What are you looking forward to most this season?

[Greg]

You silly baseball fans polluted my thread! :smash:

I split out those posts here:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/9102-yankess-vs-red-sox.html

 

[billski]

3yo dozen daze?

For me, I'm looking forward to a number of things:

• Getting back up to the MRV to ski the 'Bush and MRG
• Hitting the seeded bumps at Sundown
• Meeting some new AZers and skiing with some I already know
• Tracking all the big dumps with "The Official Storm Discussion Threads"...

But most of all, this season I'm most excited about getting my 3 year old out on skis. My goal is to get her on snow a dozen days.

Woah:blink:. 3YO @ 12 days on slopes? You will get a medal if you can do that!

 

[Greg]

Woah:blink:. 3YO @ 12 days on slopes? You will get a medal if you can do that!

Just a goal. And I totally understand that a "day" may consist of 30 minutes...

 

[JimG.]

Just a goal. And I totally understand that a "day" may consist of 30 minutes...

A very reasonable goal.

And I can help you attain it pretty easily. We'll talk as the season approaches.

 

[SkiDog]

Since it got moved in the Yanks v Boston rant...I figured i'd repost it...

I am looking forward to yet another trip to Jackson Hole...tram or no tram...hobacks are calling my name for sure..

Possibly a 4 day weekend in Summit County too...thats free though..

M

 

[billski]

What I'm looking forward to:
- Record snowfalls
- Absence of rain in the northeast
- Weather that is "too bad to drive back for work tommorrow."


What I'm not looking forward to:
- Lift ticket price increases (can a resort say "limited to the Consumer Price Index"?

 

[thetrailboss]

What I'm looking forward to:
- Record snowfalls
- Absence of rain in the northeast
- Weather that is "too bad to drive back for work tommorrow."


What I'm not looking forward to:
- Lift ticket price increases (can a resort say "limited to the Consumer Price Index"?

I second that Billski. Glad to see you are back! :beer:

 

[ga2ski]

Greg - a tip one of my friends told me was to video tape your kid on skis as soon as they can walk or even stand up. Then show them the video all summer so they are itching to go the next season. Obviously you need the video taped experience to be fun first.

This is my plan.

 

[Greg]

Greg - a tip one of my friends told me was to video tape your kid on skis as soon as they can walk or even stand up. Then show them the video all summer so they are itching to go the next season. Obviously you need the video taped experience to be fun first.

This is my plan.

My daughter turns 4 in January. I intentionally waited until this age. I've heard of parents starting kids as young as 18 months, but I think that's too young. I think my daughter now has the communication skills, strength and agility to have a greater chance of success now, but every kid is different, I guess...

 

[hiroto]

Just a goal. And I totally understand that a "day" may consist of 30 minutes...

I got my daughter on snow for 10 days during her first season when she was 2.

The very first day of the season at Wawa:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6698768077533115311

The last day of the season at Sunapee:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6813615447409623455

I recommend you do "download" and view it in Google Video Viewer for
higher resolution.

 

[bigbog]

Looking forward to......

Getting out to ski much more than last season...and especially in these Intuitions!(liners)....:-D :-D :-D.

 

[SkiDork]

Both ours started at 2 at the Friendly Penguin, Killington.

They would take them out twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Prolly around 45 minutes each.

They did that every day we were skiing which was somewhere around 30 days back then. Now we do more like 40 - 50 days.

Greg, your goal is do-able but I think the key is not to make the day TOOOOO long.

 

[YardSaleDad]

Should I even respond to such a silly question? :roll:

I was just pointing out a possibility. My kids really don't like baseball, much to the dismay of their mother & my inlaws. My 15 year has been a vegetarian for a decade. Kids make up their own minds about what they like. While it can be frustrating at times, it makes parenting all that more rewarding.

 

[ALLSKIING]

My daughter turns 4 in January. I intentionally waited until this age. I've heard of parents starting kids as young as 18 months, but I think that's too young. I think my daughter now has the communication skills, strength and agility to have a greater chance of success now, but every kid is different, I guess...

I think this is a good age to start. My daughter loves skiing but she does get a bit scared when the wind gets real strong and blows her down the hill or when the weather is real cold. Spring skiing seems to fit her really well... Hope that changes some with age.

 

[jack97]

I'm looking forward to the views from the summit. Love them in the summer and fall but the winter is special.

We started our daughter when she was three; just two days out that first season. I know she loves going up the mountain in any season, so bumping up the total days every season has not been a problem with us. In fact, homework has been limiting her progress... we have a potential ski bum or mogul hound.

 

[Greg]

Woah:blink:. 3YO @ 12 days on slopes? You will get a medal if you can do that!

Just a goal. And I totally understand that a "day" may consist of 30 minutes...

So far my daughter has been out 8 times. Some of those as short as 45 minutes; other as much as almost 3 hours. She's taking to it and loves it. Still trying to get her to get the courage to try the chairlift. We'll get there. I expect a couple more days out with her so not quite 12, but still pretty good and enough to get her the exposure I was aiming for. Maybe a bronze medal for that?

Greg - a tip one of my friends told me was to video tape your kid on skis as soon as they can walk or even stand up. Then show them the video all summer so they are itching to go the next season. Obviously you need the video taped experience to be fun first.

This is a great idea. I'll have to try this. I did take a few stills of her (one of her smiling and all tangled up in a net after she crashed into it) that she loves to look and laugh at. A video might go a long way over the summer.

 

[riverc0il]

lots of powder, sick lines, tight trees and lots of them. making more videos. and other things i can not currently openly discuss but will share eventually.

this has been a mixed bag so far. definitely not lots of powder despite 9 powder days. tree skiing was really nice this season but i learned to appreciate the trees that are not so tight. sick lines.... well, i did start doing more jumps and natural terrain hucks so that was pretty neat. videos didn't really happen due to camera issues and a general "who cares" sense about taking video when things got really good. the other plans never panned out. hard trying to earn turns on an ambitious product when lift serviced beckons.

 

[MikeTrainor]

This season I was looking forward to getting back to Mad River, I got 2 great days there so I can't complain, I am looking forward to a few more days of great spring skiing

 

[Greg]

For me, I'm looking forward to a number of things:

• Getting back up to the MRV to ski the 'Bush and MRG
• Hitting the seeded bumps at Sundown
• Meeting some new AZers and skiing with some I already know
• Tracking all the big dumps with "The Official Storm Discussion Threads"...

But most of all, this season I'm most excited about getting my 3 year old out on skis. My goal is to get her on snow a dozen days.

• MRV? Check! 4x Sugarbush, 2x MRG
• Sundown bumps? Check! 175+ runs on Nor'easter!
• Skiing with AZers? Check! 19 new AZers met. Many repeats.
• Storm threads? Lately, hell yeah!
• Daughter? Nine days! Not bad...

You?

 

[2knees]

i just want to get more days in. other than that, i'm looking forward to a weekly visit to sundown, and hopefully a couple of days at smuggs. always wanted to go there and havent yet.


Tin Woodsman, that is a GREAT avatar. I was at that game but couldnt see crisp make the catch because we were sitting in center field, way over towards the monster.

got more days in, albeit a modest number.

didnt do the sundown thing weekly but i got a 5 weeknights on the bumps.

no on smuggs.