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At the beginning of the season(or just when the stores reopen), are there usually good sales at stores on last years stuff?
For marketing purposes. When you are looking through a magazine or through a web site that details specifications of a ski area, the management of the ski area will attempt to tweak the percentages of runs to what type of customer they are trying to attract.You mentioned A-Basin… Perfect example. The area is one big granite cliff. Almost all black and double black diamond trails. Now there are plenty of skiers/riders who have a blast there, but typically they are locals, ski bums, or individuals. Needless to say, when you take that demographic and compare it to families, groups, and adventure seeking tourists, you can guess which one have the most money to spend. The second group of course. For that reason, the management at A-basin (and other comparable mountains like Crested Butte, Jackson Hole, Alyeska, etc…) tweaks their maps to attra
Niceee. Only thing is that manuals can be done off the tail as well. at least i've seen someone do that…. 🙂
Carving is more of when your making nice, continuous, flowing turns. Like a curvy, continuous S. Just linking turns night be choppy or not consistent or going down at less of an angle.y
Yup. If the stuff is in good condition it'll last you a while. Depending on how much you ride also. Might help if they have a return policy/some kinda guarantee or a pick of what you will actually be getting.Just sayin
Well I like be able to move my fingers around so I use gloves… One good thing to do whether you have gloves or mittens is to wear glove liners under the actuall glove and try to find a set of gloves with the strap that goes on your wrist. That way you can easily take off your glove and not worry about losing it and then zip down your coat or wipe off your goggles or w/e you wanna do and still have some protection (from the glove liner) on those cold/windy days.
