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Post by superbman on Mar 13, 2015 7:05:43 GMT -7
Had a great day with my little guy at Killington on Wednesday, it was warmer and sunnier (though a tad windy), but the skiing was great. It's bump and stump season! Everyone on the Hill was smiling, Sunshine does that. Here's a little video of my little guy enjoying the softer side of a good vt winter.
There's no avatar that really captures this….
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Post by livingproof on Mar 14, 2015 5:30:42 GMT -7
Liam,
Someday, that video will be a great memory of a father-son mini ski vacation. He is looking good!
I'm always amazed by youngsters skiing bumps. They just do it, no fear, no technique worries, so much fun. I'd love to experience bumps from their smaller height, shorter ski perspective. The bumps must seem huge, with a nice wide highway between to cruise through. They have a different paradigm than us full grown kids.
For many years, I joined a group of friends who did a March ski week in K-ton. I had a lot of great days there, I'm sure this years snow was super.
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Post by superbman on Mar 14, 2015 10:48:38 GMT -7
Actually, the bumps were huge (they felt that way to me anyway!) and snow was good.
I do want to say, that my boy does have fear sometimes and actually has worked on getting smoother in the bumps. He was never one of those grip it and rip it kids, in fact, he was always very measured, sometimes too much so, in his approach to skiing. The notion that all kids fearlessly take to skiing is a myth. And, Even fearless kids can't smoothly ski chunky snow on the cascade headwall or the side of lower Ovation without some thought about technique. He's on an adult 150cm ski (a short one, but adult none the less). Maybe a 5 year old wedge turning a set of 105cm soft skis through bumps is another paradigm, but that's not what's happening here.
However, the ' worries' and the playful approach is the key difference that holds us older guys back sometimes in 3D terrain.
I have really re-warmed up to Killington over the last few seasons. Something about the plentitude of no-nonsense terrain and general 'every man's' mountain feel. Plenty of little pockets of terrain to hit across a few days. Also, I like their layout of Park and Pipe options. THe Ram's Head trails really offer a great progression that gets the kids onto the big hits on Dream Maker quickly. AND, I have discovered and explored more trees recently than I ever realized were available at Killington, and these glades are pretty inviting.
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Post by superbman on Mar 17, 2015 6:01:55 GMT -7
Going to hit killington on friday…it'll be neither sunny nor spring….
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Post by lynn on Mar 20, 2015 6:25:46 GMT -7
Liam Fun video of your son. It looks like he has the same love of the snow that you do. Enjoy killington.
Jim and I are considering a very last day of skiing at Elk tomorrow. If I can drag myself out of bed (am sleep deprived at present), we will head up to enjoy the last days of skiing in this neck of the woods.
Lynn
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