Skiing

@veLLo says avoid moncle-r unless you’re a posh in Switzerland.

When you say struggling what does that mean because there’s thousands on there.

I used jackwolfski-n

Thanks for the tips gang! Yeah there's thousands on there but very little second hand in a 28-30" waist that don't need posting from Lithuania and look decent

I can’t vouch for how they hold up long term (and you’ll be giving money to Mike Ashley) but there are some deals on Nevica trousers at Sports Direct/Lillywhites.

I don’t believe the RRP values are true but the quality appeared to be ok when I looked at them.

Mine are Nevica, pretty good quality. They’re going to Iran with me in a few weeks. Oh yeah...

Decathlon or Trespass doing reasonable quality ski stuff for cheap.

Mountain Warehouse is a bit hit and miss (maybe that's just my local branch).

I’ll keep an eye out for you.

Remember ‘mountain warehouse’ is nothing to do with ‘mountain equipmen-t’

ahh cool, I'm in SF though... even half price it's still a lot of money, I keeping my eye out for Sabre pants L at ~200$

I managed to get the Sabre jacket for $345 down from $650 and I love it. Although without sweater on it looks like a size too big (but with layers it fits perfectly)

SF

I bought my current Peak Performance ski trousers at a shop next to 3rd St Grill (3rd/Townsend). Gah, that means they're about 20 years old.

#csb

(Looks around on google maps, bloody hell it's changed around there [SOMA], even the McD's on the corner has gone.)

I'm waiting for the summer winter-stuff sales to finally get a new pair, hopefully something in lurid fluro green, yellow or orange.

just had an amazing week in La Plagne. Tons of awesome powder and not much trekking needed to reach it either

Did some fantastic routes dropping in off Brown Trouser ridge and the couloirs off Roc de Verdons and Grande Rochette and some great tree runs off the back off Mont St Jacques. Then stepped things up with some awesome first tracks off Couloir des Bourtes and then ended the week with the big one, the North Face of Bellecote from the Couloir Canadiens. Fuck me that is gnarly at the top.

A few pics of the North face of Bellecote and at the top of the Roc de Verdons (i think?)

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Beautiful

Us skiing some fun lines off the Bellecote Glacier (I'm the 2nd one in the orange, breaking the guides clean lines- what a dick)

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Excellent stuff Ben!!

We are heading back to Prato Nevoso in Cuneo Provence, if my missus recovers in time from op. Was there 2016 and 1980. The Giro will be there Etappa 18 this year, too...

Also cheap ski trousers on eBay circa £35 if anyone is interested.

Conditions at Nevis look unreal. I spy a wee day off work soon.

This thread is dangerous.

I'm about to book a sleeper train to Fort William.

Train booked. Going with a friend so used a Two Togethee Railcard and got return sleeper for sixty quid each way. Bargains.

I've never skied in the UK before, fingers crossed for epic conditions.

Nice, though how did you do that? I looked yesterday and it was like 465 for 2 people on a 2 together (admittedly over bank holiday weekend but still...)

Nice one. When you going?

Check these out:

http://www.winterhighland.com/cams/nevisrange/

https://www.facebook.com/brodiehoodphotography/photos/a.461199377591408.1073741829.246774092367272/562617590782919/?type=3&theater&ifg=1

Good luck - I tried what you are doing once and ended up cancelling on the forecast of hurricane force winds!

Going up Thursday, back on Friday. Much cheaper if you can go against the flow.

It's all a bit silly for just one day's skiing. But you do what you can.

Fingers crossed for the weather.

Haven't decided yet on whether to Saturday in the train all the way to FW and ski Nevis or get off at Bridge of Orchy and go to Glencoe.

I'm veering toward the latter. It gives us an extra hour of skiing.

I've never been to either, does anyone have any guidance they could offer?

Steve and I are strong intermediate to advanced skiers. Would welcome some accessible off piste but probably won't be going hiking far.

I have a real soft spot for Glencoe. I just had a look, spring run is open, so you could lap that, then it's two T bars back up, a wee traverse across and then down again. If conditions okay you can come off the piste and get some nice stuff there. The jewel in the crown is the flypaper, had a look to see it it's opening but webpage wasn't opening properly.

The run right down to the car park is open, but the last 20 metres will be mud. So you could actually ski from the top right down, which is a pretty long run actually. The chair back up is fairly slow, shall we say.

But if the back corries are going to be decent, then nothing else in scotland beats them. It's proper off piste skiing, drop in, steep, incredible scenery. Not sure you'll get the conditions though as weather looks patchy? Maybe make a call on the way up, check the twitter and winter highland, then decide. If you don't go into the corries, then I'm not sure what nevis offers that glencoe doesn't, and in fact glencoe has far better skiing (the reds + flypaper), but if weather ok and going to the corries then it's another level. A wee google image search will give you the idea but this is helpful: https://twitter.com/TheNevisRange/status/696752793806364673

That's spring run down the left of the photo, straight up from the poma track, with flypaper the face on the far left in the shadow

Great info, thanks!

Got a taxi for Glencoe booked from Bridge of Orchy but if we wake up to the Corriess open then we'll sack that off and go up to Fort William.

There is a real sense of freedom in having a mobile hotel room!

No worries. This video tells you what flypaper is all about: https://www.facebook.com/GlencoeMountain/videos/2038641352830302/

Wow!