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#32 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 24 January 2011 - 3:35pm on Freeski Club UK
Sorry Stew - it's a new policy to be all-inclusive and non-discriminative towards skiers.

Well, the ones we've adopted/befriended anyway...

...and after her taster lesson at Hemel she might convert anyway (if only for the soft boots!)
Edited by BartSimpsonhead on 24 Jan 2011 - 3:37pm
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#33 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 24 January 2011 - 3:37pm on Freeski Club UK
You're just siding with her as she was part of your winning team... haha


Gina, take up snowboarding ;)
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#34 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 24 January 2011 - 3:57pm on Freeski Club UK
haha yeah Gina has joined scuk!! You'll be pleased to hear that Dawn doesn't use the site much so you won't get as much abuse as you did during the Bash! Wink
"and fatigues soon ignored, as your feet hit the board, or the beat hits the floor, these are the moments that we live for"
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#35 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 24 January 2011 - 4:32pm on Freeski Club UK
It's you guys and gals that make it and I love running it, but big thanks to the StarSki Chalet crew, my Pocket biatch and James Foster/GB Snowboardcross Team. Was another epic week away. I'm not sure how I managed the quiz with no PA!
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#36 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 24 January 2011 - 7:06pm on Freeski Club UK
Another happy punter saying thanks to all the organisers Smile

Guiding day on Thursday was awesome - helped me break the 50mph barrier!!! I found the conditions better than I was told, really liked the area and think I will go back when they get a decent dump. Was also lucky enough to board on Sunday and finally managed to find some half decent off piste to play with.

All in all I would recommend the week to anyone, newbie or gnarly semi-pro alike, thanks again Smile
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#37 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 24 January 2011 - 9:06pm on Freeski Club UK
Sup guys, wanted to chip my own little bit in too ^_^. Location was amazing, caught up with friends, met a ton of great people and the chalet I stayed at was comfortable (Avoca).

The guiding was awesome, albeit a bit on the terrifying side (particularly thursday). I remember asking one of the boardercross guys how to check and control your speed on the bad icy patches and I got the following response: "(you don't, so) just go with it". xD

All the rest of the organised events were good fun too. I would definitely recommend this trip to anyone as well, its been brilliant!

One happy chappy,
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#38 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 24 January 2011 - 10:12pm on Freeski Club UK
GBlackburn wrote:
WOW... thanks to everyone for making this week so awesome. I had an amazing time and met some wicked people. Who knew you'd all be so accommodating to a lowly skierfriend (even if I was put up for sacrifice at one point Uh Oh! ) Hopefully see you all soon.

xxx

p.s. Aaaaand SKI! (assume position... he he)


I wouldn't of let them sacrifice you Gina! You're one of the nice skiiers!

p.s. Aaaaaaaaaaaand Ski!
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#39 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 24 January 2011 - 10:14pm on Freeski Club UK
I wanted to say that I had an awesome week and wanted to thank everyone for attending my birthday bash! oh wait the scuk bash coincided with it..an half a dozen others too..guess that means we'll have to have it on the same dates next year.

I would really like to say it was an awesome week, thanks to the 2 dudes on the guiding session on tuesday who were pretty helpful with some of my bad habits, more importantly Dave from Mint Snowboarding as he was absolutely ace on my lessons and on Marc's and I reccomend that if you going to morzine/avoriaz to have lessons with Mint as they deffinately know their stuff.
It was awesome to get some freestyle in, even though it included smashing my knee into a frozen halfpipe but it was worth it.

Staff at the hotel starlight were awesome especially with my own fussy dietary requirements. I won't even mention the idiot member of staff who got annoyed after being asked to turn the music down so approx 20 of us could watch futurama in the bar and they proceded to turn off the TV and turn the music up... knobhead. Lost revenue in drinks money that was.

And apologies to the staff member who walked in on me to clean the room whilst I was naked lol

As always the Itinerary is getting more full with each time the bash is held.. will be interested to see what is added in on the next winter bash. Start planning now and if u need help dunx, just ask.. I do activities for a living.
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#40 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 24 January 2011 - 10:26pm on Freeski Club UK
Also thanks to Dawn for her crazy day's instruction with Marc on the Friday which helped him get some sort of confidence back after the disaster of failing a button lift on 8 occasions.

and would also like to thank Marc for the freaking awesome birthday cake I recieved today! very appropriate I think.

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#41 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 24 January 2011 - 10:33pm on Freeski Club UK
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And apologies to the staff member who walked in on me to clean the room whilst I was naked lol.


Don't soften the moment. There were two naked men in that room. Oh the ideas that must have been going through that poor guys mind...

and now also the minds of everyone on the forum Razz
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#42 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 24 January 2011 - 10:42pm on Freeski Club UK
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I'm not sure how I managed the quiz with no PA!
Easy, you got me to shout the scores ;)
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#43 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 25 January 2011 - 12:26pm on Freeski Club UK
Ah you lost your voice after round 5. I was still going strong at round 10 and having to repeat all the questions 4 or 5 times so everybody could hear me in all the corners of the room. Perhaps we should have tried the old "using headphones as a microphone" trick.

Quails eggs and caviare anybody?
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#44 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 25 January 2011 - 2:56pm on Freeski Club UK
dunx wrote:
Quails eggs and caviare anybody?

Confused bleuch
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#45 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 26 January 2011 - 1:44am on Freeski Club UK
Cheers folks for the company and great week! Also cheers for Dunx and Elderon for organizing it!
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#46 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 26 January 2011 - 9:51am on Freeski Club UK
BlackRam wrote:
I won't even mention the idiot member of staff who got annoyed after being asked to turn the music down so approx 20 of us could watch futurama in the bar and they proceded to turn off the TV and turn the music up... knobhead. Lost revenue in drinks money that was.

AAAHHHH YES, how frustrating was that??? "sorry guys, music comes on at 9.30" Pfft, whatever.

I think an important character should be mentioned for providing "some" scukers with a whole week of laughter. DR ZOIDBERG, YOU RULE! *scuttles* whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop
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#47 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 26 January 2011 - 10:08am on Freeski Club UK
I'd like to say thanks as well to everyone for an awesome week, chalet was awesome, food was awesome, company was awesome and snowboarding was awesome, ice not so awesome but then you cant have everything now can you :-)
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#48 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 26 January 2011 - 10:24am on Freeski Club UK
Massive thanks to all who made it such an epic week despite the conditions. Great fun on the slopes and in the bars.
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#49 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 26 January 2011 - 7:51pm on Freeski Club UK
NoviceTooks wrote:
dunx wrote:
Quails eggs and caviare anybody?

Confused bleuch


Dunx if your going to attempt 'smug' at least spell it right!! ;P
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#50 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 26 January 2011 - 8:17pm on Freeski Club UK
I'll agree with everyone else - top week (apart from the lack of fresh snow, and maybe the heating in the Avoca not working properly for a couple of days), but everyone seemed to make the most of it so it was all good all round.

Thanks to Dunx, Pocket, Elderon and the rest of the StarSki staff for making it a great trip, and hope we can do it again next year. Yes
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#51 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 26 January 2011 - 11:01pm on Freeski Club UK
Great week people, met some cool new people and great to meet some old faces or in dunx case oap's.
Dont know about you lot but i had some great laughs, but didnt laugh so much when the missus got on the blower after some one tagged me naked on Facebook Dazed ,think its sorted now though. Till next time peeps Very Happy
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#52 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 27 January 2011 - 1:10am on Freeski Club UK
Haha oops - sorry Milney!!
"and fatigues soon ignored, as your feet hit the board, or the beat hits the floor, these are the moments that we live for"
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#53 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 27 January 2011 - 12:21pm on Freeski Club UK
To echo all the other comments - Thanks to Dunx, Pocket, all the team at the hotel, the french snowboarder who took me out, the codeine after said crash, the boardercross team, Lesley for the guiding and everyone else on the bash. Never met such a good bunch in my life... Tignes '10 was good... This was special.

Apologies to Team Pants. I was SO Sh*t! Getting the Saturn question wrong is still bugging me.

Hope the casualties get well soon... Nick
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#54 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 27 January 2011 - 12:31pm on Freeski Club UK
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for a brilliant week, conditions could have been better but we made the best of what we had.

Big thanks to Dunx, Pocket, Elderon and all the staff at StarSki.
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#55 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 27 January 2011 - 6:42pm on Freeski Club UK
Adding my thanks to the list...

It was a fun old time. Thanks to Dunx and the organising crew for getting it all together.

Big thanks to Skier Friend and Mountain Rescue for getting me drunk enough not to care, Jacks for putting me back together after a meltdown on day one, my tip top roomie for not snoring (much), Gilbert for still not killing me despite hating me calling her Gilbert, Paul and Marc for the slowest decent down a run ever and still laughing at the end of it, and of course, Skier Friend, for introducing me to the joys of riding with our very own skier.

Aaaaaannnnnd Ski.
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#56 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 27 January 2011 - 6:52pm on Freeski Club UK
Thanks to everyone for aranging the bash and everyone who attended that made it a great bash. Great to catch up with some old friends and meet some new ones.
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#57 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 27 January 2011 - 6:54pm on Freeski Club UK
figureitout wrote:
Paul and Marc for the slowest decent down a run ever and still laughing at the end of it


I prefer to refer to it as 'over indulging in scenery' then calling it a slow decent Razz
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#58 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 27 January 2011 - 6:54pm on Freeski Club UK
Yes, special thanks to elderon and gang for sending someone out to the ardent gondola to pick me up with my busted shoulder, then the lift to medical centre and other stuff requested when hanging around hotel last couple of days.
Thanks also to my roomies Ollie and Paul (the one who looks the twin of the guy they just charged with the Bristol murder. I would have posted a side by side mugshot by now, if I had use of both hands), the use of the laptop, letting me have the corner bed and being my luggage porter was a big help. everyone else for their help and advice also.
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#59 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 28 January 2011 - 4:00pm on Freeski Club UK
WOW, what an amazing week I never thought I could have so much fun and belly laughs with a bunch of strangers, well now friends I hope??? Like to thank Dunx, Elderon and the rest of the crew for putting together such a cracking package and fun schedule, my roomies Simon, Andy and the rest of team Zoidberg ha ha. Hope to see you all sometime soon with maybe a bit more snow this time.

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#60 Reply:  Thanks for an awesome week people
Posted 29 January 2011 - 2:10pm on Freeski Club UK
Just had my prize from the pub quiz delivered this morning so want to say a further thank you to Dunx and the team for everything, and all the other teams for not winning the pub quiz Razz

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