Plattekill Conditions

[Low Angle Life]

To bump or not to bump? How fortunate are we to be pondering this?!

I was going to suggest a separate thread for gatekeeping Plattekill lol.

 

[billyb3]

There is no line.

Perfect bumps might be needed for a competition? Otherwise picking a line and figuring it out is half the fun, if you ask me!

 

[Harvey]

There you go Harvey, send THAT one (Dan’S post) to Laz!

I'll leave that to you. Tell him you are a new passholder and you have some valuable input on how to run the mountain.

Please don't mention my name.

 

[Tjf1967]

Perfect bumps might be needed for a competition? Otherwise picking a line and figuring it out is half the fun, if you ask me!

Especially when the are frozen chunks with no way out.

 

[tirolski]

Bumps don't form properly since snow boards. They need to be mowed down periodically.

Ya don’t really really want to mow down the dang snow boarders periodically now do ya? They’ll pull yer pass and/or ya could hurt someone including yourself.

 

[TheGreatAbyss]

Especially when the are frozen chunks with no way out.

Yeah letting a trail, or a half side of a trail, be a bump run doesn't mean the mountain shouldn't groom it back down after a freeze and let them reform. Killy does groom OL back down when it becomes un-skiable.

 

[Tjf1967]

Ya don’t really really want to mow down the dang snow boarders periodically now do ya? They’ll pull yer pass and/or ya could hurt someone including yourself.

Don't take my observation that snow boarders wreck bumps as a sign I have an issue with them. Unless you are holding me up I could care less what you use to get down the hill. And I don't take much issue I just ski off.

 

[sig]

Perfect bumps might be needed for a competition? Otherwise picking a line and figuring it out is half the fun, if you ask me!

agreed. i usually pick my first 3 turns then wing it the rest of the way

 

[marcski]

Yeah letting a trail, or a half side of a trail, be a bump run doesn't mean the mountain shouldn't groom it back down after a freeze and let them reform. Killy does groom OL back down when it becomes un-skiable.

This issue is K-Mart has the skier traffic so they reform and fairly quickly at that. Platty just doesn't get that traffic.

 

[Brownski]

The more I think about it the more I think you need a crew of good skiers who are all on the same page to set the lines. That makes such a huge difference