Kitzb?hel next year?

[Grant Grundler]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 08:12:27PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> One option would be to do it on the left-hand-side of the Atlantic,
> especially given the current exchange rate. But it's a lot further to
> travel for most of the regular attendees, and the US dollar has to be
> _really_ low before it offsets the cost of transatlantic flights.
> 
> For a start, can we have a show of hands... who's interested in coming
> next year if we do it in Europe, and who would be interested if we do it
> in the US or Canada instead??? 

I don't know when I'll ski in europe again. If so, I'll have to do like
I did last year - ski a week at another resort either before or after
skigeek week. (And thanks again to Jes for 2007 trip)

I'm open to ideas for US or Canada. I can help organize if we want
to do something in Lake Tahoe area...but that wouldn't be my first
choice because it's not cheap unless you buy a season pass the
year before ($300 at several resorts).


> While that's not a rhetorical question (and I do want to be able to make
> a decent guess at numbers), I'm kind of assuming that we'll end up doing
> it in Europe next year. Since it's probably also my turn to take a
> bigger organisational r??le, I was thinking of Kitzb??hel -- since I know
> it quite well and it has a fairly wide range of pistes to keep us all
> happy.
...
> Opinions?

I can also suggest one place in Austria that I've skied
that weren't expensive and I had a great time:
	http://www.ski-obertauern.at/

A co-worker was in a local german ski club that rented dormitory rooms
and 1/2 pension (included breakfast and dinner) in a larger "pension".
They happened to have some extra "slots" short term before the trip.
It's a nice hill, not huge, but good snow and not expensive.

> ?? If there's a completely disjoint set of 'yes' answers, maybe we should
> get someone in the latter set to arrange a parallel trip.

Well, if martin hicks is game, and we can get 8 or more people to commit,
I can look into some suggestions for a 2009 "west coast" trip. Some initial
ideas are Mount Hood (Oregon), Jackson Hole (Wyoming), or try to figure
out what meets our budgets/requirements in Canada.

cheers,
grant