ski lessons & hire

[Erik Troan]

I'll likely pick up a full day lesson for exactly this reason. Anyone
interested in off piste let me know!

Erik

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:25 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>wrote:

> 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.
>
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