People skiing park on a pow day?

snowmosexual

snowmosexual

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Today Western NY's drought ended and we got a solid 2-2 1/2 feet. I was down at Bristol shredding the pow and my heart went out to the dudes who were hiking rails and hitting jumps. Early in the day the jumps had pow landings and I could understand, but once they got skied out why wouldn't you move on to the real stuff? Why won't these people realize the magic of pow?
 
we definitely got hit hard. Yesterday i got in an area that's been untouched for a while and i was skiing in mid thigh deep snow. It was aboslutely insane.
 
Park can be pretty fun when its soft , I mean I'd definitely rather be skiing pow but like who really cares what they do if you're both having a grand ole time
 
This was like a few of my friends in quebec last year we got 2+ feet in two days with awesome terrian and they were skiing shitty rails all day... I was like ok but im skiing for real haha.
 
I love pow but personally it doesn't beat the park for me. I love going to the park and trying to progress more than anything Ik it sounds crazy buts that's how I feel. Sometimes I do take time and go through the glass because I love the trees as well. But for me the park is a playground and I can do a ton of things on it and never get bored but to me taking the same glades trails in pow gets tiresome. Some people may think I'm crazy, stupid, etc. but that's just my opinion.
 
ski park on a pow day because for some reason people don't think pow exists in parks...but there is...and I ski it because the shit is untouched all day.
 
I have one pair of park skis that are horrible in pow. So on a pow day I just hit up the park and take advantage of the soft landings and learn new tricks. Because at my local mountain 80% of the time the landings are rock hard and suck quite a bit to fall on.
 
Being from the East Coast this was always my question. Two years ago though i was at steamboat in colorado and we got like 23" of snow in a 24-36 hour time period. Needless to say i was fucking stoked and didnt ride the park all day, but only because the terrain there was big enough that you could actually experience the snow. However, at my mountain in CT with a 500 ft vertical, theres no where to enjoy the powder because the steepest trail is like a 60 degree slope if that and theyre miniscule. nobody bothers going outside the park, its more beneficial to have a day of pain free falls than ride some bullshit trail regardless if it has 2" of fresh or 12".
 
Resort pow kinda sucks in my opinion. I would still never be in the park the morning after 6+ inches, but here in summit county everything's gone in like an hour and then I will take park over heavily skied mixed snow.
 
is like eating a peanut butter'n jelly as opposed to a steak tip sub. sure... eat what u want, ski what u want, and do ur own thing i get it. But dam seshing a rail in 2 feet of fresh?

guess every1 has their priorities. just my opinion, deal with it
 
Who gives a shit what other people do on a pow day. Im with you OP...I never touch the park on a pow day. I have noticed that majority of those who choose to do so are generally pretty crappy skiers anyways. Look around on a pow day...large % of the people especially on the East Coast have no idea how to ski pow
 
13319725:californiagrown said:
Correct me if i am wrong, but you arent actually all that great at skiing... largely because you are a snowboarder.
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Im guessing you meant not that great and yeah i suck. Just bought my first pair in a while last season. Got mybouncy full speed turns back on groomers, need a lot of work for propper forum on steeps and trees but i have fun on em.

I did ski from age 5 to 13 ish and then off and on for years. Was pretty good on them. Couldnt afford to keepup gear for both. Moved away from skiing at the wrong time though. Freestyle skiing wasnt really happening when i gotbsuck itno knuckledragging. Rven got my pass pulled a few time riding gore in the snowboard only pipe.

JUst saying i drag knuckles now but definitely used to ski.

Surf the earth

/cool story hansel
 
i dunno about you guys on the east coast, but here in the alps what sometimes keeps me skiing in the park on a pow day is avy danger. we got a huge dump at the end of last week but there have been 8 confirmed avy deaths this weekend and those are only the people that have been found. i love skiing the whole mountain on a pow day but only with someone who knows his shit concerning avalanches. stay safe!
 
Had a pow day in the midwest, skied pow all morning then when it got tracked out we skied the park which was just all tracked out pow and really fun. I can totally see where these guys are coming from.
 
Well I mean Bristol doesn't have much in terms of glades/pow trails

That being said, who the heck wouldn't want to rip fluffy groomers on the biggest pow day of the decade on the east coast
 
13320312:Twinipz said:
Well I mean Bristol doesn't have much in terms of glades/pow trails

That being said, who the heck wouldn't want to rip fluffy groomers on the biggest pow day of the decade on the east coast
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Bristol has the best woods in western NY you just gotta explore a bit
 
13320322:Diabeeto said:
Or live in the Midwest
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I live in the Midwest but I like skiing pow. Just because we don't get a lot of pow, doesn't mean people don't like it.
 
Haven't seen real powpow for a few years now. I'm talking that knee deep, pillow soft, dust in face, coco. If I had a pow day, I'd be all over that shit. Maybe hit the park if it were on the way down to the lift but my heart will be set on that pow. I wouldn't judge people if they were lapping the park during a pow day. They aren't bugging me and I'm not bugging them. To each their own.
 
If it snows more than an inch my friends are all "POWDER DUDE LET'S GO SKI SOME POW". Meanwhile there are still barespots everywhere and tree skiing is accompanied by a healthy surplus of rocks and grass.
 
Pow days are rare for me. I save the park for the rest of the season. Not going to ruin my day if other people want to ski in the park though. More fresh for me
 
I'm not trying to be an asshole but is the skiing outside of the park actually more fun then skiing the park? Like i know bristol isn't a 400ft garbage pile but still...

I feel ya tho OP, being out west we ski the mountain if it snows but I don't blame some kids for wanting to hit some rails and jump the one or two days they get to ski a week, especially if the rest of the mountain isn't that fun anyways?
 
13320131:ilikedolphins said:
i dunno about you guys on the east coast, but here in the alps what sometimes keeps me skiing in the park on a pow day is avy danger. we got a huge dump at the end of last week but there have been 8 confirmed avy deaths this weekend and those are only the people that have been found. i love skiing the whole mountain on a pow day but only with someone who knows his shit concerning avalanches. stay safe!
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Avalanches on the east coast are much more rare and all in bounds avalanche zones are controlled/tested by ski patrol at every resort, its a little different in america.
 
13321625:pussyfooter said:
I'm not trying to be an asshole but is the skiing outside of the park actually more fun then skiing the park? Like i know bristol isn't a 400ft garbage pile but still...

I feel ya tho OP, being out west we ski the mountain if it snows but I don't blame some kids for wanting to hit some rails and jump the one or two days they get to ski a week, especially if the rest of the mountain isn't that fun anyways?
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I get what you're saying at the beginning, Bristol only has good woods and a few cliffs if you've skied it a lot. Last year my friends and I would just point to woods in between trails and go ski it. From that we all know the best spots. For the average Bristol or NY skier they don't.
 
13321380:Dobber said:
I live in the Midwest but I like skiing pow. Just because we don't get a lot of pow, doesn't mean people don't like it.
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I feel like pow loses sone of it's fun if you don't get to ski the steeps in it. At the small ma and pa owned ski hills I'm used to skiing, I'd much rather sesh a jump with a pow landing or spin some rails into lush landings on pow days
 
13321631:pussyfooter said:
Avalanches on the east coast are much more rare and all in bounds avalanche zones are controlled/tested by ski patrol at every resort, its a little different in america.
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I have never heard of a serious inbounds avy on the east coast. I do have a confirmed one from Skiventure, my little 100ft tall Hill! Wind blew up a lip on the hip and it went! I almost died laughing.
 
Unless theres a fuck ton on my hill Ill just pack down the jumps lip and hit pow on my way down to the park. My mountain has 2 good glades that require a lot of snow which NH has gotten but its skied out now. 30" in the past 2 weeks and more coming this weekend
 
Usually at my mountain if it snowed more than 6 inches it means that the top of the mountain is windy as hell and a sheet of ice which also happens to be the only steep spots. Also tree skiing is not allowed. On pow days I prefer to go ski the limited amount of fresh snow on the sides of trails than being in the park especially since you usually can't get speed for the jumps after it snows, but I don't blame people that just stick to the park.
 
Why do we have to judge people for what they want to ski?

I mean isn't the whole point of all of this is that you should be allowed to do whatever the fuck you want?

I mean if someone wants to ride park on a pow day, fucking go for it. More power to ya, and more pow for those who want it.

Why must skiers always be so judgemental?
 
13323479:Mr.Bishop said:
Why do we have to judge people for what they want to ski?

I mean isn't the whole point of all of this is that you should be allowed to do whatever the fuck you want?

I mean if someone wants to ride park on a pow day, fucking go for it. More power to ya, and more pow for those who want it.

Why must skiers always be so judgemental?
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Because 12 year olds
 
13319703:eazy. said:
Being from the East Coast this was always my question. Two years ago though i was at steamboat in colorado and we got like 23" of snow in a 24-36 hour time period. Needless to say i was fucking stoked and didnt ride the park all day, but only because the terrain there was big enough that you could actually experience the snow. However, at my mountain in CT with a 500 ft vertical, theres no where to enjoy the powder because the steepest trail is like a 60 degree slope if that and theyre miniscule. nobody bothers going outside the park, its more beneficial to have a day of pain free falls than ride some bullshit trail regardless if it has 2" of fresh or 12".
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60 degree trail?? Okay dude
http://www.gondyline.com/angle-of-ski-trails.php
 
Freahies are only as good as the terrain to ski on, so if there are no steeps or cliffs is rather do park than ski a flat run with a foot of snow. But tahoe is dead so there is nothing and if there was only a foot and I had to ski the pow on a bunny hill I would.
 
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