Snow Skiing

[shotgunneeley]

Yep, think I'll stick with what I know. Don't want to risk the trip when I can have plenty of fun on skis. Oh yeah I'm in plenty good shape: 6'1", 190lbs and two months shy of 21yrs; thanks for the concern.

I can handle a short black <> if I take it easy, and that's plenty good for this boy from the Arkansas river bottoms.

[Bodhi]

I hit Breck about 50 times a year on average.  So far this year it has been up and down.  Snow has been less than average in my opinion with a fair amount of rocks still exposed.  Today they got a fair amount of snow, around 14, but I would be surprised if the base of 57inches is representative of the resort based on two weeks ago.

I hope we get more before you get here.

[skorpion]

i just get out the dune buggy and start flyin thru the desert this time of year...

[Nilsen]

I ski and snowboard 10-20 times a year now. Used to be more but i dont have the time to go as much. After-ski is a must if i can get the missius and kid of my back for the evening (and morning after)

Was going to go skiing this weekend but had tickets to the Nobel concert so I chose to go there with the missus so she could se Denzel Washington and I could see Anne Hataway

[5anders]

I started out on ski's too, and then switched to boarding.  I won't go back.  Boarding was much harder to learn, but like they have stated, once you get the basics the rest isn't so bad.  Do wish I live closer to a hill though.  

[Penguin]

It is December 12 here, and we haven't as much as a centimeter of snow.

-Penguin

[Rash]

Colorado Rockies only about 10 hours away by car.  It snows year around there.  I would give the snowboarding a try.

Rash

[Fulmar]

Edit:
Oh yeah, I know I would never do that, but I always fear that I'll be the one that comes flying over that crest and smoke a downed skier or little kid. Claimjumper sounds familiar, don't remember Duke's run but I'll be sure to check them out. We'll be at the Beaver Run Resort.
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Claimjumper is on Peak 7 and Duke's run is between 7 & 8

[LLogann]

Snowboarding is nothing like skiing..................... And if you've only gone skiing a dozen times I am willing to bet my life that you will not enjoy snowboarding.  If you used to skate board as a child, you will only half hate it, but hate it nonetheless. 

It's a totally different animal and totally different type of control. 

[Sonicblu]

First time I skied could pretty much do every thing but go backwards in three hrs, skied for a couple of years and just rented a snowboard one time and have never looked back. Have taught my two oldest kids to board, almost have the wife talked into it. I only get to go once or twice a year so I'm no pro. But I'm a boarder for life. Just traded in my nitros launch for a black carbon fiber Nidecker megalith with Flow nxt step in bindings.  If you get the right step in bindings it will make your experience all the better.

One more the no way a skier can helicopter down the slope like a board.

[phatzo]

Snowboarding is nothing like skiing..................... And if you've only gone skiing a dozen times I am willing to bet my life that you will not enjoy snowboarding.  If you used to skate board as a child, you will only half hate it, but hate it nonetheless. 

It's a totally different animal and totally different type of control. 

Front and back foot have opposite roles to skating or surfing, this was the hardest adaption to snowboarding for me. I cant ski, I took one day of lessons and knew it wasn't for me, I'll stick to the snowboard.