Is this the drill seargent side coming out again? lol
they have to break 'em in somehow. those things are like brickwalls right after they're formed.
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Seeded Moguls: Yea or Nay?
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Is this the drill seargent side coming out again? lol
they have to break 'em in somehow. those things are like brickwalls right after they're formed.
when im not telemarking im bumping with alpine.
seeds are great !! but anyone can look good on them the real challenge is a bump run that isnt seeded. but ill tak what i can get. and seeded runs do make for great pratice runs!!
seeds are great !! but anyone can look good on them the real challenge is a bump run that isnt seeded. but ill tak what i can get. and seeded runs do make for great pratice runs!!
THAT'S SIR DRILL SARGEANT TO YOU MAGGOT!!
As for the ski-in period, that's why I prefer the stubbie method for seeding. Instead of creating mounds and walls that need grooming and skiing, the lines are formed by skiing them in with stubbies. You don't get those weirdly shaped wall bumps. After a day with stubbies, the bump lines are nice and smooth.
Natural bumps are great too.
But, the seeded lines are the best for warm up and practice and that's why I like them so much. Get's your feet moving quick right from the get go.
from_the_NEK
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Unless the patrolers like to ski the bumps as much as we do ;-) Then they may appear to be working the bumps into shape but it is as much for themselves as it is for everyone else. I'm just guessing here.
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I wish I could have said natural, but the lines on seeded bumps are so much fun to rip down.
Plus, they might as well seed the bumps on the trails because I can always find natural bumps in the woods when I want to take it back to nature.
Plus, they might as well seed the bumps on the trails because I can always find natural bumps in the woods when I want to take it back to nature.
Oh the patrollers certainly enjoy skiing in the lines, for sure.
But grunt work like shoveling and shaping kickers, slipping loose snow off the tops of the bumps into the troughs, and slipping the course to smooth it is not patroller's work and you'll rarely see them doing that.
Nor should they...it's usually volunteers who ski the course who want to keep skiing it and the coaches and kids in the freestyle programs who do that.
from_the_NEK
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I agree that patrollers have plenty to do rather than be required to break in a bump run. I don't think they should be responsible for doing it either. I was just speculating that just because you see a patroller in the bumps that doesn't mean they are there on assignment they may be there to "make sure everything in shaping up nicely" so that they can hit a perfectly set up bump run the first patrol run of a big powder day ;-) :-D
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from_the_NEK
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That doesn't look like it is hard to do at all.
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hiroto
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But I don't think that the way they do it around here. From what I heard at Wachusetts,
they seed them by going up and down the slope diagonally, shifting down as they seed
them in specific angle.
Does anybody has a picture of freshly seeded bumps from around here? I've never seen
one "fresh".
greg posted a pic in this thread. (post #16) He's right, those bumps were open less then one full day before the pic is taken. You can see angular shape to them as opposed to the rounded form they'll take on as they get skied in.
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I am not sure if I have skied them before, just this year I have started to not avoid them. Just thinking about them I would rather ski seeded. As trying to improve, not having to totally find my way picking lines around weird shaped bumps would seem easier, and let me work on form.
NYDrew
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seeded moguls are like a well orchestrated symphony. While the challenge level is not up there with natural fields, the rhythm is like sweet sweet music.
This isn't a very good pic, but it's what our seeded bump run looked like right after they were done with it, before anyone skied it in...
I have no idea how they actually formed them.
The rest can be found here:
http://forums.alpinezone.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/649
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This isn't a very good pic, but it's what our seeded bump run looked like right after they were done with it, before anyone skied it in...
I have no idea how they actually formed them.
The rest can be found here:
http://forums.alpinezone.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/649
The nice thing about the Sundown seeds is that they are not set up into an annoyingly perfect grid. I actually think they are random enough to be very similar to a natural field. They were like that last year too.
This is definitely true, especially after a few days of getting coated with snow and then getting skied in. There are some funky shaped bumps up there, some big, some small. They sure are fun though! :beer:
