PARK VS. POW

Ill always take pow if it there no question, the park stays around for the season, you can hit it the next weekend
 
How about ski the mountain?

If you don't ski the mountain when there is no pow, you are really missing something. Unless your mountain reallly sucks.

Do you mean to suggest that is you ski at Snowbird/Squaw/Whistler/Mammoth the only time to ski the mountain is if there is pow? If that is what you want to do, more power to you, but you are really missing a great part of skiing.

If all there is to do at your mountain when there is no pow is carve or ski the park.....I feel sorry for you.

I don't see why someone who lives in say, Vermont, would only ski the mountain when there is pow. Skiing Killington bumps will help your skiing. I grew up skiing Belleeayre/Hunter/Whyndam, back when there were no parks....And I had a great time skiing bumps. If the kids at those places nowadays are not even bothering to occasionally ski those bumps, well they are really missing out.
 
If anything saved skiing, it is better skis, and options. Shane McConkey did a whole lot more to save skiing than any terrain park.

Skiing back east was pretty awesome before terrain parks. If you ski Stowe every weekend, and you don't ski the front four, you are really limiting yourself.

Skiing could survive without terrain parks. There are plenty of skiers back east who don't ski park...And they don't spend all day on groomers.

Skiing bumps is really, really fun.

I do understand your point, but skiing in the northeast could exist without parks. Parks just make things better.

 
imo bumps suck..i mean they're a nice challenge and i handle them pretty well, but i just don't like them..

i personally really like park skiing although i'm not that good, it's a great source of adrenaline when there's no pow..and yet, i do like cruising around the mountain..
 
alright im going to be honest, i only have park skis so all i need is a fresh cut jump line with corduroy for miles. powder is like a task with my skis so id say thats a close second if only i had some pow skis.
 
So you are a bit like a 12 year-old virgin who loves chocolate, and insists to a an experienced 25 year old that chocolate is better than sex.

I grew up back east. I loved skiing bumps, thougtht they were the greatest thing in skiing. When my family took trips out west, I wanted big open bowls, full of moguls. I did not like powder initially, it was very hard for me to ski. I was humbled. Back east I thought I was a great skier, but the western mountains made me feel small. Keep in mind, this was BEFORE fat skis, so I learned pow/crud on sknny skis, MUCH harder than it is today. Give me an icy, east coast bump run, and I was fine, but give me a steep, western pow run, and I sucked.

I went to school out west, and gradually got to ski more pow. During a Colorado trip my freshman year, stuff finally clicked, and I started loving pow. I finally saw what the fuss was about, skiing 6 inches of light Colorado fluff. From then on, I wanted pow. Skiing Mammoth 2-3 times a month, and on most of my vacations, I started to fiend for powder.

Skiing powder is beyond euphoric. It is truly one of the great things in life. I would try to explain it, but I can't. Why do you think people at Squaw line up at 3 am for the KT-22 lift? Because they want to hit The Fingers in all their glory. And people DO line up at that time, ask any Squaw local

I'm not putting down your opinion, and I respect that you would rather ski park. LIke I said, there was a time when I would rather ski bumps.

 
PARK!

nah, i kid. actually, i don't really spend any time in the park. even if there's no fresh snow i'm usually tearing up the rest of the mountain, finding side booters, shredding switch.... pretty much everything but park.

then when there's pow, oh mama, i could live there for the rest of my life...
 
I purchased a military sleeping bag for days when it dumps, so I can sleep in my car.

Would I have the same dedication if it was park? Nope, plain and simple.
 
did your boyfriend penis poke your brain or something? park or pow. not park and pow. that just ruins the park. and besides what are you doing in the park when there is pow?!!!

 
Park, cause I live in jersey and ski on man made granules of ice.

But I'm in colorado for the week, I made one turn in this patch of pow in some tress and it was amazing. I can only compare it to the first time you ride a wave surfing. And that was after a failed turn trying to use edges. Completely different then railing a turn on hard snow.
 
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