My Ski Experience

Gee, I think that Utah is more then 2-3 hours . Hey maybe a little
ride, but Windham does have some really good trails for beginners. And
if you get into skiing, you'll think that's a short trip. Me and my
wife track just about every weekend to VT from NJ. We'll do the
Catskills for day trip and yes we consider it a short trip

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:44:56 -0700, "pigo"
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"Mike" wrote in message
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Plan a trip out here. I'll have you skiing in about an hour. It will be
on
the easy stuff that will enable you to move up as you get experience (or
not
if that's what you want). But you'll be able to get onto a lift and use
the
trail map to choose the runs you want.
where are you located?
The MAIN reason I like Hidden Valley (well thats all Ive been to) is
that it is close. about 65 miles, 1hour and 20 minutes.

My gf said they go to Windham which she said is 2-3 hours away!
Way TOO far!

lol

Well I'm in Utah. But there's lot's to do here besides ski if you decide to
take a vacation.

in article , pigo at
wrote on 2/15/04 6:44 PM:


"Mike" wrote in message
om...
Plan a trip out here. I'll have you skiing in about an hour. It will be
on
the easy stuff that will enable you to move up as you get experience (or
not
if that's what you want). But you'll be able to get onto a lift and use
the
trail map to choose the runs you want.
where are you located?
The MAIN reason I like Hidden Valley (well thats all Ive been to) is
that it is close. about 65 miles, 1hour and 20 minutes.

My gf said they go to Windham which she said is 2-3 hours away!
Way TOO far!

lol

Well I'm in Utah. But there's lot's to do here besides ski if you decide to
take a vacation.


Yeah, you can always hang out with Bob Thompson, lie to cops and
prosecutors, falsely accuse innocent men of molesting children, taunt rape
survivors, and make up gross and despicable lies!
Fun, fun!
One thing you won't do for sure is show up with Bob when I'm in town. He
won't do that, because that would take balls and this gutless freak has
none.

Jiyang Chen wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message
m...

I still have trouble linking turns...sometimes I do feel like Im
FORCING my inside leg...like I almost have to lift it because it gets
caught in the snow.

Remember change weights early. This helped me get rid of the habit of
wedging. Once you want to turn the other way, immediately step on to
the uphill leg, and push the heel out to bleed off speed (but still
keeping a little weight on the downhill. and keep it parallel.)

Habit of wedging?

The turn you are descriping is a snowplough turn! just because the ski's are
almost parrallel doesn't change that.

Have you never heard of a "racing wedge"?

Not teaching the Wedge/snowplough is in my opinion almost criminal, you are
removing a tequnique of last resort from the students "toolbag" and putting
the students life at risk.


--
Chris *:-)

Downhill Good, Uphill BAD!

www.suffolkvikings.org.uk

I thought that sharp turns were better? Like in hockey, I cant
ice skate well, so my turns are wide, while Pros are turning at like
90 degrees.
*Racers* are turning that sharply, but only because that is how the
gates are set, not because it is the best way to get down the slope.
Oic. Yeah, I seem to go down the slope at a 80 degree angle,
while some of the experts go more straight down. Or they do tiny
turns.

Yes. At this stage you will still be skidding all your turns. As you
improve, you will probably start to carve the turns, and then you will
skid down the hill very little.
Thats right, when I do my turn, it does seem like I skid down hill
sideways for like 3 feet before I start to move horizontally.
What do you mean by "carve the turns" ?

Thanks

On 16 Feb 2004 16:11:16 -0800, (Mike) wrote:



Yes. At this stage you will still be skidding all your turns. As you
improve, you will probably start to carve the turns, and then you will
skid down the hill very little.

Thats right, when I do my turn, it does seem like I skid down hill
sideways for like 3 feet before I start to move horizontally.
What do you mean by "carve the turns" ?


At its most basic, it means that as you go through the turns, the ski
is on its edge all the way round, so instead of skidding over the
snow, it digs in and carves a turn out of the snow.

You will learn it in time, but you won't be able to do it your first
few trips :-)

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"Jiyang Chen" wrote in news:c0onf0
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"Mike" wrote in message
m...

I still have trouble linking turns...sometimes I do feel like Im
FORCING my inside leg...like I almost have to lift it because it gets
caught in the snow.

Remember change weights early. This helped me get rid of the habit of
wedging. Once you want to turn the other way, immediately step on to
the
uphill leg, and push the heel out to bleed off speed (but still keeping
a
little weight on the downhill. and keep it parallel.)



He's a new skier. The instructors I've talked to in the last few years
are trying to get away from the uphill/downhill terminology. It's quite
confusing as the same ski goes from being the uphill one to the downhill
one in the same turn. They try to use inside/outside ski terminology now
which is much easier for a newbie to understand.

IMO the wedge is a great learning tool. It allows a new skier to feel
stable on the snow as they progress through the learning curve. The
problem arises when someone takes a never-ever leasson, and thinks that
the wedge is how you ski for good.

Transition from the wedge to parallel is not difficult. You move from
wedge to stem chrisies, to parallel. I learned the wedge and was skiing
parallel after about my 3rd time out.
--
Chuck
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1 thing I learned...probably one of the major things is...dont wear
jeans if you are planning to fall.

I wore jeans (I had nylon pants but didnt wear them) and I feel like 5
minutes into it.

Wear the waterproof pants over the jeans. That's what I do. It keeps you
dry and the extra layer keeps you warm.

A bunch of times I fell on purpose because I felt I was going too fast
and I wasnt good at slowing.
Or people were in front of me, and I cant steer too well.

So basically I wore wet jeans for about 8 hours!

Now I have a sore throat...I hope I didnt catch a cold.

BUT, Hidden Valley was nice, the chicken hill was a bit icy (thats all
I went on)
But it didnt snow here for awhile, so maybe thats why.
But its only about 65 miles away from me, so thats close.


Do you mean "Chicken Delight? I saw the trail map on the web.

What area are you in? You're probably within driving distance of where I
like to ski - Blue Mountain, near Allentown PA. If that's not too far to
drive you should check it out. They've got a beginners trail there called
Paradise, marked specifically for "slow skiing". It's plenty wide enough
for traversing and it's about a mile and a half long. They also have one
of those very easy to get on high speed detachable quads at the bottom.
Plus if you've got an Acme super-saver card you can get $25 lift tickets
at any area Acme for the rest of this season.
--
Chuck
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Do you mean "Chicken Delight? I saw the trail map on the web.
Yeah, I thought it would be easy. On the map, its horizontal.
But once I got up there, it wasnt anything like the map.
My gf was suprised too, she thought it was a mid-high level green.

What area are you in? You're probably within driving distance of where I
I live in queens NY.

like to ski - Blue Mountain, near Allentown PA. If that's not too far to
Never heard of it. How does it compare to Windham, Hunter, Hidden Valley?
In terms of lines, cost, people, etc?

of those very easy to get on high speed detachable quads at the bottom.
Whats that?

Plus if you've got an Acme super-saver card you can get $25 lift tickets
at any area Acme for the rest of this season.
We dont even have an Acme supermarket, all we have are Key Food, and Wauldbaums

On 17 Feb 2004 14:37:58 -0800, (Mike) wrote:

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of those very easy to get on high speed detachable quads at the bottom.
Whats that?


They're the ones I was talking about at the end of this post

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(Mike) wrote in
om:

Do you mean "Chicken Delight? I saw the trail map on the web.
Yeah, I thought it would be easy. On the map, its horizontal.
But once I got up there, it wasnt anything like the map.
My gf was suprised too, she thought it was a mid-high level green.

What area are you in? You're probably within driving distance of
where I
I live in queens NY.

like to ski - Blue Mountain, near Allentown PA. If that's not too far
to
Never heard of it. How does it compare to Windham, Hunter,
Hidden Valley?
In terms of lines, cost, people, etc?

Never been to any of those. The only place I've skied outside of PA is
Bretton Woods, NH (and had a great time). According to goski.com it's
smaller than Hunter and Wyndham. SKiable acreage is similar to Hidden
Valley but it has more vertical ft and longer runs.


of those very easy to get on high speed detachable quads at the
bottom.
Whats that?

It's a type of lift where the chair detachs from the high speed cable
onto a *much* slower moving cable for loading and unloading. Every ski
area I've ever been to with 1000ft of vertical drop has at least one of
these. They're *very* each to get on and off of, and they get you up to
the top at about double the speed of other chair lifts.
--
Chuck
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