Recent content by smootharc

Steeper, deeper... ....with more technical descents on bigger and bigger terrain. And, as always, chewing as much pow as possible, being the pow pig that I am. Valdez in '08 and Cham/Val d'Isere '09 pointed the way to seeing possibilities and meeting personal challenges I only dreamed about...

Please reduce the... ....lax hating to 0%. Thank you. The older I get, the better I was...at lax, that is. Sugarbush skied great this past weekend. Amazing amount of stuff open, including packed corn in the woods that have boulevards / halfpipes which you'd think would have no business...

Hoping this Friday the 17th... ...will be a good one. Or I could just shop in Conway, right ?

Everyone is a powder skier... ....they just don't know it. Bad for them, good for me. This is a good thread, as the "psychology of powder" and "powder fear" is shown to be such a huge mental hurdle for so many people. People who routinely ski tough eastern hardpack and icy conditions...

Extreme skier Scott Schmidt... ...rocks one of these... http://www.sportsmobile.com/ultimate.html The Banana Yellow is A-OK for mine....

Good summary, 2Planker. I had, unfortunately, one of the "complete tear" & "require surgery" injuries. Lacrosse injury way back when. Rehab was tough, with thumb function taking a LONG time to come back to 95%, with years needed to get to 99% (where it remains to this day). I NEVER ski with...

Was thinking about Gulmarg for Jan 2008. So, in November '07 I e-mailed my wife with the idea....and about 3 minutes later an e-mail arrived from her with a link to the US State Department travel advisories for Kashmir. End of discussion. Last winter Powder, Ski, and everybody seemed to have...

Me and the Lange Girl apres ski.... We're so core we hit the hottub in our gear....so we could head straight out the next morning....

Paradise chutes...way out skiers left ? nm

Why, I whip out my Ronco.... ...pocket Fondue set, and wait out the wind hold in style. No cheese handy ? A quick scrape of my liners will work in a pinch.... Oh, and this year, I hope to try the Sugarbush pow cat, and take a ride to the goods while everything else is shut down. Sounds good...

It isn't being built at Killington.... ....it's being built at Mad River Glen. Typos....sheesh !

Simply sweeter. After the gods gave me family obligations last weekend, precluding any sliding on snow.....they (and Win and team) now give me this....an eleventh hour reprieve from summer. Count me in !

http://web.mac.com/oncloud9/iWeb/VT%20Ski/Welcome.html April 6-12, 2008 Great trip with Valdez Heli-Camps and Skiclinics.com (we were a separate group inside the VHC with Dan Egan as our coach). We hit very good conditions, lots of new snow, and flew 4 of 6 days. The nice thing about VHC is...

Highlights... would be: 1) skiing with my 3 year old daughter with a harness on Sugarbush's Village Double, then at bedtime singing again and again the "chairlift song" I made up for her, starring her. "Daddy, sing me the chairlift song...." 2) Heli-Ski trip to Valdez / Chugach mountains...

Perhaps Mad River Glen, Stowe, SB & Jay.... .....can have magnetic signs at their snow stakes that say "If you were at Whiteface right now.....you'd have already received your seasonal snowfall total". These friendly Northern VT neighbor/competitors would be able to post those signs about...