Lapper or All Over

[RootDKJ]

I split it up. I'll lap for a while, explore/roam, come back and lap some more, wash, rinse, repeat.

Same here.

 

[tcharron]

You find the best part of the mountain for you on a given day, best bumps, great trees, softest conditions, best grooming, best challenge, whatever’s your thing. Will you stay there for most of the day or will you ski other trails/glades/bowls/slack country even though those places are not as much to your liking.

I’d be all over anyway after I had my fill of the best part.

Yea, I think it's half way in between. Spending an entire *day* is a bit much. I'd say, perhaps half a day?

 

[Greg]

wash, rinse, repeat.

I hate that saying. No offense.

:razz:

 

[riverc0il]

Depends on a lot of factors. At a new area, always all over to get the lay of the land. At an area I am moderately familiar with for which I do not have an agenda, I will go all over until I find something really good and then generally start lapping until I get bored and need some variety or conditions decline.

For my home areas, I usually have a specific agenda based on an established order to hit trails based on conditions and traffic. That agenda usually leaves me with tons of options so I will continue moving around on that agenda but I will start hammering something if it is really good and conditions do not change. Start with the most well known and work towards the least known when there is powder and hammer when the powder is untracked or barely tracked on the first run but stop hammering when it is 50% chewed up as something else is likely barely or completely untracked still.

 

[snowmonster]

If the conditions are really good on a particular trail or glade, I just keep going back and try different variations, especially in the glades where the permutations are endless. It's my personality showing in my skiing, I guess. I'm the kind of person that tends to repeat things over and over so that I can get it all right.

However, if it's not a particularly stellar day at Sunday River and I have no real agenda for the day, I just try to go from one end of the resort to the other and check things out. If conditions are good on one part of the resort, then I may stay there the whole day. At Wachusset, I'm usually just trying to put in as many runs as possible on 10th and Smith Walton.

 

[Terry]

It depends on the day and where I am skiing. Sometimes at my home mt, I will lap runs when something is good, and other times I just ski everything untill I find the conditions that are the best. If at a place I don't ski as often, I tend to move around and sample everything and then go back to what I liked the best.

 

[2knees]

i'm a lapper. sometimes i like to spell the alphabet and sometimes i use my nose, but mostly a lapper.

 

[kcyanks1]

I think we had a thread like this a year ago or so, but about 1 trail. Depends what you mean by "part" of the mountain. I like variety and generally do not ski the same couple trails over and over. I would say I generally do not ski one part of a mountain all day either. I would put myself in the non-lapper category. As an example, at Sugarbush in good conditions, I'll often take a run or two on Heaven's Gate and move to Castlerock for a few runs. In the afternoon, I'll probably get another couple runs on either Heaven's Gate or Castlerock, and later a couple runs on the lower mountain stuff. Somewhere in there I might hit North Lynx for a run. So I try to spread it out--but there are good trails to spread it out too.

Similarly, when I've been to Stowe, I don't think I've ever spent an entire day on only the quad or only the gondola.

But if we are talking about a pod with a few good trails and some good woods that is clearly better than anything else, I guess I will occupy myself most of the day with that pod.

 

[faceplant]

I always go all over- unless a trail has real sweet conditions- then its lap time

when I go back up on the lift i'll ask around bout conditions elsewhere so when lapping wears off i'll head over to where somebody recomended

follow the freshies

 

[Skimaine]

Unless the conditions on a trail are just tremendously better, I tend to move around. Three runs down one trail would be maxium for me.

 

[mattchuck2]

The problem with eastern skiing (particularly early season) is that resorts generally try to pound snowmaking on a select few trails (usually main arteries or trails that people love), hoping to get a good base built up. Unfortunately, in a lot of cases, this is where the best snow on the mountain usually is (and the best bumps). So, when this is the case, I'll lap what they give me.

But once the rest of the mountain opens (especially when the trees open), I like variety. I try not to ski the same trail more than 4 or 5 times in one day (unless it's truly epic).

At the end of the season, I usually go back to lapping (there's less open, and by that point, I only like to ski trails that have some bumps - I didn't develop my rock hard thighs all year to ski groomers in the spring).

;-)

 

[Warp Daddy]

I ski the whole mountain to the best of my ability , however realistically double blacks and bumps are no longer on my radar screen at 66 years old

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Sometimes at Blue mountain, to make things interesting, I ski every run one time to see how they are..then repeat the best ones..It takes about an hour+ to ski everything once. When I used to ski Stowe..I sometimes liked to ski each main run/tree route from Toll Road to Madonna Mountain at Smuggs..that was fun..I miss the days of being able to ski Smuggs on a Stowe ticket..then you really didn't have time to lap if you wanted to do the full haute route...

 

[icedtea]

i'm a lapper. sometimes i like to spell the alphabet and sometimes i use my nose, but mostly a lapper.

please move this to the lunch thread.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

please move this to the lunch thread.

I agree...lol

 

[2knees]

please move this to the lunch thread.