| Hello. I've been reading this board sporadically for a while now and figured it would be good if I joined and began contributing to the discussions. I grew up in Connecticut and learned to ski, and then snowboard, at Powder Ridge. As a teenager, I used to take a lot of trips up to Southern/Central Vermont areas (Magic, Mt. Snow, Okemo, Pico, etc.). I'm now 32, live in Eastern MA and my home mountain is Sunday River. I've been snowboarding almost exclusively ever since I caught the bug at age 13, but a couple of seasons ago I took up telemark skiing as a new challenge. I tend to break the telemarks out on windy/icy days or when I have some time on my own (which usually coincides with windy/icy days) to practice without holding other people up. Can't say I've mastered the technique yet, but I am progressing (albeit slowly). I'm not much of a park/pipe person and prefer just free riding around the mountain.
I enjoy obsessing about the weather and trying to catch those days when most reports are predicting rain/ice/wind and I end up at the mountain on a crowd-free powder day. |