Do you ski trees?

[mattchuck2]

First Question Yes, Second Question No

Although I do feel a little guily about not doing more to help out in the summer. A lot of guys bust their a$$es all summer long just so a-holes like me can get fresh in the woods. Every year, I vow to help out during the summer, but I never get around to it. This year, I hope it will be different.

 

[JD]

I ski trees. I haven't cut/maintained any lines, but there's a nice hill behind my house I've been thinking about doing some trimming on. These crazy ideas that might have become realities in my 20s seem crazier and less possible in my 40s

Weak. Age is not an excuse. I know people well into there 50s that lug around electric saws. Out-your-back-door-skiing is the best kind of skiing. Period. gettoit.

 

[2knees]

I only ski trees at killington.

 

[Starter Jackets Rule!]

Weak. Age is not an excuse. I know people well into there 50s that lug around electric saws. Out-your-back-door-skiing is the best kind of skiing. Period. gettoit.

Electric Chain saw?
So, is that what I have to look forward to in old age?
Does Stihl make one?

 

[JD]

I only ski trees at killington.

those don't count.

 

[scootertig]

I began playing in the trees on my last trip out west. Blue Sky Basin was good for confidence building, so by the time I got to Loveland, I thought I was ready to really take 'em on. Then I skied Sugarloaf, and the trees were bulletproof, and I re-thought my ability level. (I wasn't even leaving tracks...)

Given the chance, I'll give it a whirl, but I definitely don't try to push myself in the trees. The margin for error is just too small.


aaron

 

[Starter Jackets Rule!]

concentrate on the openings .

 

[deadheadskier]

I haven't skied trees as much as I used to. When living in Northern VT, 80% of my skiing was in the trees, the last three years away, I'd put that number at 5%. That number will go up quite a bit as I intend on skiing a fair bit more in Northern VT this winter.

I did do a tad bit of selective cutting when hiking on Mansfield back in the mid 90's, but haven't done any since. I let folks like JD do that work for me now :lol:

 

[TheBEast]

My friends and I don't like wood poisoning, but skiing in between the trees is my main objective........the tighter the better! Keeps the rif-raf out!

 

[ta&idaho]

I'm liking Eastern skiing much more than I thought I would, but one of the things I miss most are Western trees. I get the hardscrabble thrill of the Eastern bushwhacker, but I miss being able to ski virtually anywhere on the mountain pretty much all of the time...in and out of trees along most any run, cutting across trails, ducking into treed areas/ravines/whatever without much thought of the conditions. Maybe I'll develop the skills and courage to attack tighter Eastern trees with sketchier snow-cover, but for now I'm fairly tentative in what you folk call trees.

So no, I don't engage in amateur forestry in the off-season.

 

[Starter Jackets Rule!]

I'm liking Eastern skiing much more than I thought I would, but one of the things I miss most are Western trees. I get the hardscrabble thrill of the Eastern bushwhacker, but I miss being able to ski virtually anywhere on the mountain pretty much all of the time...in and out of trees along most any run, cutting across trails, ducking into treed areas/ravines/whatever without much thought of the conditions. Maybe I'll develop the skills and courage to attack tighter Eastern trees with sketchier snow-cover, but for now I'm fairly tentative in what you folk call trees.

So no, I don't engage in amateur forestry in the off-season.

One thing that you might not find here on the EC is the Deadly Tree well!
unless we have a winter like last year. I took a header off the profanity trail and landed in a fur tree well head first. Well once I got my wits about and the snow stopped caving in on my face, it took three friends to get me out without ropes(that were in my pack).

in the trees ski in threes!

 

[skimore]

One thing that you might not find here on the EC is the Deadly Tree well!
unless we have a winter like last year. I took a header off the profanity trail and landed in a fur tree well head first. Well once I got my wits about and the snow stopped caving in on my face, it took three friends to get me out without ropes(that were in my pack).

in the trees ski in threes!

huh....aren't you contradicting yourself

 

[WWF-VT]

Yes to skiing in the trees. Spend lots of time in the woods options at Suagrbush.

 

[billski]

The older I get the more I enjoy tree skiing. I am addicted to exploring, variety and surprise. The boulevard-ing of eastern trails has made it entirely predictable, sometimes monotonous. I enjoy the mountains, everything about it, not just blasting down.

I am also addicted to the oft-sought powder which can only be reliably found in the woods.

As far as eating bark and the margin of error, I do ski significantly slower in the woods and stop a lot more to plot out a path.

The only great concern I have is exploring woods that are unknown to me. Looks good on the map, but without a local to guide me, it has made for some interesting bail-outs.

Plus, skiing in the woods, I usually have better stories to tell at the end of the day too!

 

[Warp Daddy]

SURE but on XC skis only
seriously at my age my tree skiing days ( glades)are now sadly few in number --- so much of my day is spent ripping or cruising but do really like classic NE style narrow, twisty wooded trails too

 

[scharny]

I generally spend as much time in the woods as possible on skis. However, this being my third season at Sugarbush, I am somewhat frustrated with the sketchy nature of some of the "mapped" gladed areas at Sugarbush South. There are some runs, such as Lew's Line and Egan's Woods, that have numerous stumps sticking up right in the middle of aesthetic lines that someone could easily have cut flush with the ground if they would just take the time to do it.

In contrast, areas like Stowe, Jay and MRG seem to be far more dilligent about keeping their woods clean of this kind of stuff.

Saying that those stumps will be buried once we get enough base is simply not true, once the lines get hit enough you get moguls AND troughs, and stumps that stick up as much as a foot or more are just frickin' dangerous. Especially after there's a dump with juuuust enough fluff to make 'em invisible.

Maybe it's necessary to go though a permit process with the US Forest Service to prune stumps of trees that are already dead? :-?

I'd nip 'em off myself with a folding saw, but these snowsnakes can only be tamed with a chainsaw.

 

[BigJay]

Been riding trees for a while now... Took my first run down the "dip" at Jay when i was 8y.o.

Now i ride between them whenever there is snow... My splitboard took a beating this weekend on it's second day out... lost a whole lot of base... but no edge damage... so it will be repaired quickly...

I don't trim... too busy with bike trails during summer too... I do however hunt for skin tracks... and do a lot of exploration in our neighbourhood! Tons of stuff... but no one talks about it... skin tracks are carefuly placed so that no one finds it by accident...

Also, earning your turns is a lot more like mountain biking... you enjoy it more... Riding up-and-down the groomers is pretty boring to me... But then again, i have my pass... so i tend to use it 2-3 days out of 4 spent riding.

 

[frozencorn]

Still hesitant in the trees despite two decades of skiing. Getting shorter skis a couple years ago indeed helped, but I tend to pull out way too early even nowadays.

[insert joke here]

 

[icedtea]

yea man how else do you get to ganji's house?????

trees all day on the ec. if i am in-bounds i will hit em up by myself, just usually don't push it as hard or launch cliffs.

 

[Starter Jackets Rule!]

huh....aren't you contradicting yourself

The key word is "Might"
as in you Might be right or you Might not even no what a tree well even is.
Or you might skimore this season or you might not skimore.
Dig?