Winter VFW 2011

[fredrikw]

[quote="bronco"]It is very unlikely that I would be able to make it, unless my employer suddenly fires me I won't have time .

[fredrikw]

[quote="XkillerX"]ETA costs four people sharing a car from Wien to Stockolm and back 100 euros each. IF we get four people to rally at Wien. (and if we can use sonic's car, the ski & board equipment takes up a LOT of space).

[soniczip]

[quote="XkillerX"]and if we can use sonic's car

[Liati]

[quote="XkillerX"]ETA costs four people sharing a car from Wien to Stockolm and back 100 euros each. IF we get four people to rally at Wien. (and if we can use sonic's car, the ski & board equipment takes up a LOT of space).

Bronco? Liat?

How about the others? Who's in?

[Heinrich]

Heja Sverige!

Anyway, I took a quick look at places in the Poland area.
For a house, its about 100 Euro per person per week. Skipass is also about 100 Euro.

Im a bit tight timewise right now so it will take a few days till I can find out something more solid.

[XkillerX]

Those who've had ski trips before know why people go by train, bus or car. The equipment alone is huuuge and 20+ kilos. Try smuggling that in as personal baggage on an el cheapo air flight.

Liat I've got lots of spare stuff.. snowboard boots, gloves, pants, etc... The problem is packing and carrying around all that shit.

Sonic of course I wouldn't make YOU drive 20 hours. We'd split the driving ;-D

Fredrikw... I'm shocked that there are still drivers outside the balkans who think that driving in winter on summer tyres makes any sense. It's suicide, plane and simple. Michelin Alpin for the win!

Bronco... tz tz tz... we all know you're coming... come on. You know you want to!!! Who's gonna be reading us bodybuilding stories during the ride if you don't tag along?

[JP]

hey this is actually looking very interesting...

i hope the dates and life situations allow me (and us!) to come too!

[fredrikw]

Most airlines have flat rate costs on skiing equipment. In my experience the cheapo ones are often better at exactly outlining the costs for special luggage than the bigger ones.

[ida]

If you don't want to bring your equiptment you can also rent everything at the location. Browsed quicky at the Vemdalen homepage and found the following prices for renting equiptment:

Snowboard 1 day: 28 euros 1 week: 95 euros

Alpine Skiing 1 day: 26 euros 1 week: 84 euros

Cross country skiing 1 day: 15 euros 1 week: 49 euros

Multi rent (all three types, where you are free to change between the different types as much you want during the time of rent) 1 day: 34 euros 1 week: 110 euros

There can also be snow racer riding

and casual sitting in a snow cave with hot chocolate.


And of course there can be snow mobile outings, however, these tend to cost a bit more.

[barnz2k]

I SO wanna ride a snow mobile!

[fredrikw]

Snow mobiles are crazy things.

Another thing worth mentioning is that the ski pass is for the lifts only, for xc skiing you don't need a pass or anything like that.

[JP]

now this is starting to sound REALLY good...

[fredrikw]

[quote="fredrikw"]Another thing worth mentioning is that the ski pass is for the lifts only, for xc skiing you don't need a pass or anything like that.

[quote="XkillerX"]Those who've had ski trips before know why people go by train, bus or car. The equipment alone is huuuge and 20+ kilos. Try smuggling that in as personal baggage on an el cheapo air flight.

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Sonic of course I wouldn't make YOU drive 20 hours. We'd split the driving ;-D

[kallefs]

[quote="ida"]There can also be snow racer riding