Hi there!
I've skulked around these parts for a long time, but find myself with a question (well, several):
I don't know how to drive, have a budget that's a hair over a modest---I'm loath to call it comfortable---and have so much vacation time built up that they're threatening to start paying it out if I don't use it in 2017. I want to ski and read and drink tea and be away. Though, I'm also from a city (New York), and need to occasionally have palatable coffee made by someone who isn't me.
I had an ACL replacement in March 2015 and wasn't cleared to ski last season (I may or may not have let physically therapy slip very early on---learn from me, kids), but damn it, I finally got the green light two weeks ago. I'm scared (considering Fear Camp at Windham, as a primer, and would definitely spend as much time as possible on the mountain before the longer trip) and I'd be going alone, but it seems like the right thing to do. Official medical advice on skiing for a month is to do nothing stupid, but why the hell not. As far as levels, I have always had solid technique---parallel linked turns, and so on---but no confidence (notes from instructors have consistently been "Would that you weren't so anxious," etc.), and think that going to a big mountain for a long period of time might help with that.
You're me. Where do you go? What do you do? Where do you stay? I've looked at private rooms and whole condos in Airbnbs in Avon, Colorado; Canmore, Alberta; and what is allegedly just outside Whistler, though who's to say. I've sniffed around some smaller hotels in Banff and considered holing up in a small ski town off the beaten track. I've also investigated condos in Chamonix. This problem needs constraints, I think, and I would love to hear feedback or input from any of y'all who've embarked on similar long-term stays. March might be the best month for it, I'm thinking. Plus, the Epic Pass deadline has been extended to a week from today, so I am calling this fortuitous. What do you think?
Thanks in advance!
I've skulked around these parts for a long time, but find myself with a question (well, several):
I don't know how to drive, have a budget that's a hair over a modest---I'm loath to call it comfortable---and have so much vacation time built up that they're threatening to start paying it out if I don't use it in 2017. I want to ski and read and drink tea and be away. Though, I'm also from a city (New York), and need to occasionally have palatable coffee made by someone who isn't me.
I had an ACL replacement in March 2015 and wasn't cleared to ski last season (I may or may not have let physically therapy slip very early on---learn from me, kids), but damn it, I finally got the green light two weeks ago. I'm scared (considering Fear Camp at Windham, as a primer, and would definitely spend as much time as possible on the mountain before the longer trip) and I'd be going alone, but it seems like the right thing to do. Official medical advice on skiing for a month is to do nothing stupid, but why the hell not. As far as levels, I have always had solid technique---parallel linked turns, and so on---but no confidence (notes from instructors have consistently been "Would that you weren't so anxious," etc.), and think that going to a big mountain for a long period of time might help with that.
You're me. Where do you go? What do you do? Where do you stay? I've looked at private rooms and whole condos in Airbnbs in Avon, Colorado; Canmore, Alberta; and what is allegedly just outside Whistler, though who's to say. I've sniffed around some smaller hotels in Banff and considered holing up in a small ski town off the beaten track. I've also investigated condos in Chamonix. This problem needs constraints, I think, and I would love to hear feedback or input from any of y'all who've embarked on similar long-term stays. March might be the best month for it, I'm thinking. Plus, the Epic Pass deadline has been extended to a week from today, so I am calling this fortuitous. What do you think?
Thanks in advance!