Who here does more all mountain than park?

Lus146

Lus146

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Trying to get an idea if NS is 100% park skiers. I enjoy park but I suck at it and have hurt myself enough from sucking so I don't really have any desire to be able to do any crazy park stuff. But I really like all mountain skiing and carving and shit. Who here is more into all mountain than park?
 
I ski park when conditions are bad. So last year I skied a lot of park. This year, I've used my park skis only like 3 or 4 days.
 
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Trying to get an idea if NS is 100% park skiers. I enjoy park but I suck at it and have hurt myself enough from sucking so I don't really have any desire to be able to do any crazy park stuff. But I really like all mountain skiing and carving and shit. Who here is more into all mountain than park?
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I ski mostly all mountain these days, but always take laps through the park. Park is technically part of "All Mountain" if you really think about it. I try to do a little bit of everything I have available to me.
 
I'll dip into the park if conditions aren't good, otherwise you'll finding me sending cliffs and ripping around in the trees. The best feeling in the world to me is dropping a big cliff and riding it out.
 
I'm about 50-50 on park and all mountain. If it snows I'm skiing the mountain, otherwise if I'm skiing I'll take some park laps, take some mountain laps, take some park laps etc.
 
I spend most of my time in the bumps/trees. If I am passing a park I'll ski it for sure but I'll only deliberately go to the park if the conditions suck and there's not much else to do.
 
I'd rather be charging something steep and deep, but I live 4 hours away from a mountain, so I'm stuck riding park during the week and on weekends when I can't leave town.
 
When I go to KB, i'll hike their park all day because their lifts are slow as balls and they only have like 3 runs open at the moment so fuck that. But when I go to Holiday Valley, I'll ski the hill for real. I think I've skied park 4 times this year. Been getting some solid days on my Jessie's and it's been a hell of a time.
 
I ski more all mountain. I enjoy finding natural hits/jibs and riding the bumps and pow. Im getting older and cant afford to get hurt anymore. Medical bill are expensive and if I cant go into work because I'm injured how am i gonna pay the bills? Getting old sucks guys.
 
Looking at this thread it almost looks like there are no park rats on NS. I ski park all the time except for when there's fresh pow ofc. But it depends a lot on the resort I'm currently in
 
park is fun, but i mainly ski all over the mountain. if i go night skiing and sometimes in the spring i'll take some park laps, but usually i'm everywhere else. i still do lots of tricks and jibbing and that stuff, just not in the park
 
Ride mostly "all mountain" I guess now...used to ski park all the time back east and still do when i go home. I try to ride the mountain like a park though, I love bringing a smooth park style to hits around the mountain, definitely a good feeling when it works
 
i enjoy mountain skiing way more than park. but i live in the midwest so park is the only exciting thing to do :/ when i go out west i do nothing but ski the steepest shit i can find
 
. Upper mountain is where I spin most of my laps, but always try and pass though the park once or twice on the way out. Ride a lot more park in the spring when those landings are softer.
 
Back country is where it is at, skiing the trees and deep pow is bomb as hell! I also dig bombing groomers and really carving hard. I often hit Slalom and GS courses. don't actually spend a whole lot of time in the park. The mountain I ski at is inconsistent at putting one up. Some days its there, others it just isn't.
 
I'll take laps through the park of it's an off day and I am just messing around, but my goal is to get fresh tracks.
 
Haven't really set foot in the park much in the past 2 years. Just kind of got tired of it as I became a better skier. I'll pop in if its on the way to wherever I'm going or if conditions are shit fuck. Everyonce and a while ill head to bush for a drunken spring day on sunny d tho
 
13774501:TNORTS said:
Haven't really set foot in the park much in the past 2 years. Just kind of got tired of it as I became a better skier. I'll pop in if its on the way to wherever I'm going or if conditions are shit fuck. Everyonce and a while ill head to bush for a drunken spring day on sunny d tho
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Tru.
 
its crazy how 7 or 8 years ago when i first joined NS the answers would have been completely different. There is definitely a stigma associated with riding predominately park nowadays.

I personally try to ride pow/off piste as much as possible through the winter, not ashamed to say that when spring rolls around i love getting into the park and spending probabaly the majority of my time spinning hot laps...
 
I ride park 90% when at home in ohio, at an east coast resort ill go into the park for like 3 laps. Out west I don't even bother because its rare to ski pow or even trees for me. Of course the times i have been out west the park has been awful to dedicate any time to it, atleast the places I went
 
Mostly ride park when I'm home in Southern Ontario, because there's really nothing else to do, but when I go out west/east, I rarely ride park, shredding the whole mountain is much more fun
 
I seldom ride the park. Maybe in late March if the snow sucks. The entire mountain can be your park, and you can be more creative. Plus, we've been getting a ton of snow this year, so I'm mostly chasing powder stashes.
 
cant do a single cool "park" trick, and feel like is too late to learn. those fresh 14 year olds are intimidating man :(
 
13774892:wpetty20 said:
cant do a single cool "park" trick, and feel like is too late to learn. those fresh 14 year olds are intimidating man :(
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Just go for it man! I'm 21 and landed a rail slide for the first time on December 31, 2016
 
I like to ski trees but in Ontario, you get a few laps through the trees until the rocks and ice come out. After that I stick to the park.
 
13774892:wpetty20 said:
cant do a single cool "park" trick, and feel like is too late to learn. those fresh 14 year olds are intimidating man :(
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Dude, get out there and try it. I'm 17, been on skis for 13 years, and nailed my first box 2 weeks ago. Screw the 14 year olds, 1/2 of them can't even shred on the rest of the mountain. Go for it.
 
i've been skiing for 14 out of my 16 years on this fine earth and this was my first season hitting a rail. At this point its mainly keeping skiing a challenge. I feel like I've gotten to a point with my "regular" skiing where its not productive to get better at it every day (not really the best way to say it), so Its on to the park if I want to work at something.
 
I guess you could call it "all mountain" but the park rat in me finds a way to make almost anything and everything into a natural park. I don't think I've been able to make it down the mountain without finding something to jump off of. Big mountain has helped me ski better in park just about as much as skiing park has helped me in big mountain. I usually try to split my day or ski per the conditions, or where I ended up for the day. If I'm up at Boreal, I came with the knowledge that it's a park only day, end of story. If I'm at Squaw I'll split my day and try to play around with a bit of everything but if it's a fresh powder or even good leftover day, forget about it, big mountain all the way.

But even in an "all mountain" situation, I can't help myself, wind lips, cat tracks, tree stumps, fallen logs, ruts, anything is fair game.

You know what, chalk me up as 50/50, I'll turn anything into a jump...
 
I like to ski park in the summer at Timberline. In the winter you probably won't catch me anywhere near the park unless it's a bad day on the mountain.
 
I'm not on park skis 90% of the time, but my home mountain has a ton of fun natural stuff to ride. If I lived out east park would for sure take up all my time.
 
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I like to ski park in the summer at Timberline. In the winter you probably won't catch me anywhere near the park unless it's a bad day on the mountain.
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Isn't this pretty much how it works?

I still like to ski park when I'm at the local 380' mountain, but you bet your ass if I'm elsewhere or there's pow anywhere I'm not in the park.
 
I bet it's close to 100% park skiing fans on here. I think it's great and I love to see what people are up to but I can't do big park tricks and once there is enough snow I'm mostly off piste doing my own thing. My thing is freestyle though meaning I feel free to ski whatever style I want whether it's in the park or not.
 
13842618:OregonDead said:
I bet it's close to 100% park skiing fans on here. I think it's great and I love to see what people are up to but I can't do big park tricks and once there is enough snow I'm mostly off piste doing my own thing. My thing is freestyle though meaning I feel free to ski whatever style I want whether it's in the park or not.
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I'm into Free Skiing meaning I ski for free ;)
 
Never got good enough to confidently do rails and shit. I've recently discovered the beautiful world of skiing glades and that's my new addiction.
 
I ride a ton more park because I work in the park. That said I'm more keen on perfect cords as the sun starts to bake them at 10 am and deep powder in the steep shit.

I can ride park decently but I've been slowing down from injuries. I'd much rather lay some deep turns on the groomers or get some face shots in the trees or bowls.
 
Yo fuck the park. Im all about REAL SKIING, ON REAL MOUNTAINS, ON REAL SNOW, ON REAL JUMPS, ON REAL CLIFFS. I respect all skiing though..... hahahahahahaha
 
I literally dream of skiing park professionally, like being a full on professional. That's what I wanna do in life.

But sadly I suck at it, which actually really depresses me sometimes. I'm 24 now and I never really had a chance to get good at park as I live in the UK and only skied with my family as I was growing up. So never had a chance to spend much time in the park.

I hate being there , cause I know I'm a jerry and all the 12 year olds are better than me, so I visit the park sometimes when it's quiet but mostly try to avoid it.
 
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