Until I started reading this thread I didn't even know I was supposed to covet untracked corduroy. Who knew
For me, next to fresh pow, fresh cord is it.
Until I started reading this thread I didn't even know I was supposed to covet untracked corduroy. Who knew
For me, next to fresh pow, fresh cord is it.
It is all fun; what is not "good" is good for you. A personal fav is skiing the grooming line between smooth and crud.
Love the stuff you're with.
‘If you can’t be with the stuff you love, love the stuff you’re with, love the stuff you’re with, love the stuff you’e with. Doo-doot doo-doot doo-doot doot-doo-doot.”
Copper Mountain........ One caveat - racers from all over the world train at Copper from opening until mid December. Just about all the Super Bee terrain is closed to the public ........
Shouldn't that be "If you can't ski, on the stuff you love, honey, love the stuff you're with...."
Copper Mountain. A couple of top to bottom runs off the Super Bee high speed chair are groomed nightly. Longest runs of the Colorado Front Range areas, 2600 vertical feet of corduroy! One caveat - racers from all over the world train at Copper from opening until mid December. Just about all the Super Bee terrain is closed to the public. The grooming on the rest of the mountain is just okay until the racers leave. They must have excellent grooming equipment to prepare the terrain for the race training, ski Copper mid winter when that equipment rolls all over the mountain!
Then there's these groomers.
Buttermilk and Snowmass are better than Beaver Creek and a lot less crowdedThis isn't hard.
For the best groomed runs it is either Beaver Creek or Deer Valley.
Grooming is expensive and so are these places.
Then there's these groomers.
Wowza! They just kept on coming and falling. And falling. And...Then there's these groomers.
Amazing no one got badly taken out.Then there's these groomers.
I think these places benefit from some combination of ample dry snow and/or lower ski traffic per acre. I am intrigued by Sun Valley after reading this thread.
. DV seems to groom right after closing. All the awesome technology in the world is for nothing if it's not timed right. Unless it's really cold, grooming should occur late at night or early in the morning, after the deep freeze has set up the snow. If you groom at 5 PM before the temp drops 15 degress you end up with frozen corduroy the next day. Groom at midnight after the freeze and you get a much more skiable corduroy.