People Overdressing - Warm Spring Skiing

[Cornhead]

Yeah, come on girls, take it off.:wink: I love skiing in shorts, though I must admit I haven't done it that often. The feeling of corn spray on your legs is pretty cool, just don't fall! The corn will tear you up! T-shirts, on the other hand, are standard equipment for my Spring skiing. Sometimes you just can't win, a couple weeks ago at Platty, I saw temps forecast in the high 30's, so I wore only a pair of PJ bottoms under my pants. The seats on the chairs were coated with ice, it was like sitting on an ice cube with my underwear on. Luckily, I had extra layers in my car, putting them on in the bathroom stall was challenging.

 

[C-Rex]

Saw people last week at Heavenly, bluebird with temps in the low 60's, with Turtlefur neck warmers, mitts, and insulated pants and jackets on top of layers. I had shell pants with nothing but boxer-briefs under them and an underarmor base layer shirt under my shell jacket. Had all the vents open on my helmet, jacket, and pants. I used my thin pipe gloves all day and still had to take them off on the lift. My favorite way to ride. I would have gone with just a t-shirt but I tend to fall fairly often and hate being soaking wet all day, so I like keeping the gore-tex on.

If you all are looking for good warm weather gloves, I highly suggest pipe gloves. Thin, comfy, and super grippy. Plus they come in all sorts of fun designs.


These are mine. Get it? PIPE gloves...

 

[Cheese]

Yeah, come on girls, take it off.:wink:

I think they've been fairly accommodating by wearing their base layer after skiing as an outer layer. No complaints from me about this fashion trend.

 

[Bumpsis]

BG - highly recommend the OR Stormtracker gloves for warmer weather, as long as it is not too wet out.

These look really nice but waaay too expensive.
For warm weather skiing, I use a pair of gloves that's 50/50 % wool and fleece fabric. Found one at TJ Max for about $ 15. They absorb sweat really well without making hands feel cold. I'm really a big proponent of wool. It beats fleece in many ways.
I used them in temps down down to mid 20* F and they worked great. I also use these as liners with some old gloves that have little of their original insulation when the temps go lower.
The nice upside of that "system" is that everything dries nicely and quickly. Some of my more expensive, insulated gloves with Gortex take forever to dry and I have to flip them inside out to really get them dry. Sort of a PITA.

 

[timm]

Did not look up current price - would not pay $70 for light gloves! I paid $30 on sale a year or two ago.

 

[HowieT2]

I like to overdress and then peel layers as necessary. "'nothing cool about being cold"
last weekend I started off with a light balaclava and ski gloves. after a few runs, the balaclava was in my backpack and I had switched out the ski gloves for my work gloves from home depot.

 

[Cornhead]

I think they've been fairly accommodating by wearing their base layer after skiing as an outer layer. No complaints from me about this fashion trend.

Yes, I like that look too, skin tight is good. :smile: Have you seen the Underarmour commercial with the girl whose outfit changes colors? Oo la la. :wink:

 

[Puck it]

 

[hippiechick]

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These are mine. Get it? PIPE gloves...

Yeah, those are pretty cool


On the last weekend of the season at Targhee, it would be 3 days of drunken stupidity and partying. Pretty common to see all kinds of crazy shit on the hill - chicken suits, tutus, and so on. If it was actually warm out, many of the girls would strip down to bras and bomb down. I may or may not have been one of them. I'll never tell.

 

[Morwax]

Ever wonder about people who are always wondering about how others dress or look? I do.. why would you care what someone else you did not know was wearing. Some folks have poor circulation or anticipated colder temps up high. I personally dress in layers and if im to warm I can peel one off. Ive seen people with shorts and t shirts get hypothermic after wiping out or breaking equipment and getting stuck up high.

 

[ScottySkis]

Yeah, those are pretty cool


On the last weekend of the season at Targhee, it would be 3 days of drunken stupidity and partying. Pretty common to see all kinds of crazy shit on the hill - chicken suits, tutus, and so on. If it was actually warm out, many of the girls would strip down to bras and bomb down. I may or may not have been one of them. I'll never tell.

That what happens at Steamboat, what great memories.

 

[dlague]

I think it is tough sometimes it may start off in the upper twenties ant the base and be twenty on most summits (minus inversions) - which then requires the warmer gear. During the spring especialy if you are lapping, and the temps get into the upper thirties or low forties then it is time to shed layers. Last weekend we started off with temps around 28 at the base then by 1 it was nearlt 50 then by 5 back down in the low thirties.

We ended up sking with our jackets - got heated up ditched the jacket and gloves and skied with a sweat shirt then as we went into night skiing needed to put the jacket and gloves back on. Layers are the key!

Some people make the mistake of putting thier lift ticket on their jackets and think they can transfer it to something else! Then again some people over dress in the middle of the season!

 

[Cornhead]

Some people make the mistake of putting thier lift ticket on their jackets and think they can transfer it to something else!

I keep my season pass attached to my jacket in the Winter, as things warm up, I transfer it to my pants, the only problem is I've lost my pass two seasons in a row now doing this. I think the problem is, I use a key ring to attach it, there's no give to it, so if it gets snagged, it rips the plastic card. The key ring was still attached to my pants both times. I can think of two solutions, first is to use something flexible to attach the pass, the other is to put a grommet in the hole punched into the pass. I think next year, if my molehill is still in business, I'm going to try the grommet method. Sucks, I want to ski my home hill tomorrow, I'll have to shell out $25 for a lost pass. They should prorate the fee, since the season is almost kaput, they won't.

I have transferred day passes that use zip-tie type wickets, cut it off and reattach it with another, kinda screwed with a sticky pass.

 

[o3jeff]

I keep my season pass attached to my jacket in the Winter, as things warm up, I transfer it to my pants, the only problem is I've lost my pass two seasons in a row now doing this. I think the problem is, I use a key ring to attach it, there's no give to it, so if it gets snagged, it rips the plastic card. The key ring was still attached to my pants both times. I can think of two solutions, first is to use something flexible to attach the pass, the other is to put a grommet in the hole punched into the pass. I think next year, if my molehill is still in business, I'm going to try the grommet method. Sucks, I want to ski my home hill tomorrow, I'll have to shell out $25 for a lost pass. They should prorate the fee, since the season is almost kaput, they won't.

I have transferred day passes that use zip-tie type wickets, cut it off and reattach it with another, kinda screwed with a sticky pass.

Can't you tell them you forgot your pass at home? They usually let that fly once or twice.

 

[mriceyman]

i feel like if people are on a mountain then they have to layer up regardless of the temps. in tahoe 2 weeks ago some people had gators on with not a inch of skin showing. it was 55+ with bright sunshine. then there were others who were in tanks and shorts.

 

[Cornhead]

Can't you tell them you forgot your pass at home? They usually let that fly once or twice.

They used to just give you a day pass, guess that was abused, I think it's $3 now, may be cheaper to go that route the rest of the season.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Usually wear just a light weight NF hy vent pant and biking shorts under, with a compression shirt and soft shell and spring gloves . Way up here you seldom see temps warm enough for much less. Even the kids seldom go withjust long sleeve. Tees , unless of course they are Park rats

 

[Abubob]

Ever wonder about people who are always wondering about how others dress or look? I do.. why would you care what someone else you did not know was wearing. Some folks have poor circulation or anticipated colder temps up high. I personally dress in layers and if im to warm I can peel one off. Ive seen people with shorts and t shirts get hypothermic after wiping out or breaking equipment and getting stuck up high.

Half the fun of a forum is talking about other people ... and the other half of the fun of a forum is talking about ourselves.

(Can you say "Half of the fun of a forum" ten times fast? )

At Jay the other day I'd do the bottom of runs up to the lift at Mach speed with my arms in a "T"; so refreshing

At Ragged last week I had limited time and didn't want to shed my inner puffy layer. Now if I was in the woods I'd have no choice but to take five minutes to run into the lodge in stash the puffy in my bag but all I did was take half the vent plugs out of my helmet, unzip my parka halfway and bombed everything. I had a blast. I did about 10 runs in two hours. Would've done more but for three rides up the slow Spear triple. I was so cool. 8)

 

[ScottySkis]

Can't you tell them you forgot your pass at home? They usually let that fly once or twice.

They should just sell next year's pass to you now.

 

[Morwax]

Half the fun of a forum is talking about other people ... and the other half of the fun of a forum is talking about ourselves.



(Can you say "Half of the fun of a forum" ten times fast? )




At Ragged last week I had limited time and didn't want to shed my inner puffy layer. Now if I was in the woods I'd have no choice but to take five minutes to run into the lodge in stash the puffy in my bag but all I did was take half the vent plugs out of my helmet, unzip my parka halfway and bombed everything. I had a blast. I did about 10 runs in two hours. Would've done more but for three rides up the slow Spear triple. I was so cool. 8)

"Hey look at that guy with the unzipped puffy" they said as they sat there in their xxxxl LA Lakers shirt:beer: