Lake Effect At It Again

[Bene288]

You won't break 10mph? HAHAHA.....That's jogging speed. Dude just pull up youtube videos of people skiing way faster than that on blue trails in new england in a foot or two of snow.
You're not very bright are you?

Find me a video of someone skiing Wawa in powder doing 30 plus, that's what you said, wasn't it? 30-40 at Wachusett in 2' of powder.

You obviously don't understand the whole trail rating system. There is no standard rating for pitch, a blue at Mount Snow may not be a blue somewhere else.

 

[St. Bear]

This is some good stuff. Very entertaining on the first Monday back to work.

 

[wa-loaf]

Snow ridge, ny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXkEFeXmBw
He's using thin ski's....He'd be floating better with wider ski's. Looks like a blast to me! 30 plus inches. Skip to 1:14 so you can tell how fast the guys going. At least 25mph as he passes the guy wih the gopro.

Looks like a good day of skiing, but they are not moving that fast.

 

[St. Bear]

Looks like a good day of skiing, but they are not moving that fast.

Not to mention they're pretty much straightlining.

 

[Snowlover]

Find me a video of someone skiing Wawa in powder doing 30 plus, that's what you said, wasn't it? 30-40 at Wachusett in 2' of powder.

You obviously don't understand the whole trail rating system. There is no standard rating for pitch, a blue at Mount Snow may not be a blue somewhere else.

Dude.....A green at berkshire east = blue at wawa.... I get that. Blues/blacks at wawa are similar to blues at mount snow. It's not a HUGE difference. Now the north face....that's a whole different ball game. If you took the northface out and every other black they have, wawa and mount snow are similar in slope depth in some trails.

 

[Snowlover]

Not to mention they're pretty much straightlining.

Do you see how SHORT the trails are? Wawa's trails are longer.

 

[Snowlover]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFo4KSJPESE

Mount snow last week on a very flat trail. Looks like a GREEN How's he even moving? hmmmm

 

[Snowlover]

MOUNT SNOW powder doing lots of speed checks/turning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVrd6d6UJkU

Looks like a blue if that.

 

[Snowlover]

Not to mention they're pretty much straightlining.

He's actually doing some speed checks/turning if you look closely at the video at 1:14 as he passes the guy on the go pro. He didn't straight line it and it's a short trail on top of it.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Snow ridge, ny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXkEFeXmBw
He's using thin ski's....He'd be floating better with wider ski's. Looks like a blast to me! 30 plus inches. Skip to 1:14 so you can tell how fast the guys going. At least 25mph as he passes the guy wih the gopro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BojksnpwdAg
Skip to 1:15


LOOKS LIKE HEAVEN!


Oh and Looking a these videos, some of snow ridge is flatter than wawa and this is DEEP DEEP SNOW. Not just a foot. The key is to get momentum and get moving. Once you do that, then you're fine. Please rent a pair of hellbents and mount on back line. You could ski down the bunny hill at wachusett in 3 feet. Would you be going slowly? Yeah, but it's a bunny hill.

Looks to me like the only place they didn't have to straightline was the gully in the woods. And the part where he goes "at least 25mph" is after following an already broken track. I'm sure there are some sections of open trail that are steep enough to ski for a bit without having to use the in and out of the track strategy. That strategy is fun and necessary when there is not enough pitch to generate enough speed to link up turns in untouched powder.

 

[Snowlover]

I'm not going to continue posting these. There's a million of them. Get off the computer and get out there AND slarve that pow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKcq77bZj2Y
Now, look at some (not all) of the sections in this video. Clearly no steeper than wawa(in sections) and he's in like 5 FEET of freshies in the pnw. Looks like he's rocking some rossi s7's so he's got the right gear. Oh and this is why the west side is the best side. LOL

 

[Snowlover]

Looks to me like the only place they didn't have to straightline was the gully in the woods. And the part where he goes "at least 25mph" is after following an already broken track. I'm sure there are some sections of open trail that are steep enough to ski for a bit without having to use the in and out of the track strategy. That strategy is fun and necessary when there is not enough pitch to generate enough speed to link up turns in untouched powder.

But I thought you CAN'T ski it? Wasn't that the argument....suddenly it's changing. haha. Come on guys. You can have a ton of fun on a moderate pitch in pow. Let's be real. Not to say steep isn't fun if you got the skills and the terrain available, but based on the replies on here I'm guessing that most of people posting on here aint got the skills to hit up bottomless pow on a 50 degree slope. I know I don't (yet)

 

[MadMadWorld]

I'm not going to continue posting these. There's a million of them. Get off the computer and get out there AND slarve that pow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKcq77bZj2Y
Now, look at some (not all) of the sections in this video. Clearly no steeper than wawa and he's in like 5 FEET of freshies in the pnw. Looks like he's rocking some rossi s7's so he's got the right gear. Oh and this is why the west side is the best side. LOL

Yea that's definitely wawa pitch. I'm not saying you can ski on the steeper sections of wawa. I'm saying their are too many flat sections to make it all that enjoyable. Would I pass up a powder day at wawa? No. Would I rather be somewhere else? Hell yes.

 

[wa-loaf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFo4KSJPESE

Mount snow last week on a very flat trail. Looks like a GREEN How's he even moving? hmmmm

MOUNT SNOW powder doing lots of speed checks/turning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVrd6d6UJkU

Looks like a blue if that.

Please shoot me if I start posting videos of me straight lining blues in 6 inches of snow.

I'm not going to continue posting these. There's a million of them. Get off the computer and get out there AND slarve that pow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKcq77bZj2Y
Now, look at some (not all) of the sections in this video. Clearly no steeper than wawa(in sections) and he's in like 5 FEET of freshies in the pnw. Looks like he's rocking some rossi s7's so he's got the right gear. Oh and this is why the west side is the best side. LOL

Is the camera fall off the side of his head here?

 

[from_the_NEK]

I'm not going to continue posting these. There's a million of them. Get off the computer and get out there AND slarve that pow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKcq77bZj2Y
Now, look at some (not all) of the sections in this video. Clearly no steeper than wawa(in sections) and he's in like 5 FEET of freshies in the pnw. Looks like he's rocking some rossi s7's so he's got the right gear. Oh and this is why the west side is the best side. LOL

You're not helping yourself out here. Minute for minute that is some of the boring POV super deep powder skiing I've seen.

 

[Snowlover]

Last one....this I'm sure is the way you guys ski on these steep pitches That's why you thumb up your nose at snow ridge in ny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE0sJVK1lLo
(honestly I wouldn't ski like that even if I could. I like coming back in one piece)

 

[Snowlover]

You're not helping yourself out here. Minute for minute that is some of the boring POV super deep powder skiing I've seen.

The fact that you would find that boring means you have absolutely no stoke and are a complete poser just trying to sound core. Here's a video for you. I'm sure that's the way you ski http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE0sJVK1lLo
If you do, there's a ortho rehab clinic I could recommend. We of course know you don't have 1/10th the talent of those guys. BUT, That video fit the "image" that's been sold to you by magazines of the way you need to ski to have fun? lol

 

[MadMadWorld]

Keep digging dude. That hole is getting bigger and bigger...

 

[MadMadWorld]

Nothing like an annoying noob to bring the forum together

 

[from_the_NEK]

Skip to 40 seconds:

Wa-Loaf can attest that this glade trail was pretty flat