What's your strategy for skiing bumps/moguls?

**wickstad** · 06-25-2023, 07:36 PM

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Then learn a jump, perfect it, and find someone to photograph you. Wait. Everyone skis with a camera nowadays.

**wickstad** · 06-25-2023, 07:42 PM

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**m2711c** · 06-25-2023, 07:44 PM

poles are too long....

**SumJongGuy** · 06-26-2023, 06:50 AM

Originally Posted by wickstad

Then learn a jump, perfect it, and find someone to photograph you. Wait. Everyone skis with a camera nowadays.

So your strategy is a time machine to go back 30 years to when you could ski and go big? That's mine too.. but 40 years

**AirheadD8** · 06-26-2023, 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by jackstraw

I try not to huck 70' and land on the up transition [emoji33]

https://youtu.be/7ynrQXjumhQ

That was nuts ! His left ski got more air than he did. Reminds me of a Tucks crash I had ,I was more worried about being impaled by a flying ski than the slide.

Moguls are a way to bring out ones artistic talents ,either you got it or you don't. Can't fake it buying the most expensive equipment.

**AirheadD8** · 06-26-2023, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by SumJongGuy

So your strategy is a time machine to go back 30 years to when you could ski and go big? That's mine too.. but 40 years

Dedicated to the old farts like me .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bne...3%B8fsh%C3%B8f

**SumJongGuy** · 06-26-2023, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by AirheadD8

Dedicated to the old farts like me .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bne...3%B8fsh%C3%B8f

Full disclosure, I caught a little bit of air in the park last run of last season.. age 58.5.. No film at 11 but witnesses and best guess is similar to this.. from 10 years ago.. Hardly big like the old days but still hella fun.

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**byates1** · 06-26-2023, 09:28 PM

**JayPowHound** · 06-26-2023, 09:58 PM

Loving the resurrection of this thread, thanks guys.

100% bumps will sort out the riffraff with no gear able to cheat it.

Also had no clue Ski the East was still producing content. Thought they had given up Meathead Films and their Freeride Tour and switched to clothing only.

Gonna have to go see what they've been up to I guess. I think I still have a couple of their numbers in my phone, but it's been a decade since I've skied with Fater & Co...

**byates1** · 06-27-2023, 04:48 PM

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CscB1...on_share_sheet

**whyturn** · 06-27-2023, 07:29 PM

Point em and don’t turn. Seriously I hate moguls and avoid at all costs

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**MTT** · 06-27-2023, 09:16 PM

I like moguls sometimes.

Strong foundational skills. You just jump in and deal with what comes at you. Sometimes you absorb sometimes you go around and when in the grove you start launching maybe throw a little trick. Cuz that's how we roll.
I like big sloppy bumps on a steep hill

**baron** · 06-28-2023, 10:18 AM

Pick Your Poison>before they get deep ruts...that's when Moguls are fun

if you are not a bump basher, then carve the rounded tops once they are rutted

**dookeyXXX** · 06-28-2023, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by byates1

I’m not sure that I would subscribe to Donny P.’s mogul technique.

I saw him at Alpine Meadows in Tahoe last Saturday and he was gimping around with a serious limp. I almost asked him if he needed me to get him crutches or a walker…

But he was a cool bloke who urged me to pull my 225 K2 GS skis out of retirement and point ‘em downhill!

**byates1** · 06-29-2023, 12:54 PM

Yeah sounds like that ultra back seat joking around finally caught up

**fomofo** · 12-26-2023, 12:38 AM

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P.J. Jones (33:00) and Joey Cordeau (36:00)

**GoldMember** · 12-26-2023, 01:49 AM

Joey is still the master for old school (and still valid) bump skiing. He's still ripping here in N. Idaho.

**Lvovsky** · 12-26-2023, 07:03 AM

https://youtu.be/Haapw236GC8?si=sLtQGQoF3Vlyun6U

**Shredeagle** · 12-26-2023, 07:52 AM

Thanks for the Joey Cordeau vid. Good stuff. Now I’m fired up to go ski some bumps today.

This was a good article:

https://www.inlander.com/special-gui...ntain-20805164

Just trying to find a small town where everyone does their thing and skis a lot….

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**whipski** · 12-26-2023, 09:28 AM

Sprinkle a foot of snow and ski the front/back of the tops with an occasional trough

**byates1** · 12-26-2023, 03:01 PM

**CHAIR_97** · 12-27-2023, 01:19 AM

You just gotta see your line

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**SnowMachine** · 12-27-2023, 08:17 AM

Originally Posted by SirVicSmasher

You just gotta see your line

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If your skis are big enough you can just make your own line right across the top

**fomofo** · 12-27-2023, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by byates1

Terrific vid, really nice bump skiing: steering, absorption and extension. Play it half speed to slow it down even more and soak up the timing of those movements.

**fomofo** · 12-27-2023, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by dookeyXXX

I’m not sure that I would subscribe to Donny P.’s mogul technique.

I saw him at Alpine Meadows in Tahoe last Saturday and he was gimping around with a serious limp. I almost asked him if he needed me to get him crutches or a walker…

But he was a cool bloke who urged me to pull my 225 K2 GS skis out of retirement and point ‘em downhill!

Originally Posted by byates1

Yeah sounds like that ultra back seat joking around finally caught up

Full Donny at PT collection, for your consideration.