on a Thursday? When schools are in session? I ski every day during the week at Stevens, then hit Mission for the weekend: never a line! And since it's only about 35 minutes from my house, I can make sure I get there early enough to get a primo parking place too!
Not really Jamie; I can do the turns, and have at least one pair of old tele boards along with a pair of Altai Hoks that will do tele, but primarily, I'm a locked heel guy.
Uhhhh.... tomorrow is Tuesday but guess when one is retired one "T" day is the same as the other. I'm headed out after pheasants up at the top end of the lake.
I skied for fifteen years. Loved it. Was even Ski Patrol for a while. Then at 25 I decided to teach myself to snowboard. Beat the shit out of myself as it was an icy year. Fractured my tailbone, twice. Knocked myself unconscious at least once. It was so much more challenging than skiing, and so much more rewarding. I know for a fact now I'll never voluntarily strap skiis on again until I get too old to board. Then I'll reluctantly have to switch back over.
yeah, it was a difficult day for me...first, a run up to Stevens, where the snow was adequate but "sparse" in some spots. Since I have a season pass I don't feel like I have to spend the whole day getting the most for my buck, so it was back down valley to Rock Island Golf Course, for 9 holes! Life is difficult under these circumstances, so now, it's "feet up" and a snifter of good cognac for His Lordship here......
I was wondering if we'd get a report. I have yet to go to Stevens. It's on the list though. Problem is I have friends with cabins near both Crystal and White Pass. Makes it a pretty sweet deal.
Also I remember one of the first times going skiing here in western WA. We were driving up to Crystal and I remember seeing people with mountain bikes in the back of their trucks, green golf courses, etc and was just thinking "Are we really headed skiing right now?" By the time we hit the Crystal road it looked like a winter wonderland, but it was a trip before that.
that's why I went into National Ski Patrol; it's even tax deductable! My mother's family is from Val d`Isere in the French Alps, and every now and then, the Patrol would have exchange programs with the Swiss and French Patrols. We'd spend two weeks working with them, learning their methods and stuff, and it was all written off, even when I stayed with family; the restaurant tab was written off. I didn't try to write off the bar tab though.....
Living the full life. Gotta dig it Alex. I may need to get up to Stevens this year. Test out my new hip and my wife's new knee. Maybe Lee Majors will show too
Tele skiing....if it were easy it would be called snowboarding.
free your heel,free your mind.
And lastly, plastic Tele boots have alot of people thinking they are Tele skiing.
Profiling?
Bet my hair is shorter than yours, bet my politics are further right than yours.
Bet you cant do deep knee bends all day without crying Uncle.
ah the good ole days,...best I can muster now is about 5 hrs of lunges.
There was a product called a Mountain Trekker ( probably dating myself here) that would attach to your downhill binding to allow you to go free heel for climbing ( usually skinned up) then lock in for the trip down. Pretty slick
you poor schlubs..... I ski so well I don't have to DO "deep knee bends"!
But!! Today's ski report from Paseo del Esteban....Daisy's great-ego snow! Difficult to screw up. That's the extent of it-Skyline and Hogsback were both open, but lots of restricted areas thanks to uneven snow. Especially on Skyline! Shoulder-deep holes there on the bottom side of rocks, lots of craters where the boarders augered in and got stuck. Snowing when we left, and will pick up more over the next few days. It was quite warm too-barely 30 degrees when we left. And the highway sucked! But...it's open, and while painful, my knee held together (mostly). SOB hurts on left turns, which means i'm raising my ski. Time for a cortisone shot!!
Then on the days when it is skied out in the resort there is freshies to be had in the side country... Just need some of those funny skis where your heal can be free to go uphill like everyone has mentioned above...
If you ever make it that way MTski let me know White has been my home mountain for 20+ years and I love taking people around.
Then on the days when it is skied out in the resort there is freshies to be had in the side country... Just need some of those funny skis where your heal can be free to go uphill like everyone has mentioned above...
If you ever make it that way MTski let me know White has been my home mountain for 20+ years and I love taking people around.
Nice. Do you know Steve Fohn by chance? Long shot but he's a long time WP regular. I'm usually skiing with him when I go up there. It's usually big dump days, so I'm just following him around in a blizzard and still wouldn't say I know the mountain very well. But the steep tree runs are fantastic!
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