Powder Strategies
As with anything in skiing, there are some useful adaptations you can make to your skiing to immediately start having more fun in powder. No matter what your level or technique, these strategies will get you going. Without them, no matter how good your technique, you’ll get bogged down in the snow. In this section, we’ll go over those strategies.
Soft-Snow Tactics
In powder, we’re now skiing in a 3D environment:
- Uphill/downhill
- Straight up/down
- Left/right
Because of that, we want to do everything we can to keep our skis on the surface of the snow, where it will be easier to turn.
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