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Kopaonik, Serbia

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We're off to Kopaonok in Serbia on the 21st of January.

Anyone know what the record for snow is like over there?

I've seen Stev's picture gallery and it always seems to be ok, but has he just gone when the snow has been good or is it always good?

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Kapaonik January 1990

Don't worry no snow, I'm sure there must be better years Laughing snowHead
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Yoda,
January 1990 was awful everywhere, main run from Grande Motte was closed, were there any worse years?
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Ouch!!! Dont want a repeat of 1990!!

Might end up with a good few scrathes and scrapes on my ski's!!!!!
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no_snow_in_swindon, or should we say no_snow_in_kapaonik I'd take your walking boots too Laughing


I'm sure it'll be fine. wink
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The snow was very late arriving that year, althougth from what I can remember I had a terrific time in Courchevel in February 1990. Fortunately years like that are not that common.
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Interestingly, there's a person on the chair lift... Puzzled
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PhillipStanton, he's off to rake the bunkers.
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PhillipStanton, he's off to rake the bunkers.

Ah, that'll explain it.

I presume that Yoda doesn't need snow / skis anyway as, presumably, he just yogicly meditate his way down the slopes anyway...?
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This has to be the most depressing new year (rosh hashanah; in jew years its 5767) I've ever had, I'm on the same flight as no_snow_in_swindon and that photograph has put me in right a foul mood Sad
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PhillipStanton, of course there is someone on the lift (single person chair btw)- we were skiing after all Toofy Grin



although I think the guy in the red jacket has had enough Sad

-JC-, never mind, on the morning we left it snowed so much they crashed our bus rolling eyes



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-JC-, never mind, on the morning we left it snowed so much they crashed our bus rolling eyes


Now that just takes the biscuit, what a week Shocked rolling eyes
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lol yoda you're really talking up this holiday no snow and coach crashes.

I should of booked Zermatt.

Were these photo's taken at the beginning or the end of January? It's not too late for me to change my holiday to a snow sure resort Cool
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-JC-, it's so long ago even I can't remember the exact dates Confused I do remember the drive to Gatwick - snow on the M4 near Membury almost finished us off before we started the holiday. Then we arrived to the snow conditions you see in the pics (there were actually some strips of skiable snow dotted around). Food in the hotel was, shall we say, interesting Shocked and beer in the resort was not as cheap as chips as we had been led to believe. In fact chips weren't cheap either. I managed to slip on the ice coming out of a bar and ended up with a stiff neck and haematomas? on both elbows - big black things like hard boiled eggs. Hurt like hell but I kept skiing.

I did meet an interesting guy called Sergei who was a maths lecturer in Moscow and ski instructor in his other life, he was there with another Russian and they were both pretty hot skiers. Never found out what happened to them afterwards (this was before Perestroika etc. of course).

I'm sure things will be much improved now.... Laughing
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Yoda if there was a "screw you" smilie I'd use it Wink

I'm now getting the same nervous feeling that I get when I go to the dentist Very Happy
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Dont worry about it mate.

We'll get there and it'll be under 5 foot of snow and the skiing conditions will be out of this world!!!!! snowHead
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Yoda, Any chance of a link to view the rest of your pics from that holiday?
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Yoda, I was in Kopaonik during Jan 1990. I’ve never known worse snow conditions on any other trip.

There was only one run open, a short blue not far from the resort centre. Bulldozers and dumper trucks were being used to move snow from wherever it could be found in order to keep this single slope going. This piste was monopolised by the ski school. If you weren’t in a lesson you’d queue for hours to ski a few hundred metres.

However, our first child was conceived while we were there, so the ex-wife an I must have found something else to occupy our time!
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Yoda, I was also in Kopaonik in 1989 when the snow was good and the beer was cheap. The Yugoslav Dinar was devalued by 10x between 89 and 90 due to hiper-inflation and the value for money was cr@p in 1990 by comparison. Unfortunately, they hadn't replaced all the bank notes so some 1,000 dinar notes were worth 1,000 and some were worth 10,000 - and vice-verca. Confusing or what?

Food ? OMG(as my kids say). In 1990 it was reasonable as we stayed in the top-notch Hotel Grand. In 89 we were resident in the Hotel Caravan and enjoyed eating gristle stew most nights. On our penultimate night we had a traditional Serbian meal in a restaurant 1/2 way up the mountain. It was great fun sliding in bin bags back to the hotel. But not so good when I woke up with food poisoning. I still had the trots when we set off back to Belgrade airport 24 hrs later(a 4hour+ coach trip).

Memories eh? But it was still a lot cheaper than the rest of Europe.
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rjwagstaff, hah sounds like you had fun as well! I shall put more pics up on the snowMedia zone when I get a chance Laughing
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Yoda, Oh, and I love those straight ski's in your second pic.

Elan by any chance???
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rjwagstaff, yup, those red/white jobbies are Elans. I can't remember what I was skiing on back then. Must have been pre my K2 Extreme days though, I only bought those after watching Blizzard of Aahhs Laughing
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