Great photos of a great looking place for a ski trip. Thanks for posting.

The better you get the more fun it is. Imagine how fun it's gonna be in about 25 years, stick with it.

I do use a tiak with my Hoks- partly because it is also my DBH measuring stick- I use the Hok almost exclusively for forestry field work and work around the farm and woodlot. The tiak makes a huge difference- even the 145 Hok is a very short ski and things get very unstable- fast- when you point th...

Welcome back Baaahb I hope all is well.

There are times when you want to heavily weight the lead ski that wouldn't be considered a fakeamark in my book. I don't see any reason why you can't combine a P turn and a T turn with good results, as long as it works for you.

^^^ Perfect^^^ You can do more with that gear.

That is the kind of slide that you will probably die from trauma before you're dug out. If you get dug out, sometimes your family will have to wait for summer to find your body.

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Thu Dec 09, 2021 1:12 pm

Sunday 12/5/21 in Vermont. Rain took most of the snow away early in the week. About 4" last night

Nice skills VT Trees. What gear are you on?

My guess is that you won't be able to climb as well as you can with poles. If you are touring for turns chances are it will be steep enough that you will want kicker skins at least. I don't know what your skill level is, but if you are still learning you don't want it to become a crutch that prevent...

Powder and soft packed powder I'm good up to 110- and 112 and I think that would have worked in east coast resort corn where I had vectors at 96mm that were great. The vectors were too much ski to comfortably edge one time on a hard steep gully where I had to go slow and go 90 degrees to the fall li...

2.5% is perfect for washing down jagermeister.