Just got the rest of my gear at the Ochsner outlet in Dietlikon. Spend 50 CH on a swiss ski card and will get 20% off all my purchases until Dec 23! Additionally, they are going to install my bindings for free, even though I did not buy the skis and bindings from them!

Needless to say, I left with a little more stuff than what I need

http://www.ochsner-sport.ch/modules....&lvl1=swissski

Awesome, I am off to Scotland this weekend but am all over Flumserberg like a fat kid on a smartie for the 12th.

Alas, I finally lose my virginity on European snow. Perhaps 1/2 a cheese burger will make it a complete continental conquest...

More snow forecast for Graubunden on Friday, they've already had a good amount over the most of the country over the last few days. The weather is looking like its going to clear up in most areas over the weekend.

Game On! Let the season commence.

Yes.

I am just about to get my planks out.

Your skiing with Salsa and theshepperds

No, I would have said baseball bats in that case.

C'mon fess up 'Tash, they haven't disappeared, you kidnapped them are using them for cheeseburger pleasure until the snow comes. Enjoy Zermatt, and pictures in the new get up are required

Looking like good conditions this weekend... who's going where.

Don't hire at the resort!!! for the cost of hiring for a weekend there you can pretty much hire all season elsewhere.

Just hired my son a board and boots all season for 200chf from Ochsner in regensdorf

Yes, getting the bindings installed tonight! Starts next weekend for me

No one has any info on rental rates? Please?

Check the resort websites / ski school info

Does anyone know anything about the train station Unterterzen for skiing at Flumserberg?

We plan on taking the train to Unterterzen from Zurich and then take the Unterterzen–Flumserberg cable car up. I have a hard case for my skis (well, caz we used to fly to ski resorts in the states and hence my hard plastic protective case), and just picturing the cable car, I don't think I can bring the hard ski case up with me and store it in the lockers at Tannenboden. This means that I probably have to store my hard case at the Unterterzen train station. To be safe, just want to see if someone has similar expereince, and if there is a luggage storage room at Unterterzen and not just coin operating lockers (don't think ski case will fit in coin operating lockers...).

Anyone? or any other suggesstions?

Forget about the case. Everyone just brings their skis without a case to the resort. Storage for any type of case hard or soft is at a premium. LEave the case wherever you are staying in Zurich and just bring your skis to the slopes.

I could be wrong, but I am not aware of any lockers at that train station.

Also: Any beginners who are looking to have an easy place to Learn, Amden is opening this weekend too and the lift at Arvenbuehl (Leistchamm) is probably the best beginner slope I have ever seen anywhere.

Hey guys,

Where do you think is the best to try the 'puff puff' on Sunday? :-)

Any suggestoins? I am thinking of Laax.

karina

There is supposed to be new snowfall tomorrow night and Friday through out the Central and Eastern Switzerland. It looks like Andermatt has gotten the brunt of the recent snow and the weather is looking best in that region, so that would certainly not be a bad call.

Flims/Laax, Lenzerheide, Davos etc are all looking like having some sort of cloud cover on Saturday afternoon. This might sway me towards Andermatt for Saturday, and then somewhere in Graubunden on Sunday (when it will probably be a little cloudy everywhere). I will leave my final decision making 'till as late as possible on Friday to get the most recent weather forecasts.

While I am with Eire regarding bringing the case over at all, it may quite be feasible, as the lift between Unterterzen and Tannenboden is a cabin. There are no lockers at Unterterzen, but there's a large room up in Tannenboden, where I used to drop my bag with the change shoes, as I hate walking in plastic. If you have to bring stuff with you, just take it up to Tannenboden, and ask for a locker key at the Info counter.

What's the road like for driving up to Amden and onto Arvenbuehl or do you reckon it's better to get the train to Ziegelbrucke and the bus up?

so you simply carry your skis around and on the train and tram with no case? and it's normal in Switzerland? That's just a new experience for me, I guess

so, I think now I need to maybe buy some sort of "hooks" that will keep the two skis together while I carry them around without a case.

As far as I have ever seen and done myself, everyone just uses the bindings to hold the skis together, so there is no need to buy anything.

No case is necessary, everyone just carries the skis on their shoulders.

I like my case because it's got wheels on them, so it avoids all the hassle of carrying skis - I think it's much easier to go around with these cases then with just skis.
http://www.sportube.com/pages/skis_one_pair.php This is what I have... My skis are almost 160cm so with the case, I would need like 165 or 170cm in the gondola. Do you think it will work for the ride from Unterterzen up to Tannenboden? If not, I might need to take the skis out and carry the case seperately, but that would probably be even more of a hassle as I would then have a backpack, two pieces of the hard case, skis and boots to carry.

now I miss skiing in the states with my car or with Fedex shipping my skis to the resort ahead of time ok, I guess I need to get used carrying stuff on public transports now...