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Grand Montents today, I’ll let the pictures tell the story. It’s still nuking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Powder: Powder: Powder: Not powder: Not powder: Camelback at 4 pm on 1-17-2018.

Great groomers this morning. Some runs closed because they blew a ton of snow. Good for them. Moderate crowds. Blue skies. JADIP.

Teacher's sometimes good, too. Had midterm exams today, so I was done at 10:30 but hung around for free lunch. Am at the bar at the valley lodge now waiting for the shop to adjust my RTMs to my boots. Me and Salty: RTM Squad.

Perfect conditions today, corduroy packed powder everywhere except Tunk is being allowed to bump up for first time this season. Lots of smiles today.. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

1 week from today!

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Nothing says good seafood like a buffet in Wilkes barre! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

i'll be sporting my RTM's for the race clinic tonite.

i just realized that. damnit

The only thing that took off from that was the Med-Evac. Every single year.

Not as awesome as being there at 8 but still the best conditions I have had at Blue this season and no lines, so no complaint. Had to wrap up work stuff before I could take time off. Better late than never.

Salty has a future career in ski resort marketing.

Obviously. I’d take a junk pair of skis to ski on a road too. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That last picture reminds me of the scene from Beetlejuice when the food comes to life and grabs everyone's faces

There are no experts.....well extremely few and they are far greater skiers then we could ever hope to be. That said way to get your dick wet, this was probably a good introduction to a much larger world...........whatever you do don't fight the pow rather you must flow with it. It's like sailing, you can't change the wind so you gotta change your sails.

This looks a lot better than a ski bike

only if they close it for the college race teams first. I don't think we're gonna be hitting any gates this week. we'll prolly be lapping paradise, NM-DW, Switchback, and Razor's.

every so often ill browse a bit on AZ and post an obligatory "Free GSS!!!"

College girls never get old...literally

celcius.

It wasn't about the skis getting messed up it's that the person fell face first into snow covered rocks..for low tide conditions like that you'd want to be light on your feet with s flat ski and sort of hop around and he carved his edges in like he was in a perfect turn clinic with Salty.

Buoy buoy buoy buoy poppin’ everywhere, poppin’ everywhere, I found you, big snow buoy. Get it together and bring the snow to me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks like he is on 170 RTMs

You just don't get it. Slow lifts are to skiing what waiting for a good wine or scotch to age. They build anticipation. https://live-large.com/blogs/news/ode-to-a-lift Skiing's not all about the vert., the lift ride is part of the experience.

I'll take it for -$5.00. You give me the sticker and $5.00.

Salty you'll likely be some sort of low intermediate for a couple seasons unless you take lessons.

Went to Les Houches today with the guide, had a coffee to start the day off then rolled down for first tram. When we woke up we did not think skiing today was going to be an option, the wind was ripping and very gusty in town, by 830 it had calmed down significantly and by 9 it was pretty much still. Did a few laps with solid over knee turns and it was easy to link knee to waste deep turns together. It continued to snow all day and it just kept getting deeper and better. Our guide kept showing us to new zones and more deep turns, we generally skied the trees and lift lines. The snow was overall pretty light at elevation but you had to watch out for the snow snakes towards the village. We had lunch around 1, followed by a few more knee deep plus turns and finished the day off with a beer in the village with the guide. It is still snowing a bit and should pick up overnight for more good turns tomorrow. We only paid for two days with the guide but he said he will follow up for the rest of our trip and give us weather updates and a plan on where to ski daily. The guide was well worth the money, he was a super cool guy and and absolute ripper. Having a few beers at our place now and about to go get some food and a few more beers, it’s karaoke night at an awesome little watering hole we hit up on Sunday night so we may head there for a bit. Again I did not get many pictures maybe justo will post some, he has some good shots. Little stream crossing towards the base Money shot of the day Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is what's really interesting, to some extent we don't know how humans actually get the ski up on edge. Conceptually it's easier to think of skiing as standing on a platform that is moving and is perturbed in two directions, we can ski because the COM does not move with the full force of the perturbations because we have momentum and the rest we use movement of the body to balance out the forces. Static tests suck because they can't impart inertia and thus alot of the way we think about skiing is useful but incorrect, in an energy sense it's more accurate I think to think of skiing as a flow of energy. In the simplest sense we must use the muscles of the feet to flick the ski up on edge but while doing that we must maintain balance, so beyond just the muscles in the feet all kinds of other shit is going on with all the other muscle groups as we impart a flow of energy into the ski, as we progress through the turn that flow transfers into the body and into the finish of the turn. Think about how it feels to crank out a big sweeper, the force builds and flows, it's a constant experience but not at all and it's just as dependent on other muscle groups like in the quads and back as it is on the ankle/foot. At the extreme end you can see this is in WC. Shiffrin is so much better because her turns are as symmetrical as humanly possible, her next best contender is probably Wendy Holdener who is probably a better athlete but because she cannot get the same hip angulation on left foot down turns she's considerably slower and that has jack to due with muscles of the foot/leg. This dude says it even better because he's actually really smart. "Hirscher progressively engages his edges, especially on his outside ski then hooks a tight arc close to the gate to establish his line. Once he has established his line, he no longer needs his outside ski. He gets off it in milliseconds and uses the rebound energy to project forward with only enough pressure on his uphill (new outside) ski to influence his trajectory of inertia so his COM enters the rise line at a low angle of intersection. He gets rebound energy from the loading of his outside ski and from what amounts to a plyometric release of muscle tension from the biokinetic chain of muscles extending from the balls of his outside foot to his pelvis. The energy is created by the vertical drop from above the gate to below the gate similar to jumping off a box, landing and then making a plyometric rebound" So although the question appears simple it's actually pretty hard to determine what is doing what when your skiing at least to me it seems carving is a concert in which at various points various parts of the body are carrying the tune. What's cool to me about skiing in some sense is how human it is. It's kind of stupid right, I mean it doesn't actually do anything in a utilitarian kind of way, no other animal would spend the kind of energy humans due to go skiing and we can do it instinctively because its a thing we can feel. Think of the number of humans who can arc a turn and yet while we have some idea if we are honest the knowledge side in which X does Y which = Z of skiing is still a mystery, I can know nothing of the balancing physics of skiing and be a very good skier. Nobody who can ski thinks skiing, you don't go down the hill going impart force at angle X, angulate skis at position x in the turn. It's why at some level you can't teach another person by saying you need to do X because that's very useful but they still have to learn how it feels to do X. That's what being a human is all about, we are this thinking, tricky box in our heads while at the same time defined by something as vague as feeling.

Just got back from a great day at Jack Frost. Best conditions so far this year. Had a blast. Left a little late but the roads were fine (only about an inch of snow fell in Bucks Co.) and got into the parking lot around 9:30. Booted up and went right for the east side, didn't hit any of the blues or terrain park today. Mountain was practically empty. I was able to ride on to most lifts, but that's not unusual at Frost on a weekday. First run of the day was poaching T-bolt. It was closed for snowmaking which meant I got a run down an almost untouched 8 inches of pow over snowmaking whales. Maybe half a dozen tracks on the trail total. Next up was Happyland which rode good throughout the day but got bumped up later. Moved over to River Shot and Floyds which rode great: pow which started to get tracked out but just turned into nice soft bumps. I love nice soft bumps. Tried Elevator glade which was icy underneath, couldn't hold an edge and slipped it, rather than ripped it. Run of the day was Floyds. Not for the trail but because somebody attempted to drop Risk It. Basically, Elevator Glade and Risk It are ice close to the open trail where the snowmaking blow over has set up into cement, peppered with ice chunks from when they groom out the adjacent trails. The further side towards the woods only got the 8 inches of cover from last night. Not enough to start hucking cliffs. Anyway, this guy didn't give a fuck and decided to send it over Risk It into some ice chunks. Slid his way down and lost his ski. I was kinda jealous. I wish I was that gnarly. Everything was tracked out, but still riding well by noon. Packed up around 1:30. All in all a great day.

It's pretty convenient. Just a short distance from the Stevenson Lift over flat terrain. if you decide to stay there, don't use ski check because they misplaced someone's poles the other day. Also, don't get caught with skis in the elevator because there's a sign saying that's not allowed.

Damn Sally you fiesty

Well played, mods. Well played.

Salty you've gone straight retard today.

Thanks! I get pointers every now and then from random people. Last year I rode the Bear Mountain lift at Killington with an instructor and he was nice enough to give me some pointers. Basically, ski more forward, keep arms and poles forward, keep goggles high enough to get rid of the gaper gap, and other very useful advice. Maybe some day I'll pay for a lesson, but for me it just seems I need to get the feel for more advanced skiing techniques naturally. Idk. It was a lot of fun skiing in ungroomed terrain yesterday. My legs were sooo sore when I woke up this morning, but it was a good feeling.

doctor greenthumb

If you were a mountain biker you'd probably say you were going out driving lol

My bad. Disregard.

Dan, didn't you see the icy tag? Ice is not powder. Ice is nice though...

d) more time to drink lift beers...

Where are the GoPro videos dammit? I'm especially interested in your mogul run videos. Get someone to record you so we all can evaluate your ability.

To be an expert you have to be able to tackle the expert terrain at a challenging western resort with ease..I've skied over 1,000 days and I consider myself advanced..not expert...only a tiny percentage of people are experts mainly level three instructors and ski patrollers.

So sick.

The marquee route got ruined by the bike path...the section under Main Street chair between come around and the chute it prime but come around was closed for a rebuild. Under the quad between dreamweaver and razorback is nice with a little more coverage.

You'll learn once you get some fat skis.

Mountains designate their trail rankings based on the other runs at that particular mountain (not the region). Some people put way too much stock in the whole black diamond, blue square, green circle stuff. I guess it's a newb thing. IDK.

There are many, many ways to be smart. I think we devalue manual-labor professions and that's a shame. I know lots of kids who are hands-on problem solvers for whom a job as a mechanic or something similar would be an awesome fit, but lordy, if one of our kids didn't go the college route.,. I mean, how would that look!? I sponsor a school club run by a boy who is mad for bicycle repair. He and five friends find and rehab old bikes and donate them. The boy who runs the activity is an amazingly talented wrench and a good teacher to the other boys. I would hate to see him give up his passion and talent and major in psych or whatever