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"PG" wrote in message ... "Paul ( Skiing8 )" wrote in message ... | | A wee tip for you. If skiing with someone, swap one of their skis over so | that you stack both pairs with an odd one. Then you should place your skis | apart, opposite ends of the restaurant area etc.. | | A thief will not bother if he finds two odd skis stacked and certainly | wont | spend time looking for the other one amongst the dozens usually found | outside restaurants. | | This has the added bonus that if a dumb theif does take your odd set of | skiis anyway you can always ski on one ski back down the mountain, hard work | but its better than walking!!!!! | Except that most thieves aren't stupid and are actually watching you arrive at the restaurant, and see precisely where split skis have been put (given how obvious most people make it). Proven by the recent experience of the SnowHeads forum admin in the restaurant top of the Sauliuire, who thus lost his much-loved Pocket Rockets. Thats true but on the other hand if you make it so obvious its no barrier. A little bit of sense could go a long way! Its unfortunate that it happens but if you can minimise the risk its worth doing, you have nothing to lose and lots to gain by attempting to making life harder for thieves. Two sets of Pocket Rockets arrive - skier A plonks his in the snow and rushes in for his vin chaud, skier B splits his and attempts to make life awkward. Which skis will a thief take? You cant stop it happening but you can minimise the chances of it happening to you. K. |
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PG wrote:
"Simon Brown" wrote in message ... | "Steve Haigh" wrote in message | ... | I write my name on my skis with a big thick indelible marker. | -- Acetone, alcohol, lemon juice, are effective erasers - or so I hear.... So's a thumbnail, doesn't make much difference if the ink's indelible or not. I've written on my skis but it's easy to scratch it off. |
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KMM wrote:
A wee tip for you. If skiing with someone, swap one of their skis over so that you stack both pairs with an odd one. Then you should place your skis apart, opposite ends of the restaurant area etc.. A thief will not bother if he finds two odd skis stacked and certainly wont spend time looking for the other one amongst the dozens usually found outside restaurants. Even a totaly cretinous theif isn't going to be fooled by this. If you wanted to nick some skis you just need to sit around, wait for the pair you want to be parked, split or not, watch the owner go out of sight and take them. |
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AH wrote:
I don't think they put quite this much effort into it.. and if they were watching when you split your ski's up, I'm sure they'd just think "Too hard, next sucker".. They clearly put effort into not being caught so watching people arrive and leave the skis unattended is exactly what they do. |
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:36:56 +0100, Ian Spare
wrote: KMM wrote: A wee tip for you. If skiing with someone, swap one of their skis over so that you stack both pairs with an odd one. Then you should place your skis apart, opposite ends of the restaurant area etc.. A thief will not bother if he finds two odd skis stacked and certainly wont spend time looking for the other one amongst the dozens usually found outside restaurants. Even a totaly cretinous theif isn't going to be fooled by this. If you wanted to nick some skis you just need to sit around, wait for the pair you want to be parked, split or not, watch the owner go out of sight and take them. Well yes, but it must offer a degree of protection, especially if it's busy - the tea-leaf's only got one pair of eyes, and as someone else pointed out he'll be going for the esier target. I must say, though (or repeat, as I think I said this quite recently) that theft of skis is incredibly rare. In all the group skiing I've done I've not been with any member who's had their gear nicked. -- Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club. |
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"KMM" wrote in message ... Thats true but on the other hand if you make it so obvious its no barrier. A little bit of sense could go a long way! Its unfortunate that it happens but if you can minimise the risk its worth doing, you have nothing to lose and lots to gain by attempting to making life harder for thieves. Two sets of Pocket Rockets arrive - skier A plonks his in the snow and rushes in for his vin chaud, skier B splits his and attempts to make life awkward. Which skis will a thief take? You cant stop it happening but you can minimise the chances of it happening to you. Exactly. You don't have to make your skis thief-proof. You just have to make them a bit harder to steal than everyone else's. I'm not at the buy-my-own stage yet, I still hire them, usually from the tour-operator. But I still here every year about at least 2 or 3 pairs being nicked from the TO, and in my experience they tend to be the 'ordinary' skis being stolen. They are invariably last years model (at least) and have been skied to hell and back. I normally hire the premier skis, then use the "split-them-up-with-a-mate" technique. Walter |
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"Ace" wrote in message ... I must say, though (or repeat, as I think I said this quite recently) that theft of skis is incredibly rare. In all the group skiing I've done I've not been with any member who's had their gear nicked. I agree with your experience. Not once in over 20 years skiing have I known anyone in my party to have their skis stolen on the mountain. What I do have is knowledge of is breakins to boot rooms at the back of hotels etc. Not my own kit but even then I can only cite 2 instances where friends have lost skis this way. K |
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:13:13 -0000, "KMM" wrote:
"Ace" wrote in message .. . I must say, though (or repeat, as I think I said this quite recently) that theft of skis is incredibly rare. In all the group skiing I've done I've not been with any member who's had their gear nicked. I agree with your experience. Not once in over 20 years skiing have I known anyone in my party to have their skis stolen on the mountain. Me too. What I do have is knowledge of is breakins to boot rooms at the back of hotels etc. Yep - in around 98 our chalet in Cham was broken into and they cleared out the gear of 10+ people - boards, boots, jackets, gloves - everything. -- Champ |
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Champ wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:13:13 -0000, "KMM" wrote: "Ace" wrote in message . .. I must say, though (or repeat, as I think I said this quite recently) that theft of skis is incredibly rare. In all the group skiing I've done I've not been with any member who's had their gear nicked. I agree with your experience. Not once in over 20 years skiing have I known anyone in my party to have their skis stolen on the mountain. Me too. What I do have is knowledge of is breakins to boot rooms at the back of hotels etc. Yep - in around 98 our chalet in Cham was broken into and they cleared out the gear of 10+ people - boards, boots, jackets, gloves - everything. In December 2004 we were staying in an apartment in Arc 1600 - on the top floor of a quiet block where there were only 1/2 dozen apartments per staircase per floor. When we came to leave I went downstairs to pack the skis (which interestingly I had left outside the locker for over an hour) while my wife packed bags upstairs. As she finished each bag she put them outside the open door of the apartment while she cleaned up. Someone stole 2 of the bags from there. They must have panicked when trying to leave and saw me at the entrance of the block packing skis, because we found the bags 2 hours later hidden in a fire extinguisher cupboard. The gendarmes were not interested in the slightest; even though we knew the bags had not left the building. Anyway we learnt the old lesson – nothing is ever totally safe. Unless you are watching all the time someone will eventually try to steal it. BTW my wife had her skis stolen a few years back from Courchevel. Once again we made the cardinal mistake - we let them out of our sight. John |
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:06:02 +0100, "Simon Brown"
wrote: "Nick Hounsome" wrote in message ... That's not likely to stop them being stolen (certainly not in a ski by theft) and the thief is hardly likely to bring them back if he sees that they are no good to him. The reason is that this was recommended to me by my local ski shop. Here it's mainly expensive snowboards which get stolen, happens quite frequently or so I hear. From my experience, I reckon your local ski shop is not the Intersport one in Flims, is it |
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