Thanx all. Sounds like it will be fine to work on technical "stuff." I'll be doing ski week and I'm sure the instructors will have plenty of creative drills for us. Still, I'll probably leave the brand new skis at home and bring my tried and trues. I'll continue to pray to the snow gods. I'm also headed to Snowbird in late March, so I have plenty of reasons to keep worshiping at the altar of winter. Frankly, we've had a great season so far in the mid-Atlantic (albeit man-made) so I can't complain at all.