Have you been training? After a hiatus last year, ALDI's snow gear sale is back.
ALDI Snow Gear Sale: Adult Jackets $59.99, Adult Pants $49.99, Kids Jackets $39.99 @ ALDI
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Always need more Merino
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Just my 2c: I’ve been about snowboarding 10-15 days or so each season for the past 2 years and the ALDI gear has held up really well. Would highly recommend if it’s still waterproof/breathable rated at least 10k/10k (10,000mm/10,000g).
"Results (ratings) can vary wildly based on test, temperature, humidity and pressure and are not standardized from brand to brand, or test to test" -evo.com
Would recommend no matter what brand you buy, try to go for 10k/10k or higher.
Same!
Bought mine years ago and still going strong.The only downside is that everyone else has Aldi gear, so makes it harder to find each other when your face is covered.
Thats why you need several season old stuff
I got some orange fluorescent spray paint and made lines all over my jacket. It not only looks better but it's easy to see from afar
Is that you Beau? Beau Gunn?
Kids used Aldi gear some years back, only thing we wouldn't buy again is the gloves, their hands were soaked inside almost instantly. Jackets and pants were ok though.
Used Aldi gear lasted nearly 6 years still same jacket.
Unfortunately the pants don't have quite as much longevity. Mine split in the crotch after several years use. The seams are the weak point.
Mine is gone in 2 seasons, something ends up giving like seams or zippers and I'll need a new one.
Same with their motorcycle jeans. Ripped a hole at the seams in the crotch after just a few weeks, with a single wash.
I just stitched it back again.
Snow outerwear typically have ratings for water resistance and breathability/wind resistance.
https://www.melbournesnowboard.com.au/pages/waterproof-ratin…The language they used in the ALDI item description can be confusing if you didn't know about the rating. It's not saying it's waterproof when submerged to a depth of 12m like a watch or GoPro.
That's not a good interpretation of the rating system for ski gear. Read the link provided for context and if you're still confused, visit a storeamd speak with a professional
No, it just means that's it's waterproof when covered with 12m of snow, such as when trapped under a minor avalanche.
If you're trapped under more than 12m of snow, you've probably got moisture problems inside your pants anyway, so waterproof clothing is the least of your concerns.
This is just how I'm dressing to leave my house in Melbourne this year
This is how I'm dressing for inside my house
Good idea, save power.
save power.
Why? It's renewable.
@jv: I have yet to see a reasonable comment from you on all my years here.
You can't possibly be this stupid, you have to be just online trolling 24/7, right?
Trying to figure out how the parents shown in the catalogue managed to produce offspring of multiple ethnicities different from their own.
Lots of reasons… adoption, abduction, adultery…
or used the ALDI sperm bank.
Good. Different.
@chonkie: would be awkward if its operated the same as the checkout lines, where the person behind the desk throws the products down the shute and you then go over to the shelf to 'fill your bags'
Absolutely accurate. Also, awesome assonance amigo.
I'd have applauded his astute alliteration, although assonance also appears an acceptable alternative.
Mixed up their kids at the previous Aldi snow sales
White dad + half-asian mum = half-black kid . Benetton maths.
My sister modelled for this "Mum" role
The husband's a cuck and the wife gets thrashed.
Cheers. Time to stockup with a hope of snowfall in Darwin.
Do you get to enjoy the same fighting action in QLD and NT stores as well ?
Brisbane is reasonably busy at 8AM to 9AM. I buy because I feel really cold in winter and cannot afford constant heating.
Brisbane … winter
Lol. Perhaps you could go to Cairns for those two days.
@CocaKoala: Too far
It takes longer to drive to Cairns then Melbourne from Brisbane
I would say Bundaberg would be alright and go snorkeling in south great barrier reef
Ditto for Perth, but I'll travel to Darwin if it snows there first
If you are on the ski field. You are not poor.
mmm, is relative, but you can very much ski rat with a shoestring budget if you're willing to sleep hard, and can find work on the fields. I had a couple friends follow the snow for a few years without any parental support, sleeping in their van and such.
Not the way the ticket prices are going…
Don't know why you got negged so much, maybe people don't realise most of the resort workers get free season pass and subsidised accom as part of the deal. Van life is OK for the young but on -10 nights its not for me anymore but skibum lifestyle is real!
Plenty of yr12 graduating students do a gap year split between Whistler and Jindabyne.
Tobogan
All relative but there are ways and means for us rusted on snowlovers to make it affordable:
- Join a ski club (Accommodation on the snow is $60 a night at my lodge for members, even peak season, members kids are half price) Its a couple of K in joining fees and I have to do a working bee up there over summer but I have ski storage and lockers at the lodge to leave all my family ski kit and skis/snowboards and avoid dragging it all back and forth.
- Buy your season's pass lift ticket for $850 ish at the end of the season for next season and ski as many days as you want, break even is about 4 days, ski day 5+ I'm ahead,
- Buy your own kit either 2nd hand or in the big end of season sales at the end of the previous season, never pay rental.
- Take your own food and grog to the ski lodge with you and cook, drink/eat in the lodge rather than pay the huge premium to eat and drink in pubs/restaurants at the snow, the real tight @rses ski back to the lodge during the day to make themselves a toastie for lunch,
- Learn how to wax and service your own skis or snowboards and use the club provided communal bench/tools/waxing iron in the ski lodge to avoid maintenance costs on your skis.
- Obviously as a rusted-on skier I'm not paying for lessons, if I desperately wanted someone to show me how to improve something I'll go for a ski during their downtime with one of the level 3 instructors that are also members of the lodge. Not a free private lesson, more 2 friends going for a ski together and one of them wont shut up about what I'm doing wrong etc.I appreciate that I am a bit of a rusted on skier that has been doing this for a while but I started doing this because I wanted to go skiing and couldnt afford it with a family and a mortgage. I could never have afforded the cost of going on the regular ski packages or at best we could have maybe gone for a weekend every 2 years. Thanks mainly to joining the lodge we used to go for a week over school holidays until the kids left school. Both kids grew up snowboarding every year, both now young adults, one of them is a snowboard instructor and has worked on the mountain. We are definitely not one of the rich inner city elite schools type of families, we were just very creative/clever on how we found a way to be able to afford to go on snow holidays.
Hi there, just wondering which ski club should I join if I'm skiing around 15 days each year? Is the accommodation clean?
Many thanks!@richardaadc: I'm a member of the Opal Ski Club at Mt Buller. We are a family lodge so probably better suited to families than groups of young adults etc. Our lodge is at Mt Buller in Victoria. There are club lodges at all the resorts though. I think ours is clean and tidy, definitely not 5 star but I like it. Club lodges differ a lot but most have a contact member listed on their website for membership enquiries and most allow guests so if you like the look of one you can normally go there for a weekend or so to check it out. Back when the kids were little, we checked out a club lodge at Mt Hotham and it was a disaster so we ended up at Opal.
Awesome!
Maybe just poorer than the ultra wealthy
Unless you’re one of the workers.
Eh. The Aldi gear ain't bad. I used my jacket for something like 10 years and it's held up fine. You'd have to go up to gore-tex shell before you see a noticeable improvement against any of the other brands anyway. I've got a 20k now, and while it's better, the difference is marginal, and probably not worth the 5x price bump
*frugal and/or poor
You can also spot the poor people on the ski fields decked out on north face gear
Nah the poor people are the snowboarders who are sitting on their arses after being beaten up all day thinking they could snowboard without a lesson
You can also spot the poor people on the ski fields as they all wear Aldi gear.
At least the gear appears to be mainly black/dark colours this year, not neon colours like in some years past.
The gear i laugh at is the people that buy counterfeit Spyder jackets off ebay. A jacket made to look like an expensive jacket but without all of the waterproofing and warming features that actually keep you warm and dry. Easy to spot since most folks dropping $800+ for a genuine Spyder jacket probably can already ski and arent signing up for beginner classes or trying to ski on Suicide Alley (the beginner run at most ski hills).
Same pricing and quality on aliexpress and ebay. Dont need to fight for this crap.
Better/easier returns policy at ALDI though right?
True. I guess i don't really have that type of mentality to even think of such things lol.
People use Aldi as a free rental service which is really bad, but supposedly happens a lot especially with the visit for 1 day crowd.
If you miss out on Saturday Afternoon, you could try coming back on Sunday, should have gotten a few returns due to wrong size or whatever.
yep
One year i saw so many people trying on sizing etc scrambling over each other.
The smart people just grabbed one of each size they thought would suit and returned the wrong sizing the following day :)
The premium set for man is ugly as sh*t…
Silly question but does anyone know if these will be available in Perth stores? Or just stores in skiing states?
if these will be available in Perth stores?
They should be there just before the Perth Snow Season starts…
Yeah im going to NZ from Perth in a couple months. Would be great
People from Perth are allowed to leave the State now
They were in Brisbane stores 3 years ago. Not quite a skiing state here lol
Mt Coot-Tha goes pretty good in winter. Shame about the increase to lift passes this year.
It's not worth it after they got rid of the free council bus to the top ;)
Hi mate, about 4 years ago they were available in Perth shops. Can't speak to the current season but I'd be surprised if they didn't.
Been using my Aldi gear for 5 years now. Lasted many weeks and weekends at Falls / Buller. Also held up really well for a week in Italy.
Pants are done now, so a good time to update
Also held up really well for a week in Italy.
I can see Aldi gear going down really well on a trip to Milan…
Aldi is bigger in Europe than here..another useless comment
I find my local Aldi is way bigger than ones I've visited overseas.
Last time I went to one of these, it resembled a World Vision food drop in Somalia.
Their merino stuff has gone down hill significantly, I have ones from last year vs ones from 5+ years ago, and the new ones have significantly less thickness/weight. While it's understandable as they've kept to the same price point, the new ones barely last one ski session before developing holes now and so are pretty useless. The fleece pieces are also pretty scratchy and uncomfortable so recommend looking elsewhere.
The other stuff (jacket, pants, gloves, goggles, helmet, etc.) are still decent for the price though. Still rocking the premium Aldi gloves despite upgrading pretty much all my other gear :D
Last year? Wasn't it cancelled last year?
Was cancelled in either 2020 or 2021 (or maybe both? can't remember), but was definitely on last year.
Nope, it didn't happen in 2022… cancelled due to "Supply chain issues"
@leighmunro: In that case I must've bought them in 2021.. and then due to lockdown, didn't use it until 2022. 2020-2022 were all a blur, my bad.
Yep I got holes too
Me too. Holes in my ALDI merino. Only wore them a couple times, not even at the snow.
Maybe it has but if it has then the branded merino clothes have also gone down hill as I've found Aldi to be high quality.
What's the difference between Ski jackets and Normal jackets?
Australian Ski resorts are very wet compared to some overseas areas where the snow is more powder-like. The consequence here is that it can often rain or have very wet and heavy snow that can leak through a poor quality jacket. Trust me you dont what to be wet and cold sitting on a chair lift in a howling gale, that is no fun for anyone. Potentially if you had a goretex hiking shell and wore a good quality mid-layer underneath it is probably fine to ski in.
many high end ski jackets also have some handy features such as lots of poclkets for phones, goggles, headphones. they have hoods designed to go over the top of ski helmets, they have under arm zips and vents designed to dump heat if the weather warms up. You do a bit of exercise skiing and if you are all rugged up it doesnt take much of a temp increase and you will be sweating. Opening pit zips under your arms helps to cool you down.
good jackets will have technical material that allows you to keep moisture out including sealed seams etc.
good jackets have little features such as a small pocket on the wrist where you store your ski lift pass allowing you to just wave a hand at the sensor when you are at the bottom of the lift trying to go through the automatic gate.
I use a gore tex pro shell climbing/hiking jacket and can confirm this is a great way to get a ski jacket and an everyday jacket also. I use it for snowboarding, walking, cycling (pit zips are great for ventilation), and all manner of things.
At the snow I usually wear an icebreaker merino vest underneath and a basic long sleeve thermal that i picked up cheap at their outlet.
Great for all but the coldest of days. On warmer spring days I dont wear the merino vest.
Good gear is really helpful in Aus because it sometimes rains while you are skiing, which is really unpleasant if your waterproof gear is not really.
compared to some overseas areas where the snow is more powder-like
Concur. I was on a couple of Swiss ski fields just over a week ago, and the powder snow was on a level that I simply never see here.
Yep, I've skied in Europe, Japan and Nth America, was in Canada in Feb and there was none of the wet, heavy slushy snow. I was at Revelstoke in British Columbia and I dont recall seeing any snow guns for man made snow either.
I have the boots, helmet and goggles. Really good quality.
The boots are great for hiking too.
Boots are good I agree
Im still using my inoc premium gear from 7-8 years ago. The new colours look horrible, but I'm certain the black pants at least will be worth it. I use the jacket shell and gave up on the puffer inner as I found it a tad too hot for Aus ski weather.
Is there a way to not look like an Airbus A380 and still be warm?
I wear about 3 layers of clothing including snow gear to keep warm at home as I don't run heating but man I wish I could do it while at least looking normal.
The better the layers are next to your skin the less bulk you need on the outside.
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dont talk about fight club