It's Wiggle Season!

[4ster]

Kirkwood Wiggle…

 

[Tricia]

Diamond Peak Wiggle showed up under the chairlift for closing day when we visited there yesterday

 

[dbostedo]

Mammoth just had this on their Facebook page:

 

[locknload]

Mammoth just had this on their Facebook page:

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This wiggle is getting very bobsled-y-ish......

 

[dbostedo]

This wiggle is getting very bobsled-y-ish......

Getting there... but not as much as some I've seen.

 

[raytseng]

If that's the one off of Broadway #1, I happened to try it last Sunday. Pretty smooth and easy.
If you look closely it has a wellformed bump/upslope before each bank to help you to scrub spreed and unweight turn, so it is isn't as fast as it looks if it didn't have the bumps.

Unlike the wiggle at Palisades off of Shirley. The last turn there has a misaligned double bump thay will huck you out of the trough or turn you sideways,unless you air the second bump or bailout and skip it. Those that tried the last double bump seemed to have 50% success rate and take home some snow rash as a souvenir

 

[Prosper]

Winter Park wiggle in Panorama Bowl. Not very deep, not very smooth but still a lot of fun.

 

[James]

Mammoth just had this on their Facebook page:

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Proving that wiggles are made for the short snowboard? What’s the longest snowboard length people use, 165?

 

[dbostedo]

Proving that wiggles are made for the short snowboard? What’s the longest snowboard length people use, 165?

"The House" has a sizing guide that goes up to 168.

But how does that pic say anything about short snowboards? I'm not following.

 

[James]

"The House" has a sizing guide that goes up to 168.

But how does that pic say anything about short snowboards? I'm not following.

Snowboards are short.
Wiggles develop mostly due to snowboards.
There’s three snowboarders in your wiggle photo.

Many snowboarders will aggressively push the back out on a turn, making them bot round turns. Those ones look pretty good.

 

[Jim Kenney]

4 may 2023, this wiggle in little cloud bowl at snowbird is long with maybe 400' vertical!

view from other direction

 

[cantunamunch]

Wiggles develop mostly due to snowboards.

Send in the monoskiers to fix them!

 

[mdf]

If that's the one off of Broadway #1, I happened to try it last Sunday. Pretty smooth and easy.
If you look closely it has a wellformed bump/upslope before each bank to help you to scrub spreed and unweight turn, so it is isn't as fast as it looks if it didn't have the bumps.

Unlike the wiggle at Palisades off of Shirley. The last turn there has a misaligned double bump thay will huck you out of the trough or turn you sideways,unless you air the second bump or bailout and skip it. Those that tried the last double bump seemed to have 50% success rate and take home some snow rash as a souvenir

That wiggle has been pretty much erased. I think I did trip over it on the first no vis day. I was traversing around the top of that slope to come down around the corner.

 

[S.H.]

Snowboards are short.
Wiggles develop mostly due to snowboards.
There’s three snowboarders in your wiggle photo.

Many snowboarders will aggressively push the back out on a turn, making them bot round turns. Those ones look pretty good.

but there's almost always a wiggle at Alta?

 

[dbostedo]

but there's almost always a wiggle at Alta?

That was my thought... And I skied one at Copper once that I saw a bunch of folks do, all skiers. And the big one at Palisades a couple of years ago seemed to be mostly skiers too. (That one required a pretty decent traverse to get to the top of... more skier friendly.) I don't think it's true that "Wiggles develop mostly due to snowboards."

 

[James]

Interpretations…
No one, esp the person posting under this username, said only snowboarders make wiggles. It’s the shaping, phrased as “develop” Like banana bumps.

 

[dbostedo]

No one, esp the person posting under this username, said only snowboarders make wiggles. It’s the shaping, phrased as “develop” Like banana bumps.

I didn't say that you said that. I quoted you even. And I don't think it's correct. But I don't know.

 

[James]

Well Ed Sheeran apparently didn’t copy Marvin Gaye either. Based on sheet music.

 

[Paul Lutes]

NO WIGGLES FOR YOU!!!!!

 

[Prosper]

Copper wiggle. Got deeper and deeper as the day went on. Tomorrow is closing day so get there asap if you want to do it. Here’s my 13yo wiggling. We did it 4 or 5 times.