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Do you worry about skiing "burn-out"?
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Funny thing is, those pics hardly do it any justice...Grassi21 said:
awf170
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That picture of Sugarloaf makes me angry. Look at all those icy, cold, windy, nasty groomed traills. Such a windy mountain needs more trails bubblecuffer and winters way. If they hadn't butchered the mountain so bad it would defiantly be my favorate place in NE.
NYDrew
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Bam, I'm booking next seasons trip to sugarloaf.
saabski
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No. my mom started us on skis at the local golf courses (!) at 7 years old. Been skiing ever since (42 years) missed 3 seasons when I was employed full time sailing. Never once have I felt like I might burn out. Since it is nearly Mother's Day, a major THANKS, MOM for all the long drives, used equipment and scratchy wool hats and leather mittens. Things have certainly changed since then!
over 30 years and still goin strong. i admit on flat & fast days to getting a bit bored. like to do a few groomers to warmup but then i never want to see another groomed run (or even a marked trail for that matter) for the rest of the day. unfortuneately this year there were a number of days with no bumps or trees. try to make the the best of it and find challenges.
as for burnout, while i never want the season to end, by the end of the season i admit to getting a bit weary of the peripheral stuff: the grind of getting there, friday night traffic getting out of the city, 5+ hr drive, the monday mornings at work ... but if they were still open i'd still be doing it.
as for burnout, while i never want the season to end, by the end of the season i admit to getting a bit weary of the peripheral stuff: the grind of getting there, friday night traffic getting out of the city, 5+ hr drive, the monday mornings at work ... but if they were still open i'd still be doing it.
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Loving it more than ever so far this year...
Me too. I must say though that with my growing bump addiction I'm getting worried that I'll get bored with groomers, especially mellow ones...
Sheik Yerbouti
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I don't think so, every year I like it more than I did the year previous. I hope I don't get burned out. Gotta vary the terrain, locations, etc.
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I love bumps and I'm not overly bored with groomers, as long as there is some decent pitch and soft snow along the sides to really dig into. My groomed trail skiing technique is all in preparation for skiing bumps. Flat hardpack? Yeah. Pretty boring. But don't worry, B. Soon you'll be cruising with your daughter and you'll be eating up all those green circles.
There is so much for me to learn that I don't fear burn out for a long long time. Hopefully by the time I would consider myself an advanced skier my future little skier(s) will be starting to pick up the sport. From that point on the fun will be watching them develop into little rippers.
SKIQUATTRO
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never, there is always something different to work on...even if you only have 1 trail, you can do different drills to keep it interesting: work on short turns, block and hops etc
Well you've told me several times how you just can't get into Canyon Run at Sundown. That's a trail that I've yet to get bored with, I actually kind of like it. Sure I stopped being challenged by it a long time ago, but it's still been fun and good to work on stuff on. Heck last year I even took some runs down Tom's for the heck of it and wasn't completely bored.
Tom's > Papoose. Its a lot of flats to get to that last little windy part of Papoose, but I find it fun.
I love that last windy part of Papoose! I remember when it was such a challenge as a kid.
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Don't know why. Just can't get into it. It's weird too cuz it normally has nice snow skier's left. The top is nice, but once you get to the Upper Nor'easter merge (near the sun deck) it just feels boring to me. The light over there sucks too.
jaywbigred
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I've been skiing about 17 years of 10+ days a year, and I have definately experienced what I thought was burn-out.
In college I was a ski-instructor for some time, and when I wasn't, I got dirt cheap season passes to the local mountain (Greek Peak). I skiied 40+ days a year between teaching and free skiing.
I know skiing 10-40 days a year is weak compared to som AZ members, but I think my burn-out had little to do with the # of times I skiied. Rather, I often found myself, at the end of a ski season, skiing defensively, as I called it. This would happen often in a year where I had a particularly bad fall or frustrating injury. I would get to the end of the year and start not to enjoy it because I was worried about falling again like that, or reinjuring myself.
It also tended to happen in 1 other situation; at the beginning of a ski season, I try to set goals for myself for that year, in terms of what I am going to improve on, accomplish, etc... There have been years where I push myself and accomplish my goal, but in doing so, I push the limits of my comfort zone. So at the end of the season, I am constantly skiing outside of my comfort zone, so that I continue to meet my goal. The best example is the year I learned to do a 360 (we called 'em helicopters back then). I landed a few, and my friends were always pushing me to do them, but I just felt like I was really pushing my luck. By the end of the season, I was tired of the pressure put on myself by myself and by others, that I felt some burn-out/disinterest in the sport.
(So, my grand total for 360s stands forever stuck at 3 or 4, and I rarely venture into the terrain park anymore.)
I guess I get stuck in a little bit of a bear-trap where the Goal Setting at the beginning of the season focuses my skiing and really makes it enjoyable for me for the first 3/4, but then where it starts to sour on me for the final 1/4 of the season. Make sense?
In college I was a ski-instructor for some time, and when I wasn't, I got dirt cheap season passes to the local mountain (Greek Peak). I skiied 40+ days a year between teaching and free skiing.
I know skiing 10-40 days a year is weak compared to som AZ members, but I think my burn-out had little to do with the # of times I skiied. Rather, I often found myself, at the end of a ski season, skiing defensively, as I called it. This would happen often in a year where I had a particularly bad fall or frustrating injury. I would get to the end of the year and start not to enjoy it because I was worried about falling again like that, or reinjuring myself.
It also tended to happen in 1 other situation; at the beginning of a ski season, I try to set goals for myself for that year, in terms of what I am going to improve on, accomplish, etc... There have been years where I push myself and accomplish my goal, but in doing so, I push the limits of my comfort zone. So at the end of the season, I am constantly skiing outside of my comfort zone, so that I continue to meet my goal. The best example is the year I learned to do a 360 (we called 'em helicopters back then). I landed a few, and my friends were always pushing me to do them, but I just felt like I was really pushing my luck. By the end of the season, I was tired of the pressure put on myself by myself and by others, that I felt some burn-out/disinterest in the sport.
(So, my grand total for 360s stands forever stuck at 3 or 4, and I rarely venture into the terrain park anymore.)
I guess I get stuck in a little bit of a bear-trap where the Goal Setting at the beginning of the season focuses my skiing and really makes it enjoyable for me for the first 3/4, but then where it starts to sour on me for the final 1/4 of the season. Make sense?
SIKSKIER
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I don't know how anyone could get burned out skiing.I have days that I might not be that into as far as skiing but once I'm out there...I've had days where just being at the top of Cannon hanging out all day and making one run to finish the day can be some of my most memorable and meaningfull days of my life.How great it is to be on top of a mountain on a bluebird day while your non-skiing friends sit at home and count the days till summer.Oh we are a lucky breed of people who slide around on snow.Get out there and soak it up!!!
Goblin84
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there is a lot of variety in ways you can get down a mountain (example...look at dmc).
as far as burnout, it is season which really does help. plus it is hard to not find a new challenge. you just have to be open i guess, there are so many different types of skiing you can try and master (race, bumps, backcountry, REAL backcountry, tele, board, ski, parks...need i continue?)
if i could somehow find a job at a resort i would, sadly i dont see that happening unless i want to be a liftie stupid psych degree and stupid me working in education. maybe a ski academy needs a guidance counselor?? hrmmmm...there is an idea
as far as burnout, it is season which really does help. plus it is hard to not find a new challenge. you just have to be open i guess, there are so many different types of skiing you can try and master (race, bumps, backcountry, REAL backcountry, tele, board, ski, parks...need i continue?)
if i could somehow find a job at a resort i would, sadly i dont see that happening unless i want to be a liftie
stupid psych degree and stupid me working in education. maybe a ski academy needs a guidance counselor?? hrmmmm...there is an ideaSimilar threads
