Craic?
What’s that?
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Beyond the basics:
For gear, consider electric boot and mitten/glove heaters, or for less expense, consider small gelpack heating pads. Be careful to not over-do it, for if you start sweating, then you will eventually chill out. Also consider boot and miten/glove dryers for overnight drying (this saves you having to pull out and open up your boot liners and invert your mittens/gloves each night): http://www.hotronic.com/
Beyond the basics for instruction, try reading up on ski technique over the summer, so as to familiarize yourself with what your instructor will be teaching you, and so as to have a better understanding of what you are being taught will eventually lead to. Lito Tejada-Flores’ “Breakthrough on the New Skis” is a good text: http://www.breakthroughonskis.com/Pages/new-book.html
Rent lots of big mountain free-skiing ski videos over the summer to help you visualize your body movements – just dance in front of the screen, copying the flow of the upper and lower body movements of the skiers.
I suspect it had to do with the fact that I already understood snow, and could read the terrain. I was also older, and understood that you need to go a certain speed to turn properly. Most folks try to go too slow, and as a result, don’t have much control. My advice to new skiiers, and boarders is to go a little faster than you are comfortable with, and you’ll learn to make the turns much faster, which will immediately make you more comfortable at speed.
In skiing, the hardest thing for me is to try to go slowly behind a beginner in a snowplow position. When they get a bit more speed up, they suddenly have an “ah ha” moment, and it becomes much more pleasurable.
Muffin- that kit is ok for a week, yes?
I can just shower in the afternoons after I get off the slopes, dry the wet clothes and re-wear them the next day, right? It’s ok to be stinky?
Please say yes, or I’ll have to buy a lot most stuff than I was planning to…
Craic is just general good times and fun, with added Irishness and alcohol.
We will be sharing a room with a good male friend and whoever he chooses to share his bed with. Irishfella and I aren’t down with group sex, nor are we going to be good at quiet sex while room-mates sleep. We’ll have to invent lots of reasons to have afternoon “naps” alone in the room…a week’s holiday without sex is pretty unthinkable.
Apres ski clothing is just some jeans, a jumper, some sort of boob flattering top, and makeup right?
That kit list is good for a day, a week, a season, a few seasons (ploypro lasts quite well) . . . Just wear what you need, let it dry overnight, and wear it again the next day.
Unfortunately, ploypropylene next to your skin gets stinky fairly quickly, so frequent washing of the layer that is closest to your skin is a good idea. Fortunately, if you wash it immediately after use, and let it hang overnight in a warm non-humid room, it should be dry by next morning (depending on the room, you might wish to speed things up by using a small fan to blow air about). A good approach is to strip down to the polypro undies (the long thin bottoms and long thin top) and wear them in the shower with you, then hang them to dry. Don’t throw polypropylene in the clothes dryer other than at a very low temperature, for excessive heat somewhat melts the fuzz that otherwise would be trapping air to keep you warm on the hill. As far as the medium and thick polypro layers go, you probably won’t need to wash them during your trip.
Ski bums are known to not bathe or launder clothing for extended periods (as a result of living in tents, snow caves, or in my case, the luxury of a ski box while travelling), but I can’t recommend it.
That is what glade skiing is for.
Tourists dress up. Skiers just wear whatever they are most comfortable in.
Not if the snow is good. Sex can wait. No friends on a powder day. 
Very true.
Good snow makes one’s muscles sore. Sore muscles require rubbing, which leads to sex (if done correctly). All can be accomplished.
Skis, ski poles, and boots can be hard to handle. If you can get inexpensive ski and pole carriers like these and boot carriers like these, carrying your rented equipment to and from the slopes will be much easier. The advantage of these types is that they are small and fold up into a pocket. And they are not too expensive, at least here in the USA.