Ski Trip Signup thread.

[Njoroge]

If you say you're interested and you're blatently not I hereby reserve the right to kill you and **** your corpse at the next available opportunity. Thanks.

Dates:
Sunday 12th March - Sunday 19th March

Info:
Chalet - click here (http://www.rudechalets.com/chalet/chalet_le-prele.aspx)
Half board (Breakfast, tea and evening meal)
Sleeps up to 14
5 Double rooms, 4 in a mezzanine (they get £30 discount each)
Price: £460
More info here (http://nj.atdot.at/chalet.txt)

£100 deposit much be in the skitrip account (yet to be specified) by wednesday next week

Flight choices:
Geneva:
- easyjet fly from liverpool or london
- dunno you find out. (start another thread please)

Basel:
- I'll most likely be driving in a 11 seater minibus which will carry an estimated 8 ppl with gear (total guess)
- If I don't drive I'll see if I can get a hax group discount super advance ticket. Price tbc.
- Easyjet from to Basel for £50 from Liverpool or London

Additional Basel info:
- If we drive we'll go straight to Morzine . Est. 3.5 hours
- If we train we'll go to Geneva and get picked up. Est 3 hours + 1.5 Hours
- Update Best thing is probably train to Montreux / Monthey and then get picked up. I'll look into it.

Additional costs:
- Flight
- Ski passes
- Equipment Hire
- Car / train to Morzine / Geneva if you're flying to Basel

Lastly
As usual, just cause you sign up doesn't mean you're coming. It's an indication that you're interested, but the management reserves the right to gives priority to da old skool if there are too many people interested.

Really lastly
Quote from Zak:

ADVISABLE FOR EVERYONE!

Buy a helmet, seriously, I left one 2 years ago cos it wasn't the right "colour". The 9 months in hospital because of that were not what was wanted. So BUY A HELMET, I have.

You look like a tit not having one.


K thx bye.

Consider me signed up.

[Afty]

Frist Psot!!!

Yes, In, Mezzanine room plz, let me know where to send teh monies.

[Aardvark]

Originally posted by Njoroge
£100 deposit much be in the skitrip account (yet to be specified) by wednesday next week

You could at least wait til AFTER payday, instead of just before :D

But yes consider me in, pending 24 hour lateness on payment ;) Also consider me signed up for BaselBus hax :)

[Wizzo]

I'm in, as much as I can commit to these things anyway :p Hey I've made it every other year! :)

[Njoroge]

I'm in, as much as I can commit to these things anyway

If you pay your deposit then I'll consider you a definate.

Balance is due in December.

Deposit is non-refundable unless the space is filled in which case you might get some of it back depending on what I like to refer to as hassle-tax. Other people call it the beer kitty - either way works ;)

I havn't clarified the details of last-minute cancellations but I will just for you Wizz

[Wizzo]

Don't worry Nj. You know if I have to cancel it'll be for a very good reason that'll mean losing a few hundred pounds will be worth it :p

[bvark]

Like you didn't realise you were running a LAN a fortnight later?

[andyf]

It's March, so I'm interested because January wouldn't be possible. However the £100 is non-refundable and I may not be in work in March so I can't put my name down for this one.

[Njoroge]

the £100 is non-refundable and I may not be in work in March so I can't put my name down for this one.

You could save up... If you're truly incompetant at saving then entrust someone else with your savings so that you don't have access to them.

If you put away £30 a week without fail you'll have £660 by the time the trip comes about. Just don't spend it on your ricemobile

[Afty]

andy just get it done ;)

[Groodles]

I will ask the question......

(Read, I am no longer in control of my social schedule and would prefer to confirm availability BEFORE I commit and find out I've double booked with something I knew nothing about. ;) )

[andyf]

Originally posted by Njoroge
the £100 is non-refundable and I may not be in work in March so I can't put my name down for this one.

You could save up... If you're truly incompetant at saving then entrust someone else with your savings so that you don't have access to them.

If you put away £30 a week without fail you'll have £660 by the time the trip comes about. Just don't spend it on your ricemobile

If I'm not gonna be working, all the savings will be paying off my rent and bills, sod all will be going on cars or holidays.

Anyway I don't have £100 spare until payday, as per Aardvark's argument :(

[Pingman]

im in, like, really deep, in fact, i think ive just gone as far as it goes!

[Lazyboy]

Im very interested :) went on my first snowboarding holiday this year and it was fantastic!

so how many of you snowboard?

[Njoroge]

Originally posted by Lazyboy
Im very interested :)

Do keep your eye out for the "Ski trip very interested" thread then.

And as for number of snowboarders - roughly 60% of the contingent usually.

[Silk75]

Yes yes yes yes yes.

I have money to be sent to someone, just let me know via the mailing list who to send it to.

[Mingtea]

Well I guess i'll come along ;) (woo hoo no equipment hire for me this year!)

[Zakalwe]

well, I'll be there, after all I love these trips and want to see if I can still board (better than averagely),

Having missed the one I organised for this year then I HAVE TO GO :) Although NJ did thankfully rescue itm can anyone who went tell me how it was? Looked ok from the booking.

[andyf]

oh what the hell, I'll say yes and will pay the deposit when details are available. It's only £100, and as bugs said, I'm a tax-dodging contractor anyway. I'll just throw it on expenses or something.

[Afty]

Originally posted by Zakalwe
well, I'll be there, after all I love these trips and want to see if I can still board (better than averagely), You're expecting some kind of improvement from your knock then? :P
Originally posted by Zakalwe
Having missed the one I organised for this year then I HAVE TO GO :) Although NJ did thankfully rescue itm can anyone who went tell me how it was? It was awesome, thanks for sorting it out. The chalet itself was a little dingy, but the resort was pretty damn good, the snow and conditions were superb (I've never ski'd in -22 with windchill of a further -15 before) and the company was, as always, inimitable. :)

[K]

In, someone email me the account details for deposit payage.

[Pingman]

last years ski trip rocked.
as above please email em account details asap for monies.

[Mingtea]

Account details mailed to the mailing list.

I'm sort of money guy for this little shindig.

[Afty]

Have we looked into the expected snow conditions here at this time of year? The whole thing is VERY low as far as I can see...

Morzine is at only 1000m, and talking to someone who has been there a couple years ago, it's a right pain to get up to Avoriaz (long journey, followed by crowded cable car) which you need to do as the runs around Morzine aren't too good, and by March probably unskiable. Even once you reach Avoriaz, it is still only 1800m and the runs it leads up to peak out around 2100m... pretty low for mid march.

Chalet looks amazing, but ski conditions could mean we see little to no time on the snow... Little worried about paying premium cash for a chalet which is un a pretty undesirable resort...?

[K]

sounds worrying, look at moving it?

[her0n]

erk yes march is considered sorta late season... perhaps we should be looking at a resort much higher up? perhaps around the 1800-2000+ mark?

Edit: been looking here.. http://www.bluebookski.com/bluebook9/Bluebook.htm
and i'm going to suggest La Plagne. Been there before and has some great runs and night life.. plus the bonus that most accommodation is ski in ski out :D

[Afty]

Update from experienced bloke here, if the snow *is* good, apparently the runs up around Avoriaz are ace, loads of variation and some massive, long motorway style pistes...

[[KEA]Chairman]

Yeah Avoriaz is ace something for everyone, its also fairly snowsure due to its extra height.

The downer is that if there's not much snow down in Morzine then the whole world plus dog heads for Avoriaz and it can get a bit crowded. The trek up can also be a bit of a pain.

We went on a a lastminute deal last year and there was tonnes of snow but the year before apparently it was really poor........

[Njoroge]

Snow conditions make all the difference on a skiing holiday.

If you have bad weather then you're not going to have as good a time as if you have good weather. If you have bad weather however I would rather be in a leet chalet and not have to travel forever to get there.

Regarding date, last year there wasn't much snow in general, but that didn't stop me skiing in April.

Additionally...

Grindelwald: 1,034-2,168m
Morzine: 1,000-2,350m

Date of Grindelwald skitrip: 23 March

Can I suggest that further complaints get sent here (dont.come.then@noone.fr).

Nj

[Ryvita]

Ming - Rich and creamy deposit made.

So far in.

Ryv

[Murray-Mint]

I'll know tonight if I'l be available for this trip. Was going to go last year.

[Afty]

Yuck Foo Nj! :)

Already paid and I'm there whatever, just wanted to garner some more opinions besides the one I got in the office today.

[Ryvita]

There is a 1 in 52 chance that I may have an unavoidable commitment turn up in this week actually (wedding), now I come to think of it. If so I will make a decision on whether to repeat my mid-holiday country-fleeing shenanigans. :)

Ryv

[her0n]

COUGH
http://forums.multiplay.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36369

http://www.holiday-rentals.com/France/ski-chalet-La-Plagne/p726.htm

^^ in particular for you lazy people

[Afty]

Originally posted by Ryvita
If so I will make a decision on whether to repeat my mid-holiday country-fleeing shenanigans. :) Last time you regretted it. Alot.

The easy way is to say to these two people you know "Im booking and paying for a holiday on these dates - I really hope your wedding doesn't fall then...?". That way either the wedding won't, or *they* will feel guilty for making you miss it...

Unless it's your own wedding your planning, in which case fair play. Marry her on top of a mountain? :p

[Murray-Mint]

Hmm, I'm down for cover at work, and I seriously doubt I could make it back to rural Gloucestershire in under 2 hours, so looks like I'm out of this for yet another year :(

Gives me a year to learn to ski competently.

[Afty]

Jesus, how much notice do you need to give to book holidays? This is like... nearly 6 months away....

[her0n]

Murray, YOU tell THEM when you want hols. This is plenty of notice imo!

[Aardvark]

I'm thinking Morzine is a bad idea at that time of year. No chance of anything earlier? I know, I know, I should look at the other thread but I'm lazy tonight.

[Drarok]

I want to go, me me me me me!!!! How?

[andyf]

How? You give a deposit to mingtea (no, a monetary deposit!) then wait ...

[Drarok]

Hur hur.

Why him? What's so SPESHUL, huh? ¬_¬

[Murray-Mint]

Originally posted by her0n
Murray, YOU tell THEM when you want hols. This is plenty of notice imo!

Nope, not able to book holiday for then, it's not a case of notice, it's a case of the work rota saying that I am on a cover week, so I need to be in the country, near work to cover sickness or anyone else booking holiday. It sucks, and it's why I've missed Saturday of i24, i25 and can't make it to most of CLUK 10 (http://www.centralanuk.co.uk).

[Afty]

Originally posted by andyf
How? You give a deposit to mingtea (no, a monetary deposit!) then wait ... Worth finding out if it will fill with oldboys before asking people to chuck money around?

[Drarok]

What makes people an "oldboy" ?
Previous ski attendance?

[Silk75]

Yes, previous attendance can weed out the undesirables.

I pass with a speshul old man badge :D

[Drarok]

Booo. But I'm lovely! :(

[Pingman]

Originally posted by Silk75
Yes, previous attendance can weed out the undesirables.

I pass with a speshul old man badge :D

Do i get in with an anal badge?

:p:

[Njoroge]

Originally posted by Pingman
Do i get in with an anal badge?

:p:

Of course you do.

So does wizzo, for similar, but related reasons ;)

[Wubster]

apparently Im In as well :)

Wubbies