildings and car parks to preserve Pralognan. The intermediate skiers would be delighted. The taxi drivers would be even happier at the end of the day. |
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Why only ski Europe?
Yes, I'm aware of all this. Never mind.
What point, exactly, were you trying to make anyway? It all got a bit confused somewhere up there. In article , john elgy wrote: I wondered why I couldn't follow the thread. Perhaps we tend to discuss skiing in Europe on this newsgroup because it is called rec.skiing.resorts.europe. Well, I would not let the directory path structure constrain you. As was stated in a recent Disney film about Pirates: "Think of them as guidelines...." The thread started as a generalized troll. Then someone threw in some humanistic bait which made it sound as if mountains' sole purpose was to have lifts up their sides. A restrained conservationist comment followed that up. -- Looking for an H-912 (container). |
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Dymphna wrote:
The Alps are small compared to the Rockies. But the resorts are so much smaller in the rockies! I'm just back from "the biggest resort in the Rockies", Lake Louise and it has 10 lifts, how many lifts has Tigne for example got? -- Chris *:-) |
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Why only ski Europe?
"MoonMan" wrote in message ... Dymphna wrote: The Alps are small compared to the Rockies. But the resorts are so much smaller in the rockies! I'm just back from "the biggest resort in the Rockies", Lake Louise and it has 10 lifts, how many lifts has Tigne for example got? Mmmm, not sure that I'd choose a resort by the number of lifts. In my limited exposure to North American resorts there seems to be a completely different arrangement of lifts versus runs compared to Europe. On the whole each lift in America seems to lead to about 3 or 4 times as many runs. It's a generalisation, but I'd say that more runs per lift indicates a less busy resort. If you've got one lift feeding many runs then, inevitably, the runs will be quieter - I'd say this is a good thing. -- Paul S |
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