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C'mon Huub,
Did you enjoy your first skiing holiday?
Did the ankle survive?
Did you get the day 3 blues?

Tell us all about it.

hey Neil, thanks for asking, didn't want to push myself and bump that thread.
Well it was great actually, I didn't broke anything, while I took every slope I could get
My ski friend is very experienced, without his advice and continuing escort on the pistes I never could have done this so fast.

I also visited another, connected, ski area (from Zell/Arena to Gerlos and Köningsleitern), what was quite a trip for one day.
We overbridged 6500 meter height and we made about 70 km pure ski-ing.
One black piste had a height of 1200 meter and was deadly steep, my upperleg muscles were totally soured (is that the right word?).
But the apfelstrudel with vanille sauce compensated this

After that 6th day something strange happened to me.
We went by bus to the Mayerhofen ski area, went streight to the top to ski down...and I scared to death!
I even couldn't get close to the verge of the piste without feeling my stomac turning around.
I went down over a soft knie blue piste, staying close to the mountain side, and I didn't ski at all anymore that day.

The last day I spend my time to conquer back my progressings before, on the familiar Zell pistes.
I think I got it back, more or less.

That day when I scared to death, we visited in the evening the only 'discobar' of the village, in the cellar of our hotel.
It was the weekly 'topless service' night, which was good for me because I had enough of tops that day
However, not alone my stomac again felt strange feelings then...


Ski holydays actually are very expensive, but if my wallet allowes me to, I for sure will do it again one time!


cheerz

I said before you went that I was jealous, but now it's even worse.
If I could choose to live anywhere in the world it would be Gerlos. It may be one of the top resorts for Dutch people and no one speaks English (or not many), but the place is really special. Haven't been to it since they joined it up to Zell am Ziller but I've had some great winter and summer holidays there, skiing and walking. Bad memories for my wife Jan though as it is the place where she had her worst biking accident, coming off a mountain in the Schonachtal. I had to hand feed her for 4 days!

Some lovely skiing around there, and Mayrhofen too.

I would recommend a full holiday in Gerlos to you Huub. Lots of great places to eat and the skiing is great on all of the mountains. Try staying at Gasthaus Stefanie (summer or winter)- the Kammerlander family are wonderful.
If you ever consider it, let me know and I'll send you lots of details and tips.

Glad you enjoyed the holiday.

thanks Neil, I'll remember that
sorry to hear thastory about your girlfriend.
Zell/Arena area-->Gerlos indeed is connected recently, and more lifts have closed cabines now, like to the second main lift station. things have improved a lot as they told me.
Speaking about Gerlos: my friend didn't like it at all, because the pistes are just broad plains instead of curved tracks between the woods.
To me it was all new, so I enjoyed it all
I had a great time, tho we had trhee days of fat mist (in fact clouds).
I learnt to do the red pistes in that mist, maybe it explains my fear when I did them with sunshine.
I suddenly saw what I was actually doing, eeehk!
The other days the weather was great, sunshine all day, it felt like it was summer, it wasn't cold at all, my face looks like I've been in the Sahara!
In the evening I played chess with my mate, visited a sauna, or read a book.
So it was big time


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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: hubird on 2004-03-17 09:17 ]</font>

It was the weekly 'topless service' night, which was good for me because I had enough of tops that day

At least Netherlands = (more or less) topless I mean the landscape

At least Netherlands = (more or less) topless I mean the landscape