Anonymous wrote:My biggest advice for everyone it to take as many lessons as you can. If you can afford private go for it or try to go mid week and take a lesson because it will likely end up becoming a private.
Kids will learn quickly and I agree that multi week lesson programs are the way to go. They will be divided up by level and have the same instructor every week.
I learned to ski at 42. Started at whitetail. First season I skied 5 days and spent a lot of time on the bunny slope. First day day was just there, second day I attempted sidewinder. At liberty I spent a lot of time on the front greens (never did their bunny slope as I find it too flat, even for beginners. I only took one beginner lesson my first year and looking back I should have taken a lot more. I also watched a lot of youtube videos which I do think helped. My second year I took a lesson early in the season and go lucky with it being just me. That private helped me a ton and I progress a lot my second year. I also skied around 18 days my second year including one trip out west. I am a solid blue-groomed black skier now and have improved a ton since I started in Jan 2020. I still take lessons every season including the adult development program at Liberty (4 lessons/days over the course of 2 weekends). I credit my improvement to skiing as much as I can which is 18-20 days/season which I think is decent in this area, and lessons.
Whatever you do both for the kids and the adults, do not just go to blues too quickly. i did not go down the blues at Whitetail until probably my 13th time skiing, but I am also more cautious and wanted to be be able to actually ski it vs staying in a pizza and surviving it. It is one thing to get down a blue alive, it's another thing to actually ski it in control. FYI blues are Whitetail are a lot more challenging/steeper than Liberty. At WT if you can't ski down sidewinder completely clean then don't attempt snowpark. Do snow park before even thinking about a blue.
We taught our son to ski at Whitetail and completely agree with PP’s last paragraph. The blues at WT are steep and it’s hell to try to pizza or snowplow down that. Sidewinder is great for beginners to work on technique and it’s long with a good variety of fiat, hills, etc…. Snowpark at the top is step for a green, and if you can’t ski with good control there, don’t even think about blues.
Liberty is much easier and trails are not as steep or long and why we chose WT and their blues. Plus I think greens are better to learn at WT. DS conquered blues at WT and then we took him out west to Breckenridge and he had no problems. Breck is fantastic for blues and a good 1st mountain out west for intermediates.
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