My fellow patrol buddy just set up one of those neat helmet cameras and shot this extended video of my skiing. It's a pretty fair representation of my day to day skiing-the first two minutes in particular-one long run with medium sized, firm (you can hear the snow) but fun bumps on the upper steeper portion and then after a second of chit chat, a good groomed blue second half. The next bit is a run down a classic liftline New England bump run (at berkshire east-poke around, there's an internet following for our little ski area ) again followed by a brief run down a solid blue groomer. Snow on lift line was fairly tough but standard east coast bump fare-that is, soft and edge-able on the bumps, scraped off and icy (again-you'll hear it) in between. The groomers are fast but fun.
And as always, I do appreciate the generosity of the MA-ers who are willing to share their keen eyes, solid advice and cybertime.
Oh, the first 20 seconds or so as we scoot down to the first run I'm not trying to turn and yes, I'm intentionally flapping my arms as if I were flying...just a little fun before some real skiing! AND, evidently you can watch this in HD (it is uploaded to that resolution) on Youtube as well as an option.
Liam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJH2pjhPph4