Message #21430

[Johnny2R]

I've stayed away from this thread because I don't ski 40 degree slopes, icy or not. I do know that if you don't have the technique at the start of a run, you are sure not going to find good technique in the middle of a 40 degree icy run.

I think I should perhaps have stayed away from it myself, as it's taken a bit of a drift (albeit a very interesting drift) away from my original intention! Probably my fault for describing rather poorly at the start what I was after - which, fundamentally, is a type of easily learned, albeit possibly exhausting, turn which can get a skier without high level carving skills, down occasional patches of difficult terrain. I was interested in the types of turns mentioned in 'Ski The Whole Mountain', and wanted to see some video showing these kinds of turns in action. As Max has pointed out to me, though, Eric Deslaurier only advocates the use of these in very constrained circumstances. I've got a lot to work on...