Ski conditions definition...

bandit wrote:ise, that is a really excellent powder skiing photo. If you've not sold it to an agency already, consider it 8)

About the only time I've been far enough in front of Neil to get a photo', I've a number of his back dissapearing into the distance )

ise wrote:

caron-a wrote:my physio has told me that spring snow is acl injury territory.
do you agree and, if you do, what's the reasoning?

He might mean the LGS (loose granular snow) which can make skiers make more twisting motions and you can get the ski breaking through the surface at times as well. Not a huge concern I'd say really.

What he ought to be talking about is falling better, has he mentioned this?

I know I've read about falling downhill rather than backwards, is this right? In the new year I'll have a long session with my physio to get me measured for braces and we'll go into more detail, then it'll be fresher in my mind for when I finally get on the slopes.

caron-a wrote:

I know I've read about falling downhill rather than backwards, is this right? In the new year I'll have a long session with my physio to get me measured for braces and we'll go into more detail, then it'll be fresher in my mind for when I finally get on the slopes.

I don't have an ACL injury but from what I understand ...

if you're falling then let it go, keep your weight forward while skiing and ankles flexed etc, if you start to fall then that stance should push you forward and into the fall line on the fall. What else I've read is just all about not getting the weight back which is all just good common-sense good practice skiing anyway.

Ise, I wasn't really talking about LGS, which can be viewed as reasonably steady state. I was trying to describe mid-afternoon very wet heavy snow, and the depth/temperature variations associated with this condition. ~ Generally, conditions seen in lower alpine resorts.

Guess, I should have added the outcome of skiing in the stuff. This is the stop/start feeling of going quickly in the shade, hitting porrage in the sun, and how that acceleration/braking stresses the legs. When that happensduring the turn, it can initiate a slow twisting fall, the worst kind of fall.

I was thinking about this after-injury return to skiing, and surmising that one could aim to head for a resort where the piste grooming is as good as say some US resorts. Keystone springs to mind.

It's ice when it's blue and you can get next to nil edge hold on it.

RossF wrote

It's ice when it's blue and you can get next to nil edge hold on it.

Yup, blue, no edge is boiler plate.

Lots of angulation, legs, split, weight bang in the middle, easing forward during the turn initiation, all movements as smooth as possible, total focus, this is no time to start praying. If you fall, you are going all the way to the bottom.

Does any other sport have such a wide range of conditions?

Dave Mac wrote:Ise, I wasn't really talking about LGS, which can be viewed as reasonably steady state. I was trying to describe mid-afternoon very wet heavy snow, and the depth/temperature variations associated with this condition. ~ Generally, conditions seen in lower alpine resorts.

That's probably best termed as wet granular snow and is caused by high temperatures and/or rain. That's a lot easier to ski than LGS though.

Dave Mac wrote:


I was thinking about this after-injury return to skiing, and surmising that one could aim to head for a resort where the piste grooming is as good as say some US resorts. Keystone springs to mind.

I have skied Keystone several times, and from memory the piste preparation was no better or worse than anywhere else, in the US or in Europe. :?:

Perhaps they have improved since I was last there. For easy skiing and "just so" piste prep I'd say Courchevel 1850 goes the extra yard/mile/metre, for it's rich clients who need to be seen to look good.