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MattL_RG
Posts: 51 - Karma: 515
I haven't been on NS in forever... so long that I forgot my old account info and made a new account. I probably already once knew the answer to this, but I've forgotten.

Is NS dominated mostly by park skiers or are there a fair amount of other kinds of skiers?

I would consider myself an all-mtn/backcountry skier. I generally stay out of the park and I spend most of my time in the trees. Anybody else the same?
Sep 2 2013 1:01PM
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-SnowSnoli-
Posts: 756 - Karma: 1,703
I'd say a good majority are park riders. But you have a lot of all mountain skiers.

I'm pretty much just back/side country skier. but if the snow is shit i'll be in the park.
Sep 2 2013 1:04PM
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Tree60
Posts: 1438 - Karma: 4,961
It's mostly park riders who will go ski pow when they have the chance. That being said, it is a place for newschool skiing, so there will be many more park riders than a more backcountry oriented place like TGR
Sep 2 2013 1:07PM
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YewTard
Posts: 619 - Karma: 196
Non park skier here. At least not any more. Trees, backcountry, etc. I feel like I'm in this awkward age group where I'm older than most on here, but not as old/bitter/angry as a lot of the TGR crowd.
Sep 2 2013 1:12PM
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MattL_RG
Posts: 51 - Karma: 515
I thought TGR = Teton Gravity Research

Do they have their own forum or something?
Sep 2 2013 1:15PM
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jwv
Posts: 560 - Karma: 1,190
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/forum.php
Sep 2 2013 1:16PM
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goodnoooo
Posts: 555 - Karma: 2,075
i just recently started park skiing, but i have been an all mountain skiier for 16 years! you'll find me in the tree's usually :)
Sep 2 2013 2:38PM
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gotti
Posts: 4269 - Karma: 4,548
I mean a lot of ns ers live on the east coast which doesnt have nearly any powder or backcountry so id assume almost everyone from the east coast is park on here
Sep 2 2013 3:14PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
Posts: 9210 - Karma: 5,357
yeah if i tried to ski tress in NJ i'd run out of snow really fast.
Sep 2 2013 3:50PM
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ThatBrokeSkiKid
Posts: 73 - Karma: 109
I try to do both but most of my friends ski park. When I'm not in the park I'll rip anything I see.

Sep 2 2013 3:55PM
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Olde_English
Posts: 445 - Karma: 116
ive been lucky enough to grow up in Washington so im always looking for pow over park. park is fun but id rather ski big mountain anyday
Sep 2 2013 4:00PM
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OldDirtyPete
Posts: 453 - Karma: 299
Best front 2s in the game still at it. Second best senior on the East Coast. Would be first but Joey Capriri won't kick the bucket.
Sep 2 2013 5:13PM
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MothaHucker
Posts: 4678 - Karma: 2,589
I wouldnt call myself a non park skier but I tend to almost always ski the rest of the mountain, even on alot of the shitty days. Perks of being out west I guess. But I do find my way into the park once in a while
Sep 2 2013 6:50PM
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tri_photo
Posts: 1530 - Karma: 7,194
I love skiing park, but I have fallen in love recently with the backcountry here in the PNW. Mostly park riders on here, but there is a fair amount of BC skiers and such.
Sep 2 2013 9:30PM
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Evangelista
Posts: 481 - Karma: 1,583
Unless I go to hood I will go a whole season without setting foot in a park.
Sep 2 2013 9:39PM
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Brule.
Posts: 3846 - Karma: 5,658
I get in the park whenever I can, but because I suck and haven't progressed much, I venture into the trees and get after the little pow that anyone can find in northern New York.
Sep 2 2013 9:49PM
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1st33zy
Posts: 4 - Karma: 11
Big mtn/backountry skiing is the way to go! Bc kickers are so much better thsn the park.
Sep 2 2013 11:12PM
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rylee.the.jedi
Posts: 410 - Karma: 368
Having sick steep terrain and good amount of pow, and a shitty park at my home mountain has caused me to almost ski only all mountain/pow. Also bc jumps are so much better than park jumps
Sep 3 2013 12:12AM
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FuckAllOfYou
Posts: 3864 - Karma: 2,518
On NS it's park, BC or both. You dont have any "recreational" skiers really - maybe a couple racers, but most dont do it anymore.

NS obviously has my favorite demographics - fuck TGR and /r/skiing, tbh
Sep 3 2013 12:20AM
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El_Barto.
Posts: 11630 - Karma: 24,465
Im in the trees as long as the snow is soft. Once the trees get too nasty to ski I migrate to the groomed runs and hit mach 4
Sep 3 2013 12:30AM
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Peachbutt
Posts: 623 - Karma: 601
I ski whatever I can find, but I go at it with a park mentality. Unless there's good pow, which is rare here on the east coast, I'll be in and out of the park probably about 50/50, but when I'm out I'm always jumping off the tops of headwalls, hitting little side kickers, or seeing what other cool shit I can find to hit. Cruising on groomers doesn't give me the same satisfaction that I can get from slaying a little bit of tranny I find on the side of the slope.
Sep 3 2013 12:32AM
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gouda
Posts: 84 - Karma: 600
I ski at Snowbird and a park does not really even exist. I ski big mtn mostly, occasionally the BC kicker, but Snowbird is pretty dumb about things and knocks down any jumps built in bounds, and I find that rather disappointing.
Sep 3 2013 1:13AM
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Bogs
Posts: 4296 - Karma: 1,361
non-park east coaster. But northern new england east coaster so I always ski either vt or me. I used to ski park a little, but don't anymore really. Would much rather do trees/bumps, and unless it's a boilerplate kind of day (the first day back in frozen temperatures after a thaw, or cold day after it rains), in which case i ski groomers, that's what I do. I'll go through the park occasionally, but i'm never tempted to just ski it all day
Sep 3 2013 1:32AM
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Posts: 1556 - Karma: 6,417
I'm in the park most of the time but if the groomers are smooth in the morning I love bombing them. also if there is pow then i will hit it till it is shit then hit the park
Sep 3 2013 8:48AM
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Huck_Norris
Posts: 11487 - Karma: 18,627
I never ski park tbh. I am all about skiing trees, bumps and pow and I tour a shitload in the winter.


I am only here for the low brow jokes, talk about boners and shitting and also the fishing/PH cults.
Sep 3 2013 10:24AM
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Gr0mo
Posts: 707 - Karma: 3,663
I do it all. Laps in the park, groomers, trees, back country, its all good.
Sep 3 2013 11:12AM
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forrest-cole
Posts: 1145 - Karma: 495
I pretty much only ski in the BC, definitely can't complain with that. Would like to get back in the park scene a little bit though.
Sep 3 2013 11:20AM
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esotericjive
Posts: 1889 - Karma: 1,445
I ski 25% park, probably. Mostly I can be found in the trees/slackcountry getting after the nonexistent Vermont pow. When the snows shitty (always) we ride the ganjala and do Chinese downhills on groomers.
Sep 3 2013 1:40PM
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matoco
Posts: 35 - Karma: 69
I like to take a couple laps thru the park each time I go to the resorts as long as its not a pow day. But if the snow is good, I would way rather be in the trees/steeps all day. Definitely not as serious when I am in the park as I used to because getting hurt sucks. Not worth losing a season to huck yourself off a huge park jump IMO.
Sep 3 2013 3:54PM
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a_burger
Posts: 5206 - Karma: 20,187
pretty much this, park kind of takes the back seat for me, I'm going to try and change that this winter so I get a bit better.
Sep 3 2013 3:58PM
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YoungJah
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100% ski mountaineering, winter camping and first skironaut adventurer to the moon.

Sep 3 2013 4:27PM
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marsh.
Posts: 1173 - Karma: 1,403
I ski park because that's what keeps skiing interesting in the Midwest. Not to say there isn't challenging terrain, but lets be honest you'd have to drive hours for anything with more that a few hundred feet of vertical.
Sep 3 2013 4:32PM
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Lou.
Posts: 1787 - Karma: 3,876
I'm pretty much identical
Sep 3 2013 5:35PM
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homestar
Posts: 2124 - Karma: 4,197
I ski all over the mountain. I usually decide based off of conditions.
Sep 3 2013 5:51PM
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MartianMan
Posts: 1101 - Karma: 2,098
A am both a backcountry/big mountain skier and ski racer. Never ski the park. We exist, man we're just a dying breed on NS.
Sep 3 2013 9:12PM
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first_rodeo
Posts: 2383 - Karma: 7,764

[ = ]  

backyards

 ice

park

____everything

Sep 3 2013 9:21PM
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johnnyBuz
Posts: 1438 - Karma: 1,270
100% of my time is spent in the park.
Sep 4 2013 12:01AM
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bigskier1010
Posts: 126 - Karma: 187
On my mountain trips ( 2-3 each season) it's all trees, bumps, steeps , more steeps, and flashin groomers . My local skiing in the Midwest... Riding the park for more challenge and entertainment . At 39 and a career, park is a hard fall, so straight airs and boxes. This year wanting to perfect a spin and a rail slide . But steep and deep is where my soul is. Just booked my week at the Bird!
Sep 4 2013 8:01AM
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Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22671 - Karma: 75,830
OP -

You may notice in this thread that there is an immense amount of well-rounded skiers that populate and enjoy Newschoolers.

The bottom line is that we've all been growing up together for the 14 years that Newschoolers has been around. When you start your career as a 'newschool' freeskier - I don't know how much of that ethos goes away over time, even if you stop trying dub cork 12s in the park.

I like to play on the mountain, which is what attracted me to the park. Its the same thing that drives me to play in the trees, play in the pow, play on flat groomers, ski backwards, jump over stuff... just have fun on the mountain.

That is mostly what the park represents to me. It was a way to turn an otherwise useless groomer at a resort into a playground with a myriad of options on the way down.

Once you get into this mindset and your tastes begin to mature, you don't all of a sudden wake up and go "oh my god, the park is lame I better get serious about my skiing and do some REAL skiing" - you still have that playful vibe in your soul.

That playful vibe is more of what Newschoolers is about than any specific type of skiing.
Sep 4 2013 8:56AM
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henryeckert_
Posts: 65 - Karma: 287
I think theres still quite a number of people who are more backcountry based skiers on NS its just a bit harder to find them, I am ski almost all backcountry mainly because of where i live it is one of the best places to ski the stuff. Im not against park skiing i think its dope, i think it just depends on where you live and what you have grown up doing. There defiantly are a good number of people on NS who ski Backcountry you just have to look for them a little more but we are out there.
Sep 4 2013 10:01AM
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geist
Posts: 493 - Karma: 984
PREACH FATHER PREACH
Sep 4 2013 10:34AM
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Mr.Bishop
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All I do is speak the truth.
Sep 4 2013 2:49PM
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Noha
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Word
Sep 4 2013 2:51PM
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Swagking
Posts: 40 - Karma: 208
Anything that isn't park is fake and gay
Sep 4 2013 2:54PM
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Turkelton
Posts: 2829 - Karma: 8,558
Thank you based god
Sep 4 2013 3:06PM
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CART.__.
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Sooo true. Praise the laud!
Sep 4 2013 9:05PM
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Turd.Ferguson
Posts: 1437 - Karma: 2,713
i mean up in wisconsin i ski park, but when im out west, youll find me in the trees or some kind of bowl. then ill cap out with my day with a lap or two through the park.
Sep 4 2013 10:06PM
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PeppermillReno
Posts: 4748 - Karma: -563
I like park skiing. BUt I can't ski it all day I'll fuck myself up sooner or later either on a rail or hitting a jump too fast (since I'll come too close to knuckling for comfort and then bomb it and overjump the landing.)

I never do more than 2-3 park laps in one day strait airing 3-4 big kickers and grinding maybe 5 rails.
Sep 5 2013 11:10AM
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Session
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Every time you post a retard is born.
Sep 5 2013 11:35AM
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250r
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yea i ski a lot of park in the spring and summer, but during the winter time i dont go in there much. Im never gunna say no to jumping through pillows, and skiing really fast.
Sep 5 2013 2:24PM
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TheUngroomed
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Depends on the day. If its slushy and hot and shit snow, ill be in the park all day, trying to learn new things. If it's mid winter and dumping snow, then ill be looking for pillows and cliffs and play around there
Sep 6 2013 11:49AM
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