Winter Park 2006

Scott Hughes — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:23:00 -0700

From April 5th thru April 10th, Erik and I joined the North Texas Skiers on their trip to Winter Park, CO. The trip is a pretty good deal, costing only $339 for 4 nights lodging (dinner and breakfast buffet included) and transportation (on a sleeper bus). Just like for our Snowbird trip earlier this year, I wrote a short novel describing all of the major events I want to remember. If you have a lot of spare time and don’t mind my below-average narration skills, you can read my full ski log for Winter Park. Honestly, you can just skip that and get all the important stuff from my pictures.

The best part about skiing with the North Texas Skiers was all the great advice we got. Some of the skiers on the trip had about 30 years of ski experience on us, so they had a lot of advice to pass on.

James coached us with the same tips he’d gotten from a recent mogul lesson. Improved my edging remarkably.
Joe told us about “pivot turns” and how to use them to keep out of the crud. He also convinced me that I need to get an edge sharpener, even for my rental skis.
Patti convinced me to try skiboards (the short skis, used without poles) on my next trip. She claims that it’s much easier for her to do harder runs with them.
Richard sold me on the importance of having a custom boot insole made for better ski stability. If you don’t have an even foot pressure on the bottom of your boot, you are creating pivot points for the ski to wiggle underneath you.

Despite a pretty rough bus ride (in both directions), it was a fun trip. We ended up with 8 inches of fresh powder on our second day, so you can’t complain about the skiing. I’ll likely just try the shorter bus runs next year (Taos is only 9 hours) and see how that works out for us.

Global Reset: Winter Park 2006

Winter Park 2006