Where exactly did you learn to ski powder? The west has terrain which is far steeper than anything back east. I grew up in the east too, and it is dead flat compared to a mountain like squaw or whistler or jackson. It is definitely possible to learn to ski powder if you are from the east, but to think that someone from the east coast could simply come out and dominate is ridiculous. One of the great misconceptions about western mountains is that we always have powder. Much more of the time we ski steep terrain on packed down, chopped up, icy rutty stuff. That is everyday skiing at a place like squaw. What runs have you skied out west? At what mountains? I know you were not dominating the chimney or the fingers. If being in the east will make you a better big mountain skier how come everyone who wins big mountain comps lives out west? Name me one elite big mountain skier who CURRENTLY LIVES back east. There is no substitute for skiing steep terrain. Everyone I know who is from the east and moves out west(I know, I am one of those) will tell you that. Squaw made me a much better skier than mad river glen did.
