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Feb 2016
10:57am, 29 Feb 2016
16,097 posts
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alpenrose
Are you going to Tignes too Pinch? L'Espace Killy seems to be very popular this year. I'm booked for Val D'Isere in April. 
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Feb 2016
11:29am, 29 Feb 2016
649 posts
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PinchyII
Yes - same place we went last year - Tignes Val Claret.... 12th - 19th.... Slightly excited... Oh yes!!!!
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Feb 2016
12:21pm, 29 Feb 2016
10,619 posts
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AngusClydesdale
Val Claret is where we stayed. Got to the glacier on Monday which was just superb. Also skied the edge of the piste map down to Les Brévières on Thu and took the kids up to the Aiguille Percée in the sunshine on Fri. Lovely steep skiing and loads of snow!
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Mar 2016
7:36pm, 11 Mar 2016
10,683 posts
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AngusClydesdale
Just been watching coverage of the competitions in the halfpipe at Tignes this week. Utterly amazing stuff. Jaw dropping even. Have a great week pinchy.
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Mar 2016
7:51pm, 11 Mar 2016
10,684 posts
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AngusClydesdale
Whilst I'm here, I've a question for the Fetch snowsports massive.
MrsC has broken skis. Totally goosed. They're (or rather were) a pair of Salomon X-Scream 800s that she bought about 14 years ago, when they were one of *the* skis to have. Clearly things have moved on in the past decade so I was wondering if I could pick your brains for suggestions.
She skis well, can ski every run in resort to one degree or another. She doesn't often venture off piste but handles deep powder and crud with aplomb, and she likes speeding down groomed runs in the sunshine (well, who doesn't?!).
She definitely doesn't want anything too wide or heavy.
We'd appreciate your help. :-)⛷
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Mar 2016
8:40pm, 11 Mar 2016
996 posts
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Silvershadow
No2son has 4 seasons under his belt and more pairs of skis than Nightjar has bicycles. Just popped out. I'll grill him when he gets back.
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Mar 2016
9:33pm, 11 Mar 2016
16,289 posts
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alpenrose
Best idea is to test skis when in the resort, like running shoes everyone has different needs.
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Mar 2016
12:25am, 12 Mar 2016
10,686 posts
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AngusClydesdale
Thanks nightjar, that'd be great.
AR, that's the plan, but a "starter for 10" would be nice. Ta.
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Mar 2016
6:35am, 12 Mar 2016
16,294 posts
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alpenrose
Okay, K2 rockers & Stockli Stormriders seem quite popular round here the last year or two.
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Mar 2016
9:48am, 12 Mar 2016
33,565 posts
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Velociraptor
I have a pair of K2 Burnin Luv skis (not the most recent ones, I got them about 8 years ago) which are too good for me by about the same amount as Mrs C's skiing sounds to be better than mine, if that helps I did a fair bit of reading the reviews and pretending to understand the technical stuff before choosing them, and I've never had reason to wish I'd bought something different.
I would have been happy to hire skis, but with me being *this* size I tended to get given skis that were a bit too mushy underfoot.
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