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- Dec 31, 2018
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Hey pug-skiers!
I'm a newbie here, but not a newbie to the slopes. I started skiing around 7 when my home slope was Yongpyong in Korea (recently had the olympics there along with a few other resorts). When I started skiing there, we had two single person chair lifts; now the entire resort and skiing area there is a couple orders of magnitude bigger and better with more than a dozen high speed lifts and gondola. I took a long hiatus after graduating college, but recently rebooted my skiing in the Tahoe area and more recently Whistler-Blackcomb.
I'm going to be the big 5-0 this year; 5'7" and about (cough! cough!) 170 lbs. I currently ski 170 Head Rally's from a few seasons back. Fitted Fischer boots which were a Godsend (is there a God of skiing?) because I have bowed legs and straight boots absolutely *crush* my arches down. I thought everyone had debilitating foot pain from skiing until I got properly fitting boots.
I'm probably a level 7.x skier; I can handle moguls, steep slopes, wildly varying snow conditions with aplomb if they come at me one at a time. But if you combine any two, my form breaks down. I've figured out that it's fore-aft balance/stance management that needs work. So I'm working on that lately. Pulling your feet back when you speed up is completely new concept to me and one I need to practice and internalize.
Glad to be here! I already learned about powder leashes and the new MIPS helmet technology from reading the posts around here.
enkidu / Dan
I'm a newbie here, but not a newbie to the slopes. I started skiing around 7 when my home slope was Yongpyong in Korea (recently had the olympics there along with a few other resorts). When I started skiing there, we had two single person chair lifts; now the entire resort and skiing area there is a couple orders of magnitude bigger and better with more than a dozen high speed lifts and gondola. I took a long hiatus after graduating college, but recently rebooted my skiing in the Tahoe area and more recently Whistler-Blackcomb.
I'm going to be the big 5-0 this year; 5'7" and about (cough! cough!) 170 lbs. I currently ski 170 Head Rally's from a few seasons back. Fitted Fischer boots which were a Godsend (is there a God of skiing?) because I have bowed legs and straight boots absolutely *crush* my arches down. I thought everyone had debilitating foot pain from skiing until I got properly fitting boots.
I'm probably a level 7.x skier; I can handle moguls, steep slopes, wildly varying snow conditions with aplomb if they come at me one at a time. But if you combine any two, my form breaks down. I've figured out that it's fore-aft balance/stance management that needs work. So I'm working on that lately. Pulling your feet back when you speed up is completely new concept to me and one I need to practice and internalize.
Glad to be here! I already learned about powder leashes and the new MIPS helmet technology from reading the posts around here.
enkidu / Dan
. In the intervening decades, they've added three new peaks, Silver, Gold and Rainbow in addition to the original Red and it is now a pretty big resort. Definitely comparable to Northstar in terms of lodging and facilities if not number of runs and terrain.
