Self esteem issues?

no doubt, that was way to harsh toward AW.
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Two words , one finger pal!

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FWIW, I'm the best track setter on the mountain.
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My signature spells out my thoughts on good yo-yo tracks. Andrew brings up some good thoughts I wish more folks would consider.
I've always said "it's easier to break a new, low angle, faster trail than to follow a stupid one". However, I hate littering the skiing with extra up-tracks so will usually follow whatever when in the best yo-yo terrain. With our often low volume snowfall in the northeast cascades, trails often stay in the same place for weeks. The steep and excessively switchbacked trails get harder and harder to get up. Those without a good recycle catchment section get more and more trashed as skiers traverse to the track for recycle like Andrew points out. This is why I prefer to be out front especially on certain parts of a trailbreak.
One tactic I like is to solo on day 1 and get a good track in. On day 2, with partners and say with 6 new low and 12 new high, I can send younger legs out front early to re-break the still visible trail. This saves my legs for breaking later, going further, going longer.
The Trail Nazi has no self esteem problems when it comes to setting skin track!

Thanks for the responses guys. I simply wrote this for good fun, and some of the response have made me laugh. That was my whole intent. Is there such a thing as ownership of a skin track? If it's perfectly placed, can one charge others for the use of it? If it's lousey, should one be levied a fine for it? All questions to go unanswered....

When breaking trail yesterday, it would have been easy for me to do 4-6 long switchbacks, but this would have tracked up the untracked skiing.  Instead I did shorter and more frequent switchbacks, in less than ideal skiing locations (ie. in glades guarded by tight trees at the top and bottom). Yeah, it's a pain in the butt to keep turning but worth it when skiing down.  At each turn I try to do a smooth rounded turn instead of a kick turn (didn't do a single kick turn yesterday).  It turned out lovely and demanded re-use (no self esteem issue here )!

Setting a track is just as much an art as a means to the top.

Having small kids means for me getting up early so I can get a run in while the fam is still laying around in PJs, this has added up to a lot of solo trail breaking in the last hand full of seasons. I have had most of those thoughts while setting a track. My favorite recent memory was exploring a new to me area and just scouting around mellow terrain satisfying my curiosity, only to be over taken by a horde of angry people who told me I put the up track in the wrong place and demanding to know which way the tree run was.