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- From: byrnes@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John Byrnes)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:41:05 GMT
- Subject: Re: Skiing at Steamboat
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- >
- > > I think Steamboat is one of Colorado's nicer ski areas.
- > > They have some of the most challanging black diamond
- >
- > Not. They certainly have some fine cruising and (when I was there) some
- > fabulous snow, but difficult runs? ...in their dreams. That's not to say
- > that Steamboat isn't a great hill, it actually is a pretty dang nice place
- > to ski. It just shouldn't be considered a challenging expert area. If
- > that's what you're looking for then you should be elsewhere.
- >
-
- We've discussed this before, but I couldn't let this pass...
-
- Steamboat doesn't have steeps, chutes, cliffs, etc. that some people equate
- to challenging expert runs. It just has tree skiing, the best and most
- challenging in the world.
-
- Try skiing the fall line in those aspen trees. I'm not talking about
- Twilight or Shadows where they've thinned the trees, try Flying Z, or
- Hurrican, 2:30 or 4 Points lift line area.
-
- Have trouble seeing the next turn in the bumps in flat light? Try skiing
- between two conifers. Will there be an aspen right in from of you? A
- big rock?
-
- Miss a turn in the bumps? Just pick up the next line. Miss a turn in the
- trees and break bones.
-
- Steeps get you puckered-up? Try getting a little air off a rock in the
- trees (that you didn't see) and bet-your-body that you'll be able to make
- that first turn after you land.
-
- Try Steamboat.
-
- John
-
- P.S. For those of you who've never skied aspen trees, remember this; they
- don't have any branches down low to cushion the impact like conifers do.
- They are solid and hard. However, this lack of branches has its good side
- in that you can see a long way through them: a thick maze of immobile
- slalom poles you have to decipher at high speed.
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