Inj '69, there was so much snow that there was not a single rock above the tree line that was showing. Even Lunch Rocks didn't get exposed until mid-May. Even on Memorial Day weekend, you could ski from the top to the parking lot, uninterrupted. There was skiable terrain even in August! Sadly, those days are gone.
So thats France Germany or Austria right? Odd James bond is filmed somewhere around that slope a skiing scene. I recon falling there when I did not wanted to thus making the left forward leg and left forward arm tumbling look more as a real fall. I didnt want to fall but was tho was supposed to fall there. See the resort is gone and the dry lift's been risen alot.
that looks amazing. Backcountry is awesome but in new england you have to constantly be monitoring the weather. I feel like skiiers should get a honorary phd in meteorology for predicting storms and weather patterns. same with boaters. we can tell when a storm is a' brewing
No one should ever go to MRG. The locals are awful, terrain sucks, Starks pub is terrible, and workers are rude 😝😝😝. Just let the local Vermonters go there 😉
As an east coast skier for 60 plus years I’ve seen and skied a lot of trends the latest being the wider ski fad. For the last 2 years I have skied 89 to 104 underfoot and my experiences have brought me back to skiing a 74 under foot. Why? I am an advanced carver that skis the edge of the trail with a variety of short turns and opening it up to more GS at 40 to 50 MPH, 5’8” and 155lbs. I found my K2 mindbender 89TI in 177cm as an east coast daily driver to be solid but not as good on hardpack/ “ice” as I prefer. The edge to edge response was sort of sluggish and not as playful as I like. I took my Elan fusion 14’s out for a try after dusting them off and immediately wondered why I ever thought I wanted to follow the trends! 168cm, 74 under foot and super heavy with 2 full layers of TI, the grip…..holy shit…amazing! Radius, tight and speeds, stable. People pick skis for personal reasons and at the end of the day I don’t care what anyone one else likes, it’s about what I like or what you like. But as a ski culture observer what I see on the east coast in lift lines and coming down the hill is a reflection of intermediate skiers on wider, rockered skis and the result is more straight line skiing, more skidded turns and less carving. The skiers who carve and handle the ice, the afternoon scratch snow are not on powder park west coast planks they ski the more narrow waisted heavy axes.
