What Kind Of Skier Are You?
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Take our expert quiz and discover your skiing personality.
- 1.When confronted with a steep slope do you:
- A.
Analyse the wind direction and consider the risk of cross-loaded windcrust?
- B.
Politely invite someone else to lead before overtaking and hopping into some waist deep moguls?
- C.
Point your skis at the bottom and utter the phrase ‘Geronimo’?
- D.
Start praying?
- E.
Cast an expert eye around hunting for a gentler slope that passes a bar?
- F.
Cry uncontrollably?
- 2.The weather is closing in, do you:
- A.
Compare the GPS information on your watch with the 1:25000 map you “happened to have on you”?
- B.
Continue to ski like you’re in your own magical patch of sunshine as everyone struggles in the fog?
- C.
Carry on regardless at the same speed and in the same direction?
- D.
Ask everyone to slow down and stay in a group – largely because you know you’re the most likely skier to get lost / abandoned / chased by a bear.
- E.
Go back inside to the bar?
- F.
Ask for a helicopter?
- 3.On the lift to the top of Mont Fort do you:
- A.
Ask the lifty what the conditions are like on the backside and what the avalanche forecast is?
- B.
Ask the lifty “Is it this a difficult slope” before nailing the moguls like you’re Jonny Moseley?
- C.
Ask the lifty if there’s a speed record for the run?
- D.
Ask the lifty if you the telecabine goes down as well as up?
- E.
Ask the lifty if there’s a restaurant at the top?
- F.
Ask the lifty if anyone has died on this run today?
- 4.You wake to find the sun is out and there are several feet of fresh powder, do you:
- A.
Start to fill your rucksack with enough obscure equipment to ascend Mount Everest?
- B.
Agree to come on the heliskiing trip as long as you don’t hold anyone up?
- C.
Go to the hire shop and ask for powder skis? (You don’t know what they are but you just know you need some)
- D.
Refuse to go up without photographic evidence that they’ve pisted the slopes?
- E.
Call all the restaurants and draw up a shortlist of ones that can pick you up and drop you off on a snowmobile?
- F.
Become faintly aware that somehow today is about to get immeasurably worse?
- 5.It’s the end of the day and your friends ask if there is time for one last run.
- A.
Get in the lift without even considering there is any other option?
- B.
Say you’re feeling a little tired then (without pausing for breath) hop into the lift like a gazelle?
- C.
Refuse to admit defeat and climb aboard the lift regardless?
- D.
Look on in disbelief at everyone getting in the lift, then call for a taxi?
- E.
You don’t answer because you haven’t left you seat since lunch ended and are currently savouring a particularly fine Chateau Latour.
- F.
Also refrain from answering because you’re currently in the orthapedic ward in Sion General Hospital.
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