Skier Forgets One Of The Golden Rules Of Powder Skiing
What are your list of rules for powder skiing? Check the avalanche conditions? No friends on a powder day? Remember to change out your lenses? Get the last chair? Pack extra pocket bacon?
Big Mountain skier, and known to many as the "happiest skier in the world", Kaj Zackrisson reminds us of another important one: close your pockets.
Losing your phone can be quite the battle. It seems like it happens to skiers more than the average person, too.
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I can personally attest to this one: just yesterday, riders of Palisades Tahoe's KT-22 lift got quite a chuckle when I was skiing down a bumped-up line right under the chair until, all of a sudden, a Snickers bar flew out of my pocket and careened down the mountain at high speeds, bouncing off moguls and flying through the trenches.
I won't even joke about what that must have looked like from afar.
I retrieved the candy bar, but had it been a powder day, I'm almost certain that thing would have been gone for good.
There's one benefit of skiing hardpack!
Kaj gets more than his fair share of powder skiing, consistently posting jealousy-inducing footage to Instagram of him drawing lines in fresh pow.
See below.
As Kaj says, simply, "powder skiing is fun."
On powder days, most of us try to make the most of it and don't want to go back to the lodge or our truck for lunch, so we might pack more than usual into our coats and bibs to make the session last.
But the most important part? Close! Those! Pockets!
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