4 Steps to Skiing Moguls

1. The slower you ski moguls, the better chance you have of keeping in control and the less you have to rely on your own reflexes. The slowest and easiest way to ski moguls is to ski what is known as the ‘Green Line’.

2. The Green Line is just a description of the route you will take through the mogul field. This mogul technique is where you initiate and complete each turn on the flat top of a mogul. The flat top is the highest horizontal plain of a particular mogul (bump). Then, with soft edges, drift down the front or the side to the next mogul.

3. Visualize the Green Line as skiing from one flat mogul top to another flat mogul top. When you visualize only certain terrain elements of a mogul run it simplifies the terrain complexity. People tend to ski where they are looking, so keep your eyes focused on the flat tops of the moguls, not the troughs (the valleys between moguls) and the route will look less daunting.

4. Initiate a turn on a flat top of a mogul, then drift down the front of side of it to the next mogul – keep your legs relatively soft, so you absorb the terrain and don’t bounce up and down too violently. This is a slow but controlled way of tackling a mogul field, but it will help you learn to eventually take a faster more advanced route.