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Back to the Basics: The Upside of No Pow

Posted January 7, 2012 @ 11:55am | by Beau Schwab

A Guest Blog By Anabelle McLean

We’re sick of talking, complaining, straight up bitching about it. There's no snow. Anywhere. And if you're daily agenda has been anything like mine in the past two months, you've spent more time magnifying your national weather radar on your iPhone to seek the ever infrequent, and almost always miniscule blue patches indicating snowfall.  

Even if you wake up to checking your apps for the latest snow reports, we’ve seen that even by these early January days that there are as few inches around the country that we can count on our own two hands. So what gives? Well, shredding the manmade, the groomers, the blues has been useful for one thing: perfecting the turn—The basis and foundation of skiing and riding itself. The one thing back in ski racing days that coaches made us do even on cat tracks. Even if it’s something we all know how to do, the perfect train track arc will never go un-applauded.

A. McLean Telluride Colorado January 2011

Carving a ski turn, Telluride Colorado

Even if forced to lay our sweet sweet edges into only the thin, manmade stuff for the next few weeks (fingers crossed), at the very least we can all make sure to master, and by master I mean perpetually SLAY, our carve. 

Feel the heads of the passengers on the chairlift above begin to turn as you make your hero turns down even the most banal of groomed trails. Let your neon coats, pants, and goggles be the fire beneath your ass screaming at you to lay your tracks harder than the next guy. 

Moral of the story, quit boo-hooing about the lack of freshies and get out there and turn heads. Remember the basics of skiing and riding, and show your equipment you know how to use it to its limits.  If you truly love, live, and die for the sport like we do here at TSM, you wont make up excuses not to head north to the mountains this weekend. Instead you'll be ripping lines that leave deeper tracks than what a new dusting could even fill in.  And trust me, it’ll feel sick! 

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