Skiing - Your highlights?

Now the summer season of motorbikes and sizzling tarmac is drawing to a close, no more sunlight and sparky sliders.

Soon the snow will be falling and the skis will be appearing, that squeak of dry powder, the crunch of hard packed piste. So what has been your best ski experience and why? Where to head for a couple of winter weeks?

[DarrenSV650S]

Originally Posted by Tim in Belgium

the crunch of hard packed piste

I mean nice hard packed carving piste, not icey scottish sh(ooops I said the S word)t.

All I remember about going skiing is falling 12 feet head first out of a helicopter in Norway and landing badly with a 50lb bergen and an SLR (Self loading rifle) that broke my arm. I got an infection and was rushed to hospital rather rapidly. The two days inbetween the accident and the airlift out are nothing but a very hazy and patchy memory.

I'm a ski virgin. Got my first trip this coming Christmas. I'm going to Livigno, Italy. Apparently it's very good for beginners and intermediates. Paying €50 pppn half board including passes. We're driving over mid December and returning the day after boxing day.

Off to TK Maxx this morning to look for ski ware, any advice.

[tigersaw]

Last time I went skiing a bunch of young ladies ski'd past naked.
Don't remember much else

[fizzwheel]

Meribel in the Three Valleys a few years ago. First couple of days were warm, dry and I was sweating in just a t-shirt under my jacket.

Then it snowed, alot. Was bl**dy awesome few days after that, didnt snow much during the day but heavy falls at night. We were gettng up early and getting the first chair lift up and making fresh tracks on the way down, were some nice pieces of off piste that had a huge heavy covering of snow on. I was boarding, was absolutly brilliant.

[Fluffer]

Done Val d'isere and Tignes last few years and love it! New sv may put my january trip in doubt and seeing this thread has really made me want to ski! i'm usually craving the whitestuff long before now so guess october aint too bad... Orgers trip? convoy up the alps with boards & skis strapped down the side of bikes? hmmm i can feel the spanner coming out!

If it's like last Winter in the UK again this year skiing to work is a possibility

Never Skiied on snow, only ever dry sloped!
My mate is a ski Instuctor (youll laugh in a sec) he tried to land a 720 spin and, well Didnt, he broke his Femur and has been in hospital for the last week and had 2 ops i think!
He has the worst luck of ANYONE i know!