Recreation skiing is skiing purely for the pleasure in an open environment where you can ski where you like when you like within in the boundaries of safety to others, any applicable laws and your own skiing ability. This can be in a mountain ski resort or down at the Ackers.

The condition of the terrain you ski down in an outdoor mountain environment will largely be controlled by the weather conditions (sun, cloud, wind, precipitation, time of day), altitude (height) and aspect to the sun (length of time facing the sun or not). Luckily there are many maintained marked runs that are graded so that you have choice of routes depending on your confidence and ability levels. But snow conditions on piste or off-piste and can range from:

• fresh snow in varying depths and types from powder to heavy wet snow falls,
• fantastic packed powder on a groomed pistes or trails,
• slush of varying depths and wetness,
• solid boiler plate ice,
• varying depths of shaved or crushed ice,
• wind packed and sculpted, sun crusted, frosted, strugied snow types,
• or a mixture of all of these on different,

Therefore we need to be able to ski all of these conditions successfully, confidently, efficiently and effectively.

Then add on to this the variations in terrain:

• steepness,
• piste width (wide or narrow track),
• variety of obstacles (people skiing, standing, falling, also rocks, mounds, dips, signs, equipment, trees, fencing, cliffs etc.) to ski around
• shape (flat, cambered, gullied, ridged, gun barrelled, rolling, mogulled bumps isolated or in fields etc.)
• and varying snow densities within the snow pack,

Taking all this into account to it all mounts up to be a fantastically varied and exciting opportunity for you to exploit by pitching your skiing skills against the mountain.

To do this you had best be as prepared as possible by reviewing, gaining and expanding the appropriate skills from the basic fundamentals upwards by leaning to Ski Better. Join one of Roger’s Performance or Master Class sessions.

If you are already a skier and want improve quickly then contact Roger at Ski Better Performance Skiing.