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Tips on boarding deep powder?

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all tips thankfully accepted because I am up to my neck in the old white stuff out here in St Anton, not that I can actually see where I am going or what is up and what is down Very Happy
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rayscoops, keep your weight forwards
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Swirly, Very Happy

I think I will just try a bigger board wink
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rayscoops, just faceplant millions of times Twisted Evil Twisted Evil
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Swirly wrote:
keep your weight forwards
Shocked Laughing Laughing
rayscoops, don't forget sharper, more aggressive turns as well. let us know how you go. the blackberry is waterproof, right?
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speed speed speed, don't even think of a turn until you are flying.
Move your bindings back as well, not that I do that, I go for the speed speed speed option.

try some inside leg extension as well wink
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as you enter the powder from the piste, lean really far forward snowHead

Then when your mates have stopped laughing at you, they will dig you out Laughing
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cheers guys, well ........ simple, do not stop, do not turn, do not do anything but go straight and fast. I stopped I got stuck, I turned I got stuck, no more - momentum is my friend, snow is my friend, i just want to see where the feck I am going once in a while

Knee deep on piste (laugh - nothing is pisted here) waste deep in the drifts and edges, and only piste open from Galzig Gondola is the black !!!! This is serious pow- still dumping big time as I type. Today seemed like the day to try out my recent ebay Ride 164 Yukon, but a bit too wide for me on the few cat tracks I have to take but top banana on the pow, just rides up out of the flffy stuff when i put a bit of back foot gas down, swapped to my Flow instead at 2 pm - I have set my binding waaaayyyyyy back and it is flying, this is what boarding is all about Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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rayscoops, once you get out in deep powder there's no going back.
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Knee deep on piste (laugh - nothing is pisted here) waste deep in the drifts and edges, and only piste open from Galzig Gondola is the black !!!! This is serious pow- still dumping big time as I type. Today seemed like the day to try out my recent ebay Ride 164 Yukon, but a bit too wide for me on the few cat tracks I have to take but top banana on the pow, just rides up out of the flffy stuff when i put a bit of back foot gas down, swapped to my Flow instead at 2 pm - I have set my binding waaaayyyyyy back and it is flying, this is what boarding is all about

Now there's one happy guy! What a great post.
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blue sky today, big fresh tracks to be had all morning at the side and between pistes, hard turns worked great, plus not stopping did the trick. One thing, never enter powder riding switch unless you intend leaving powder riding switch, because switching back is not as easy as it seems and may (did) result in all sorts of interesting results. Great fun and strange that tracks in pow look so shallow until you actually fall in it Very Happy
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rayscoops wrote:
One thing, never enter powder riding switch unless you intend leaving powder riding switch,


noob NehNeh
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Sorry to hear your trip sucks so bad. wink
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rayscoops, perhaps you'd find it easier to learn to ski?
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rayscoops, glad your having a good trip and posting here telling us so ... I hate you I hate you
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David Murdoch, nah, all the skiers were just following each others tracks - what is the fun of that wink apart from the really good ones who seemed to be making up for a lack of pow last season, some seriously good skiers and boarders around here, must be locals rather than Brits Very Happy

DebbiDoesSnow, today the pistes were nice soft fluffy snow and great for boarding, you would have loved it Very Happy

After two years (not seasons) boarding and completely avoiding anything that is remotely likely to drag you up a slope (icy black or drag, give me the black please any day) I gave leave to my senses and had a go on one of those blasted button contraption thingies - finally mastered the blighter but the downside of three powder days is that the button thingie was cocooned in a tunnel of snow and resembled something that you would normally ride at Alton Towers. Shocked falling off and getting out was difficult and the resultant powder spills on to the track by similar poor souls only added to the fun of the ride Very Happy
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rayscoops, It sounds like a dream, hope tignes is like that in Jan. Good one on the drags, I've got a friend that refuses point blank to do them in case he falls off! hope you have some energy left for some apres Laughing
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not green with envy... honest...
ENJOY!!!!
30 days and counting till Chamonix... mayb should get board out again just to check its ok!!!!!
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rayscoops, I think you've just cost me £600 -- reading all this has just forced me to book an extra weekend in Jan for me and Miss Snojito. Is it just me or do budgets, holiday allowance and willpower just go out of the window when people start talking about powder?? snowHead

Debbi, I know exactly how your friend feels...
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heh - where're you gonna go then fella?

I'm soooo excited about Ishgl now! Find my feet (and board!) in Tahoe, rinse out in Ishgl and then perfect in Val Thorens... Very Happy
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snojito, LOL I thought you were a miss snojito Embarassed

If you don't do drags you can miss some good pistage. In flaine you had to do the most evil drag ( massive air on take off Shocked ) just to get to the park
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DebbiDoesSnow, I promise you, I would make one UGLY 6ft, 14 stone, stubble-encrusted girl. Laughing

truespin, the two best deals we can find for the weekend that we can go are VT or Tignes. There's only £20 in it (with VT being the pricier) and frankly we're having trouble deciding -- if it's alright to hijack the thread for a second, any of our fellow snowHead 's got any preferences?
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Go to VT then you can give me the heads-up on the best runs for when I go in April Wink
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snojito, ooooo yes thats a scary mental image ! I think its your location that made me think you were a miss. god knows why.
I'm off to Tignes in Jan so thats a bit late for a recommendation. But if you look at the Tignes trip report & resorts threads there are some good pics in there and everyone is raving about it.
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Austria - you can not beat it - pow, good beer, sticky cakes, 80's dodgy music, moustached women and that DJ Ottzi guy - classic

Rained all day below 2200 meters with blizzards above except for the last 2 hours when it cleared and pow was to be had, lashing down again now.

On a serious note the ground here was not very cold when the snow came and it is slabbing and sliding off at the steep slopes around the resort level pistes, I was just finishing off a choppy deep snow red piste back to the resort and nearly boarded into a pot hole the full depth of the snow base, did a nifty little jump over it to save my bacon.
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rayscoops. does lashing down = rain or snow?? ( I guess the former??)
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Kitenski - raining just like in Wales
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Raining.....????? Oh no, and I was getting excited about St Anton. Go away nasty rain Evil or Very Mad
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But snow up top
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Forecast looking good tho...hopefully as I need to find some powder if I'm going to get achieve this season's goal of learnig to turn in powder as opposed to straight down Very Happy
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Shiet, as I get back to my digs it is dumping it down, looks like I may have to put my bindings on the ol' Yukon after brekkie
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Some pics in mediazone if you want a look
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Not much snow is there? must be so boring
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If you're talking really deep uncompressed powder snow I guess that's when a board could outperform a fat pair of skis because it must 'float' more easily - yes?
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Megamum, yes
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try riding a swallow tail or a fish in such conditions, then you really do just surf!

glad your having a pow fest, we had one today too and are hoping to have another one tomorrow!
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Megamum wrote:
If you're talking really deep uncompressed powder snow I guess that's when a board could outperform a fat pair of skis because it must 'float' more easily - yes?


No, a board will always outperform skis. wink
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stab, much better answer !
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It dumped down all day today and I am all powdered out,six days of every type of weather and conditions imaginable and I leave tomorrow back to sunny Wales. I am knackered.
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Try a Rossignol B2, apparently the way to learn to ski powder. Toofy Grin Laughing
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