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Where to buy? UK or France?
Hi All,
I've decided to get myself some snowboarding boots for this season - previously I've rented, and found none of the boots fit quite right, and it's a bit gross wearing 2/3/4/5/6th hand shoes! Is it more sensible to buy from somewhere like Snow+Rock in the UK or in Chamonix when I get there (27th Dec)? Is there going to be a huge premium in one place or the other? Am I likely to get a discount on renting stuff if I buy boots from the same place? Cheers... Tom |
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Hi Tom,
Its pot luck really, sometimes it's cheaper and others it isn't. I personally don't risk it and buy my stuff in the UK as the last thing I would want is to turn up in resort and find out they have sold out HTH Russ |
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Thx for the advice dude. Unfortunately yesterday I tripped and broke my
wrist, so I guess I'm going to miss this season. WAAAAAAAAAAAH! :-( Russ (UK) wrote: Hi Tom, Its pot luck really, sometimes it's cheaper and others it isn't. I personally don't risk it and buy my stuff in the UK as the last thing I would want is to turn up in resort and find out they have sold out HTH Russ |
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This will be my third year boarding and I learn a lot from this group and
want to pass on a tip that may possibly help with broken bones, in case some of you aren't already aware of it. Fiberglass casts with a Gortex lining. I've had one cast in my life and that was last year when I broke the scaphoid bone in my left wrist a week before Christmas, trying to make a turn over what truned out to be solid ice. I had a cast on for one week with the a regular cotton lining and within two days was going crazy with the itching and not being able to get it wet. I saw someone working at a snowboard shop with a cast on his wrist and he told me I had to get the gortex lining. When I got the original cast off after a week to re-xray I requested the gortex lining and ended up having to pay for it myself which was the best $11 I've ever spent. For the next 10 weeks and two casts "no itching" and you can get them wet and they dry in an hour or so. Hopefully this is used most places automatically but my HMO didn't and without a fellow snowboarder telling my about gortex I would have suffered needlessly all those weeks. I have also passed this on to others that I've noticed in casts with cotton lining so cotton must still be used alot. Also, Tom, unless your season to snowboard is a small one you can probably still get out there. Check with your doctor but after about two weeks I was back snowboarding. My glove just barely fit over my cast (the fiberglass ones seem to be thinner as well) and the cast gave me tons of protection. The anxious part was when I finally got it off. I waited a few weeks because of the soreness trying to work out my wrist again and then wore a wrist guard. Good luck, Stan (new Donek is waxed and ready to go when we get a little more snow). "Tom Skelley" wrote in message ... Thx for the advice dude. Unfortunately yesterday I tripped and broke my wrist, so I guess I'm going to miss this season. WAAAAAAAAAAAH! :-( Russ (UK) wrote: Hi Tom, Its pot luck really, sometimes it's cheaper and others it isn't. I personally don't risk it and buy my stuff in the UK as the last thing I would want is to turn up in resort and find out they have sold out HTH Russ |
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:43:09 +0000, Tom Skelley
wrote: Thx for the advice dude. Unfortunately yesterday I tripped and broke my wrist, so I guess I'm going to miss this season. WAAAAAAAAAAAH! :-( Season? Don't be such a poof. It only takes 6 weeks for a bone to mend. That's if you need to wait for it to mend, of course - I've ridden a motorcycle with my wrist in plaster, so I don't see why one couldn't snowboard. -- Champ |
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:43:09 GMT, Tom Skelley
allegedly wrote: Thx for the advice dude. Unfortunately yesterday I tripped and broke my wrist, so I guess I'm going to miss this season. WAAAAAAAAAAAH! :-( Are you kidding? I just had my wrist plastered up and went on my next trip which was 4 weeks later. In fact the plaster made a nice wrist guard. You do need to keep the plaster dry and for that, you'll possibly have trouble finding gloves that will fit over it. I managed by finding some cheap gloves in a normal clothing store. I'm not saying that you'll be fine though just because I was. - Dave. -- The only powder to get high on, falls from the sky. http://www.vpas.org/ - Snowboarding the worlds pow pow - Securing your e-mail The Snowboard FAQ lives here - http://rssFAQ.org/ |
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