Skiing

187cm, so the 177’s would be spot on.

I suspect your answer is here:
https://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=115134
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWqQ4pf2OII

Sounds like juddering to me.
I'd also want to assess where your centre of mass is on the skis.

Worth a lesson? Trying to analyse online is a bit like trying to bike fit. If the front is juddering it’s possible you’re not loading the front of the ski at the initiation. Hands further forward fixes a lot!

Thanks all, I’ll experiment tomorrow.

Lessons is a great call though. You pick up more in a few hours than you do on your own over a whole week

Cheers for the heads up. Got my NHS covid vac certificates printed out and on the French track and trace app too just to be safe. Got my lft flow test to do before I fly to Geneva then bus to France so should be all sorted with the paper work and covid tests (touch wood)

There’s very little that’s intuitive about skiing if you want to improve. As said by others a couple of hours lessons is the best way forward. I would imagine there would be some good deals in resort.

What condition are the pistes in? Has PdS had much snow recently? Further south in Serre Che we've not had snow for three weeks nearly so pistes are like boiler-plate. Teeth-rattlingly juddery if you don't drive your skis really aggressively.
As everyone else has said, have a lesson or two, it's money well spent

Serre is terrible without fresh snow being largely south facing and fairly low. I learned to ski there a few years ago because boarding was literally impossible on a mixture of ice and slush.

We did a couple of trips into resorts in Italy that week where the snow was much better.

There’s an amazing cross over with mountain biking, interestingly.

We are here for two weeks- I’ll fit a lesson in when I’ve got back up to speed.

It faces Northeast and 60% is over 2000m....

Briancon is low given how far South it is, that is true. Probably best to get the gondola down from mid-station if it isn't warm enough for the home run to have turned into fun slush

It really feels that the string of warm winters he have had in the Alps are the the new norm, doesnt it?

When we were Les Arcs in March 2 years ago it was the warmest winter they'd seen. They were used to temps well below 0 and now had +5 and rain on 2/3s of the mountain

Next time I go I'll aim high

Want to get yourself to Sapporo
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/jan/25/rising-temperatures-threaten-future-winter-olympics-games-global-emissions

Decent snow on a lot of the runs here, but some are shut a little higher up than we are.

I think we have snow coming this Friday.

Next time I go I'll aim high

I've seen rockfalls from melting permafrost at 3000m in January in recent years. Higher is feeling it too.

In 2017 the Alps had a real cold snap. It was way below -20 in Saas Fee and Zermatt in the villages and way below -30 on the top. The chap we were staying with reckoned it was like that every February in the area when he was a child.

I’ve skied in -24. It’s very cold.

Also: global warming 🥳

I’ve skied in -24. It’s very cold.

That cold snap in 2017 was the moment I chose to blow out my ACL whilst way off piste. It was close to -30 and I was lying in the snow for about 45 minutes before they started to move me. I'll never forget the feeling of pure euphoria of being inserted into the back of a warm ambulance and being handed two bags of infusion bags of pre-warmed saline to hold on to. It felt like I had double dropped and was coming up.

Although the hero of the story is the member of ski patrol who got to me first and therefore was lumbered with the job of recording all of my medical notes and safety info with a pencil with ungloved hands. His hands looked like they belonged to a dead person by the time he had finished. If somebody had told me he lost fingers, I'd have believed them.

I've always thought the main issue is the French' penchant for over-bashing their pistes. They seem to looove really thin, iron-hard pistes for some reason. I wondered if it's the influence if all the Ski Clubs wanting super-hard, icy pistes like what the pros do.
There's been a massive blocking high over the Western Alps the last two weeks, so it's been great for Eastern Switzerland and Austria. Looks like it's finally set to snow this weekend (early next week for us)

On the unlikely off chance that any of you weren't already using it, WeatherToSki is excellent for snow conditions and forecasts. Fraser Wilkin, the chap who runs it, is somewhat of a legend in snow nerd circles.

https://www.weathertoski.co.uk/weather-snow/

This certainly sounds familiar from the past few days.

They bash them hard to make them last the season and a bit more…

South facing slopes (this one is steep) are looking a bit thin and bare.

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Booked a week in Trysil, Norway at the end of March.

We went to Are in Sweden in 2020 and loved it but no direct flights to Ostersund mean we needed to try somewhere else.

Anyone have experience of Trysil or any tips for afterski/food?

a bit thin?!!

Shocking that that piste is still open.