I am very pleased to report that I have now completed my Charity Ski Challenge for PMRGCAuk! This was delayed from 22nd June 2018 due to my sustaining a pelvic fracture a few days before I was due to undertake my challenge. In consideration of my injury I decided to complete the challenge at the Snowtrax Dry Ski Slope in Dorset over a few days, which I undertook this week.
I would like to, once again, thank everyone who kindly donated to my Ski Challenge, both I and PMRGCAuk are very grateful indeed!!
My VirginMoneyGiving page will be open for further donations up to 1st MAY, 2019. Any amount, no matter how small, will be put to good use by this much needed charity!! Thank you.
If you want lovely blue runs - you need to come here to the Dolomites!!!! And we have more sun and better food IMHO!!! And we could have lunch together - don't ski now
I had one ski holiday in Italy in 2013, (please don't ask me where, I would have to look it up) but it was truly amazing!!! The scenery was really spectacular and, apart from my ski pals insisting I went down an icy black run, I had a great time!! At 52 I learned to ski very late, I don't mind going fast, but don't enjoy being pushed into anything challenging! Love skiing with my 19 year old daughter because she is super chilled and doesn't mind my sort of skiing!! Every year I go skiing I think it could be my last, so always make the most of it ⛷
Where is your nearest ski resort in Italy, I will look it up? Definitely agree that the food in Italy is better!!!
My claim to fame is that I did actually make a brief appearance on Ski Sunday about 2 years ago 😀 They were filming Snow Boarders at the dry ski slope and the skiers had been relegated to the nursery slope. I was filmed doing a very short run and on the programme Graham Bell refers to our group as beginners.. LOL
I'm working on the hub and so we may venture to the slopes in the future - but with my feet firmly planted. (He says I'll need another husband if I contemplate skiing after two major accidents.) And I quite like this hub!
Well done Liz. Having skied regularly even with PMR at an easy and enjoyable level this will be first year in a while that I can’t. Knees too sore! I also love Italy and the food and the relaxed atmosphere. Will visit Kronplatz one day PmrPro!
I only did a couple of days skiing in Morzine, France last year. The skiing was fine, as my legs have generally been OK with PMR, although I do walk every day. What nearly killed me was walking 500 metres and back to the ski lift in ski boots and carrying my skis. This year getting a shuttle bus from the hotel to the ski lift. Talk about learning the hard way! I could ski in the garden today if it was hilly enough 😀
We have locker facilities at the bottom of the mountain so you can leave the skis and boots there and walk in proper shoes. I managed to ski by using that offer even with PMR and no pred! If you stay in the village there is a bus through the middle and it is also only a short walk to the train station - where you get off 3 stops up the line, cross the platform and you are at the lift gates. Simples!!!!
We stayed at the hotel les champs fleuris - right at foot of lift (fantastic place). Love it there, been in summer two when Reebok challenge was on - lots of fit folk running and swimming and doing incredible things on the last leg! Great fun! Hope to go back!
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