kingslug
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Conditions: cold, hardpack.
Spent the day working on my somewhat lacking mogul skills. I figured it wouldn't be too crowded due to the Super Bowl and I was mostly right. The clinic costs $105.00 plus lift ticket. For that you get a bag of stuff, a hat, cough drops, granola bar, water, etc. Strange combination. Free breakfast and lunch, which was good, and an all day lesson. There where only 3 of us so it was pretty much a private lesson. Our instructor Gary was a level 3 with a lot of years on various mountains. Also a golf and music teacher. Nice guy. We spent the day alternating on the moguls of upper crossover and a small batch dropping into Minya, and some runs down Racers which had the guns going. Then various drills on the flat runs. We focused on body, leg seperation, keeping our body pointing down the fall line and effective pole planting. Conditions where frozen hardpack. Towards the end of the day we where video taped. Nothing beats seeing yourself on video to see what you are doing right and wrong. And now I know what I have to work on. By the end of the day I was going down Crossover a hell of a lot better than usual. So I feel that it was money well spent. They are having another one in March when conditions should be better for moguls. And now I get to try all this out in JH next week. I wanted to do some runs on the west side but heard it was prety frozen and unforgiving.
Spent the day working on my somewhat lacking mogul skills. I figured it wouldn't be too crowded due to the Super Bowl and I was mostly right. The clinic costs $105.00 plus lift ticket. For that you get a bag of stuff, a hat, cough drops, granola bar, water, etc. Strange combination. Free breakfast and lunch, which was good, and an all day lesson. There where only 3 of us so it was pretty much a private lesson. Our instructor Gary was a level 3 with a lot of years on various mountains. Also a golf and music teacher. Nice guy. We spent the day alternating on the moguls of upper crossover and a small batch dropping into Minya, and some runs down Racers which had the guns going. Then various drills on the flat runs. We focused on body, leg seperation, keeping our body pointing down the fall line and effective pole planting. Conditions where frozen hardpack. Towards the end of the day we where video taped. Nothing beats seeing yourself on video to see what you are doing right and wrong. And now I know what I have to work on. By the end of the day I was going down Crossover a hell of a lot better than usual. So I feel that it was money well spent. They are having another one in March when conditions should be better for moguls. And now I get to try all this out in JH next week. I wanted to do some runs on the west side but heard it was prety frozen and unforgiving.
