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Date: January 6th, 2020 7:37 AM Author: Insanely Creepy Slimy Cumskin Corn Cake
This is my neighborhood. Just took some kids up KING PINE.
Up there, you can get season/package tickets to every resort around (3+) for a couple hundred. Not bad value if you want a week of skiing.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#39385682)
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Date: January 24th, 2019 6:44 PM Author: pink dopamine wrinkle
lol skiing is cheaper than a round of golf
i figured this was a climate change thread, which is why skiing actually won't exist
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Date: January 7th, 2020 1:36 PM Author: mind-boggling poppy point macaca
it's 2 degrees global average temperature, not everything just shifts up 2 degrees
a core part of climate change is the *std deviation* is going to increase, which is less like "today is 60, so it'll be 62 in the future" and more like "this week was 60, 62, 60, 62, 60, 62, averaging out to be 61, but it'll be 72, 52, 72, 52, 72, 52, averaging out to be 62"
which is why the solution isn't "just do farm 1 degree further north" bc the growing seasons are going to be more erratic and it's going to be harder to produce a crop when a normal above-freezing season is going to be half below-freezing, destroying the ground crops
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#39393007) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2023 12:10 AM Author: Ultramarine roommate sneaky criminal
Very AZN response.
Western corporate farmers have solved this problem.
You can have your spies go ahead and steal our rootstock now. Lol @ Chinese malthusians. Classic
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#46703428) |
Date: January 24th, 2019 9:58 PM Author: jet adventurous spot
This is silly.
1. It is cheap for locals
2. If you ski a bunch, you can get season passes for reasonable amounts
3. Super expensive places like Aspen aren't necessary for people that just want to ski. Plenty of places are far cheaper and have specials midweek and such
4. There are college specials, old people's specials, etc.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#37657585) |
Date: January 24th, 2019 10:50 PM Author: cream stirring senate tank
its not that expensive if you can drive to the slopes, maybe a few hundred per season
most people who ski are locals
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#37657903) |
Date: January 25th, 2019 12:21 AM Author: Haunting multi-billionaire
To me, skiing is not fun enough to justify the expense or effort. Plus once you're over 25 there is just an enormous injury risk that probably isn't worth taking.
But I think this prediction is pretty dumb. Skiing is very Instagramable, so shrews will continue to do it.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#37658377) |
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Date: January 6th, 2020 2:19 AM Author: Garnet Motley House
You're an idiot.
You're not even supposed to be "turning" when skiing (other than racers who need to combine pivots with carves), unless you're going like 10mph at which point you're not injuring yourself.
You just put your skis on edge, flex your legs and ride the carve. Very hard to get injured if you know how to ski.
30+ years of skiing and never injured. I don't know anyone who got injured in my years of skiing other than: racers, idiot beginners who tried to do a black run, drinking + skiing, and freestyle mos who hurt themselves doing jumps.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#39385395)
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Date: January 25th, 2019 12:43 AM Author: Charismatic Twinkling State Sandwich
I live in MFH and am the definition of an intermediate skier. Not sure whether or not I agree with OP but here's some info:
I've taken the ski bus twice this season. $95 gets you a ride both ways from downtown and a lift ticket.
I also have another trip planned on East Coast. I'll be staying at a friend's parent's place so it'll prob be ~$350pp for me and gf.
Also have another trip to UT planned in March for me and gf. I was blown away by how LITTLE it's going to cost. All in will be ~$1300 for me and gf.
I think the key is to 1) have friends who are locals 2) own your skies and equipment and 3) Not get sucked into the resort shit.
I am getting two three-day weekend trips and two day trips this season and will be spending like $1200.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#37658464) |
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Date: January 25th, 2019 3:01 PM Author: Charismatic Twinkling State Sandwich
$550 flights books way back when
$300 lift tix (this was biggest surprise)
$200 air bnb for two nights (nights in the ends will be with good friend in SLC)
$250 for food
I think the big difference is we are going to SKI, not to shrew out. Idk like I said above, it's a huge advantage to have friends who are locals. I was blown away by how little this trip cost to book
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#37662389)
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Date: January 7th, 2020 3:59 AM Author: Garnet Motley House
You're absolutely right - lack of snow in November is devastating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9KgeHKo3o4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asVxx7pbbas
I totally get that you can get screwed trying to ski in early December out west, but the alps are just a different beast. The high end resorts are so high up (even Chamonix is like 1,000M altitude and that's on the low-end, you have places that are 2,000M or higher) that you get reliable snow very early and very late in the season. The Euro ski racing season starts in like October.
But in all seriousness, I do most of my alpine skiing in early December/late November when it's a lot cheaper. There's plenty of snow and all the pistes are open at this time. The only downside is, you don't really have much powder, and the snow cam be pretty crap in lower areas (hard and icy because it melts and refreezes overnight), although everything still will be covered in snow, it's just not the "good" snow.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#39391289)
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Date: January 5th, 2020 1:05 PM Author: soggy office
So go to sugarloaf or Waterville valley valley or sugarbush. You don’t need to pick the literally most expensive mountain in the country. That’s like complaining that golf is expensive because pebble beach costs $1,000.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#39381490)
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Date: January 6th, 2020 8:31 AM Author: Garnet Motley House
This is CR. Even at the big fancy mountains, there are many cheap options for lodging and food if you're willing to deal with a few minor inconveniences.
I don't get east coast types who fly out west. Much better off just flying to Europe if you're going to spend that much $$$. You can get great deals on flights, and lifts are generally under $100 a day and you can find lodging for much less than what Aspen charges you.
Part of the problem is for a lot of people a trip to Aspen or Vail is like their "once in a lifetime trip" so they'll blow through their money without cutting any corners, which raises prices for everyone. At least in Europe, skiing is a very common pasttime for a large portion of the population so prices can't go up without pissing everyone off. Less than $100 for a day pass in the alps!
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#39385759) |
Date: January 6th, 2020 4:28 PM Author: Unholy know-it-all rigpig
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/travel/escapes/06ski.html
On No-Nonsense New Hampshire Slopes
By BILL PENNINGTONFEB. 5, 2009
Wildcat has steep and expert trails, a good test for skiers or riders. Brian Post for The New York Times
IT is a subtle realization on the final five minutes of the drive to the venerable Wildcat Mountain in New Hampshire: Something is missing. Actually, lots of things are missing.
There are no houses, hotels, restaurants, gas stations, banks, shops, traffic lights or billboards. Just miles of tree-lined hills. Finally, there is a sign for the ski area, a parking lot and a lodge.
And that’s about it. Carved into a peak in the White Mountain National Forest 76 years ago, Wildcat is a ski area in a preserve. If not for the fast lifts and snowmaking guns, you could say it is a ski area in a time capsule.
“We don’t have a lot of people looking for cell service or a Wi-Fi connection,” said Tom Caughey, Wildcat’s general manager, who first worked at the resort as a teenager. “People come here, put their boots on and go skiing on trails hand-cut by the Civilian Conservation Corps with an understanding for the natural flow of the mountain.
“And our busiest day is a crowd equal to the slowest day at other mountains.”
A ski trip to the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire can be many things, including sophisticated dining and elegant lodging in a quintessential New England village down the road. The region also has outlet shopping, festivals and art shows.
But a journey to the soul of New Hampshire skiing means visiting its oldest and most iconic mountains, places like Wildcat, the first Eastern ski area on federal Forest Service land, or the nearby state-owned Cannon Mountain in Franconia, which in 1967 hosted the first World Cup ski races in North America.
These areas have served up three-quarters of a century of American skiing and don’t bend toward trends. They are idiosyncratic, even anomalous, places, so far from the industry bustle that you can ski 100,000 vertical feet in a single day.
They are big, tough mountains. They have enough soft edges to have trained hundreds of thousands of children to ski and ride, but they reflect New Hampshire customs and a New Hampshire ethos. People outside Northern New England always think of Vermont and New Hampshire as one place, like sibling states. On a map, they look similar — inverted images of one another, like interlocking bookends.
In truth, as anyone from either state will tell you, they could not be more different. And that’s instantly recognizable when you cross the border between the states, the Connecticut River. Consider it the Checkpoint Charlie of Northern New England.
Heading west into Vermont, the landscape turns from industrial to rural. Heading east into New Hampshire, the politics turn from environmentally and fiscally liberal to determinedly conservative and frugal.
These cultural realities are important to enjoying a winter trip to northern New Hampshire. While Vermont skiing can be like a soft-focus Christmas card scene, New Hampshire’s best mountains are rugged and a bit thorny. They are unadorned and practical.
But they pack a thrilling and thorough alpine adventure. Wildcat and Cannon, for example, have long been known for their steep and expert trails, and there’s little question that any intermediate or better skier or rider should venture to both mountains to test their skills. They won’t baby you, and they are full of not-so-secret backcountry stashes when you tire of the sanctioned trails.
Still, challenge is not the entire reason to see these historic ski areas at least once. The no-nonsense New Hampshire approach also means ski areas left in a natural setting. The view from the 4,062-foot summit of Wildcat Mountain, an eye-level vista of Mount Washington and Tuckerman’s Ravine, is consistently voted among the most scenic in all North American ski resorts by readers of Ski magazine. There is also no on-site lodging at either Wildcat or Cannon, which gives both places a parklike landscape.
While these mountains will not baby you, they need not intimidate. As with nearly any mountain, most of the terrain is rated for beginners and intermediates.
“We’re not an extreme skiing area,” Mr. Caughey said.
In fact, Wildcat’s best trail might be Lynx, a blue square intermediate. It rolls, winds and plunges 2,100 feet from top to bottom.
Cannon, meanwhile, takes pride in being a vacation from the resort experience, and has verifiable contrarian roots: It was home mountain of the champion skier Bode Miller, who skied to his own drummer. Cannon is also where the sight of dogs walking through the lodge doesn’t turn a head. It’s where a junior racer waited in a lift line next to his grandfather, who was dressed in a full-length, zipped, tan Carhartt work suit. It’s where the lodge has a brown-bag basement, but in fact, people all over the lodge are unwrapping sandwiches made at home.
Just as there are no fashion police at Cannon, there is no one discouraging the cost-effective brown-bagging tradition, something prohibited at many ski resorts. Cannon’s general manager, John DeVivo, admits that his children brown-bag it, too.
“We preach value and a mountain in its natural state,” Mr. DeVivo said. “You can’t force people to do something in that setting. Half of our product is the snow and trails — what you’re skiing and riding on. The other half of our product is invisible. It’s what you don’t see — you don’t see a McDonald’s or a holistic health spa.”
You also won’t see many New Yorkers at Cannon and Wildcat. The northern New Hampshire skiing populace is a mix of in-staters, those few who have wandered over from Maine or ventured up from Rhode Island, and lots of people from eastern Massachusetts.
If you make your base the beautiful village of Jackson, you are 10 minutes from Wildcat and about an hour from Cannon. Ski areas like Attitash and Bretton Woods are also nearby, down winding roads dotted with private ski clubhouses and roadhouse bars with signs welcoming “skiers, small fries and motorcycles.”
Just two miles out of Jackson is Black Mountain, a small, hidden jewel. At Black, you can park within 50 yards of the lodge, won’t be fighting lift lines and your descent will be unhurried and undisturbed. Like a lot of New Hampshire skiing, it’s an informal small-mountain experience in a big-mountain setting.
These aren’t classic destination resorts, the all-inclusive ski areas with slopeside hotels and amenities. But there is a natural, straightforward and plainspoken appeal. And there’s nothing wrong with doing your skiing on the mountain, then spending the rest of your day in a thriving, old New England village.
In Jackson, there are art galleries, antiques shops, a large ski touring center, stores and restaurants. For lodging right in the heart of everything, the elegant Wentworth Inn, a village fixture since the mid-19th century, has an Old World feel. And its dining room has imaginative and artfully prepared entrees like Gulf of Maine lobster and Vermont goat cheese cannelloni (in New Hampshire they don’t mind borrowing from their neighbors), with baby greens, leeks, tomato confit and a white wine reduction ($28).
The drive to the White Mountains of New Hampshire might be a little farther than some people want to go, and it might be a little less scenic — until the final stage. But once inside the national forest, it’s about the pristine landscape. As you drive through the quiet of the mountains, it is then that you realize nothing is missing.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#39388324) |
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Date: January 7th, 2020 12:37 AM Author: Garnet Motley House
There is no "right age" unless you're desperately trying to turn them into a ski racer.
Genetics and natural athleticism play a huge role in how quickly kids are able to learn to ski.
But for the average child with crap genes, they'll lack the balance and strength to even form a pizza properly and learn all sorts of really bad habits that will literally take years to undo. The biggest thing that keeps intermediate skiers from progressing is their utter inability to use their inside ski edge, thus forming perpetual a-frames that limits their ability to carve on steep or icy terrain. This is because of the overemphasis on learning from the "pizza" at an early age, which emphasizes exclusively the use of only the outside leg. And then it will take at least 2-3 years of concerted effort to retrain them to ski using their inside leg.
Thus the goal is to minimize the pizza phase for kids as much as possible and get onto parallel quickly so they don't learn the bad habits, and quickly adapt to using both legs instead of just the outer leg. But most kids are too weak and clumsy so they spend months if not entire seasons on pizza which is counterproductive. And young kids who can't pick things up naturally are also too young to really understand the specific instructions given by the adults/instructor so you end up with kids learning bad habits. It's just a terrible cycle that could have been avoided if you simply waited until they were 7 or 8 to teach them to ski.
The whole mantra of "earlier the better" for kids' activities is only true if your kid is like in the 99th percentile of natural talent and you need every advantage to turn them into a world class talent, or at least good enough to get a scholarship to college. For the rest, it's just misery and will do more harm than good.
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Date: January 8th, 2020 12:54 AM Author: Garnet Motley House
It's not silly - there is a reason why you see so many teenagers and adults who have good balance and clearly are competent skiers, but skiing with massive a-frames and they struggle massively on bumps, ice, steeps and moguls, despite having skied for years.
The biomechanics of most run of the mill ski instruction relies on beginning all skiers on the snowplough, and learning to turn through the use of pivoting and weighting the outside leg. They then move on to some variation of a stem-Christie turn, which was developed in like the 1960s when skis were long and not shaped.
With so much emphasis on learning to turn using the outside leg, the inside leg just kid of sits there unused other than as a balancing device, when in fact the inside leg is what should be used to initiate the turn in the first place. In other words, the way you should be skiing is completely the exact opposite of how you spend your formative years learning.
This is a commonly known problem among the ski instructor and racing crowd by the way:
https://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=84851
https://www.quora.com/If-parallel-skiing-is-a-goal-why-waste-time-on-skiing-snowplough
As you can see, most people are talking about getting away from the snowplough as quickly as possible, but this requires balance and strength. Most young kids (5 or younger) lack the balance and strength so they linger on snowplough far too long. So then once they get older and strong enough, they have to spend literally years practicing initiating turns using the inside ski, which requires an entirely different transition and biomechanics than a traditional outside-ski dominated transition.
Disclaimer: I am in the Harold Harb school of thought so my views obviously go against whatever the Professional Ski Instruction Association is teaching or licensing.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4185699&forum_id=2#39397321) |
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