My buddy Ken, skinning up the hill. Ken is a fellow East Cost expatriate with a skiing and cycling “problem”.
A "long" draught (about 2 weeks without new snow) and a very warm spring weather came to an end on Monday. The winter has returned into the Wasatch – the forth day of snow fall in the valley resulted in almost a foot of pretty fluffy powder up in the Little Cottonwood Canyon. It took me 40 days to figure out how to curve a tele-turn in the deep snow. All that theoretical stuff about the “one big platform”, “equal weight on each ski” and “not edging” finally came together and I was able to link a few fairly nice tele-turns in the waste-deep, sugary desert snow. This is the very quantum leap that I was looking for in the last several weeks. I sort of hit the plato in my skiing and didn’t feel any improvements until yesterday – when it all clicked…
A "long" draught (about 2 weeks without new snow) and a very warm spring weather came to an end on Monday. The winter has returned into the Wasatch – the forth day of snow fall in the valley resulted in almost a foot of pretty fluffy powder up in the Little Cottonwood Canyon. It took me 40 days to figure out how to curve a tele-turn in the deep snow. All that theoretical stuff about the “one big platform”, “equal weight on each ski” and “not edging” finally came together and I was able to link a few fairly nice tele-turns in the waste-deep, sugary desert snow. This is the very quantum leap that I was looking for in the last several weeks. I sort of hit the plato in my skiing and didn’t feel any improvements until yesterday – when it all clicked…
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