Posts by Kat12

Wow.  See, I had no idea you were supposed to tip ski instructors.  I'm glad I've never taken a lesson yet.  Do you tip for each lesson, or just at the end of the session if it's more than one day?   It would be...

Thanks.  How does one find a bootfitter, anyway?  Do you just call ski shops and ask, or is that one of those things where they're going to insist "oh yeah, Bob here can totally fit boots, it's cool"?  Or is...

Thanks.  So maybe I'll stick with the 130s for a while if I get a choice.  Probably wouldn't go any longer than 140 for sure.  It will depend on whether the ski rental places give me a choice, I guess.  At that...

People in the U.S. abuse the emergency room too, because the ER can't turn you away for lack of insurance, so once a person's cold has turned into death-bed pneumonia because they couldn't afford a doctor, they hit the ER for...

  Quote: and our computer games were either written descriptions, or pictures made up of letters and numbers.   OREGON TRAIL ftw!  I didn't know what to do with myself when it had graphics and I didn't...

  Quote: Are you sure?  Check your pockets.  Most of the coats and pants designed as ski jackets have a D-ring on a strap tucked inside one of the side pockets and not actually hanging off the coat or...

Wow.  They look like what results when those huge sunglasses that are for some reason popular with some women, and a prop out of the Tron: Legacy movie, fall in love and have a baby...  I'm usually not concerned with fashion,...

For sure.  I wrecked my car on black ice last winter...went to the hospital in an ambulance, had an x-ray and a CAT scan (all fine, face just a bit banged up and I got knocked out).  Looked at my account on the website of my...

Out of curiosity....when I went skiing for the first time this past weekend, the ski rental gave me a pair of 130cms...on me (5'6") they were about mid-chest height (chin height on me would be about 140cm).  The skis my...

The problem is that new boots are REALLY not in the budget.  At all.  I will probably be skiing maybe twice a year (lift tickets aren't much in the budget either, but I've found I like skiing a lot and I'd like to do it at...