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 Starting out as a beginner skier or snowboarder can be intimidating. After renting the proper gear, purchasing a ski pass and arriving on the mountain, where do you start, and where do you go after you tackle the bunny hill?

Summit County is home to four ski areas: Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Breckenridge Ski Resort, Copper Mountain Resort and Keystone Resort. All four ski areas have designated bunny hills or beginner areas as well as green or easy-rated runs to graduate to. The ski areas generally recommend that first-time skiers and snowboarders take a lesson to start out and learn basic techniques.

Eric Zerowin teaches new skiers and snowboarders as well as instructors at Breckenridge. He explained that as first-time students learn on the magic carpet, a surface lift that moves along a gentle slope, they usually aren’t brought farther up the mountain until they have a lot of balance and control over their skis or board.

Before a student moves from the beginner area to a green-rated run on the mountain, Zerowin said they need to be able to ski forward with parallel skis and then come to a stop, just as they would to unload a chairlift. He also wants people to be able to effectively steer left and right before moving from the beginner area. Zerowin uses freestanding metal benches at the beginner area so that new skiers and riders can get a feel for unloading a chairlift.

When teaching skiers to load and unload a chairlift, Zerowin makes sure they understand that they need to hold their poles in one hand, rather than use the poles to stand up, and to lean toward the tips of their skis. For new snowboarders, he teaches people to lean toward the nose of their snowboard, push their back foot up against their back binding when standing and to make sure that their board is perpendicular to the lift so that they will glide straight.

“A huge piece of advice for both skiers and snowboarders is resisting the urge to stand up too early,” Zerowin said. “A lot of people, when they get to the top of the chairlift, they feel like as soon as their equipment touches the snow they have to stand up. When your equipment touches the snow, you actually still want to remain seated, and you don’t want to stand up until (you get to) the yellow line that says ‘unload here.’”

Keystone Resort

Keystone Resort is known for being fairly family friendly with lots of green runs. The resort’s beginner spot is the Discovery Learning Area, which is in the Mountain House base area and features magic carpets and a chairlift. Keystone spokesperson Loryn Roberson said the learning area is a great place for people to get the hang of things. It allows novices to practice making turns with wide-open spaces and a gradual slope. After gaining confidence in the learning area, Roberson recommends heading to Dercum Mountain to the Scout beginner run.

“That is right off of our Ranger lift,” Roberson said. “It’s one of those shorter runs, a little bit of a mellow grade and allows them to get the hang of things. But the benefit of Scout is that it’s on top of the mountain so they can still get the beautiful views.”

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Scout can be repeated by continuing back up the Ranger lift. If that’s as much as a new skier or rider can take for the day, they can get back to the base area via the River Run Gondola. If a new skier or rider is ready for some progression, they can move from Scout to the Ski-Daddle beginner run, which branches off from Scout. Then, skiers and riders can make their way back to the base area via the Schoolmarm beginner run.

 

 

 

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