Take a trip to Crested Butte on your epic pass and spend lots of time skiing the steep terrain. You'll be forced to develop different tactics than you use on moderate-pitch bump runs. The bumps will teach you how to ski them with enough mileage.
Taos has some of the most irregular, oval/kidney-shaped, bumps I have ever seen with deep troughs in between! Why do you let the Texans bring those weird shaped moguls to TSV?C'mon down to Taos and do a ski week.
Problem solved.
Is the bottom picture at the bottom of Huntziger at Taos?Two photos from @dbostedo 's taos trip report:
Classic spiney bumps ... pretty easy to ski:
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Ugly, chaotic bumps....
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Nope... not Hunziker. Hunziker generally had nice bumps.Is the bottom picture at the bottom of Huntziger at Taos?
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It is not easy to get one's gravity perpendicular vertical mind to instead visualize at inclined plains but once one does the game becomes more automatic . If one keeps one's downhill edged ski shovels pointing within about 30 degrees of a fall line, it is amazing how a good bump skier will just flow through mogul fields.
@SSSdave My mindset is one of dynamically jumping down via concave surfaces like on a fall line staircase. A weight loaded flexed bent ski fits in such concavities if oriented to fit and on the same plain. Many are on inclined snow surfaces, not gravity vertical. Orienting one's skis in the plain of such surfaces requires visual brain automatic fast reaction experience, learned by much repetition. Thus not the continual downward shin pressure as in troughs. Without even seeing, one's body can also learns by feel alone what works with good efficient rhythmic balance. A different game in the mix.
Taos has some of the most irregular, oval/kidney-shaped, bumps I have ever seen with deep troughs in between! Why do you let the Texans bring those weird shaped moguls to TSV?
Not the massive oval/kidney shaped bump that was sawed off with a 6 foot drop...it aint good for anyone. Trust me. I like bumps...this one was like mutant bump.You must be looking at the wrong places. the bad bumps are usually off tower #10 on chair #7. Too many bad skier going through there. The closest we usually get to those nasties is Bob into Ash Pound.
Shhh, the deep troughs are where we buried the people we don't like. You are not supposed to ski the trough. lest you disturb the bodies.
You should really take a ski week and learn more about bump identification. Oval/kidney shape bumps are good bumps. They get you down the hill much faster. Unlike the short chopped up round bumps.
Like these? There is nothing good or fun about these Chenobyl moguls. Photo by @Philpug at Mt. Rose.Where I have trouble is adapting to steep terrain, with moguls that have sidewalls that resemble a a canyon mesa, fairly flat base with sheer dropoffs on front and sides of the moguls.
50? Don't think there's any 50 degree slope in any resort in NA.Agree.
Remember: the OP stated he is competent in black and blue moguls. We haven't seen them ski so we only have their word for it. Skiing 20-30 degree slope mogul runs cut by good mogul skiers with lots of line choices is a different kettle of fish than a 50+ degree slope with chaotic Volkswagen sized bumps. Same technique maybe, but different tactics. A lot of skiing the latter is about confidence in that terrain. Perfect practice always makes perfect.
Mt. Rose has a few that are 40-55 in The Chutes.50? Don't think there's any 50 degree slope in any resort in NA.
Actually, i doubt many skiers have even seen 45 degrees slopes, let alone skied. 45 is seriously steep, and how many people can ski that?A bit off topic, but that I'll disagree with. Everyone knows what a 30 degree or 45 degree angle looks like. But say 80% grade to someone, and you'll have to explain, and they still may not get it. We should all stop using grade unless there's a technical reason to use it. "Degrees" is much more comprehensible for most people IMO.
Skied those many times and maybe 43 percent max.Mt. Rose has a few that are 40-55 in The Chutes.
Difference between degrees and percent.Skied those many times and maybe 43 percent max.
Oh for-crying-out-loud, should have seen this coming Wish I never put a number in my post50? Don't think there's any 50 degree slope in any resort in NA.
This isn't a "my d!@k is bigger than your's" thread. It's about helping the OP....
I agree with that. I was literally talking about angles, not ski slopes. People know what a 45 degree angle is.Actually, i doubt many skiers have even seen 45 degrees slopes, let alone skied
Not the massive oval/kidney shaped bump that was sawed off with a 6 foot drop...it aint good for anyone. Trust me. I like bumps...this one was like mutant bump.
Like these? There is nothing good or fun about these Chenobyl moguls. Photo by @Philpug at Mt. Rose.
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I'll take the challenge.This isn't a "my d!@k is bigger than your's" thread. It's about helping the OP with is tactics for skiing the type of bumps he stated in the OP.
I like my title just fineI'll kindly ask @dbostedo to be the arbitrator of steepness (new title?).