Montage TR 12/16/17 - Terrain Expansion

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

1 minute ago, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:

No crowds. $50 lift ticket but I bought it with a $100 gift card they sold me for $80, so really cost $40. And kids ski free with PA ski passport. Super cheap vaca.

I actually went to the Longhorn steakhouse in the shoppes at Montage with Melissa from PASR several years ago.. 

[saltyant]

1 minute ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

I ski 15,000 vert at Blue in two hours. Would take all day to do that at Jack Frost, Montage and Bear creek. 

I like to visit all the resorts at least once, but when it comes down to it for me it's a toss up between BM and CB.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

14 minutes ago, saltyant said:

I like to visit all the resorts at least once, but when it comes down to it for me it's a toss up between BM and CB.

What does Camelback have that is better than BM?? Have you ever been to Elk??

Edited December 29, 2017 by GrilledSteezeSandwich

[saltyant]

1 minute ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

What does Camelback have that is better than BM??

[saltyant]

2 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

What does Camelback have that is better than BM?? Have you ever been to Elk??

Elk has really fun trails, the snow quality is top notch, it's not really crowded, and I enjoy how it's in such a rural backwoods location. The downsides are of course the lifts are slow, and it's expensive as hell. But I'll try to get up there once or twice this season.

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

Back starting to hurt where I landed on it after being taken out by air boarder

[saltyant]

7 minutes ago, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:

Back starting to hurt where I landed on it after being taken out by air boarder

Sorry to hear that. Hope you can get out to JF tomorrow. Colliding with a skier or boarder is my biggest fear of skiing, and then we also have to worry about uncontrollable airboards at Montage. They might as well just let people snowtube down the ski slopes too.

Edited December 30, 2017 by saltyant

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

17 minutes ago, saltyant said:

Sorry to hear that. Hope you can get out to JF tomorrow. Colliding with a skier or boarder is my biggest fear of skiing, and then we also have to worry about uncontrollable airboards at Montage. They might as well just let people snowtube down the ski slopes too.

Did you ever play football?  It's like being tackled..if you go faster than everybody else you don't have to worry about anybody hitting you from behind. 

[saltyant]

1 minute ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Did you ever play football?

Lol, no. Do I look like a former football player?

[saltyant]

3 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

if you go faster than everybody else you don't have to worry about anybody hitting you from behind. 

This is good advice, but sometimes people just sneak up behind me. I heard a rumor that no one passed you at all last season. Is that confirmed true??

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

11 minutes ago, saltyant said:

This is good advice, but sometimes people just sneak up behind me. I heard a rumor that no one passed you at all last season. Is that confirmed true??

That's false..Atomic Jeff and toast ski faster than me on certain runs and indiggio and Ryan have passed me many times 

[AtomicSkier]

We have a pecking order at Blue.  On NWDM, JohnnyLaw and I go first.  On Switchback, GSS and JohnnyLaw go first.  No passing allowed except when RidgeRacer is out of control and passes dangerously close.

[RidgeRacer]

We have a pecking order at Blue.  On NWDM, JohnnyLaw and I go first.  On Switchback, GSS and JohnnyLaw go first.  No passing allowed except when RidgeRacer is out of control and passes dangerously close. [emoji185]

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

Like being tackled by a bullet train. Would like to be able to take kids on a green trail without us having to outrun sledding tacklers gunning straight down a hill with no turns or control.

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

Doing a 2nd Montage day, since our hotel was 3 miles away and we woke to see  at least 2" of fresh had landed last night (and is still coming down) on top of the nice surface from yesterday. Bomus that virtually nobody is tracking it up. Long Haul is running and serving the least tracked up run. Conditions are so nice I may take my girls on one of the double blacks (Smoke) today, which would be a first for them. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

1 hour ago, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:

Doing a 2nd Montage day, since our hotel was 3 miles away and we woke to see  at least 2" of fresh had landed last night (and is still coming down) on top of the nice surface from yesterday. Bomus that virtually nobody is tracking it up. Long Haul is running and serving the least tracked up run. Conditions are so nice I may take my girls on one of the double blacks (Smoke) today, which would be a first for them. 

Enjoy!!!  

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

Made it down Smoke. One fell once and got herself up.

[toast21602]

Tell her way to get after it. Good for them that’s awesome.


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[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

Told them just being brave enough to try it made them better skiers than one of my main ski buddies (or their mom).

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

26 minutes ago, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:

Made it down Smoke. One fell once and got herself up.

I like that!!!  

[indiggio]

On 12/29/2017 at 9:59 PM, saltyant said:

I heard a rumor that no one passed you at all last season. Is that confirmed true??

Not!

[indiggio]

On 12/29/2017 at 10:13 PM, AtomicSkier said:

We have a pecking order at Blue.  On NWDM, JohnnyLaw and I go first.  On Switchback, GSS and JohnnyLaw go first.  No passing allowed except when RidgeRacer is out of control and passes dangerously close.

I never knew this!

I always stay at the back of the group I'm with as I know the twin-tips kick up a giant rooster-tail of snow, ice, marbles, etc. which tends to annoy the hell out of people behind me.
However, it does come in handy to keep others from following too closely behind.

Edited December 31, 2017 by indiggio

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

So here was my technique for advancing kids on steeps. They started out real tentative, mostly going from one side of the trail to the other and only deacending a little each time.

Then I explained to them that since there was a flat after each steep, once they got part way down the steep they could "let it rip" straight down and slow themselves on the flat. They started on each steep asking me when they could "let it rip" and proceeding down with complete confidence once I told them it was ok.

As the next step, I suggested they use their own judgement as to when it was OK to "let it rip" and they started doing that.

Then I explained they could "let it rip" from higher up on the steep if, instead of just going straight down, they switch their weight from ski to ski while going straight down. So they could make small esses, but not the trail wide traverses they had been doing before. And soon they were doing it on a double black.

 

Pretty good progress for two 10 year olds on one cold day.

Edited December 31, 2017 by Ski2Live Live2Ski

[momskeeztoo]

On 12/29/2017 at 9:32 PM, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:

Back starting to hurt where I landed on it after being taken out by air boarder

What the hell in an airboarder?

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

An airboard is an inflatable sled they rent out to let folks go down slopes with at montage