Favorite Runs in Utah

[Tony Crocker]

mikesathome: A candidate for the The Arctic Man, an event featured in Warren Miller a couple of years ago, and in at least one of the mags.

 

[tirolerpeter]

Twisted, I can't really advise you about where to ski, since I just moved to UT this past spring. However, I have been flying out to ski once or twice a season since 2000. Therefore it is hard for me to understand how you could have lived here for the past six years and not skied all the mountains at least once. For a number of reasons, the only one I haven't managed to visit during that time is Powder MT. What has held you back from visiting more areas?

 

[Twisted]

I came here back in 2001 to work for Microsoft on their XBox snowboarding game Amped. So, naturally, I figured I should try snowboarding and having never been skiing or snowboarding before (at age 23) I had several very frustrating experiences in my first two years here trying to board. I never had any professional lessons and my co-workers were not the best teachers so I never really got into it but I wanted to be better.

Three years later (and two subsequent snowboarding games) I had only really been to a few resorts at most twice a season on work trips and with my girlfriend and her family. By this time I was comfortable with greens but anything steeper scared me. I loved the mountains and wanted very much to be able to go boarding on the more difficult terrain but I just couldn't get comfortable on a board.

I never felt like trying other resorts was worthwhile because I was still finding my feet.

While working on my third snowboarding game I decided to give up on the whole boarding thing, rented some skis and took a lesson atBrighton. Three lessons later I was loving it and feeling much more confident, during our work boarding day trips I rented skis and managed to stick with them for a lot of the day. That brings us up to last year when I skiied about 14 days (not much free time) and had the best of intentions of trying every resort but only managed Brighton, Solitude, Alta and PCMR.

This year however I intend to change all that

One day I might try getting back on a board, I still see some appeal to it but for now i'm very much happier on skis.

 

[Admin]

I came here back in 2001 to work for Microsoft on their XBox snowboarding game Amped.

Great game. I was out here on a press trip in early 2002 and during a visit to Brighton, one of the resorts featured in the game, their marketing director found out at lunch that my kid had an Xbox and gave me a copy to bring back home to him.

 

[lookn4powder]

...While working on my third snowboarding game I decided to give up on the whole boarding thing, rented some skis and took a lesson at Brighton. Three lessons later I was loving it and feeling much more confident....One day I might try getting back on a board, I still see some appeal to it but for now i'm very much happier on skis.

Interesting profile... Years ago, I had an employee that I turned onto skiing. He moved on and a couple years later he told me that he had gotten on a board and found that he could board at a high level after 10-20 days. He was pretty athletic.... But your experience seems to be the exact opposite.

One March, I tried boarding ....and I stopped hurting in mid-July.

Jeff

 

[mikesathome]

mikesathome: A candidate for the The Arctic Man, an event featured in Warren Miller a couple of years ago, and in at least one of the mags.

That sounds fun! I sent the link to my wife, who replied back and said have fun but fill this out first (an extra life insurance policy) :roll: