pico today was all time

[KustyTheKlown]

i will say that skiing groomers with my girlfriend gives me time to work on little things like skiing switch, trying 180s and grabs on small jumps on the sides, and buttering. i still cant butter, but i suspect my super stiff skis (moment belefontes) have something to do with it. give me a noodly soft ski and i can probably tail butter down the whole groomer.

 

[bdfreetuna]

i'll hit it later this season tho for sure.

Its not very wide but if you can stick to one side or the other on the steepest drop you might avoid the pipe. It's kind of a tough spot to do an unexpected rail grind on a 40 degree pitch.

Either way, helmet cam or it didn't happen

 

[dlague]

i will say that skiing groomers with my girlfriend gives me time to work on little things like skiing switch, trying 180s and grabs on small jumps on the sides, and buttering. i still cant butter, but i suspect my super stiff skis (moment belefontes) have something to do with it. give me a noodly soft ski and i can probably tail butter down the whole groomer.

How do you ski switch? Pop off something or hop? I butter into switch, stiffness should not really matter IMO. In any case, that is the thing to do is work on details. My wife is always eager to get out but never for first chair type of stuff more like 9-9:30, then go until 11:30 ish to beat the crowds and get out by 12:30 and she is good to about 3. Then our son and I will do a couple runs.

Back to Pico - Another good reason to go there is limited skier traffic.

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[Jcb890]

i will say that skiing groomers with my girlfriend gives me time to work on little things like skiing switch, trying 180s and grabs on small jumps on the sides, and buttering. i still cant butter, but i suspect my super stiff skis (moment belefontes) have something to do with it. give me a noodly soft ski and i can probably tail butter down the whole groomer.

How do you ski switch? Pop off something or hop? I butter into switch, stiffness should not really matter IMO. In any case, that is the thing to do is work on details. My wife is always eager to get out but never for first chair type of stuff more like 9-9:30, then go until 11:30 ish to beat the crowds and get out by 12:30 and she is good to about 3. Then our son and I will do a couple runs.

Back to Pico - Another good reason to go there is limited skier traffic.

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We always shoot to arrive and be ready for 1st chair. Normally I'll get the first few runs myself because she likes it when I check out the snow and report back before she goes out. Sometimes that doesn't happen if we go to Wachusett, though that strategy would have helped on Friday when there was a trail that was almost all ice and she took a hard spill on... if I had checked it out like usual we would have avoided it... oh well. Hopefully she's just got some bad bruising and just needs a couple days off of it. It didn't deter her from making some runs and turns on Saturday against my advice though. :lol:

Speaking of riding switch... I need to do a lot more of that while stuck on the easy groomers with the wife. My switch riding leaves a lot to be desired, I'm not very good.