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- From: hkelly@tantalum.eds.com (Kelly Shuldberg)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Skis to Boards
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.163043.11234@edsr.eds.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:30:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.173843.3656@nic.csu.net>
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- Organization: EDS Research, Albuquerque, NM
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- I just spent the week in Northern Utah, skiing with my 12-year-old son. He
- has skied since he was five and can handle just about anything a slope has
- to offer -- bumps, powder, crud -- you name it. But he has had this urge
- to snowboard for some time now, so he got a snowboard for Christmas (used,
- but in good shape). I followed along behind him on his first runs, just in
- case we needed the ski patrol's escort service off the mountain, but it
- wasn't necessary. I have heard that acomplished skiers are at a
- disadvantage when they take up boarding, but after watching my son, I would
- have to disagree. He knew about edging, about picking a line and trying to
- follow it, and he certainly wasn't intimidated by the slope of the hill
- (Beaver Mt., 27 miles up Logan Canyon on the Utah/Idaho border. If you're
- in the area, give 'em a try. Ted and Marge Seeholtzer will appreciate it.
- Plus, you'll see more really good skiers there than at any other resort
- I've ever been to.). But it was frustrating for him to be on a slope that
- he normally could boom down without breaking a sweat to have to struggle
- with every turn, and fall, and get up, and turn and fall again. He did
- pretty well considering the short time we had to ski/board together, but
- it's obvious that boarding is very different from skiing. He skates, and I
- guess this experience helped him. His final consensus was that he loved
- it. Boarding, I mean. He won't be giving up skiing for a while, because
- he's not ready for the steeps and deeps on the board, and he likes the hard
- skiing, but it's only a matter of time until he can do it all on the board,
- too. The one thing I noticed, though, is that boarders, or rather, people
- on boards, will never be ski patrollers, because they can't skate, climb,
- or generally get around like a person on skis can, and my experience is
- that getting around is most of patrolling (if I'd known they were going to
- make me go uphill, I never wouldda joined! ;-).
-
- Apparently, it hasn't snowed here all week. There are big bare patches on
- my hillside. And it's warm. In spite of a great beginning, the skiing
- right now might not be very good in NM. I'll let you know day after
- tomorrow.
-
- Just a Utah/New Mexico ski report.
-
- h. kelly shuldberg
- hkelly@edsr.eds.com
- Albuquerque, NM
-