Grooming...

[awf170]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9917842/

 

[thetrailboss]

:lol:

Not surprised at all.

I was surprised to see that the groomer pictured is an older LMC unit. :blink:

 

[riverc0il]

and to think 60+ years ago, everyone regardless of age catagory all skied the type of snow condtions don't get me wrong, machine groomed has it's place on the majority of most mountain's trails. but how much more could ski areas possibly expand this operation

 

[Mark D]

mayeb this will lead to more spaced out bumbs for older peolle and boarders.

 

[Tyrolean_skier]

mayeb this will lead to more spaced out bumbs for older peolle and boarders.

If you can't ride in the moguls then stay out of them. I absolutely hate it when there is a lot of room between moguls. Usually it is icy in between them. Not any fun to ski them.

 

[awf170]

mayeb this will lead to more spaced out bumbs for older peolle and boarders.

how good grooming lead to more spaced out bumps... A groom track in between every bump... sweet :roll:

 

[tirolerpeter]

Groomers

I'm insulted! Don't they know that 60 is the "new 30" (Or in my case, 59)? Just when I bought Dan's new Mogul book they want to flatten out the mountain.

 

[Mark D]

no just maybe one that will have an extendable are kina like what a pipe cutter is. and just make shure their spaced out more.

 

[riverc0il]

sorry tirolerpeter, but resorts have decided that scraped and icey flat slopes are safer for you than bump filled trails. it's for your own good, really. you may want to tempt fate but it would be a tragedy for the resort if someone got hurt in those bumps. you are only a paying customer in the minority so your opinion doesn't count.

:lol:

100% pure tongue in cheek comment aside, it is better to have no bumps than spaced out bumps. spaced out bumps are the pits and generally the result of slide and skid tactics of inexperienced skiers not trying to skier bumps but inadvertently making them and then making them worse. ideally, for folks learning or who have bad knees, you want small and manageable bumps of soft snow with small troughs, but not long troughs which are usually created by skidding on scraped snow.

 

[awf170]

mayeb this will lead to more spaced out bumbs for older peolle and boarders.

no just maybe one that will have an extendable are kina like what a pipe cutter is. and just make shure their spaced out more.

Greg, are you still looking into that add-in so that we can get spell check at the bottom of every page? :wink:

 

[tirolerpeter]

Groomers

sorry tirolerpeter, but resorts have decided that scraped and icey flat slopes are safer for you than bump filled trails. it's for your own good, really. you may want to tempt fate but it would be a tragedy for the resort if someone got hurt in those bumps. you are only a paying customer in the minority so your opinion doesn't count.

:lol:

100% pure tongue in cheek comment aside, it is better to have no bumps than spaced out bumps. spaced out bumps are the pits and generally the result of slide and skid tactics of inexperienced skiers not trying to skier bumps but inadvertently making them and then making them worse. ideally, for folks learning or who have bad knees, you want small and manageable bumps of soft snow with small troughs, but not long troughs which are usually created by skidding on scraped snow.

Trust me rivercoil I do stay off icy bumps. There is no enjoyment in smacking up on ice at my age. Now soft bumps..that is fun. When Killington blows a lot of snow on one of the trails leading down to Bear Base, some really nice soft bumps develop. I love taking them at speed. And, just as a little too much heat developes in the leg muscles, you hit the run-out to the lift. A perfect combination.

 

[Birdman829]

calm down boys :wink: While we may not like it, this move makes nothing but sense from the resorts point of view. They can't leave the entire mountain ungroomed just to please the top 10% of skiers. It's not like they are going to groom everything; that's not possible. Besides, I don't necessarily hate the occasional run down a steep, groomed trail once in a while :wink:

 

[tirolerpeter]

Groomers

Actually, grooming one side of a number of expert trails has made skiing Hunter more enjoyable. I found that it permits skiers of all levels to share a trail in a safer manner. "Bumpers" have fewer struggling skiers to avoid when those skiers can use the groomed part of the trail and not clog up the bumps with meandering and unexpected traversing as they attempt to pick their way down. I confess, its nice to be able to pop in and out of the bumps when I just don't have my it all together at times.

 

[awf170]

calm down boys :wink: While we may not like it, this move makes nothing but sense from the resorts point of view. They can't leave the entire mountain ungroomed just to please the top 10% of skiers. It's not like they are going to groom everything; that's not possible. Besides, I don't necessarily hate the occasional run down a steep, groomed trail once in a while :wink:

your not worried because you ski sugarloaf and they already groom every trail that can be groomed, so you have nothing to worry about...