DomB
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I hear ya
How long can you go
- Thread starter Kingslug
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How long can I go? No idea, really....but probably longer than I’d think?
How long have I gone? 5 days in a row is probably the longest, and that was in Utah recently. Would have only been 4 but for the Nor’easter a few Mondays ago. We don’t do ski weeks as a family, so for us it’s mostly long weekends. I’m not counting high school, where I was on snow almost every afternoon/evening between ski club/team.
The real question is....how long do I want to go? That to me is a more relevant limiting factor than how long my body will let me go. Don’t get me wrong, after 5 days recently I was good and tired but I could have gone longer.....for the right conditions.
A 3 day weekend on groomed/inbounds terrain is probably my limit, from a mental and physical enjoyment perspective. I could go longer, and sometimes do, but why? Give me fresh/untracked powder....well, now my motivation and limit increase. I’ll go at that as many days in a row as life will let me. Unfortunately it just doesn’t happen often.
How long have I gone? 5 days in a row is probably the longest, and that was in Utah recently. Would have only been 4 but for the Nor’easter a few Mondays ago. We don’t do ski weeks as a family, so for us it’s mostly long weekends. I’m not counting high school, where I was on snow almost every afternoon/evening between ski club/team.
The real question is....how long do I want to go? That to me is a more relevant limiting factor than how long my body will let me go. Don’t get me wrong, after 5 days recently I was good and tired but I could have gone longer.....for the right conditions.
A 3 day weekend on groomed/inbounds terrain is probably my limit, from a mental and physical enjoyment perspective. I could go longer, and sometimes do, but why? Give me fresh/untracked powder....well, now my motivation and limit increase. I’ll go at that as many days in a row as life will let me. Unfortunately it just doesn’t happen often.
If yer allowed to wear masks in yer car, just put the helmet on and it should take that weirdness away. Ya can keep the number of days thing going too. Just sayin.
Warp daddy
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Oh , wait a minute ,ya mean you 're talking skiing ? ????hmm
MarzNC
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One of the reasons I started taking advanced lessons at Massanutten (after a non-skiing knee injury) was to be able to max out ski time during trips out west. Seemed silly to quit at 2:30 because I was tired after paying for a full-day lift ticket. What was unexpected was that when I got my primary ski buddy to take semi-private lessons, he started skiing longer days. I mostly asked because splitting the cost made sense when a lesson cost the same for 1-5 people at a destination resort. My other senior ski buddy also joined that first lesson, but he learned as an adult and more clearly would benefit from lessons.
Bill is far smoother in any terrain now that he's pushing 70 than he was 5-6 years ago. Back then he was using technique that was a carry over from being an expert skier running bumps at Bell Mtn at Ajax in high school. His bad knee (since high school) also doesn't hurt much any more with smoother technique. We still do lessons, including Taos Ski Weeks. The investment of time and money has made a huge difference in the likelihood that he'll still be skiing complex terrain in his 80s like the Wild Olde Bunch do at Alta.
While it isn’t always easy to scrub out the ingrained stem-christie technique, old dogs can (and do) learn new tricks! Expert lessons have made my skiing more enjoyable the last 6 years or so.
That’s my biggest problem sometimes, motivation. Skiing alone, on groomed or tracked out/bumped up terrain I get lazy very, very easily. Having someone to chase , preferably through powder, is a huge game changer.
Day 5 of my recent trip to Utah, that 5th day I hit Alta. By any reasonable east coast standard the conditions were superb. Wildcat trees, High Greeley traverse....great natural, soft bumps and wind buffed packed powder. Even cut up Catherine’s should have been great to me. They were just “ok”....because I was alone, and lazy, and just wanted to float through powder by that time, not work edge technique.
Motivation, combined with a desire to be in untracked snow in unskied places....as opposed to inbounds/groomer laps is my limiting factor.
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