Haven't posted on this long wandering thread nor the longer referred to carving thread. Most of what I ski on my ski days are recreational bumps and as the link below shows I primarily use edges. Thus not comp zipper lines unless they just happen to be there. First will add just like Glen Plake, I dislike using the word "carving" because traditionally that is a narrow subset of using ski edges. Especially in bumps there is not enough space to do so as I have always understood the term. Others seem to prefer that term to edging and that is fine and trivial.
Neither do I ski bumps with a classic comp mogul skiing technique that is what 90% members tend to talk about every winter as personally am not interested in going fast, nor having my skis close together for mere aesthetic reasons, nor just ski troughs, nor often use the common shovel pivot tail slide, nor air. Simply, I as someone that has skied from older decades when bumps were everywhere, ski bumps not for challenge but for the most personal exhilarating visceral fun my own way that has much to do with my current skis I use as a tool. I as yet don't have any recent decade traditional hand held videos by others of my own bump skiing however before the season did buy a GoPro Hero 8 that only began to use 3 weeks ago so last Wednesday recorded 8 consecutive POV runs down my favorite bump run at Heavenly Little Dipper that have subsequently processed, trimming out all the non-skiing time so most runs are short less than a couple minutes.
As some have noted there are different ways to efficiently ski bumps though on such threads they tend to be overwhelmed by just those discussing comp styles. And that is understandable. Thus my reason for adding this post herein is to clearly show one other style. The first of 9 videos in the youtube playlist is the 600 foot bump run view from the adjacent chair going up the lift line. We have beautifully shaped bumps because south Tahoe is home to a large 50k population with many competent bump skiers of all types, every day on the slope. The following 8 videos are in sequence, my runs youtube titled as RUN1 thru RUN 8. Given the previous 2 weeks of spring freeze thaw conditions the first few runs were purposely for the sake of you Eastern bump skiers that note how easier and soft our higher elevation packed powder snow is versus your often icy slopes. Yeah my first runs just as the surface thaw began are on firm and icy snow with my skis rattling, chattering, about noisily as I descend with a reasonably calm upper body though often mechanically. So yeah we do get such conditions late season. Hardly any other competent skiers were on the slopes so early because such is much more challenging and certainly not as aesthetically possible.
I did make it look fun although such may not be too apparent due to the POV nature as on runs 2 and 3 impressed lift riders yell out my name after I pulled up since I'm a familiar regular lift riders watch. To see my strategy and style change after the snow softened up go to RUN 7 where I ski the whole slope smoother, faster with just one pit stop. Next season will record then post some runs with packed powder snow that I much prefer but for now this will surmise.
Neither do I ski bumps with a classic comp mogul skiing technique that is what 90% members tend to talk about every winter as personally am not interested in going fast, nor having my skis close together for mere aesthetic reasons, nor just ski troughs, nor often use the common shovel pivot tail slide, nor air. Simply, I as someone that has skied from older decades when bumps were everywhere, ski bumps not for challenge but for the most personal exhilarating visceral fun my own way that has much to do with my current skis I use as a tool. I as yet don't have any recent decade traditional hand held videos by others of my own bump skiing however before the season did buy a GoPro Hero 8 that only began to use 3 weeks ago so last Wednesday recorded 8 consecutive POV runs down my favorite bump run at Heavenly Little Dipper that have subsequently processed, trimming out all the non-skiing time so most runs are short less than a couple minutes.
As some have noted there are different ways to efficiently ski bumps though on such threads they tend to be overwhelmed by just those discussing comp styles. And that is understandable. Thus my reason for adding this post herein is to clearly show one other style. The first of 9 videos in the youtube playlist is the 600 foot bump run view from the adjacent chair going up the lift line. We have beautifully shaped bumps because south Tahoe is home to a large 50k population with many competent bump skiers of all types, every day on the slope. The following 8 videos are in sequence, my runs youtube titled as RUN1 thru RUN 8. Given the previous 2 weeks of spring freeze thaw conditions the first few runs were purposely for the sake of you Eastern bump skiers that note how easier and soft our higher elevation packed powder snow is versus your often icy slopes. Yeah my first runs just as the surface thaw began are on firm and icy snow with my skis rattling, chattering, about noisily as I descend with a reasonably calm upper body though often mechanically. So yeah we do get such conditions late season. Hardly any other competent skiers were on the slopes so early because such is much more challenging and certainly not as aesthetically possible.
I did make it look fun although such may not be too apparent due to the POV nature as on runs 2 and 3 impressed lift riders yell out my name after I pulled up since I'm a familiar regular lift riders watch. To see my strategy and style change after the snow softened up go to RUN 7 where I ski the whole slope smoother, faster with just one pit stop. Next season will record then post some runs with packed powder snow that I much prefer but for now this will surmise.
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