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How many damn groomed runs does a mountain need to have? Resorts put all this money into piling up beautiful mounds of man-made snow, only to flatten it all out before letting anyone ski on it. God forbid we get to ski on anything more interesting than a flat sheet of boilerplate before...

Sounds like the US might make daylight savings time permanent within the next couple years. What kind of effect is this gonna have on ski areas? I would guess opening times would get pushed back for at least part of the year because late December / early January sunrises would be around 8:20 in...

I wish mountains hosted more freeride competitions that would be open to the public to enter. I feel like it would be a really good way to promote the mountain at pretty a minimal cost. Set up a start and finish on the gnarliest trail to test all the people claiming they're the best skier on the...

Has it been done? Can it be done? discuss.

Another summer setup thread. I'm considering having a rail setup in my backyard this summer but I don't know what I should use for skis if I do. Right now I just have one pair of all-mountain/park skis and some old directional 130s or something from when I was 10. I'm guessing that it's a bad...

So I've been able to 3 for like 8 years now and I'm really comfortable with them, but I've never been able to get any nice grabs with them. This year I want that to change and I've been trying them more, but I still can't seem to get any clean grabs, and when I do get a grab it can look pretty...

There always seems to be more snowboarding events and they seem to promote snowboarding more. I'm fine with this because there's still an awesome collection of skiing events and I like watching some of the snowboarding too, but why is this? Do they get a lot more viewers on snowboarding events...

How do people feel about skiing under the lift / or about watching others ski under the lift while on the chair? Personally, I kind of like it because I think skiing with people watching pushes me to send harder, which either ends up with a sick run or a sick wipeout. Also, what's your most...

The last couple of winters I have been getting into exploring off-trail at ski resorts and finding cool lines and powder stashes. I typically just cut into small gaps in trees where there are sometimes tracks and make my way down as well as I can. I'm always worried when I do this, though...

Has anyone ever skied this cliff area at Sugarloaf? I've never heard anything about it, but you can clearly see it from the bottom of the mountain and even on the trail map. It looks very rideable and there's gotta be some awesome lines down it. It looks pretty sick to me and I'd be...

I'm getting some new chronics and the guy at the ski shop suggested locking them to the rack when not skiing since they're fairly popular. I know that skis do on rare occasions get stolen, but I think I've maybe seen a couple pairs of skis locked to a rack ever. It seems like too much of a...