Anyone have any tips for skiing Deep pow?

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Ice-Is-Scary

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I live in West Virginia and I've only skied out west once (went to Winter park and Copper Pre-Season this year (lots of snow)). I'm moving out west next year. Anyway I went off into out of bounds tree runs at Winter Park (about 2 feet deep) And I was trying to turn and I just kept falling over the harder I would kick down to turn the deep I would sink. Also any tips on standing back up after you crash in that stuff. I would stick my pole in to prop myself up and it would go straight through the snow it was like a bottomless pit (ohh yeah you west coasters have it made that shit was so much fun)

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if you fall, roll over and get to a postion where you can push on your tails of your skis to get up...there not gonna sink in cause there is so much of there surface on the snow...and as for actually skiing powder, by some fat skis, at least 80mm under foot. GOOD LUCK

 
Skiing pow is pretty effortless once you figure it out, you have to change your skiing from the carve pressure you put on your skiis normally, to a realy balanced stance for pow. For all other snow you would want to have like 70% of your weight on the outside ski to get the correct edge hold and what not, but w/ pow you should pretty much be 50/50 and just stay really centered, instead of trying to puch out and carve turns, just twist the ankles and let the deep snow redirect you. Also once you get the feel for short deep pow turns its kinda like mogul skiing, alot of the turn is in the knees,

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lean back a bit more to keep your tips from sinking in, and it helps to have powder baskets on your poles.

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Thanks for the tips I got lean back out of that and even ski pressure I'm heading out west in like two weeks I'll have to try that. Also any recommendations on pow skis? ie. The best, The cheapest, that kind stuff thanks

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I'd say speed is the key. You can't ski powder when you're going slow. Once you get going at a reasonable rate it all sort of falls into place.

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speed hmmm should have thought of that it was kind of a shallow hill I was skiing on and through the trees so I didn't want to haul ass considering I didn;'t know how to turn yet :D But defientally gonna try it fast (in a bowl or somethin not trees)

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You know your a good skier when you drive your standard car all the way to the resort in your ski boots.
 
pow skis... seth pistols, pocket rockets, scratch bc's, v-exlosive..

i would go with the seth pistols, but those can get pretty spendy

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throw out your park skis and get some real sticks

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real sticks being???

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You know your a good skier when you drive your standard car all the way to the resort in your ski boots.
 
pocket rockets - they are the shit! The ride on ice like it was butter and pow....well let me say findout for yourself what a 90mm waist can do for you

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yeah i was thinking pocket rockets cuz I like salomon and I get their skis really cheap

Crashin' with Passion'

You know your a good skier when you drive your standard car all the way to the resort in your ski boots.
 
Seth pistols or spatula's

If 100% powder ski go spatula

The key to powder is speed speed again and more speed and dont put so much pressure on them.

This way you will float and not sink.

 
don't 'kick down' to turn always have your skis moving forwards by extending your ankles to start the turn (that'll get the tips up instead of 'leaning back') and keep your feet together.

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pocket rockets my ass! to fuckin soft! it's all about the spatulas or the pistols!

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stay a little further back, and remember to keep your speed up. One last thing: 'if in doubt, tuck it out' and 'the only time you can catch an edge is when you're on edge, so go straight'. The two best pieces of advice I've ever heard from anyone.

Fat skis would probably help, but I'm doing OK at Whistler on 1080s(though if I had cash, I'd be on ARVs)

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pipe_munkey...im pretty sure pistols are softer than rockets

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You don't really need a pow ski to ski pow, but it's helpfull. Here's one tip, even if you look like a moron for a little while... just try new things until you find one that sticks with you and work on improving your control and all that.

My first day of real good powder skiing was this year (all the other times were glades runs, this time I used some energy hiking to find the pow) and it started out as a mellow slant that was soooooooo nice to ski. Then I hucked myself about 10 feet into a gully... landing on the uphill part. Then skied down and got down to the harder stuff.

Just remember, if you're pole planting, you don't really need it too much in the mellow stuff, but in the real steep stuff it helps a lot. There was a real deep gully and i was just stabbin my poles in and it made it so much easier.

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I like leaning back and going straight through power. Its so much fun. Its fun in 3 inches of powder since thats pretty much all we get in mid michigan.

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