ski lessons & hire

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:05 +0100, Carsten Otte wrote:
> I did personally need more than two days to get comfortable
> on skis. You'll be able to get downhill in a controled way
> after two days for sure, but you could learn some nice
> techniques if you continue to take lessons which will get
> you downhill more easily and more gracile.

You gain a lot by having a guide who'll take you to see new parts of the
mountain, too. New parts that, in his expert opinion, you can ski on
without dying.

That benefit continues even after you're relatively competent -- when
Johannes and I had lessons last year, we ended up in _lots_ of places we
would never otherwise have been¹. It was great fun.

I'd definitely go for 5-6 full days on your first week, and hopefully
you should be capable of doing red runs by the end of it -- which means
you can cover most of the mountain quite happily.

-- 
dwmw2

¹ http://gallery.infradead.org/main.php?g2_itemId=1876
  http://gallery.infradead.org/main.php?g2_itemId=1888