Not a ride but…
I’ve secured our Epic passes for the season. Kandi’s work territory has her sometimes going out to Vail, etc for a couple of days. I’ve been voluntold as her driver to Vail, so she would drop me off at the mountain, with my Hello Kitty backpack, while she does her appointments.
I can also work my schedule to get out to Keystone occasionally without her.
I’m a green and blue groomed runs guy, preferring to just chill and take it easy.
Wait… you aren’t a ski ripper?
Nope, I am not.
Any ABay peeps in the house?
Nikki and I were planning on going Tuesday and I might take Max Friday.. will let you know
What keeps you from going into attack mode on skis? Find it hard to believe that you don’t have the same approach to skiing as motorcycling
There’s quite a bit about the mechanics of skis/skiers and skiing dynamics that relates to the mechanics of riders/motos and riding dynamics. Carving, absorption/extension, adapting to dynamic terrain, balance, intention, what your head does, your feet, joints, hands/arms, counter rotational separation of upper and lower body, creating angles, stacking the muscular/skeletal system are all things that have overlapping similarities.
I’ve coached a few disciplines of skiing for a few decades and when someone tells me they ride mountain bikes or motos, I will start drawing comparatives to aid development.
Skiing is badass …just like riding motos is too.
Been riding motos for 40yrs, DS and ADV for over 20.
Picked up snowboarding when I was 44-45yo, got my ass kicked for 2-3 seasons, then switched over to skiing when Kandi and I started dating.
I just really really like the beauty and chill vibe of the mountains.
I get enough speed and risk on two wheels, don’t need to search for it in a venue where I have much less experience 
That vibe is nearly verbatim of my adv pace.
I am definitely committed to scaling up my dirt (and road) moto skills. I am absolutely in love with the feeling, the challenge, the focus, of riding. What a wonderful thing to have a moto to ride.
@Rich_Strauss I am grateful for you and all the people who have achieved the strata of a small percentage of like-kind people; you have knowledge, experience, perspective and skills. You can see yourself in others as they grow into becoming better and you can say “hey!, stop doing that and try it this way” and then feel a great sense of being a leader. That’s a very powerfully wise and immensely intelligent growth experience; it’s addictive too. Then the challenge becomes to curb one’s ego in knowing that we are all on a journey.
I recall something that Mikaela Shiffrin said recently. “I don’t really like the competition experience. It’s fraught with anxiety and performance to a mass of people who don’t understand how you got to the starting gate. I do love the training. I love skiing. I love what I do. It’s who I am.”
I feel the same way. Every time I raced a mountain bike race, I always reflected on the experience and knew that I’d have much rather been on a badass ride with friends or just by myself. I kept racing, but mostly because of comradery with teammates. Even when I won, I never felt so awesome about it.
Definitely a thread digression going waaaay over there. But, these posts cause me to unravel the crux of the biscuit (Frank Zappa).