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Hey everyone! So it's my first time here, and I've never skiied before. A few friends of mine are going to Tahoe and I really want to try out the slopes. Can anyone give me beginners suggestions?

Get some lessons.........

Go to an indoor slope and have a crash course before you go out on the mountain. It will help you enormously.

Tony_H wrote:Go to an indoor slope and have a crash course before you go out on the mountain. It will help you enormously.

Going to go ahead and assume this person lives in the US, not much in the way of indoor slopes there.

Get lessons; dress warm and don't wear a hockey top/moto cross gear. Good way to do it on the cheap is to borrow a load of your buddies kit.

Lessons

Yep....lessons

I have been criticised here for not having lessons, with some justice. But I have rarely skied without supervision from a friend who has been skiing for 40 years. Learning from videos and books alone is unrealistic.

And like supervising a learner driver, you need someone to be responsible for safety, given that at first you are not able to predict or judge snow conditions, steepness, traffic etc. You need someone to push you a bit, but at other times to say, 'Don't ski here, the snow is too difficult / it is too steep / you are too tired.'

Try taking up ski lessons. There are many ski resorts out there that offers ski packages which includes lessons for beginners.

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