Obergurgl

Just seems like yesterday but it was 20 years ago I started repping for the Ski Club. So many wonderful memories. I am fortunate to ski for a fair amount each winter, pretty much always in Zermatt and Obergurgl and a few different resorts each season. As much as I love skiing, I do like to combine with stops at great mountain restaurants. Rest assured there is always time for a coffee and cake stop, especially when as wonderful as the attached photo.

Despite living close to several North American ski resorts (doh), I didn’t catch the ski bug until my thirties after I returned to the UK.

I tell everyone I meet that skiing is the best form of meditation ever (try thinking about work problems hurtling down a black run), and it’s the most fun you can have on two legs (legally)!

Skiing is a lifelong journey of learning and subtle improvements. All while meeting interesting people who are up for a good time—what’s not to love?

I skied for many years with Ski Club in various resorts and on ‘Freshtracks’ holidays, but it never dawned on me to become a rep until last season when someone asked, ‘off the cuff’ – “Dave, why aren’t you a rep”? So here I am. I look forward to meeting you soon and sharing our love for this fantastic sport.

I first fell in love with skiing in my teens with like-minded school friends, and I still ski with them some 40 years later.  I enjoy any form of skiing, especially socially with others who share a love the mountains. I live in Suffolk, I am recently retired and have three boys and a lovely lady at home.

It was great to be back on skis last season and one of my trips was to Obergurgl. Super high-altitude resort so I am delighted to be going back as the resort rep this season. I am also running a Freshtracks holiday at Sils Maria (St Moritz) in March. I still live between the French vineyards near Bergerac and Eastbourne in UK, and I am currently researching a part-time PhD at Kings College London on the First World War.

I was lucky enough to start skiing at the age of 11 and was hooked from the outset. I love the sense of freedom I find in the mountains and particularly enjoy heading off-piste on a sunny day. Any ski experience is enhanced by who you share it with and I look forward to meeting new friends with SCGB. I am a retired GP but now spend my time enjoying life; travelling with my family, playing average golf and skiing whenever possible!

I learnt to ski in Scotland age 7 and have skied with family and friends all over Europe.  My kids are now at University – so I can ski more!  My favourite runs are the wide black pistes at Hogegga in Trysil – groomed in the morning and bumpy by the afternoon, but I get equal pleasure from bouncing in fresh powder snow and am looking forward to sharing this joy with other keen skiers.  In my day job I am a knee surgeon in Somerset and enjoy cycling, occasional golf, and keeping control of two very busy cocker spaniels.

Anyone that knows Obergurgl will know where my profile picture was taken. This was Christmas Day 2019.
I first skied in Obergurgl in 1990 and have been back nearly every year since, sometimes more than once. I'm looking forward to leading a holiday there this year and look forward yo skiing with new friends.

I love to ski so that's good then. Looking forward to getting back on the snow and feeling European again!! Being a Rep to me means visiting great resorts, getting to know ski mad members and showing them a good time on the slopes. I like bumps, I like steeps and I love powder. Whether cruising blues or descending reds, there is nothing I like more than the happy look on members faces after a good day on the snow. Seems I have only managed 4 stars which is not bad but want to go for the 5 star approval this year ;-)! Always good to have a goal. I am looking forward to meeting ski friends old and new!

Love being in the mountains and by the sea! Living on the south coast I get one but have to travel to the other! So skiing has always been a big part of my life, and through the Ski Club I have been able to enjoy most of the resorts in Europe, plus a few in the USA. Love cruising the pistes and morning hot chocs just as much as the gnarly steep stuff, preferably n the company of a group of like-minded members! Long may it continue!