Visibility wise it was like that at Les Deux Alpes when I had my accident, only it was white mist, and there were icy patches on the lower bit of the Diablo Blue run.
@@ChasingSnow Yeah, 🤞. FWIW the instructor 'Nick' in my 1 to 1 last Friday after following me down the main slope a few times was happy with my balance ect on pizza turns down the main slope, no loss of control, slow but steady pace, and reasonably comfortable turns. Plus IF in your travels you ever get to Les Deux Alpes, on the button lift on Diable, three quarters up if you look to your right, that is where I fell twice.
Those snowy/flat light/white out days are tiring mentally and pysichally for me, I'm basically feeling my way down on my edges and the skiis run much slower. The first time we went to Tignes around 15 years ago it was white out conditions for 6 days. On our final day the clouds parted and you could see for miles. LOL we were so lost in the massive open view we now had on the slopes as we had been skiing from piste edge marker to piste edge marker in the damp gloom for days.
That's the way it used to be for me also, I would book accommodation, buy the pass and ski whatever conditions I got... so there were many white out days, which made it difficult if the resort was new to me, as it would be difficult to know where I was... but now I rarely ski on days like that... and in this case, just decided to call it a day... the wet snow was sticking to my visor so visibility was really bad... Well, I'm glad you ended up getting at least one nice day... having 6 days of poor visibility is pretty bad...
Similar experience on Hintertux a year ago or so, white sky and snowing.. could only guess where the horizon might be! Thankfully I'm only a tank of fuel and a ski pass drive away these days, when the weather app says good to go I'm off!
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Visibility wise it was like that at Les Deux Alpes when I had my accident, only it was white mist, and there were icy patches on the lower bit of the Diablo Blue run.
Those conditions are not ideal, hopefully you'll get better weather next time...fresh snow makes a difference...
@@ChasingSnow Yeah, 🤞. FWIW the instructor 'Nick' in my 1 to 1 last Friday after following me down the main slope a few times was happy with my balance ect on pizza turns down the main slope, no loss of control, slow but steady pace, and reasonably comfortable turns. Plus IF in your travels you ever get to Les Deux Alpes, on the button lift on Diable, three quarters up if you look to your right, that is where I fell twice.
Those snowy/flat light/white out days are tiring mentally and pysichally for me, I'm basically feeling my way down on my edges and the skiis run much slower. The first time we went to Tignes around 15 years ago it was white out conditions for 6 days. On our final day the clouds parted and you could see for miles. LOL we were so lost in the massive open view we now had on the slopes as we had been skiing from piste edge marker to piste edge marker in the damp gloom for days.
That's the way it used to be for me also, I would book accommodation, buy the pass and ski whatever conditions I got... so there were many white out days, which made it difficult if the resort was new to me, as it would be difficult to know where I was... but now I rarely ski on days like that... and in this case, just decided to call it a day... the wet snow was sticking to my visor so visibility was really bad...
Well, I'm glad you ended up getting at least one nice day... having 6 days of poor visibility is pretty bad...
@@ChasingSnow if there’s no sun I don’t ski. Period
That's normally my rule, especially as I'm filming, but this day was an exception...
Similar experience on Hintertux a year ago or so, white sky and snowing.. could only guess where the horizon might be! Thankfully I'm only a tank of fuel and a ski pass drive away these days, when the weather app says good to go I'm off!
@@withoutwroeirsbest way to get the most :-)
OMG 😬 thats poor conditions…
Yeah, I think my visibility was worse than the camera...
Just think of the poor people on ski patrol. They don't have the option of giving up and going home. Hope the next day wa better for you.
Poor ski patrol ;-) yes, the following day was better though I was at Sölden... 😀