How do you get your fix?

[DaWeasle]

I know a lot of people here like terrain parks. I kinda like them. But I personally like Gaps, obstacles on trails, cliffs... ect. I find my self doing those things more... I like the rush natural jumps have too. Oh and trees runs.. I'll get pics here this season to shop you what I mean. But does anyone else here ride like this... Don't get my wrong.. I go to the park every now and then. But I'm mostly found finding gaps and logs.... I also used to do this when I bmxed... I never went to the park.. I went to dirt trails my friends and I made.. or went out in town for gaps and rails...

[SkaFreak]

I spend most of my time in the trees and on the steeps. I do enjoy popping in the park, but don't spend tons of time in there. I intend on hitting more cliffs and such this season, but we'll see how that goes. On the occassion that there are no parks, trees, or steeps to be found, I'll find anything I can to screw around on, work on butters and presses, or just all out bomb runs.

[DennisEvans]

I have been riding park here in Ohio but when I trip to New York, I ride trees and steeps.

[Gorno]

I am the true definition of all mountain riding... I go wherever my ADHD takes me. I kid you not. Love jumps though... natural or man made. May love rails now that I have something to protect my noggin.

[mahatma]

I'm pretty subdued. I dig the mountain. I spend most of my time at groomed resorts. I don't mind drop-ins as long as I can touch mother earth in 6 feet or so. Steeps are great and I love carving but currently my comfort zone ends around 35 degrees. I've bumped up to 40 on a few occassions but not comfortably. I was more or less hanging on and just getting through it. At this stage of the game I'm more or less about the motions of skiboarding. I want to do the perfect run where absolutely every single movement is purposeful and appropriate without a single adjustment to anything except the terrain. I want every single breath and every single muscle twitch to be perfectly timed and done with exactly the force needed to accomplish one movement and propel myself to the next. This season I'll be carving. Also, before the season ends I'll go inverted. That will be the thing that takes my game to the next level. When I can go inverted and properly land it I'll be at that place I can reflect and then get ready for the next challenge. Proper carving technique on any pitch will also be part of that maturation process. When I can comfortably approach and with solid technique navigate a 40 degree pitch for more than 3 or 4 turns I'll have grown. The relationship will have grown and I'll be more comfortable around my friend. Somewhere between here and there I will have grown and will have become a better me. The "accomplishments" as they are will simply be the reflection. Almost meaningless. The process will make me a winner.

[SkaFreak]

Vannon, I know what you mean. I've spent enough time on boards that I pretty frequently have runs where I feel everything is perfectly fluid, and those are by far the best. I can navigate pretty much any slope that a fall is not imminent danger and hope to push that a little farther this year. At the moment I'm eyeing a run called "52 degree trees" which seems pretty self explanatory to me. Assuming all goes well (or rather, if I ski it at all) there should be video. Hopefully it will work out well.

[DaWeasle]

Hmm.. I havnt found a run I couldnt due. They have even been to my standard of perfect. I don't know what the steepest run I've ever done was. But I know sometimes when I carve on certain blacks I'm lying down letting my hand glide across the snow. I've been on a trail where you had to carve onto it. It you didn't you would go airborn... That has to be above 50 degrees right?

[SkaFreak]

I haven't found a run that I couldn't handle yet either, I just haven't had a chance to ski this particular run yet. First time I was at Wolf Creek it was not open, and the second time they were discouraging people from skiing that part of the mountain due to a combination of a wicked storm hitting and there being two snowboarders who had gone missing several days earlier (in the spring they were found dead on the backside of the mountain). I doubt the run was over 50 degrees. Generally things start getting technical around 40-45, and 50 is really brutal unless you have a bit of powder. Do you remember what run it was, or at least at what area?

[mahatma]

SkaFreak and DaWeasle,

I'll get there. It's very encouraging for me to read about you guys tackling what is for me phenomenal terrain. 50 degrees? My God. I mean for a drop in chute sure but to actually "ride" 50 degrees for more than a few turns - whew. The steepest pitch I've ever been on riding skiboards has been 42 degrees. Now, I should be clear, that run was labeled as such at the top and the run itself kept that grade with if I remember correctly "weakening" to 36 degrees at the end according to the resort map. For me, it was a totally outrageous run consisting of maybe 8 turns if done correctly. In my case, 12 or so frightful, eyes no further than looking where I needed to dig in for dear life again type turns. Every turn had me "laying" on the mountain.

This will be my 2nd full year on skiboards, it looks like I'll get out around 50 days so lots can happen.

Dream a little dream......

Tomorrow I'm out. I'll be instructing until 1100 and then it's swap out to skiboards and get it on. Tomorrow will be my first afternoon this season on skiboards. So far, the 5 days I've been out have all been snowboarding - out of necessity.

[ElkCloner]

Fix, hrm.....
welp, I know i was pretty stoked when I landed my first 180.
I probably only have about 30-35 hours of skiboarding under my belt, so I'm stil not confident enough to try a lot of the steeps.
My warm-up hill has a few 180* turns and some nice wide curves, it feels great doing it fakie.

[DaWeasle]

It was at arizona snowbowl.. I also hiked the rim there... and that is steep as hell.... its about a 1hour hike from the top chair lift

[SkaFreak]

Alright, I don't know much about snowbowl so I couldn't say for sure. I knew Ski Apache didn't have anything that steep though. The fact that they only list black runs and no double blacks leads me to believe that it probably was not over 50 degrees. It is not impossible, and they might just not bother listing any runs as double blacks, but at most ski areas they start labeling runs over 35-40 degrees as double black. If you want to see an example of the entrance to one of my favorite runs I've ever taken, here you go.

http://www.galenandmelanybolton.com/Images/Ski/taos_ridge1_R.jpg


Here is another one that I haven't skiied yet, but fully intend to this season. It is one of the most mellow runs on the Taos ridge though.

http://www.onthesnow.com/ots/images_u/dp/454_19899_dp.jpg_p.jpg

[Branden]

<--park junkee

[DaWeasle]

here is some link to pictures of the rim of arizona snowbowl

http://www.snow-forecast.com/resortphotos1/Arizona-Snowbowl.jpg

http://www.desertusa.com/mag08/feb08/feb08images/snowbowl1.jpg

this link you have to scroll to the bottom to see pictures of the rim.. this guy has pictures of the hike.... ect It's under the San Francisco Peaks (that's what their called) I guess its not over 50%...maybe some parts.. but very intense run

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp2.blogger.com/_I2LTJMc4ACg/RrzUcLMIgoI/AAAAAAAAABQ/GxKrdtEeeOE/s400/IMG_0869.JPG&imgrefurl=http://jasonoshop.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html&usg=__ITbzXl10T289-030PlqwunEJXAA=&h=400&w=300&sz=31&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=hGl7_6XTYXk6PM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=93&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Btop%2Bof%2Barizona%2Bsnowbowl%2 6um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

[mctwist311]

<--park junkee

same here but if i had ridges like that to ride idk!!!!

[SkaFreak]

KK, that looks like it is somewhere between 35-45 degrees from those pictures, but not over 50. It looks fairly similar to some of the Taos ridge indifficulty. From that map that part of the mountain looked like it was out of bounds and permit only, so I wasn't sure how strict it was. That is probably why they don't have any double blacks listed.

[DaWeasle]

Yeah it is out of bounds. At the lodge where you buy the tickets is a roster you have to fill out saying you are going up there. How many people are with you, what time you are leaving. Contact number. If you are missing who they should call bla bla bla.. and when you are done you can come back at tell them your back. Or later that evening they'll try to call you, and if you don't answer they call your missing contact number, and if they don't know where you are... the search is on... because your probably missing...

[Manlenium]

Lips and Gaps for sure!:rolleyes:

[Whittal]

Well now that i have found a new sport to fall in love with I'll be at the Xscape snowdome in Milton Keynes at least once a month for a session.