Alpine skiing

As I'm advancing my rust skills (still earlyish in the process, and coming from being a long-time, now retired embedded C programmer) I've really come to appreciate that rust (as I've heard others say) "makes the easy stuff harder in order to make the harder stuff easier". And it's reminding reminding me a lot of learning to snowboard as an older adult after decades as an alpine skier. When I first started learning to ski (3rd grade ish), it was quickly easy to be able to move around and do stuff but it was impossible to do hard stuff. It took many years before double diamonds were easy enough to be really fun. But I got there. With snowboarding, the first few days really really sucked. The only thing I could do well was crash. But after a small bunch of days, the intermediate stuff was getting very manageable but, surprisingly, the really easy stuff (flat greens and cat walks) were still really hard. Then, after only a couple of pretty active seasons (maybe a couple of dozen days total), I was was having a blast on the double diamonds on the snowboard.

I'm still getting used to fighting my ignorance working through compiler errors in Rust but it is way, way easier than debugging running C code that isn't doing what was expected. And I've been able to do stuff in rust that would be way over my head (mostly web backend stuff) with my c background but I still stumble a lot with ownership and lifetime issues when doing simple stuff like loops and functions. And, just like learning to snowboard, I'm having a blast learning rust.

Due to a series of unfortunate events, I am without an ACL. As I'm doing well, the surgeon is recommending conservative treatment and thinks it's possible that I could ski without needing surgery. (Actually recommended learning to skin uphill at the local small resort next season...)

This is a long way of saying I'm exploring ways to get back out there that are potentially easier on a knee. I'm thinking that lots of lunges might be better for knee health than the severe angles of alpine skiing. I cycle so I have strong legs.

Is this nutty thinking?

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Alpine Skiing - Men's Downhill (9 Feb 11:15)

11:15 AM MSK 2/9/2014

Venue: Rosa Khutor Alpine Center

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Alpine Skiing - Women's Downhill (12 Feb 11:00)

11:00 AM MSK 2/12/2014

Venue: Rosa Khutor Alpine Center

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Alpine Skiing - Women's Super-G (15 Feb 11:00)

11:0 AM MSK 2/15/2014

Venue: Rosa Khutor Alpine Center

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Alpine Skiing - Women's Giant Slalom (18 Feb 09:30)

9:30 AM MSK 2/18/2014

Venue: Rosa Khutor Alpine Center

Events to be held:

• Run 1 (9:30 AM)

• Run 2 (1:00 PM)

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DATES: 21-25 January, 2024

VENUE: High1 Resort, Jeongseon, South Korea

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Women's Super Combined Downhill (10 Feb 11:00)

Women's Super Combined Slalom (10 Feb 15:00)

Venue: Rosa Khutor Alpine Center

I know “it’s personal between you and the Lord.” I just want to know what other people do, to help inform my decisions. I’ve been Alpine skiing a lot over the past few years and have always worn my garments. However, as I’ve invested in better equipment and gear, I’ve run into an issue. I LOVE wearing Under Armour compression or at least tightly fitted base layers to ski. They are so much more comfortable to ski in. Garments bunch up under them when I’ve tried to wear them. I’ve also considered wearing the garments over the base layers. But, that becomes an issue when I strip down to my base layers for the drive home.

TL/DR: So, here are my questions:

1. Do you wear garments while Alpine skiing ⛷ ? Or does this fall in the sports category of, it may not be reasonable?

2. If you do wear garments while skiing, where do you wear them? Next to skin no matter what? Over a tight fitting base layer? Some other way?

Hi! I have gotten lazy in the recent season and started using my free-ride tour boots for alpine skiing.

Basically I love that it is much lighter, easy to walk in and since my alpine bindings are gripwalk compatible, it should open in case of a fall. It has a 120 flex index, so even the stiffness is fine.

Is there any reason why I shouldn't keep on using that?

Edit: It is a Lupo AX 120

Thanks for all the input, I think I will never buy an alpine boot again. Actually I don't understand why anyone would :)

Alpine Skiing - Men's Super-G (16 Feb 11:00)

11:0 AM MSK 2/16/2014

Venue: Rosa Khutor Alpine Center

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Alpine Skiing - Men's Slalom (22 Feb 16:45)

4:45 PM MSK 2/22/2014

Venue: Rosa Khutor Alpine Center

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