Proper way to put on boots. TONS of people don't know this, and bitch about shin bang till the end of time. Work your way top down. Upper buckle, or upper wire ( for all you fulltilt fans out there) has to be as tight as you can with out cutting off circulation. Then work your way down to the toes. Super simple.
Never, ever, ever wipe the insides of your goggle. The coating on the inside of your goggle lens is totally different then on the outside. If they are fogged to all hell, go inside and warm them up. If you wipe with any sort of moisture, they will scratch like crazy.
If your toes are frozen most of the time it is snow that has gotten in your boot ( or un-dry liners like someone else mentioned) melted, and refrozen. The best way to prevent this is two fold.
One : put a grocery bag over your liner. Works like magic. Keeps the outside snow from getting in, lets your ski socks do the job.
Two: Duct tape on the open seams on the boots. On typical 4 buckle design boots the front seam is the biggest problem. Even the SPK is prone to it. The only boot that works really well for this is the fulltilts.
Eat a huge breakfast, med lunch, and small ass supper. With two snacks in between. The first snack being bigger then the second. The idea is that when you eat breakfast you are supercharging your body for the rest of the day of being awake. Supper is getting you ready to do nothing for 8 hours. Makes sense right. High protein in the morning, with high fiber at night. You want carbs at night for the sheer fact that they take so long to turn into useful energy.
Great skiing exercises: The Captain's chair leg raises. Works all the muscles you use in the air. Anything from your obliques, to your lower abs. Do 3 sets of 15 to start then add more to your sets. Then once you can do tons of them, work on doing it with your legs straight. After that try doing as many figure 8 shapes in the air with your legs straight. Then also do them while turned on one side, and then the other. After this your skis will feel so light in the air.
Squats will also do wonders for your skiing. Same thing as before, Three sets of 15 with a weight that is 70% of what your max push is. Then every time you go to do them increase your interval. Either a larger set, an extra set, or more weight. It is up to you. Find a full squat rack. Don't use the machine, since the they don't work the stabilizers as well.
Calf raises with dumbbells works incredible. Same rules for how much to do and what weight . The movement is simple, just grab a dumbbell that your going to use. find a good step with two hand holds very close by. Then step on the step with just your toes on it with your right foot. Use just your toes on the step, let the rest of your foot hang off the side. Then let your left foot hang toes down in the air. Grab the dumbbell with your right hand while you keep your balance with your left hand. Slowly raise your self on your tippy toes with your right foot, and come back to your foot being flat in one solid motion. That is one. Do a full set, then switch feet.
To measure how well your doing do the invisible chair. Get a baseline before you start your regiment, and try for every workout. I usually start harder on these three basic workouts at the beginning of september to be ready for ski season, and keep hard on these all season long. These are just the real basics that i use. They will make your skis seem lighter, landings will not be as rough, and your ollies might just be that might higher.
Some resorts have different ways to get free seasons passes by volunteer work. Sometimes these are called " Boot Packing passes". If your resort has a trail crew, or even talk to patrol about it. The one system i know is that you work for 9 days out of the whole season and get a free pass. It is very hard early season work, but a free pass is a free pass.
Some of this stuff might have already been said.....so whatever.
