J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Trencher

The exchange rate might reduce the value of a trip this year. I would always suggest that if you don't often go to to States, you include some time for culture and shopping. If you shop, expect to bring back an extra suitcase, but if you do it carefully you can offset the cost the trip a little.

rossyhead wrote:Are you actually advising people to practice putting their jacket on?!

I have tears in my eyes from laughing!

Brilliant

Ross, you are young and do not have to take responsibility for family. When you want to go skiing and you have teenage kids and a spouse who are complaining that this ski boot doesn't feel right, and this clothing combination is uncomfortable, and I have a gap here, and I have a scratch in my goggles so I can't see, you will understand. When you have said year after year, "try it on before we go skiing, make sure it fits before we go skiing, know what you need before we go skiing. Then you will no longer think it amusing, just the reason you have grey hair.

rossyhead wrote:Ah ok, my apologies trencher!

Ive calmed down now anyway, just don't think there should be segregation and struggle to understand-I don think there are any boarder only resorts?

You're forgiven :wink: I guess what was trying to say is that the place is tweedy.

I have not heard of any board only resorts. I know a lot of snowboard carvers dream of a carving only resort (we might let skier who carve in). First sign of snow spray and you're escorted out by the ski patrol. Not a mogul in sight.

On the subject of moguls and snowboarders creating a difference to their shape. It should be remembered that fat ski skiers probably have the same effect. Though even steeper sections of pisted runs that used to get mogulled if the snow was soft, no longer do to the same extent, not because of snowboarders, but because people ski differently on shaped skis. As more skiers have learned to use the sidecut of their skis, the turn shape is not conducive to mogul production.

steverandomno wrote:
A bit of a generalisation :shock:, but I can see what you mean. It is basically a crude way of increasing the average age of the resorts customers. This is another reason why it won't last I guess.

Total generalisation of course, just trying to convey the atmosphere. Most of the people are very nice, but the lift lines look very different, both in the mixture of ages, and the mixture of people.

rossyhead wrote:Using phrases like a gentlemens club and upper class golf clubs makes me think of elitist views but that must be me.

Esp sweeping statements like-everyone under 25 causes all the issues and removing them makes the resort better

It was my opinion that these place are a bit elitist. I hope my opinions did not come across as elitist. There are few places in everyday America that you get a whiff of old time British class ism; it's normally only about the money. Deer Valley just has that feeling about it.

steverandomno wrote:Has anybody oon here skied a skier only resort. Did it realy make any difference?

Yes, Deer Valley. And yes, it does make for something different. It basically removes teens and twenty somethings from the environment. So things are more civilised because most people there have fully developed frontal lobes. If you excluded everyone between 13 and 25 from any resort, it would have a similar effect on the experience. Nothing really to do with snowboards. As I mentioned above, there seems almost a class aspect to Deer Valley as well, just like an exclusive golf club.

Deer Valley has the advantage that it is next door to PCMR. They bus their client's snowboarding kids a mile down the road.

I think it is as much of a status symbol as anything else. Deer Valley certainly appeals to people who want to go somewhere exclusive and don't want to ski with the masses. The crazy thing is that you can put bindings on board ala monoski - welcome, mount them ala alpine racing snowboard - persona non grata. It could be exactly the same board, but the binding better be aligned straight, not one degree to the side. I do like Deer valley in small doses, as the grooming is immaculate, the food great value and it is just so pretentious. Kinda like sneaking into a gentleman's club. The first time I went there I felt really naughty as I still thought of myself as mainly a snowboarder.

rossyhead wrote:i may be wrong here but i think the equipment is def changed the way you can learn to ski powder-you do have to lift yourself out of the snow anymore

When you put a snowboard on each foot, you ski powder like a snowboarder - surf it :wink:

Sounds like you had a breakthrough, and fun. As you are looking for feed back I'll try to give some based on what I have learned. I hope it makes sense

My understanding of a weighted transition is that the new outside ski is preloaded by increasing the pressure on it while it was the inside ski prior to the transition. In other words, pressure is transferred from the outside ski to the inside ski as the turn progresses. In slalom videos you will often see the old inside leg extending to push the skier's body down hill into the next turn. This works in carving because the skis do not need to be light to pivot at the transition. At other times some slarving (slide/carve) is needed to line up for the gate and so the skis are unweighted at the transition to drift a little.

PaulBryanBill wrote: Pushing my inside ski forward seemed to allow me stand solidly on both skis, with equal weight on both, with upper body facing to the outside of the turn. The most interesting thing (for me) was that in this position, I was able to feel forward (or centred - not sure ...) on both skis, with each shin pressed against its boot liner.

Everything prior to this sounds great. Remember you are trying to move your body forward and inside the turn. If you push the inside ski forward, you are in effect moving your body backwards. As you make the inside ski initiation as you previously described, try actively pulling the inside ski back. Think of almost doing a telemark ski turn. This is going to really engage the inside ski without having to load it as much. As for way you describe the outside ski, a great term for this is that the inside ski recruits the outside ski. Generally at the start of a carved turn, the pressure on the inside ski should be enough to fully engage it, but not too much.

As for the body facing outside the turn, Some counter (rotation away from the turn) at the hips might be needed, especially in the second half of the turn. This counter should be only as much as needed.