Wake Up Wakefield!
Pictures from today are posted on the site now. What a great day of skiing! In the morning, it was sunny AND snowing – kinda crazy. What a nice, big hill. It really tired me out.
Tomorrow… snowboarding!
-T
Pictures from today are posted on the site now. What a great day of skiing! In the morning, it was sunny AND snowing – kinda crazy. What a nice, big hill. It really tired me out.
Tomorrow… snowboarding!
-T
Since I do ski instructing, I did some searching for some good videos and found them. If you’re into skiing, check these out. I think they’re done pretty well. Learn to Ski: Chapter 1 – Philosophy of Skiing Learn to Ski: Chapter 2 – The Dynamic Basic Position Learn to Ski: Chapter 3 –…
Here’s a good video I found about how to make big turns in a smaller space. This is useful to control your speed on more of a pitch. I tell my students that you can ski really any pitch if you just make big turns and it’s true. -Tony 📄 Download PDF Version
Well, Karl and I enjoyed 2 glorious days of skiing at Indianhead. The first day was actually a little cool and we had flurries. The second day was a little warmer, it became sunny and was about perfect. Our favorite runs were Geronimo and Tomahawk which are both black diamonds next to each other but…
This season, I’ve had some people show up with some pretty weird DIN settings on their skis. Mine are at 7 for my height, weight and skiing ability. I had a guy taller than me with a few more pounds had his set at like 4. WAY too low. He kept popping out. It was…
Well, I just spent a week on the Rocky Mountains doing 2 ski camps. I did Erika and Arnie’s camp along with Jennifer Simpson’s camp. We have awesome snow! I skied 6 days in a row and there was fresh powder 4 of those days for sure. Thursday and Friday were complete powder days. Just…
Cascade Mountain is making snow now. It’s no wonder, it’s cold enough. We have our orientation meeting on Sunday and then we may open by the 22nd, I’ve heard. Nice! -T Update: We’re trying to open this Saturday. Here’s an updated photo (from the webcam): There will probably be just 2 runs open:…