Who's Ready for Ski Season?

[soundmotor]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20qB1dXAM78&feature=fvw

 

[MikeCh]

I like skiing, but that looks painful!

 

[guest109]

I hate cold weather and snow.

 

[KentTeffeteller]

Ja!, I am,

Just got the sit-ski out of storage and the wife's and the little ones sit-skis. After Baby Bjorn's healed up from the clubfoot surgeries, we plan on going skiing with the little ones. My sit-ski's cage is reversed due to hip issues. We plan on participating in the Trondheim Disabled Ski Festival along with King Harald V and having some fun:tresbon:

 

[sandoz]

Very ready to fire it up! Crested Butte, CO is my slice of snow sport heaven.

 

[gearhound]

Think......Sonny Bono.....and then stay warm-n'-dry watching the NFL.


Steve

 

[similost]

I've been wanting to go so bad, but I can't talk my wife into it.. she thinks it's too cold.. I keep trying to make her understand once you get on the mountain (or rather hill in this area) you don't even notice the cold because you're having too much fun..

I learned to ski in the Alps in Austria and southern Germany... and man do I love it.. but I have a feeling with what we have in this area, I'll be kinda disappointed. Wish I could afford a trip to Colorado...

 

[usedto]

My place is within view of two of the major highways from the bay area to the snow. Every Friday I sit with a beer and watch the traffic crawl with all the city slikkers headed to the snow, then do the same Sunday night on their way home.

 

[meggy]

Our current favorite place is Telluride. Two hour flight from Phoenix and you're right there. Crazy scary landing at a little airport carved out on a mesa. Take a 10 minute shuttle down to the town and you really, really don't need a car. We're going to try their heli-skiing this year.

 

[finnbow]

I'll definitely be going again this year. I go a little around here and then do a few 2-3 day Rocky Mountain trips associated with business travel out west, usually New Mexico or Idaho. I love both Taos and Sun Valley. We might be doing a New Hampshire skiing Spring break. NH becomes very affordable and uncrowded late in the season.

 

[MikeCh]

 

[BULLWINKLE]

I'll definitely be going again this year. I go a little around here and then do a few 2-3 day Rocky Mountain trips associated with business travel out west, usually New Mexico or Idaho. I love both Taos and Sun Valley. We might be doing a New Hampshire skiing Spring break. NH becomes very affordable and uncrowded late in the season.

I love Sun Valley. Exhibition Run is great. A gem for sure.

 

[hatrack71]

Got the teles waxed up and ready to go. A couple of my buddies have already been hitting back country this past week. I'm going to wait for a little more base but it could be pretty promising by the end of the month over in Bozeman at Bridger Bowl and Big Sky. Oh Yeah!!!!!!!!

 

[soundmotor]

NH becomes very affordable and uncrowded late in the season.

You just can't beat the NH corn snow & rocks in the spring!

 

[soundmotor]

My son is the only one besides myself into downhill skiing, my wife & daughter just won't; "You want us to leave a perfectly warm building and do what......?". I hope he & I can get up north a few times. However, this year I am trying out cross-country skiing. There are so many tracks & trails around me I'd be crazy not to. I love exercising in the cold & snow so at least I could do something in-between going to the slopes. Picked up several sets of XO skis at the dump this summer, most in new condition & between 195 & 210 in length. One of these sets should be good for me.

 

[finnbow]

You just can't beat the NH corn snow & rocks in the spring!

True, it's nowhere near as nice as the Rockies or the Alps in Spring, but way cheaper. I drove a family of 5, rented a condo for a week for less than $300 and used the various special lift pass deals offered by a number of resorts. Some of these included 2fer's on Tues/Thurs (Cannon), Sunday afternoon $20 (Wildcat), carload (up to 5 people) $50 (Tenney Mt.), $1 lift tickets on April 1 (Waterville Valley). I think 5 of us skied for a week, including lodging, food, transportation, lift tickets, etc. for about $1000. Try that in the Rockies, Sierras, Europe, or even Vermont.

As for corn snow, I like it just fine. I skiied in the Alps, nearly year-round, for 8 years and corn snow skills were essential for late season glacier skiing. During the last week of March in NH, conditions are pretty variable, but I think the ability to ski all conditions beyond "ego snow" (packed powder) is important. Actually conditions at Wildcat were just about "picture perfect." In fact, Wildcat is about as close to a Western experience as I've ever had in the East - very nice mountain.