Earn your turns.

skiingonskis

skiingonskis

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I just got back from hiking my home mountain, Steamboat. Got like 300 verticle in. Anyone else been hiking for their turns? any stories? for me, the actual act of skiing after hiking is much more enjoyable, knowing that you earned them, and didnt use any other resources.
 
At a local hill, there is an old T-bar that is no longer in use. This lift served only 2 runs and is isolated from the rest of the hill. You can get freshies a week after a storm if you're willing to hike. I'd guess it's about 300ft vert, but it's decently steep. I hike it every time I'm there.
 
hiking to get to ski is fun, real fun, its usually just you and your possie and you can do whatever you want. way to get some still!
 
^ LOL ya cause fortune gets mad powda. and the only reason it wasnt open this year is because they do not make snow on that run so they need enough natural snow to cover it. but it is fun to build pre-season jumps on.
 
Remember that winter 2 years ago, when we got like 10 ft of snow? Fortune got mad powda. There was one storm that dumped like 45cm, I skied knee deep pow a week later by hiking.
 
hahah me to..... hiking makes even shitty conditions so much better cause you actually earned it
 
You'll hate this but I always learn tricks better when I hike rails rather than taking the lift.I think like halfway through the season I learned like 10 or so tricks in one super foggy afternoon just hiking the jib park at my mtn. with a couple snowboarders. Awesome vibes = awesome tricks.
 
Hiking makes skiing more exciting. On my trips out west I always try to hike because the feeling of walking on top of huge mountains is incredible. The skiing is always sick when you hike and you always feel like you earned it.
 
oh ya and to the thread hiking is a lot of fun, same with mountain biking i enjoy the way up "almost" as much as the way down. hiked alta preseason a good 12 times, i definitely recommend it. just get a backpack to carry the skis, did it once without and my arm was dead.
 
I personally agree, some of the best lines of my life were after a huge and difficult hike in. But to each his own.
 
hell yeah, I hiked some upper steeps on closing day at my mountain...fresh tracks all day long, worth the hike every time!
 
yeah Jonas, i hiked up the Bashor today. I did only get 300ft of vert. Built a little kicker all by myself and did about 20 jumps. Awesome way the kill an afternoon.
 
REAL skiing involves earning your turns. I hate that guy who always bitches about it. STFU and grow a pair
 
I hike all the time when I'm out west, but I'd be lying if I said I REALLY enjoyed the hike. I like gettin' the goods, so it's all worth it in the end, but walking up a mountain in ski boots carrying my skis is by no means enjoyable. It's fucking tiring, but I guess that's part of the reason the "goods" are still available several days later...because the hike sucks. I really need to invest in some dukes & skins.
 
tru.

when i went out west and eventually decided to hike to get some freshies, i realized how fuckin tiring that shit is, i was gasping for air within a minute of hiking. after i was done though, i looked down at my line and just took in the scenery and it was just a beauty. worth it for sure, and then the pow afterwards was unreal
 
I agree to the extent the east coast allows, we got one storm that brought around waist deep snow. With this I live in New Jersey so this is alot of fucking snow, I contemplated wither or not I wanted to go try and hit handrails or walk behind my house and ski about a 500 feet vertical glade I cut over the summer time just in hopes for a storm like this. Needless to say I did the later and spent all day hiking and skiing in that glade just building shit and skiing, it was extremely tired and after skiing it top to bottom four times I was done. Very rewarding though.
 
I like it when people bitch about hiking (unless they are ascending with me).

it seems some youngsters are learning the ways of the powder warrior.
 
word man, we stopped by the park real quick but didnt do anything. it was my first day back skiing after surgery this year, so i was pretty stoked anyways
 
unfortunately no, ive done my acl twice in under a year, so im going to try to stay off my skis for most of the summer. next year!!
 
hiked half way up loon NH like 2 weeks ago to build a kicker with some friends.. which was really fun then at about 1 we heard that cannon NH, ten min up the road had 2 feet of pow... loon got nothing, so we skied down wat loon had left of snow which at the bottom was grass skiing lol and we got up there hiked up cannon mtn, the whole thing we got down at about 5 made a pow kicker hit it fro 2 hours til it got dark.... it was sooo rewarding i had so much fun... made my ski year... i also stomped my first 5 and switch 3 then also tried soem flips and off axis stuff great day and worth every step i took up those mtns
 
Bummer!I am sorry to hear that and I hope you are recovering well!

My boy Troels told me you were pretty decent at drinking "bowle" and although you might be absent we shall drink to your health!

And ski of course!
 
after the lifts stopped at breck, i skinned to the top of the tbar. that will make you feel like Heman,
 
I know about 10 AWESOME hike lines at each of my (local) mountains. Deep pow and cliffs each time
 
oh yea so rewarding to post hole 4 hours for 10 minutes of skiing

sometimes on a powder day I'll hike right under the lift, makes me feel so much more manly than those a-holes taking the easy route up
 
Ahh, it's so rewarding to skin... I hate skinning but I guess you have to if you want to ski good snow... Like this year in Revelstoke, had more days skinning all day for 2-3 30 second runs then I can count too. Shit was so tracked out...
 
Oh for sure. Hiking the park was how I slid my first rail, and I didn't own twintips then! Wish my boots were lighter though...
 
You were talking about the old T-bar at fortune right? Tremblant actually has some nice local only stashes when there is some snow, this year never got to go in.
 
one day of this year my home mountain had some lift probleme so the chair to get at the top was close and they were a super sick storm so me and 2 of my friend decided to hike at the top of the mountain to ride some virgin pow. It was super sick we had to avoid a lot of ski patrol and when we finally get to the top of the run and ski we were in a second state of mind. sick day fosho!
 
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