Hi, beginner here.

I got this pair of skis for $20 from a thrift store. Have only been skiing once in my life so went for used and cheap route to start with.

Anyway, I have no idea what type of skiing these are for. I'm mainly interested in alpine skiing on groomed trails. Skis are about 3" at the widest point and 160cm long. I'm 170cm tall.

Obviously I’d like to get a real jacket, but finding ones that are the proper size for me is nearly impossible, and I’d like to wait until the end of the season to find a nicer one. Will this work in the meantime?

-Fully waterproof -Seals around wrist -Uninsulated

I have a soft shell that I’ve been using but the waterproofing is starting to fail and it’s getting too small for me. I have freakishly long arms and am really wirey so finding Medium Talls is nearly impossible.

So I've been to Alta, snowbasin, brighton, and solitude. Out of these 4, my favorite is snowbasin, then Alta. Solitude and brighton depends on what you like if you love tree runs and are on budget do Brighton plus they got night ski if you like honeycomb canyon solitude is better haven't hit the bird yet but definitely want to soon when my expert skier buddy will take me there lol. He told me that he doesn't like Deer Valley, Park City, or Solitude. What are your guys' opinions on what are your favorite Utah resort for budget overall, the best advance resort, and the most diversity of terrain?

Someone explain to me why it is that when I wax my skis the wax won’t fill the scratches!?? Either I’m messing it up or there’s some science I’m not getting….

Pic is post-wax, pre-scrape.

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Will be in winter park at the end of the month. Bringing my own boots. Looking to rent an all mountain ski for a decent skier.
Kinda want to do a “try and buy” where if I love the skis- I might want to take them home with me.

Im a new skier, I ski parallel except for when i need to turn, i want to be able to make parallel turns but have no idea where to start, i have a ski trip in 2 days and would like to know if theres anything i can do off the mountain to get better at parallel skiing.

Took a few tumbles today and cracked the grip walk plate thing on my warden 13s. Do I just leave it, can I get a replacement piece or is it ruined?

I ski a lot of trees but mainly at large resorts and am usually not in an insane amount of powder but still a good amount. I am an advanced level skier but I usually stick to single blacks if that affects it.

We're a group of 3 (2 ski, 1 snowboard) with budget of $1500-2000 per person for the entire trip (accommodations, ski rentals, plane tickets, lift tickets, and food).

I'm looking to fly out from NYC on March 15/16th and get back by March 23rd. I've looked into flights to Munich, Innsbruck, and Geneva, but any flight that doesn't include an 12+ hour layover is around $1000 total, which seems like a bit much. The plan was to take the train to St. Anton from Munich/Innsbruck or take the shuttle to Chamonix from Geneva. Are there any more accessible resorts that don't require a car rental or unreasonable layovers?

Disclaimer: I know this isn’t a replacement for medical care. I’m just looking for anecdotal evidence

I’m on vacation in Utah fell and hurt my rib today. I went to the med clinic and they examined me and said it doesn’t seem broken but I should rest it tomorrow so I think I definitely may sit the day out as sad as that makes me feel. I’m not in excruciating pain but it definitely hurts when I move it in certain ways. Trying to decide when to cut the cord on skiing and decide it’s not a good idea for the rest of the trip. I’ll be here until Saturday. Anyone have experience with this? Did you start to feel better the next day and able to ski again? If not is there anything else fun to do in Utah to make the trip worthwhile (maybe I can rent a car?) I’m also not sure if I should see a doctor. I have out of state insurance so it would be crazy expensive

I'm 33m and have surfed pretty much my whole life. I've both skied and snowboarded before. I last snowboarded around 10 years ago and skied around 15 years ago. Both times I remember picking it up in a day or so and being able to do intermediate runs with ease in Australia and New Zealand. I've decided I'm going to ski this time as my dad is a good skier and he can give me pointers and I also have a niggling back injury that I think skiing will be easier on.

My question is mainly about gear hire. On the pre-booking form they're asking about skill level. I'm hesitant to tick beginner as I'm assuming the hire company will just give me the crappiest gear they have. (I worked as a surf instructor for 5 years and we would always give the worst boards to the complete beginners). But, if I tick intermediate, will I find the skis too difficult to use?

Going to Hakuba if that makes any difference.

Cheers!

I am trying to gauge the storm later this weekend and know it’s been wet and weird conditions past few days. Anyone able to share their experiences from the hill?

Okay so for context me and my fiance are both in our late 20s, have been skiing once each but it was in our teens. Back then we both kind of wung it, but there’s definitely some gear I want us to have before we go. Plus my family recently got big into skiing so figure can’t hurt to have just a couple staples. Our ski rentals and boots are taken care of but my family other than us owns their skis and boots First definitely getting: Goggles Helmets Snow pants Men’s winter coat (my fiancés is a carhart fabric so figured he might get wet) Men’s Winter boots - pretty sure we are definitely getting these since he only has Jordan’s and those obviously won’t work

Is there anything else we should know or get? Money isn’t necessarily a problem but I also don’t really care what our gear looks like or branded bc it’ll likely be used once a year. Are these things I can get on Amazon? Or should I spend the money and get branded stuff? I literally know nothing about skiing other than it was fun the one weekend I’ve been. So please tell me anything 🤣

I ski primarily in the Canadian Prairies, and if you’ve ever been there you know it gets COLD. I also just recently discovered I have Reynaud’s syndrome, which is in layman’s terms an intolerance to cold. So, my current pants and jacket just aren’t cutting it. Right now I go inside for at least 10 minutes every 2 hours minimum, but I would like to cut down on that.

I want to get a new jacket and ski pants this spring, and I’m looking for the warmest stuff I can get my hands on that won’t completely break the bank. Preferably Canadian made or a Canadian company, but at this point I’m not overly picky if something is going to help. Both base layers/inner wear and outer wear is greatly appreciated.

TIA!

Skipped school to go skiing today. Conditions were amazing so I decided to send it down a steep groomer. I hit 50.4 mph (80.5kph) and it felt so good.

It's been 30 years since I skied last. What's the current style for what is under your snow pants?

Both revelstoke and whistler showing zero snow forecast when there is certainly snow coming? Is this just a bug on my side?

As the title says I’m looking into starting a local ski club to organize and plan trips. Does anyone have advice or resources that may be helpful for this endeavor? Thanks!

Heading out to St Anton for the first time in 2 weeks. I think I’ve got a pretty good layout of the skiing but could always use suggestions. What I really wanted to know is what were some good restaurants as well as other night life places other than the 2 obvious ones the Krazy Kanguruh and the MooserWirt. We’re a group of 6 in our mid 20’s, any suggestions would be amazing.

Tl;DR Not every day you fall off a chairlift is a bad day…

Someone was asking about real life stories of falling off a chairlift, and unbelievably it happened to my wife and I today.

For back story I had bilateral dislocated shoulders and surgery from a 70m stationary fall off a mountain skiing in July. After a long recovery today was my second day back on skis.

We were getting on an older 2 seater chairlift, one where the chairs don’t detach and the liftie pulls the chair back just before it gets to you. Unfortunately this time the timing wasn’t quite right and the chair seat was very angled as it hit my wife who started to slide down the seat, keeping it at that down angle. I started sliding forward too, thinking 50/50 to stay on the chair.

Thankfully my quick witted wife decided that going off forward when the chair left the platform was the least-worst option, so I didn’t fight it and went with her. We ended up in a pile of arms, legs and skis. A ski patroller (one of those underpaid Vail Resorts ones!) helped us up (with my shoulders I was very wary of attempting to undo my remaining ski).

The good news? Both of my shoulders took zero damage, and so did my wife. I was overjoyed that she had nary a bruise

The other good news: I was practicing doing proper short radius carve turns yesterday (to try to convince my brain that I could still “do this” with very weak arms/shoukders) and this nice American gent called “nice turns” as he went past. Made my day so much, but I was too surprised to thank him for the compliment in time.

I will visit Japan in late March, and I love skiing, so I would love to ski there. Does anyone have any recommendations on where to go and how to organize my trip?

There's no reason for the arrow indicating a blue run to point directly off a cliff

Edit for more context: I did ski down the cliff, I just wanted a chill lap after skiing cliffs on the two previous runs as well. You couldn't tell that the terrain got extreme from the entrance, and there's no good way to bail once you're there

I am looking for a ski tracker app that I can more or less just 'start and forget' at the beginning of the day (pause it at lunch), and stop it at the end of the day and it would tell me how many runs I did, which runs, etc., and give me a total distance EXCLUDING lift rides.

I would like it to sync/convert into Strava, too - I know I can record with Strava, but it doesn't differentiate between skiing and sitting on lifts, and it doesn't know the runs.

The resort's app where I'm going (Vialattea Ski App) has a tracking function that does all the above, it says 'Powered by Skitude.' So I'm sure services like that do exist, but is there one that would be compatible with Strava?

I don't have a watch that can track skiing, so it would be done with the phone itself.

Any ideas?