Timber Ridge Reviews | OnTheSnow (2024)

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Everyone is really friendly, and they have some pretty decent food. Cruising the regular hills is lots of fun too, and nothing beats skiing with some friends here. Great place! The TR Park is great lots to view, ski/board, always someone around to help you, give advice, etc.

Crud snow is one of the worst kind of snow conditions for most skiers and snowboarders. Crud is the by-product of skiers cutting up un-groomed powder, often found at the sides of the piste. Skiing crud is hard work.

Hard pack snow is a dense, compressed snow condition harder than packed powder and softer than ice. Ice represents a hard, glazed surface usually created by freezing rain, or old surface snow melting and quickly refreezing again, or by ground water seeping up into the snow and freezing.

Grippy: “Dry, hard snow. We call it 'grippy' because it really grabs at your edges. So, it's really easy to turn on. Sometimes it's easy to overturn on. But it also can be unforgiving with mistakes.

#1 Rambo. Rambo at Crested Butte is the steepest human-made run in North America, with a pitch of 55 degrees. An experience unlike any other, dropping down at the Rambo is no easy feat for even the most seasoned skier.

This winter, California's Mammoth Mountain, South Lake Tahoe's Heavenly and Kirkwood resorts, and, in Utah, hills from Alta and Snowbird to Brighton were slammed with up to over 800 inches of snow, landing them on a growing list of ski resorts breaking records for their largest snowpack in history.

Packed Powder - Compressed freshly fallen snow. Hard Packed - When natural snow becomes firmly packed by repeated grooming or continuous wind exposure. Corduroy - The surface left after a grooming machine has finished with rooming of the snow.

Packed Powder (PP) A dry snow, either natural or machine-made, that has been packed down by skiing or grooming. The snow is no longer fluffy, but it is not hard. It will support a ski pole, although sometimes the pole might fall. Your skis will not generally sink into PP, but your ski boots usually will to some extent.

Deer Valley Resort Secures Coveted Title as the #1 Ski Resort in the World by Travel + Leisure. DEER VALLEY RESORT; PARK CITY, UTAH, October 13, 2023 — Deer Valley Resort proudly announces its recent recognition as the #1 Ski Resort in the World by Travel + Leisure.

Colorado. With so many famous ski areas and resorts, Colorado always makes the top of the list for best states for skiing. From Aspen and Vail to Breckenridge and Telluride, the state is full of amazing ski resorts.

What is the ski capital of the world? ›

Courchevel boasts of the being the largest ski area and is commonly known as the ski capital of the world.

Snirt – Snirt is an informal term for snow covered with dirt, especially where strong winds pick up topsoil from uncovered farm fields and blow it into nearby snowy areas.

Crud defined

While there's no real accepted definition of crud (it's doubtful you'll find it in Webster's), crud is that off-mix of powder and groomed. Like snowflakes, it's never the same twice, ranging from chopped-up powder to heavier, sunbaked snow.

It helps to think of the difference between skidding and carving on flat snow. Smearing is skidding a turn in powder, which just wasn't possible on narrow skis. Skidding—or drifting—gives you options.

If you try to twist and skid your skis on soft snow it's (a) going to be hard work and (b) going to be very easy to 'catch an edge' and fall over. On gentle slopes which have turned slushy I like to carve my turns with big angles and the skis just slice through the soft snow and bumps.

“It can be really rock hard out there and falling can feel like falling on concrete, and so it does make it a little bit more dangerous than if it was natural snow conditions,” said Chris Grover, head cross country coach for the U.S. Ski Team.