The place where I could see a positive bust would be like the situation we had Monday. We had snow at elevations about 1000 feet higher here in Winchester. The ridges above that got at least a couple of inches while here we had mangled flakes for hours during heavy precip. Knock 3 degrees off those surface temps and a nothing event ends up as a 3” or more snow.
Some people, if you placed a million dollars in front of them, and said take it, it’s yours, would look at the stack and reply “some of the bills are turned differently “.
You’re probably trying to turn and stop in too short of a distance. One thing that took me a while to learn is that you can’t make right angle turns. Trying to ski almost perpendicular to the slope wears you out and it’s very difficult to turn moving slowly. Point those skis downhill and just simply “swish “ the back off your skis back and forth constantly. You won’t build any speed that way and will feel safe. Same thing with stopping. Turn slightly one way then come back to the other side. Give yourself plenty of room to do this. Start stopping 30 yards before you have to. Once your speed is slow enough just kick the backs of your skis around and skid to a stop. I could show you better than I’m probably explaining it. But one thing is certain you won’t enjoy skiing until you point those skies down the mountain.
Yeah but there’s a flip side to that coin. There are also snow days that are really not snow days. There are “it’s too cold days” and there are “the roads were bad at 6:30 am days”. Big snows, yeah go have a little fun. But we also don’t need 12-15 of them like we do out here sometimes.