Mud Report - Alpendorf - 20-01-2007

Excellent coverage lower stations, but patchy higher up. Long
stretches of required use of skis

funkraum wrote:
Excellent coverage lower stations, but patchy higher up. Long
stretches of required use of skis

oh no! Did you find wide skis better for the mud?

davidof wrote:
funkraum wrote:

Excellent coverage lower stations, but patchy higher up. Long
stretches of required use of skis

oh no! Did you find wide skis better for the mud?


For mud or even earth then short wide carvers are definitely more
responsive than long traditionally shaped skis. You would think that
as soon as you run out of snow at speed you face-plant but skis
respond remarkably well under these conditions.

Usual rules apply: Hire skis are always the best kind of skis in
difficult conditions.

Skiing on gravel can work quite well too....provided that you stay heading
straight down the fall line. Feels a little bit like a dry-slope session!
If you do it on hire ski's let me know which shop you take them back to!
;-)

J

"funkraum" funkraum@hotmail .com wrote in message
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davidof wrote:
funkraum wrote:

Excellent coverage lower stations, but patchy higher up. Long
stretches of required use of skis

oh no! Did you find wide skis better for the mud?


For mud or even earth then short wide carvers are definitely more
responsive than long traditionally shaped skis. You would think that
as soon as you run out of snow at speed you face-plant but skis
respond remarkably well under these conditions.

Usual rules apply: Hire skis are always the best kind of skis in
difficult conditions.