Skiing

In desperate need of new snow. Pistes are very tired with good coverage up high but the top surface gets skied off by lunchtime. Anything north facing is an ice sheet and testy.
Flaine not surprisingly offers the best pistes. As for the satellite resorts the runs back to the villages are either closed or like water skiing at the end of the day
Thanks to all the beginner/intermediate there are some brilliant mogels to ski. They seem to build during the day and are great around 3.30.

We've been to Trysil over the last 10 years as the kids have grown up. Normally stay at the Radisson Blue Mountain, where it's all so easy. We were there 2 weeks ago. 50cm of snow dropped!

Sounds like: much red wine for dinner > lie in till the snow softens > high up runs > lunch > snowboard through the slush home. Rinse and repeat.

But they look super pro though, which is the main thing..

Literally one of my ski playlists. Although it just made me rue the lack of fireworks or close plane flyovers any time I caught the slightest bit of air

I bought a PS2 during lockdown just so i could replay it.

SSX3 soundtrack

Intrigued...hadn't heard of it, looked it up...nice

BITD I went on a stag weekend that featured a lot of heavily drug-fuelled playing of SSX. Got very imprinted on my subconscious and had flashback dreams of it for months afterwards. #ssxcsb

Sounds like my experience of playing SSX except that it lasted about two years. Surely one of the best PS2 games there was?

Yes, definitely. Have tried a few Boarding games since but nothing to match it.

Slush = poor man's powder for snowboarders. I love it!

No doubt about it. I've only got 3 PS2 games left in my collection- SSX3, Ico and SOTC, and you can guess which one gets replayed the most. I think it's still the best game I've played to translate the actual feeling of sliding down a mountain - Peak 1 was a genuine happy place for me.

I think I once stayed awake for two days trying to beat my best time on Metro City.

Glencoe was excellent on Saturday.

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Norway is cool . Alpine skiing is nice and quiet . Xc skiing still sucks though as I cannot go down hill without stacking it .

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What bindings are you using? Me an't'missus have been struggling with downhillage all season on classic skis with Salomon Profil bindings that just don't have any lateral support. We rented skate skis with Prolink bindings and they feel almost like alpine bindings. Have got two sets of Pilot bindings, with the extra hook behind the toe-bale that I'm keen to fit, but I left them at home. Curses
Or maybe it's just classic skis are more wobbly? Those look like classics you're on in the picture

Yep classics with pro link . Alpine today :)

Anyone got any goggles theyre looking to shift?

Think these are hard to beat, even with 2nd hand prices

https://singular-society.com/collections/equipment/filter-goggles

They look nice - need them before Saturday is the only problem. Will probs cycle down to finches emporium on Friday and have a look, never been there before but looks cheaper than the shops around covent garden

I know its nearly summer but Sportspursuit has some good deals on bibs and pants. Picked up some O’Neil bibs at half price.

Managed to sneak in a day and a half of skiing in Whistler (only ~75% of Blackcomb mountain open) at the end of a work trip.

Fucking amazing. In early/mid May.

Day 1 started with 7" of fresh powder on the slopes and my day 2 morning was pretty much blue skies and a little fresh dusting on top of the freshly groomed pistes.

fuck off

Sorry.

Probably quite fair tbh