Im going Skiing!

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Tomorrow im off to Victoria to a place called Mt. Buller! I cant wait, it should be so awesome! They have had the best snow in about 15 years, and all of the lifts are open (Contrary to belief, it does actually snow in Australia!). The only bit im dreading is the 20 hour bus ride down there! :scared:

Any pointers, guys?
 
Don't play football while you're skiing down a mountain littered with trees.

And have fun!
 
Make sure you stretch before hitting the slopes, after that 20 hr ride, you're going to need it.
 
Thanks!

We were given exercises to do about a month ago, but i havent done any....Im screwed!
 
Yeah, im back guys...

The whole week rocked. I went down a couple of black runs (the most difficult) which i think is pretty good for a first timer. I didnt get sore once, so im fitter than i thought i was.

Right now im so tired. 3 hours sleep does wonders for your brain *melts*.
 
My friend went skiing and almost got killed by tourists. He said they aere allskiing down a mountain all holding hands and he almost ran into them.
 
I went about 5 and a half years ago to France. One of the most amazing feelings on earth is bombing down a slope at 40 with the wind in your face. I went with my school, and was awarded best first time skier. Woo hoo, I have plans to ski in January.
 
I went a couple months back. Skiing is the shiz. I may aswell enlighten you guys on a couple of stories.

As soon as we got to our lodge. (This being a school trip). The first thing we did (After having meetings and sorting out luggage and ****) was grab some inner tubes and plastic sheeting, to go down the hill on. The dangerous part about this hill was the fact that the car park was basically at the bottom of it. There was no room to stop. Well my friend decided to go down the steepest part of the hill. At the bottom of it, he did a jump and landed in the car park. After a 6 hour trip and only arriving half an hour before. We had our first casualty. He had broken his wrist. He was not able to ski for that week. For the whole time we were there. He couldn't ski. The worst part was that it was the best ever skiing wether. n00b

Another story.
This chick I know was skiing in the most crowded ski field. (Same ski trip) She was happily attempting to ski, when out of nowhere a small kid on a snowboard crashed into her. She didn't take notice of any pain. Just annoyance. After the ski trip was over and we were all back at school. She comes in on Cruches and her leg plastered up, with a frame type thing on it. It turns out that that kid did some real damage to her knee. She may have to have it operated on.

There are other stories. I'll have to tell later.
 
I went years back, and attempted to snowboard. Key word - "attempt". Basically my runs consisted of me going down the easy slope, getting scared and intentionally falling three or four times before getting to the bottom of the mountain - only to get up do the same again a few more times. I shall ski next time around.
 
Id like to go back down to the slopes this time of year. Except this time on my mountain bike, it would be awesome.
 
Yeah! I've seen the mountain bike racing in the snow on TV, looks fun, but hard.
 
I've been skiing for 12 or 13 years now (since I was 5-6) and I absolutely love it. I usually get out to ski 5 times a year or so...I wish it was more.

I can't really ski right now since there's no snow here in Ohio, and skiing here would blow anyway, but once I go home for Christmas break I'm going up to Vermont to ski with my uncle for a while, the skiing there is amazing. Most of the places that we go to are ski only, so you don't have a bunch of god damn 13 year old wannabe snowboarders scraping all of the snow off the hills that they can't handle and shouldn't have gone down in the first place.


Does everyone here buy/rent their own skis? If you own your own pair, what kind do you have?

I've got a nice set of Rossignols at home.

As for skiing stories:

When I was a little kid learning to ski, my dad used a dog leash to help teach me. Yes, a leash. Top that. He had it attached to my coat so that I could have some freedom during my first time skiing, but at the same time, if something happened he could still control over me. It actually isn't a very bad idea. Better than going to a ski school anyway.
 
Mt. Buller is where they have that aerial skiing competition, with the likes of Jacqui Cooper and Alisa Camplin, and Lydia Howeveryoupronounceherlastname. Did you hit the jumps at all? :p
 
i ski i got my own equipment

boots-New Nordica The Beasts (im dyin to try these out)
Skis-Volkl supersport six stars

now snow here in VA so im screwed but im going out west
 
Stinky Chicken
Mt. Buller is where they have that aerial skiing competition, with the likes of Jacqui Cooper and Alisa Camplin, and Lydia Howeveryoupronounceherlastname. Did you hit the jumps at all? :p
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Yeah, we saw the jumps and all of the ramps and stuff but only a few snowboarders we screwing around on them. There was supposedly some big competion just a couple of weeks before we got there. Alisa Camplin? :drool:

Right now at Mt Buller there would be huge hills covered in wildflowers just waiting to be torn up by a huge mountain bike tyre at some ungodly speed. 👍
 
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