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Earn your turns.

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skiingonskis
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I just got back from hiking my home mountain, Steamboat.  Got like 300 verticle in.  Anyone else been hiking for their turns?  any stories?  for me, the actual act of skiing after hiking is much more enjoyable, knowing that you earned them, and didnt use any other resources.
May 9 2010 6:38PM
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ChrisSkisChronic
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At a local hill, there is an old T-bar that is no longer in use. This lift served only 2 runs and is isolated from the rest of the hill. You can get freshies a week after a storm if you're willing to hike. I'd guess it's about 300ft vert, but it's decently steep. I hike it every time I'm there. 
May 9 2010 7:50PM
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smuggs
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hiking to get to ski is fun, real fun, its usually just you and your possie and you can do whatever you want. way to get some still!
May 9 2010 7:51PM
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LAME.
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^ LOL ya cause fortune gets mad powda. and the only reason it wasnt open this year is because they do not make snow on that run so they need enough natural snow to cover it. but it is fun to build pre-season jumps on.
May 9 2010 7:53PM
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skiingonskis
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ha. i meant 3000 verticle, not 300.  it was a long hike...
May 9 2010 7:55PM
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MADDECENT
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damn that sounds sick
May 9 2010 8:01PM
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t_rob
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thank god... i was about to start hating.
May 9 2010 8:03PM
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ChrisSkisChronic
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Remember that winter 2 years ago, when we got like 10 ft of snow? Fortune got mad powda. There was one storm that dumped like 45cm, I skied knee deep pow a week later by hiking.
May 9 2010 8:07PM
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Willard
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hahah me to..... hiking makes even shitty conditions so much better cause you actually earned it
May 9 2010 8:47PM
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.peter
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You'll hate this but I always learn tricks better when I hike rails rather than taking the lift.
I think like halfway through the season I learned like 10 or so tricks in one super foggy afternoon just hiking the jib park at my mtn. with a couple snowboarders. Awesome vibes = awesome tricks.
May 9 2010 8:50PM
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steezenskis
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hiking makes you apreciate lifts. I hiked tux ravine a few weeks ago. it was awsome but it was so tiring
May 9 2010 9:01PM
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deathcookie
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Hiking makes skiing more exciting.  On my trips out west I always try to hike because the feeling of walking on top of huge mountains is incredible.  The skiing is always sick when you hike and you always feel like you earned it.
May 9 2010 9:10PM
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Funnel
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45cm is 18 inches. Powder, but mad powder? No.
May 9 2010 11:37PM
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pelle_munch
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bitchass n00b
May 9 2010 11:49PM
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onearmwanderer
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haha haters gonna hate.... 18 inches (especially if just overnight) is a lot of snow..
May 10 2010 1:07AM
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onearmwanderer
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oh ya and to the thread hiking is a lot of fun, same with mountain biking i enjoy the way up "almost" as much as the way down. hiked alta preseason a good 12 times, i definitely recommend it. just get a backpack to carry the skis, did it once without and my arm was dead.
May 10 2010 1:09AM
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jca
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i've been touring for the past couple weeks since the hill closed.  fun times!
May 10 2010 1:13AM
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RudyGarmisch
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I personally agree, some of the best lines of my life were after a huge and difficult hike in. But to each his own.
May 10 2010 3:28AM
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powday
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hell yeah, I hiked some upper steeps on closing day at my mountain...fresh tracks all day long, worth the hike every time!
May 10 2010 3:37AM
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3mania
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yeah Jonas, i hiked up the Bashor today. I did only get 300ft of vert. Built a little kicker all by myself and did about 20 jumps. Awesome way the kill an afternoon.
May 10 2010 3:39AM
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1337
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REAL skiing involves earning your turns. I hate that guy who always bitches about it. STFU and grow a pair
May 10 2010 6:12AM
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bappelabb
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OP

I know this is rather irrelevant to the subject, but are you going to be in Les Deux Alpes this summer with the FSA?
May 10 2010 7:10AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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I hike all the time when I'm out west, but I'd be lying if I said I REALLY enjoyed the hike. I like gettin' the goods, so it's all worth it in the end, but walking up a mountain in ski boots carrying my skis is by no means enjoyable. It's fucking tiring, but I guess that's part of the reason the "goods" are still available several days later...because the hike sucks. I really need to invest in some dukes & skins.
May 10 2010 9:27AM
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Bar_Down
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tru.
when i went out west and eventually decided to hike to get some freshies, i realized how fuckin tiring that shit is, i was gasping for air within a minute of hiking. after i was done though, i looked down at my line and just took in the scenery and it was just a beauty. worth it for sure, and then the pow afterwards was unreal
May 10 2010 9:57AM
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Loodwik
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I´ll quit school 9:30 tomorrow, gonna hike all day! stoked on that!
May 10 2010 10:44AM
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Eric.S
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I agree to the extent the east coast allows, we got one storm that brought around waist deep snow. With this I live in New Jersey so this is alot of fucking snow, I contemplated wither or not I wanted to go try and hit handrails or walk behind my house and ski about a 500 feet vertical glade I cut over the summer time just in hopes for a storm like this. Needless to say I did the later and spent all day hiking and skiing in that glade just building shit and skiing, it was extremely tired and after skiing it top to bottom four times I was done. Very rewarding though.
May 10 2010 11:38AM
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snomaster
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I like it when people bitch about hiking (unless they are ascending with me).

it seems some youngsters are learning the ways of the powder warrior.
May 10 2010 12:54PM
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skiingonskis
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word man, we stopped by the park real quick but didnt do anything.   it was my first day back skiing after  surgery this year, so i was pretty stoked anyways
May 10 2010 2:58PM
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skiingonskis
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unfortunately no, ive done my acl twice in under a year, so im going to try to stay off my skis for most of the summer.  next year!!
May 10 2010 3:00PM
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A.Eberhard
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In the north east this is mad powder!
May 10 2010 4:01PM
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Elmo.
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hiked half way up loon NH like 2 weeks ago to build a kicker with some friends.. which was really fun then at about 1 we heard that cannon NH, ten min up the road had 2 feet of pow... loon got nothing, so we skied down wat loon had left of snow which at the bottom was grass skiing lol and we got up there hiked up cannon mtn, the whole thing we got down at about 5 made a pow kicker hit it fro 2 hours til it got dark.... it was sooo rewarding i had so much fun... made my ski year... i also stomped my first 5 and switch 3 then also tried soem flips and off axis stuff great day and worth every step i took up those mtns
May 10 2010 5:17PM
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bappelabb
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Bummer!I am sorry to hear that and I hope you are recovering well!

My boy Troels told me you were pretty decent at drinking "bowle" and although you might be absent we shall drink to your health!

And ski of course!
May 10 2010 5:39PM
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skiingonskis
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Glemmer aldrig den aften, haha.  Blir bare noedt til at tage den lidt med ro til sommer ;)
May 10 2010 6:05PM
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N.L.
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after the lifts stopped at breck, i skinned to the top of the tbar. that will make you feel like Heman,
May 10 2010 10:54PM
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StReEtPIRATES
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When the hill close to my house closed i hiked it, and ive hiked a local mountain a few week days too.
May 10 2010 10:56PM
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chickenwang
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i enjoy earning my turns aswell
May 10 2010 10:58PM
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DERS.
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palmyra peak in telluride
defiantly worth the turns
May 10 2010 11:08PM
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rickroller
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cool story
May 10 2010 11:11PM
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pelle_munch
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Yeah, it actually is a cool story.
May 11 2010 12:10AM
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ChrisSkisChronic
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Moreover, that's mad powder for Ottawa
May 11 2010 7:39AM
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steep
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I know about 10 AWESOME hike lines at each of my (local) mountains. Deep pow and cliffs each time
May 11 2010 7:52AM
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Static
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oh yea so rewarding to post hole 4 hours for 10 minutes of skiing

sometimes on a powder day I'll hike right under the lift, makes me feel so much more manly than those a-holes taking the easy route up
May 11 2010 9:33AM
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Jarle
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Ahh, it's so rewarding to skin... I hate skinning but I guess you have to if you want to ski good snow... Like this year in Revelstoke, had more days skinning all day for 2-3 30 second runs then I can count too. Shit was so tracked out...
May 11 2010 9:44AM
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Yung_Gnarley
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say what you will, buy keystone has some big lines if you're willing to hike
May 11 2010 12:25PM
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Cincher
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Oh for sure. Hiking the park was how I slid my first rail, and I didn't own twintips then! Wish my boots were lighter though...
May 11 2010 3:39PM
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benk
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completely agree. I cant stand powder days at resorts. so much stress and way too many people.

I like skinning up my line and knowing exactly what I'm skiing and the extra 20 min for a run makes you want it that much more.

I cant insert my touring photos but below are links to a couple photos from tours this season

https://www.newschoolers.com/web/content/pictures/id/314277/

https://www.newschoolers.com/web/content/pictures/id/347930/

 
May 11 2010 5:23PM
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A.Eberhard
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You were talking about the old T-bar at fortune right? Tremblant actually has some nice local only stashes when there is some snow, this year never got to go in.
May 11 2010 5:35PM
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RoadRash_Skier
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one day of this year my home mountain had some lift probleme so the chair to get at the top was close and they were a super sick storm so me and 2 of my friend decided to hike at the top of the mountain to ride some virgin pow. It was super sick we had to avoid a lot of ski patrol and when we finally get to the top of the run and ski we were in a second state of mind. sick day fosho!

May 11 2010 7:14PM
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