It'll take a while to get back to you, he's out rolling in all the snow he got today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Norseman
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It'll take a while to get back to you, he's out rolling in all the snow he got today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Norseman
Building snowmen and jumping around with the school kidsQuote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
Buster, thank you for putting this together. To those of you that haven't yet skied Europe, it's a life changing experience. The future mrs and I are in. Looking forward to skiing with a number of you PNW folk!
@ Vendul - PM incoming.
me neither, but don't mind if I follow along for the ride.Quote:
Originally Posted by acinpdx
I'm sad you can't come
Room Share hereQuote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
I followed the link from the Down groupbuy thread to find this gem. Darn, it would be great to be able to join on this side of the pond! Calendar check in progress...
As mentioned, one of the big lines I would like to do is the Oberalpstock.
It requires a 3 hour skin/hike from the top of the Disentis highest lift. It's then a 2000+ vertical meter run on a N/NW facing slope down into the Bristen valley that will require some walking and finding a bus stop to get down to Erstfeld. From there a train can be ridden back through Goeschenen, Andermatt and eventually Rueras. There are several variations, one of which starts at about 3200 m and ends at 800 meters. Hopefully there will be a good snowpack.
http://www.gps-tracks.com/oberalpsto...ur-S00185.html
I have never done this run, so I don't know the route or how to find the bus stops. I think this is an instance in which hiring a guide would be worth it and that will require some consensus and planning with a cost in the neighborhood of $100 per person. I might be wrong about this, maybe vendul knows the route and it obviously depends on conditions.
It's something to plan and develop a consensus.
Also, to rerereiterate the phone issue, as the sagacious Foggy and oftpiste have mentioned, having a functioning cell phone is pretty much a requirement. Please be sure you have one since this is a big place and the likelihood that we will get split up is 100%. It will be key to know if people that got lost or split off are ok or not.
check this - seems straight forward. I am no guide but would do it without if conditions are reasonable - but if we are hiring a guide I might consider joining in depending on the cost.
Regarding a guide, vote here please.
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...Guide-Day-Poll
A topo of one variation, I think I want to try the Tscharren variation to the West of the one displayed.:
https://www.chmoser.ch/trips/bericht...opo_2-full.jpg
Yes, I know it can be done without a guide and I've done a bunch of stuff around there without guides, but I thought I should ask people how they feel about it and plan accordingly.Quote:
Originally Posted by LeoK
I think it will be around $100chf per person, but will have to ask.
Ooo, nice, thanks. I love maps... they make mah pants tightQuote:
Originally Posted by LeoK
Charlie, i'm in lutry. [emoji16]Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Don't Surf
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To add to the euro info, rega helicopter rescue insurance 30chfs. Better than getting bunged for a couple grand. Plus it supports a great org!
https://www.rega.ch/en/support-rega/...ga-patron.aspx
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Well I’m officially in. Just found $575 from SLC to Zurich and pulled the trigger. Leaving 3/16 and coming back on 3/29. Gonna kick ass.
Awesome. I was wondering about this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ripzalot
A guy I work with overcame his lifelong, paralyzing fear of flying with hypnotism therapy.Quote:
Originally Posted by flowing alpy
One session...
I'm a skeptic... but it worked for him.
I got 37 on it BobbyQuote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
I hear the double daffy is required over there. Kinda like safety bars at some ski areasQuote:
Originally Posted by flowing alpy
Virtually compulsory in Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
Encountered a chair with automatically deployed safety bar last year at either Brevent or Flegere.
^^^yup. yup. be prepared. they're militant about the bar.
FWIW, @Anderm@, I gleefully rode with the bar up.
must have been solo on the chair....
you're right of course, in general with Euros. But with American scofflaws at hand...
Rabble!
I do not endorse the chair bar, except on double lifts ridden solo... tired, draped over the bar like some lecherous buzzard, dazed by body-high and cynically assessing the skiers below.
Nut-smashing, head-bashing, scurrying, scurred dumbasses with the reactionary bar reach can get fucked, and I usually sternly request a few moments to look around for a bit, and let me sit on my poles, and get fucking situated on this machine.
Be prepared. brit & piste are right: The Euros will crash the bar down immediately as one's skis leave the ground...but if we occupy the seets compleeet, no need to meet their conceeeet.
No bar down No go. They stopped the chair and yelled at me in frenchyssoise until I put the bar down. Lesson learned.
Have the French masses figured out what a line is yet? Or just the compulsory bar enforcement?
No. But it's fun when the dangerfrogs jam the telepherique door open to smoke and view.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackattack
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Originally Posted by Mofro261
Joining the party a week or so late. helluva trip coming together here. Going to take a look at flights and figure out how to pull off the big sales pitch to the wife...
If Flying Lufthansa for example you get free bag. However our skis measure over the 159cm rule and shows $175 on fee schedule. Is this ignored or wtf?
Sometimes there's an exception specifically mentioned for ski/golf/gun luggage. That was the case on Iceland Air.
Squint harder?
In. Fresh off BBI Utard, will be arriving Zurich Tuesday the 19th in the AM, leaving Sunday morning the 24th. I'd like to figure out a way to spend a day or two in Engleberg either before I get to Rueras or leave a little early, will need your advice on how to do that. In for guiding as well.
Next, I gotta figure out what's left at the mt-lodge for rooms availability.
Thx Buster.
Upon further dive; yes- sport bag included for free (if reading correctly)Quote:
Originally Posted by Norseman
It's great to have so many of you that are joining... one little problem: You are all asking for single rooms, single rooms are limited, try to join for a double, we can arrange separate beds, that's no problem.
I'm still not certain but if I'm there should be able to drive a few people + gear from Lucerne/Engleberg depending on my work schedule
I would but im a notorious snorer and a drunk.Quote:
Originally Posted by vendul
Also, im booked for 20-24 march. I'll drive down from lausanne early on the 20th and ski that day too. I'll likely have space unless some friends join.
Open to doubling up, no worries 'cept snorers.
*_*_*_*
So I'm thinking that I'll check out of vendul's hotel on Friday the 22nd and begin wandering over to Engelberg to ski with the fur-clad rich Swiss Ejaculate on Saturday and Sunday.
Perhaps an Oberalpstock outing could line up first thing Friday, with the descent to Bristen being the stage-left exit to the trains for a few folks... Buster to Zurich, myself and perhaps others to Eberg.
Thoughts? Feasible? Totally weather-dependent, of course. Could go for a morning tour in some other direction, then bail by train... or sleep in. So many options, gah!
Super doable...!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Norseman