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I am contemplating learnign to ski - I did when I was able bodied. Anyway, silly as it may sound, how do you get back up the slopes when you are in a specially adapted ski? Obviously a ski lift is out of the question. Thought you would be best to answer this Russ.
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Posted 06 March 2006 - 12:00 PM
Nope - you use the regular ski lift - the mono ski's lift up and the chair comes round and sort of scoops you up. At the top you just slide off. It takes a lot of getting used to and you need a fair bit of help to start with.
A quick google brings this up Using a ski lift in a sit ski
If you're thinking of skiing you could do a lot worse than applying to Back-Up for next year.
A quick google brings this up Using a ski lift in a sit ski
If you're thinking of skiing you could do a lot worse than applying to Back-Up for next year.
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Posted 06 March 2006 - 12:17 PM
Thanks fopr that Russ. Very helpful. In view of my present circumstances, I am not going to venture abroad I am afraid. My family are thinking of going to The Lecht in Scotland, or Glenshee. To be honest, I dont feel confident enough to go abroad on my own now. So I am going for the comfort element.
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Posted 06 March 2006 - 02:09 PM
hi Gary,
Im just back from a Backup Skicourse in Denver. It was brilliant although the first time you go up on the ski lift as described by Russ its pretty scary! Winterpark have a fantastic adapted ski program and make sure your in the right mono or bi ski. The most important thing is to relax and have fun
Wriggley
PS anything that isnt nailed down is being sold because i want to go back next year!
Im just back from a Backup Skicourse in Denver. It was brilliant although the first time you go up on the ski lift as described by Russ its pretty scary! Winterpark have a fantastic adapted ski program and make sure your in the right mono or bi ski. The most important thing is to relax and have fun
Wriggley
PS anything that isnt nailed down is being sold because i want to go back next year!
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Posted 06 March 2006 - 02:27 PM
Hi wriggley. It's very addictive isn't it? Isn't Winter Park superb?
How did the back-up trip there go this year? What were conditions like? They were superb when we left 10 days before you arrived. Any broken bones? Last year there was one on each of the two trips they ran but the year before we didn't have a single trip to the med centre. The only trouble with the Back Up trips is that usually they'll only take you once - after that you have to organise yourself as we did this year - did everything the same even stayed at the same place. How did you get on.
I'm hoping to go out with Bak Up again next year as Group Leader but there's fierce competition for that spot!
I'll have to go somehow though - I've just bought myself my own sit ski!
Russ
How did the back-up trip there go this year? What were conditions like? They were superb when we left 10 days before you arrived. Any broken bones? Last year there was one on each of the two trips they ran but the year before we didn't have a single trip to the med centre. The only trouble with the Back Up trips is that usually they'll only take you once - after that you have to organise yourself as we did this year - did everything the same even stayed at the same place. How did you get on.
I'm hoping to go out with Bak Up again next year as Group Leader but there's fierce competition for that spot!
I'll have to go somehow though - I've just bought myself my own sit ski!
Russ
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Posted 06 March 2006 - 04:27 PM
uh oh Dave wont be happy! ;) There was no broken bones this year though i did make a conciderable effort to change that i even chucked myself and another poor victim of a snowmobile! there now 8 other fresh sit ski addicts! theres quite a few of us who really want to go back and 2 who have already gone back! Cant wait to be honest might even drag the other half with me. One thing i defo discovered is snow and small casters dont mix though the user and the snow do as a result.
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Posted 06 March 2006 - 08:13 PM
That's good going - going straight back out there - how on earth did they manage that?
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Posted 29 November 2011 - 01:55 PM
russ1, on 06 March 2006 - 12:00 PM, said:
Nope - you use the regular ski lift - the mono ski's lift up and the chair comes round and sort of scoops you up. At the top you just slide off. It takes a lot of getting used to and you need a fair bit of help to start with.
A quick google brings this up Using a ski lift in a sit ski
If you're thinking of skiing you could do a lot worse than applying to Back-Up for next year.
A quick google brings this up Using a ski lift in a sit ski
If you're thinking of skiing you could do a lot worse than applying to Back-Up for next year.
Hi!
looks like you have been skiing alot. This will be my first winter after my accident 2 dec 2010 and I would really like to learn ski. Can you learn by yourself or do you have to go with a skischool?
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Posted 01 December 2011 - 02:57 AM
Winter Park is a ski resort about an hour or so west of Denver. Denver is right to the east of the mountains in the plains. You take the major interstate about 30 minutes west into the mountains and then another highway north over one of the major passes (a way through the mountains) to the small town. It's right next to Rocky Mountain National Park. The city of Denver owns part of Winter Park and it's one of the closer resorts to the city. However it's definitely not a suburb. The National Sports Center for the Disabled is based there and they have some wonderful adaptive programs. I've noticed a ton of Brits are there for their bi/monoski programs!
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Posted 21 December 2011 - 03:59 PM
Joel.H, on 29 November 2011 - 01:55 PM, said:
russ1, on 06 March 2006 - 12:00 PM, said:
Nope - you use the regular ski lift - the mono ski's lift up and the chair comes round and sort of scoops you up. At the top you just slide off. It takes a lot of getting used to and you need a fair bit of help to start with.
A quick google brings this up Using a ski lift in a sit ski
If you're thinking of skiing you could do a lot worse than applying to Back-Up for next year.
A quick google brings this up Using a ski lift in a sit ski
If you're thinking of skiing you could do a lot worse than applying to Back-Up for next year.
Hi!
looks like you have been skiing alot. This will be my first winter after my accident 2 dec 2010 and I would really like to learn ski. Can you learn by yourself or do you have to go with a skischool?
I learned at the National Ability Center (NAC) at Park City Utah. They have a very good inventory of sitskis and other devices to help the disabeled to ski. They are the best! (IMO).
Don't do it alone because there is a lot to learn and a lot to look out for. You will initially need help. But once you got it down, you'll have a routine to follow.
In my second year I laid down my sitski due to having problems in turning in some crud. My bucket became a sled and I picked up speed and went into a grove of Aspens. I shattered both my patellas and tore my tendons. Worse off, I have full feeling in my knees...Ouch!
Sit skiing is soooo much fun, but you can definitely get yourself into trouble; just like regular skiing.
Pete
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