Is This Your First Time Skiing?

Is This Your First Time Skiing?

I will attempt to give "you" as a newbie at downhill skiing a few beginners tips, you mind find useful to get the best out of your initial experience.

1. I would recommend that your first experience of skiing, should be done when the slopes are at their quietest, so don't choose weekends and if your flying away definately not during school vacation, as this is by far the busiest time.
2. Determine how you yourself learn practical things, are you a watcher, an analyser, or a doer, what I mean by this is, do you learn best by watching an expert (instructor) or by trying to understand how he does things he does :0 and where he places his weight during a turn for example, this would be the analyser,or are you a doer, and just get on the slopes and sink or swim for want of a better phrase. No way in particular is better than the other, its purely a personal thing.
3. Your first lesson will obviously be heavily weighted toward the skills required to stop yourself when required and turn when required, if you can master these techniques, early in your skiing career, then the world is your oyster, because you will then be able to control your speed and angle of descent down the mountainside :) essential in my opinion.
4. For your fist attempt, staying on the beginner slopes would be my recommendation, at least for the first day or until, you can manage the points in "step 3" above, or until your confidence builds, ensure you know the difficulty ratings for the piste.

• Black - Expert
• Red - Intermediate
• Blue-Beginner/Intermediate
• Green - Beginner

I would just like to finish by saying go out and have some fun, and remember to take it easy, the more relaxed you are, the quicker you will learn. If you wanted to prepare yourself physically, then take a look at the best Skier Fitness Program! available.

Chamonix in French Alps

Due to the overriding cost of skiing in a European alpine village in Passo Tonale, especially with 2 children who actually count as adults from the point of view of Ski Pass and Ski School, we decided to do it ourselves, like a self made holiday, booking all the different individual areas ourselves.

The first of course was the issue on where to actually go skiing, so we researched the internet and found a very reasonable apartment in the resort of Les Houches, which is actually within the Mont Blanc ski region, which also includes the Chamonix area, hense the header title for my blog. "Chamonix In French Alps", it turns out to be within an hour drive of Geneva airport Switzerland.

Geneva is a very accesible airport from my home town of Liverpool in the UK, the flight time is about 90mins at the most, so after a quick hire car from airport to resort, we should be in the apartment, 4hrs after leaving the house, not bad eh!

Downhill Skiing is Real Fun

Hi guys,

We love to Ski, That is me, my wife and my boys aged 15 and 13, preferably the downhill version, you know the one, that your boots are permanently attached to your skis, by what are called bindings. They are attached at the heel and the toe, this is the vital difference between, downhill skiing and what is commonly known as cross country skiing or Nordic Skiing.

I began my skiing career some years ago before my wife and I had any children, and we "loved It", but then the children come along and before you know it,other things take priority like buying a larger car, house etc etc.



It was not until the summer of 2007 that we decided that if we didn't go skiing again, with the children this time, if we didn't do it then, we probably never would have, so off we went to Passo Tonale in the Dolomite region of the European Alps.