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I forgot about hire costs, add that as well :lolol: A board isn’t too bad an item to take by plane. I used to take my own skis, but tired of the airport malarkey and hire costs were lower then.

Remember that you’re ‘lucky’, without the cost of a family skiing/boarding too and you can swerve European school holidays. So whatever you’re total tab is, multiply it many fold for a family. Skiing in the Alps has become incredibly expensive. Exponential increases in the cost of...

In Dec/Jan I’m pleased there’s no soft snow and not bothering with sun screen. What are your favourite resorts in your time skiing or boarding?

One of the highest resorts in Europe, Hochgurgl at 2,000m altitude, skiing up to 3,000m. I know the sun will be very powerful by then. We’ll ski early until it gets dodgy. Most people I know prefer March/April skiing for the sun and warmth. I actually prefer much earlier, but for two seasons...

Booked a week in Austria at the beginning of April. Due to the pandemic, our first skiing since New Year 2019/20. Excited.

Then skiing down in the dark, smashed. Took part in an amazing mass snowball fight at the Mooserwirt, played out to thumping trance tracks.

You know it makes sense :) Ditto. Knee suddenly feeling much better. So I’ve started delving into booking.com, tripadvisor and airline websites. Innsbruck flight costs look good if you avoid stampede dates such the first Saturday of April.

Pre pandemic did you prefer chalets and meeting loads of new Brits, or something more private for your group? I don't mind either, but I'm more sociable and confident in new situations than Mrs.W, so family ski holidays are to hotels. Lads and ski clinic holidays tend to be meet lots of...

:lolol: So it’s not just me. Can be any nationality, with big lift queues, people who think they can hog a 6-seater for their cozy 3. Ignoring instructions from staff. Spreading out with elbows and sticks … what a relaxing ‘holiday’. Funny to upset their apple cart by squeezing on.

A few times (but not the 4 of us, as too expensive), we went by Eurostar from Ashford to Bourg St Maurice. For Val D’Isere/Tignes. Day services so no nightime roughing it with zero sleep just “to get that 7th day’s skiing in”. Station to station - 6 hours, with negligible security/passport...

Austria enforce the no standing around in bars and restaurants, and a latish curfew. France was incredibly strict including mandatory, daily morning (official sites) CV19 testing of non-triple jabbed kids, before being allowed on lifts. Not sure if that’s ended now. Switzerland’s been the...

Similar here, very tentative, lots of stopping to weigh up the next section. I can normally ski any pisted slope, but it was literally sheet ice, the entire thing. At first we couldn’t find the Streif at all, then realised it isn’t a piste as such, instead a near vertical gap in a forest that...

Did you snowboard the WC recently used Streif piste on the Hahnenkamm? We did a few years ago, but punters don’t take it’s shortest route :lolol: In sections as it crosses normal pistes for mere mortals. For the WC, it’s manmade created as sheet ice.

I tore a MCL in a knee exactly three months ago, ice slaking at the Royal Pavilion of all things. A long story, but it's finally healing after a private consultant recommended a better knee brace. Then two of us caught Covid in mid December in Norway or Finland on a non-skiing holiday, which...