Skiing Goals

[TheArchitect]

1. Improve my technique every year
2. Get better skiing moguls
3. Jackson Hole and yes, Corbetts
4. Taos
5. Whistler-Blackcomb
6. Heliski

I checked Alta and Snowbird off the list last year and can't wait for round two at the Gathering.

 

[ZionPow]

More POW POW!

Make some turns with the PugSki crew on Mar 4 and 5!

 

[Tricia]

Some great goals posted! Mine are pretty simple this year. I am still healing up from hip surgery and the other fun stuff that occurs to your body when it’s been compensating so long so I just want to get back to where I was and then improve upon what I was working on.

I want to ski with the gang

Make it to the gathering

Not injure anything else.

I would love to see you make it through this ski season in good health!

 

[Ron]

@Tricia Yes! I and I hear you will be up here too. I’ll do my best to order up a true Steamboat champagne powder day for us.

 

[DoryBreaux]

This year: pass my psia 2 before mid February. Get my hip on the snow consistently.
Long term: get a snowmobile. Go deeper. Get weirder.

 

[Tricia]

Go deeper. Get weirder.

That's what she said.

 

[Ken_R]

What were/are they and how have they changed over time?

For me, I was always going to ski Outer Limits some day. I did it this past season (2016-2017), both groomed and ungroomed. Now I'm not sure what's up next.

And go...

Being able to ski moguls like they are not even there


Resort skiing in fun (steep) terrain almost always entails moguls. Even in the trees. So getting better at skiing them is always a goal of mine since it just makes skiing at a resort much more fun.

 

[KingGrump]

Surviving skiing Taos in February with @KingGrump

No worries mate. You have a Caddy full of buffer friends.

 

[Lofcaudio]

2018 Goals:
Trips to Telluride and Aspen in late January...mostly booked
Trip to Utah for Alta, Snowbird, and Snowbasin in March...mostly booked

Remote possibility: Alyeska in February (unfortunately, less than 10% chance of happening)

 

[Slide of Hans]

This season:
Learn how to tele in an east coast mogul field. I've been trying for 10 years.

Get to 5 new ski areas , goal is 100, I'm stuck at 85.

Ski Mount Greylock's thunderbolt.

 

[mdf]

What were/are they and how have they changed over time?

For me, I was always going to ski Outer Limits some day. I did it this past season (2016-2017), both groomed and ungroomed. Now I'm not sure what's up next.

And go...

Well, if you want a local goal, ski Outer Limits in late spring along the skier's left side. Gives you a taste of what OL used to be like

Or, on a day when it has been groomed and iced up (and therefore is empty) carve it the whole way down.

 

[mdf]

No worries mate. You have a Caddy full of buffer friends.

Thanks to @Tony S for one of the most useful concepts in skiing....

 

[Kbat117]

My goals are as follows

-Never say "I wish I would have tried that"
-Successfully teach some kids how to ski (first year as an instructor)
-Ski more powder
-Smile!

 

[tinymoose]

Well, if you want a local goal, ski Outer Limits in late spring along the skier's left side. Gives you a taste of what OL used to be like

Or, on a day when it has been groomed and iced up (and therefore is empty) carve it the whole way down.

If only I was local to Killington...

What is different between then and now?

 

[Guy in Shorts]

If only I was local to Killington...

What is different between then and now?

Winch cats to groom the slope and shorter skis resulting in smaller more manageable moguls. OL still is a standard for great mogul slopes. Being a Killington local is all that cracked up to be.

 

[tinymoose]

Winch cats to groom the slope and shorter skis resulting in smaller more manageable moguls. OL still is a standard for great mogul slopes. Being a Killington local is all that cracked up to be.

Oddly enough, even though I'm a pretty terrible bump skier by most standards, OL felt a lot less steep with moguls than without. But I think that generally is true of most pitches since you can use them to slow yourself down.

I do at least have White Lightning at Montage to practice on here. It's much, much shorter and usually a sheet of ice with terribly shaped moguls, but it's 32 degrees at its steepest point. Last year was the first year, when conditions were good, that I felt like I was skiing it vs. merely survival skiing.

 

[Monique]

Well, I'm starting to think my long term goals are slipping away:

1. Win the Hahnenkamm
2. Star in a Warren Miller movie
3. Have an Alp renamed in my honor

It's pretty much down to improving my technique at least enough to make up for my annual loss of athleticism.

Oh, and skiing somewhere I haven't skied before.

When I was a teen, K2 skis were the absolute best (Glen Plake skied them!), and I had a goal of skiing K2. I think that's probably not going to happen.

 

[tball]

• grow our kiddos love of skiing
• hit as many pow days as possible
• work up to top-to-bottom bumps on A-lift and Pali
• explore the new steep stuff at A-basin
• get stronger, stay healthy, and live to ski another day

Easy peasy.