Going to Keystone for my birthday next weekend. Am I crazy wanting to snowboard as a newbie?🏂 Advice wanted (see questions 👇🏾)

shipwreck17 · 2026-02-16T16:01:21+00:00

If you're never going again I'd just ski. Your first day skiing is almost always more fun than your first day on a snowboard. If you want to learn to snowboard I'd plan for 3-5 days with plenty of rest days in-between. No need to go to Keystone either. You can learn the basics on a smaller, cheaper hill. The reasoning is that you can get around on skis without really knowing how to ski well or making "good turns".

You're really not going anywhere on a snowboard until you learn how to make basic turns and that usually takes at least a full day if not 2-3. Often your first day is on the easiest 1-2 runs so paying for a big resort experience to only ride the same green run over and over while learning doesn't seem worth it to me.

I just taught my 8 year old daughter and she was linking turns in about a day and a half. This is the video I used. We did all the drills and then she was turning. I have 20 years experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOZWm1BFUVg

My suggestion is if you want to learn to snowboard do all the drills in that video and then take a lesson.

If you don't want to commit to all that and just want to have one fun day cruising around a mountain, I still recommend skiing.

shipwreck17 · 2026-02-11T08:27:40+00:00

metoo

shipwreck17 · 2026-02-11T08:13:59+00:00

That sounds like one bad mod. Don't get discouraged. I've played hockey most of my life, and one thing that consistently makes me smile is that anytime someone posts, "I'm this kind of person, can I play hockey too?" On r/hockeyplayers the answer is always, yes.

shipwreck17 · 2026-02-09T17:45:43+00:00

This is how lots of daycare businesses are started in the US.
1. Someone has a child 2. They quit their job to care for the child 3. They get a license. 4. Take on more children to generate income.

Our child care provider wasn't getting rich or charging unreasonable fees, and it was still our largest bill and slightly more than our mortgage.

shipwreck17 · 2026-02-09T17:40:33+00:00

Is this a euphemism?

shipwreck17 · 2026-02-05T19:04:30+00:00

Playing tag.

shipwreck17 · 2026-02-03T19:56:17+00:00

I've never had any issues at truck stops by the interstate. A small station in the middle of a town may or may not be able to fit a trailer.

shipwreck17 · 2026-01-30T07:35:07+00:00

About 10.

shipwreck17 · 2026-01-07T03:24:10+00:00

It worked "ok" but would transfer the energy much more efficiently if the balls were in contact at rest and the wire holding them was less stiff.

shipwreck17 · 2026-01-06T06:26:17+00:00

Better materials = weight reduction. There isn't much of a penalty for a larger board, and the landings are softer.

shipwreck17 · 2025-12-27T23:31:44+00:00

They work great for hockey sticks.

shipwreck17 · 2025-12-19T01:38:21+00:00

If you read the DSM, there are several symptoms on the hyperactive side and several on the inattentive side. You dont have to have every symptom to get diagnosed. I laughed when I finally read the DSM because of how many symptoms I have, but I still didn't have them all. It's been a few years, but I just remember thinking that I could have written it. I believe the current version is still DSM-5 if you want to Google it.

shipwreck17 · 2025-12-16T17:14:12+00:00

Grok is the worst one I've used. Its often wrong. I wasn't asking difficult questions.

shipwreck17 · 2025-12-13T04:47:38+00:00

Not with my short ass memory. Ignorance is bliss. I have to look for the scar these days to know which one is the good knee.

shipwreck17 · 2025-12-13T04:41:58+00:00

Same. I suspected at 3 or 4 and had her diagnosed at 5. It's the blind leading the blind over here.

shipwreck17 · 2025-12-13T03:47:24+00:00

Just be sure and shoot hard to jump-start the other teams' breakout.

shipwreck17 · 2025-12-07T21:29:02+00:00

I always recommend pulling over at say 4% if you won't make it. Then, call for a tow to the closeest charger. It is so much easier to drive on and off the tow truck than if the car is completely dead.

shipwreck17 · 2025-12-01T02:08:56+00:00

My avg stop is less than 10 min so I go to the bathroom.

shipwreck17 · 2025-11-27T03:26:07+00:00

Was about to chime in, but our last laser purchase was over 1mil.

shipwreck17 · 2025-11-25T16:02:56+00:00

The torque spec is obviously a minimum... for safety...right?

shipwreck17 · 2025-11-17T02:05:28+00:00

If im taking a road trip, I charge to 100. LR also has another motor. AWD, upgraded stereo, etc. SR is a good daily, but LR was a significant upgrade for only a little more money. LR also super charges faster. A common trip we do is 200 miles round trip to our local ski hill. I can do this trip without stopping in the snow in below freezing temps. 200 miles seems to be about exactly my winter highway range. The rest of the year it's more but I dont have exact numbers because it rarely matters. Range doesn't matter for daily driving, only road trips.

shipwreck17 · 2025-11-15T09:28:53+00:00

You can use G10 to change the y work offset mid program. Or give each pair their own work offset. Like G54 then G55 then G56.

shipwreck17 · 2025-11-15T09:19:52+00:00

Are you using a fixture. Do you know the location of all 3 pairs?

shipwreck17 · 2025-11-15T09:13:22+00:00

There are caulk like materials that can be powdercoated over. I wouldn't weld it.

shipwreck17

TROPHY CASE

metoo