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danbrownrent a car, it'd make things exponentially easier and more convenient. get fish tacos at lone star
danbrownrent a car, it'd make things exponentially easier and more convenient. get fish tacos at lone star
eheathThis, the bus system 'works' but its annoying. If you rent a car then you have absolute freedom to rent the cheapest place possible. Buy lift tickets online or at a shop before you go up, it'll save you like $10 or more doing it that way. Id say give every resort in the cottonwoods a day before you go to PC. Park city obviously has the best park but by far is the most boring mountain in utah to just "ski" at.
hoodcrewBrighton!
SonOfAnderAnother question, since we live on the East coast none of us own powder skis. We all ride park skis, is that gonna be an issue or not really?
SonOfAnderAnother question, since we live on the East coast none of us own powder skis. We all ride park skis, is that gonna be an issue or not really?
SonOfAnderMight have to rent some powder skis if the snow's there... gotta get that true experience! Thanks for all the info super helpful
dan4060I'm older than most of you guys and grew up as an east coast bump skier. When I first went out west I flailed in pow and crud. I eventually learned how to ski it on skinny skis and learned what the fuss is about. Trust me, when you ski deep pow skiing will never be the same.
I learned on skinny skis, so it can certainly be done. Modern park skis are WAAAY wider than the skis I learned on. What is a park ski underfoot, something like 85-90 mm? That would have been considered a huge fat ski back in the day. The skis I learned on were around 62 underfoot, like all skinny skis from back in the day, so I would have been in heaven with modern park skis, it's just that things have changed a whole lot.
If you get pow I would consider renting pow skis, but don't go TOO wide. You will be adjusting to a bigger footprint and as things get tracked out and bumped out, which they do pretty fast at a place like Snowbird, you might struggle with a footprint 25 mm wider than you are used to. I use a 4frnt EHP in a 186 for pow days, I'm a Mammoth weekender not a local anymore so take that into account, but at 116 underfoot I can handle them in windbuff and slush, not to mention crud and pow. When you get used to the wider footprint you will handle skis that big in relatively firm chutes. If it is really firm I take skis that are 99 underfoot, but my rule is if in doubt take the big skis out. In a normal year I ski my skinny skis around 20-25 days and my big skis 10-15 days. But in your case I would progress slowly. Some of the steep chutes you will ski will have slid at the top and be firm. You don't want a ski way bigger than you are used to for technical turns. I would rent something around 105 underfoot for your first experience with a big ski.
If there is no pow, hopefully this won't happen, and you are skiing windbuffed or bumpy steeps I think your park skis would be fine, although if they are center mounted or symmetrical that is not ideal.
In summary, you can definitely ski pow on modern park skis, much better than on the skinny skis of old, but if it goes off demoing bigger skis would be a good call. Make sure you get demos though, don't just go with the regular rental fleet.