re: 2016-2017 Season long ski thread. All are welcome.

Will be at Beaver Creek for Mardi Gras. Always a blast.

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I'm still a beginner

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You won't be afterwards

Good choices on the places y'all chose

Damn! Glad he came out alive. I'm pretty sure Monday was high avy danger from alpine to below treeline. The map for Crested Butte area was blinking black yesterday for extreme. I check the CAIC daily and have never seen't that before

There was a weather advisory that mentioned roof avalanches. That's when you know it's getting real.

Our roof is ready to break real soon. So much snow around town now.

Gonna go make some night skiing laps tonight. Take out some long carver skis from the shop and rip it up.

You're gonna have to teach me how to make a respectable GoPro edit. You're pretty damn good at it.

I'm at DIA heading out. Let's all cross our fingers the big storm hits Whistler while I'm there

Honestly, I just clip my segments on my phone and plug them into the GoPro app "Quik". It has a few preset video types to choose from and makes a pretty good baseline edit to work with. I tweak it for awhile but the app does a lot of the early work.

I don't wanna spend hours on an edit, so it's fun to get one done pretty quickly.

Powder days at Vail and the Beave

If I didn't pull that move, I wouldn't have been first chair. And I like being first chair.

It was a split second decision and it paid off.

My GoPro actually fell off on impact of that big air at the end. I landed it with a big impact, so I guess my knee hit the GoPro chesty mount and the clip popped out of the mount. We searched for like 5 minutes and right as we gave up, a guy I was skiing with found it in the snow.

Arrive in steamboat tomorrow.

Gotta love inversion mornings. Cloudy in town and at the base, but once you get past mid-mountain, it's clear and sunny. Keeps the crowds off the mountain early.

Made two or three fast groomer laps and then ski'd an awesome lower mountain zone at Steamboat for first time. Found a bunch of gnarly stuff to play on.

I need a new pair of skis for everyday ripping. Missing my Soul7s.

What is the ski level of everyone going? If you have beginners there is are several nice green runs at the top of the mountain for them. We typically go up to mid mountain and go down Harrier over to the Larkspur lift and will lap Larkspur until it starts to get tracked out. We also love lapping Rose Bowl as well. Grouse is fun on a powder day but it's all advanced terrain and the glade out the gate at the top of the lift has some fun tree skiing. Centennial at the end of the day is a fun run as well. We typically don't ski the arrow head/bachelor gulch side so can't recommend anything over there. If Golden Eagle is groomed, do it as well.

BC is nice as they have upgraded several slower lifts the past few seasons and crowd levels are typically nice, especially on non weekend days. Make sure to also be at the base at 3pm each day for free chocolate chip cookies. Have a good time, this is my first season in about 10 years I won't be visiting BC.