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2018 New Year's Skiing Resolutions

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BenWhit
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So, we are creeping up on New Year's and it's getting to be that time to make some resolutions. Figured it's as good a time as any to write down some goals for the 2018 season so we can have them on paper. Something to look forward to! Can be getting a new trick, skiing a new line, having fun... whatever you want that will make your season as good as it can possibly be!

here are mine:
- ski Big Couloir at Big Sky
- get 15 days in this season
- spin off a natural feature
- work on some basic backcountry skills (touring, beacon practice, probe & shoveling practice)
- do a mellow BC tour
- have fun
- stay healthy

let's hear it! what are your 2018 New Year's Ski Resolutions?
7 years ago
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asadovnikoff
Posts: 49 - Karma: 264
Learn tech tricks breh.
Cork 7 blunt,
BS swaps,
b6 and f6.
Superfeds.
900s and 1080s but they scare me...

**This post was edited on Dec 20th 2017 at 12:36:38pm
7 years ago
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search4freshies
Posts: 358 - Karma: 1,336
I've set some lofty goals for myself this season, but the last one is the most important!

-classy backie off a natural stepdown
-sw nosebutter 5 in the BC
-put together a park edit on my tech bindings
-ski tour all 5 couloirs on Molas peak (San juans, Durango CO) in a day
-bag the Gnar Couloir (Velocity basin, Silverton CO)
-take more photos/stack more clips
-start producing weekly video content @searching_for_freshies #searchingforfreshies
-work on my avalance education/ BC safety
-have fun and stay healthy!!!!!
7 years ago
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TrickyDick470
Posts: 443 - Karma: 2,350
-Drink more chairlift beers
-Drink more beers in the woods
-Dial in more switch tricks
-Get comfortable with smaller backflips / small features
-Do a 720

-Get more days in than last season
-Have fun
7 years ago
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BenWhit
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asadovnikoff900s and 1080s but they scare me...

**This post was edited on Dec 20th 2017 at 12:36:38pm

i have tried a 900 once in my life and it resulted in a concussion, so that was the end of that. when I was in my teens, I had 7s on lock with some decent grabs, nothing to special, but I have spent less and less time in the park in my 20s. good luck to you!
7 years ago
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BenWhit
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search4freshies-work on my avalance education/ BC safety


I'm assuming you've done your AIARE 1? If so, what's next?
7 years ago
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BenWhit
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TrickyDick470-Drink more chairlift beers
-Drink more beers in the woods

very underrated goals!
7 years ago
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gbola
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quads
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search4freshies
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BenWhitI'm assuming you've done your AIARE 1? If so, what's next?


Currently waiting for snow to start falling in the SW so I can start planning a hut trip for my Avy 2, towards the end of this winter. I hear the hut trip is the best way to go! Really excited to focus more on snow science, while building off of the foundational concepts I've learned in the past. I'm also all signed up for a weekend course in Glacier travel and Crevasse rescue. All of this is in addition to regular beacon drills, digging pits, & keeping up with the forecast.

Other hurdles I'd like to (eventually) cross are obtaining Wilderness First Responder, AIARE 3, leading ice climbs, working more on my rope skills, and anything that will make me more skilled/self-sufficient in the mountains. My end game is to get into some real deal ski-mountaineering, so if anyone has any suggested paths to take that will get me there safely I'm all ears!
7 years ago
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Powside
Posts: 22 - Karma: 55
-Work on deep powder skiing
-Work on jumps
-Get out earlier during ski days
-Do more "off the beaten path" stuff
7 years ago
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hi_vis360
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learn no new tricks, jump around on as many rocks and stumps as possible
7 years ago
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search4freshies
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BASEDJAHlearn no new tricks, jump around on as many rocks and stumps as possible

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/853882/What-s-the-number-one-thing-you-want-to-do-next-season-


Same as last year!!! Have you mastered the "swerve"?!
7 years ago
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hi_vis360
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search4freshieshttps://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/853882/What-s-the-number-one-thing-you-want-to-do-next-season-


Same as last year!!! Have you mastered the "swerve"?!


Glad someone caught this. I don't think it can ever truly be mastered, but I did succeed in learning no new tricks
7 years ago
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rustypouch
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Get a hummer in the gondola.
7 years ago
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DFJ
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Ski as much as I can
7 years ago
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WildEuro99
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Ski as much as I can (over 15 days would be nice where I live :()
Master 360’s with some grabs I need to work on
HD5 off a knuckle
7 years ago
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theabortionator
Posts: 52377 - Karma: 171,321
Make friends with people that work at bars at the mountains and get deals
Make friends with more people to drink with on the mountain
Make friends with more people to ride with while drinking


Also just dropped a bunch of money on a new split setup and some other gear, so if we get snow, hoping to use that a bunch. Even just hiking stuff. Might try and do a hut to hut trip mid season.

Biggest goal is not to get hurt and have a fun motherfucking season. Fatty turns, pipe boosts, some grinderbar action, some beers, and some sunny motherfuckin hot laps.
7 years ago
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theabortionator
Posts: 52377 - Karma: 171,321
Make friends with people that work at bars at the mountains and get deals
Make friends with more people to drink with on the mountain
Make friends with more people to ride with while drinking


Also just dropped a bunch of money on a new split setup and some other gear, so if we get snow, hoping to use that a bunch. Even just hiking stuff. Might try and do a hut to hut trip mid season.

Biggest goal is not to get hurt and have a fun motherfucking season. Fatty turns, pipe boosts, some grinderbar action, some beers, and some sunny motherfuckin hot laps.
7 years ago
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Davomet
Posts: 80 - Karma: 173
BenWhitSo, we are creeping up on New Year's and it's getting to be that time to make some resolutions. Figured it's as good a time as any to write down some goals for the 2018 season so we can have them on paper. Something to look forward to! Can be getting a new trick, skiing a new line, having fun... whatever you want that will make your season as good as it can possibly be!

here are mine:
- ski Big Couloir at Big Sky
- get 15 days in this season
- spin off a natural feature
- work on some basic backcountry skills (touring, beacon practice, probe & shoveling practice)
- do a mellow BC tour
- have fun
- stay healthy

let's hear it! what are your 2018 New Year's Ski Resolutions?


my 2018 goals are:
- completely new bc/touring setup

and everything same as you but just for 2019
7 years ago
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Park.
Posts: 2480 - Karma: 4,582
Make an urban movie or two

dont hurt myself

sack up and learn some jump tricks
-cork 9
-rodeo 9 (fuck)
-unnatural corks
-switch flips
-do atleast 1 backflip this season

try to make it the first season I dont break or tear something
7 years ago
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sui-kide
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I need to get out of my comfort-zone a lot more than last year
7 years ago
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chris.goodhue
Posts: 946 - Karma: 6,213
-I would love to get a large baller cork 7 blunt of a BC jump
- rodeo 7 blunt or mute
- sw cork 5 japan
-nose butter cork 7
- ski some more continuous lines with cliffs / hits and make them flow
- keep my snowmobile running the entire season aka not have to get dragged out
7 years ago
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.FRY.
Posts: 5686 - Karma: 22,816
-switch cork 7 mute/japan
-unnatural flat 3/5
-3 swaps
-ski multiple mountains, only got to ski a select few last season
-film more
-make more friends
7 years ago
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P.O.W.
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I want to try to ski corbett's colouir when I go to jackson in january
7 years ago
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.lencon
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search4freshies-sw nosebutter 5 in the BC


Okay am I just super tired or what, but how do you do a sw nosebutter 5?
7 years ago
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evanball
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•break arm- CHECK
7 years ago
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search4freshies
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.lenconOkay am I just super tired or what, but how do you do a sw nosebutter 5?


"Nose butter" might not be the appropriate nomenclature, but the trick remains the same. Ride sw into the feature, as soon as your tails are beyond the lip, set the rotation, smear some fukn butter, spin & STOMP
7 years ago
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.lencon
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search4freshies"Nose butter" might not be the appropriate nomenclature, but the trick remains the same. Ride sw into the feature, as soon as your tails are beyond the lip, set the rotation, smear some fukn butter, spin & STOMP


Don’t think I’ve ever seen that done before.
7 years ago
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profa_212
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Fun game.

-start nailing 3s off cliffs
- do more backies off cliffs
-sweep the chimney
-nose to fingers (usually too lazy to battle for tracks)
-all lines on toad wall under silverado at squaw in a day (I've done 2/3 but need that third)


those are the biggies, but ive got tons of lines that i need redemption/want to hit at squaw. Hopefully tahoe starts getting some damn snow my lord.
7 years ago
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tomeaston
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Ski on snow for the first time. Been skiing on a toothbrush for 10 years... And I've never touched snow until next February when I'm off to Austria.
7 years ago
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