riverside73

Make that ALL BUT 1 in the PNW! After some of Rick's pics from last year (not a bash, I'm just saying) my rinky dink little home mountain looks pretty good. You work with what ya got.

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jonnynails

Believe me you don't know rinky dink: www.appskimtn.com

What's your home mountain? Can't be as bad as that one, which is the closest to mountain to my house. Although i usually drive right on by. Sometime the night sess can be ok for the park, it's small but they get creative.

stoepstyle

Thats cool im looking forward to a little sesh. I'm a pretty crappy park rider so id like to try some more stuff

stoepstyle

When are you goin up if you do? Im going up on saturday for the whole day (have to start driving at 3-4 am )

gnurider1080

the hill i worked at for the past two years has only 247 feet of vert, although it does have more trails. it also is in eastern mass at a fairly low elevation so it probably gets less snow than app.

renoboarder40

night skiing at boreal last night makes 3 days.

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stoepstyle

which do you think is better right now? northstar or boreal? Im heading up tomorrow

renoboarder40

i just posted in your thread sorry if it was a little late. just got back from boreal.

so 4 days now. haha i'm on a role

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stoepstyle

Sweet first day of the season! my day count = 1

CRoss

I got my first two days in this weekend. To bad it was doing the hiring clinic for the ski school.

It was entertaining, listening to a PSIA instructor break down skiing to the basics and show us how to work on things to be better skiers. Yet all it did was show me why PSIA instructors are horrible skiers when it really comes down to it. The best quote of the weekend: "With the new shape skis the turn radius is built into them. When you lean a ski over onto its edge for a nice carved turn the ski's radius is the only size turn the ski can make. The only way to change the size of the turn is to not carve but slide the ski" Guess nobody ever told him you can apply pressure to your boot and flex your ski to carve tighter turns.

How do you know when you meet a ski instructor?
Don't worry they will tell you.

How many ski instructors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
5 1 to screw in the bulb and 4 to say "Nice turns."