Rsser's accident.

[Kev Y.]

Just remember the side-show operators instructions Ern..... please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times...

[springwater]

Wrist's excluded off course, so I'll just remember to fall to the left

Seems to me that some sort of support that locks your wrist movement wouldn't be too much of a hassle when skiing do weight lifting gloves do that ten pin bowling gloves or there's always the full face plant

[rsser]

Face plant should slow me down nicely.

The hand therapist will make a small thermoplastic splint to stabilise the thumb; that'll reduce the arthritis that predates the wrist fracture..

But if it comes to an insurance claim, the underwriter will want a professional opinion that the problem had nothing to do with the wrist. I'll need to be skiing with a GP or Physio at all times

[NeilS]

.....just completed the marathon of getting travel insurance for NZ.

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[rsser]

Good grief, I emailed the guide company about what the av. vertical ascent might be on a day tour out of one of the huts, and the answer was ..


1000 m

Hmph. Time to crank up the fitness training big time.

I've done 1200m in a day twice but in much younger days.

Pity the snow is so carp here in Aus ATM.

[NeilS]

My daughter-in-law and her father 'summited' Kilimanjaro on Sunday. Evidently they both found it the most demanding climb they have done. 4,600 m of ascent, 1300m on summit day which was scheduled to be a 16 hr day.

They had been in training for months before they left for Africa, in addition to being quite fit anyway. Got tired myself just hearing about it.

So, better you than me, Ern, and all the best with the fitness programme

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[RETIRED]

Sooo, Ern, are you running down on Saturday with you pack on?

[Grumpy John]

I think he should put some roller blades on and use some poles to simulate the skiing action .

[rsser]

It may come to that; strap the DVR XP on the back as well

Will go up to Falls Ck next week. Walk up Wombat's ramble, ski down, walk up etc etc. Not enough natural snow to ski yet. Need to do it with skis since each leg will be pushing about 4kg of boot/binding/ski.

[rsser]

Last year my son emailed me a single frame cartoon, of the Big G sitting in heaven at his 'puter. There was a special key on the keyboard, labelled the Smite key and he was hovering over it.

I figure he hit it twice when I'd wandered into view.

Last week I did the fitness training in the snow and built up a fair amount of stamina. And the wrist coped well with several hours of poling a day, though another nerve got irritated by it. Nothing that couldn't be worked around acc to the hand therapist.

But after 3 days on a lousy mattress and a longish drive home, I could barely walk the next day. Acute lower back pain.

Yesterday the plane for NZ left without me, and the physio and I are spending a lot of time together.

We may be able to get it sorted by Thursday which is about the latest to make the prepaid glacier ski tour but I'm not hopeful.

This time travel insurance was organised in time and I've been studying the PDS closely. It's somewhat ambiguous. There may be a battle looming over the $2.5k that's at stake.

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Actually I'm an agnostic. If I was a believer I'd be having doubts now about the divine plan for my life.

[NeilS]

Bugger.... and here's hoping it all works out OK.

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[Big Shed]

Wow, life is certainly throwing you some curve balls at the moment Ern, what a b*gger.

Hope you can still make it somehow.

[rsser]

I think the lesson must be 'book at the last minute', when I'm out of His peripheral vision

[rsser]

Well, the back's still giving me curry and NZ is just a memory.

I hope to make the next booked trip which is next week with the YHA ski group; we stay at Dinner Plain for a few days in order to ski at Hotham. A day on the lifts, a day skating between the two towns and a day touring back country. Which is the best of all; nothing like the wildness and splendour of being out on a remote spur with no sign of other humans.

[NeilS]

Well, the back's still giving me curry and NZ is just a memory.

Brugger!

......a day touring back country. Which is the best of all; nothing like the wildness and splendour of being out on a remote spur with no sign of other humans.

Agreed, and the silence in the back country after a fresh fall of snow is bliss.

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