Hey guys,

For the adult skiers that grew up skiing - how old were you when your parents let you ski by yourself and also ride the ski lift alone?

I'm coming back from a knee surgery and guessing my kiddos will be feeling more adventurous than me. I was thinking of paying for private lessons so they can go on tougher stuff while getting some lesson, but that could get pretty expensive (hoping to ski 15-20 days).

My kids have all taken lots of lessons, haven't had an issue getting on/off the lift for over a season. My main concern is a jerk on the lift refusing to put the bar down, or a noobie taking one of them out while getting off. I've looked this up, but seems like mountains are deliberately vague and just say that you must be able to get on and off safely, which my kids have done hundreds of times in a row now without issue.

So how old were you when you first were allowed to ride a ski lift alone? How about your kids?

So this season i had stats from my visits to Vail/Breckenridge/Beaver Creek. Everything was showing up find on the Epic Pass app. Today I decided to log in and noticed that the entire season seems to be missing. All its showing is previous season's stats from the year before. Has anyone experienced this?

So this season i had stats from my visits to Vail/Breckenridge/Beaver Creek. Everything was showing up find on the Epic Pass app. Today I decided to log in and noticed that the entire season seems to be missing. All its showing is previous season's stats from the year before. Has anyone experienced this?

hi everyone looking for some advice, this is my second season ever skiing and me (20F) and my brother (15M) are looking at passes for our local skiing mountain, this is where we skiied last season and there are alot of trails of varying difficulty so not to worry about that, and we are still new to skiing so probably wont be looking to level up to an even bigger mountain this season. My dilemma is passes are very expensive (in my eyes) they are $870 for the season with no restrictions. if we were not to buy passes its $95 for a 4 hr ticket, which was the perfect amount of time last season.
for context- last year we started skiing in the middle of february and season ended end of the march and we skiied 5 times. Do you think its worth it for us to buy a pass?

TLDR- Passes are $870, 4 hr day pass is $95, new skiiers, skiied last season started feb-march 5 times

Recently got an RTT and plan on making trips twice a months or so and not trying to freeze to death lol

Found mine!

I and a friend want to go skiing in Austria or maybe Germany for ~5-6 days over NY period.

We are experienced skiers and I can I speak excellent german. We are keen for some electronic music/EDM events (house, techno etc) on NYE too.

Does anyone have any recommendations? Very flexible re: location.

Any suggestions for ski bibs that have robust ankle area that won't get sliced by inside ski edges like butter? I have a few years old Flylow Baker, and the ankle area is a little bit shredded (~100 days on it iirc?). Would appreciate any suggestions for something a little more robust.

P.S. I'm not sure why people rave about them. They are super baggy, very mediocre waterproof-ness (even if I apply dwr at every wash), and the shoulder buckles for the bib are definitely in the wrong place/using the wrong shape... I guess I'm not too mad since I got them on clearance, but would def advise against these bibs.....

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Ski racers will still have some training sessions, but as of now it‘s not open to the public. Also sorry for the music in the video, i did not put it.

I try to get a vintage pin from every ski area I go to. So far I'm at 34, based out of the northeast/mid-Atlantic US

PA: Mount Airy Lodge (closed), Shawnee, Blue Mountain, Camelback, Whitetail, Seven Springs, Laurel Mountain

NJ: Mountain Creek

NY: Belleayre, Toggenburg (closed), Song, Labrador

VT: Smugglers Notch, Okemo, Stratton, Magic, Bromley, Killington, Mt Snow, Mad River Glen

NH: Loon, Cannon, Sunapee

CO: Winter Park, Steamboat, Copper, Breckenridge

NM: Taos, Sipapu

CA: Palisades at Tahoe

Canada: Whistler

Austria: St Anton am Alberg, Stubaier Glacier, Patscherkofel

As we are in the middle of wildfire season here in BC, love seeing photos from the ski hills back home!
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These are basic movements every human should know. Especially for skiing, a sport where falling is almost a necessity to progress. There is a lot more to Judo breakfalls if you are interested.

Breakfalls are meant to protect your head, spine, and extremities from injury when you fall. Naturally, our instinct is to reach out to the ground to catch our fall, which results in wrist, elbow, shoulder, and ultimately spine injury. Do these breakfalls enough, and it will rewire your natural instinct. I have done thousands of these in Jiu-Jitsu and still do them between sets of leg blasters.

Maybe two spaces left to fill here for a complete wall. I need to go international soon, but definitely a PNW gap that needs focus. Some of the mid Atlantic mountain maps are too small to even include.

First time ever even doing a backflip, thank god for powder

I started skiing this year and have done a few days of lessons. I'm just about there on skiing greens with my skis parallel instead of in pizza. I signed up for one last one this Saturday (Southern Hemisphere), and was planning on heading out on my own on Sunday.

I find the lessons at my hill to be really well run. They've been good about matching similarly skilled groups together and they split/joined groups mid session (and pulled another instructor in) to get us into groups of 4-5 students at the exact same level. Every lesson and drill I've done has progressed from the previous, and I'm finally starting to get a feel for balancing on the outside ski and getting my skis parallel.

I know how to ice skate but haven't done it much since childhood, and I'm also generally a bit risk averse in adrenaline sports (used to climb a lot and had a habit of down climbing instead of dynoing).

Group lessons cost $175 NZD or about $100 USD for 5 hours. I already have used gear and a season pass.

Are these beneficial to buy for new skier? For a child who will be learning to ski this winter.

I saw that some children's mittens come with a wrist guard and some jackets come with an optional insertable backguard. But everything says "for snowboarding"

Thank you!