To rip on corn, you need a touch, a special poise, but once induced, it opens up a paradise of speed, power and grace. It not only creates confidence in ability, but becomes addicting. Corn's the premium snow to teach on. I teach an open, functional stance where you're on both skis at the same time. The outside ski dominates, but only as needed to pull off the turn.
Corn snow produces the ability to use a soft edge.
Because of its nature and texture the student quickly develops the sensation of rounding the turn. We continued down Tallac's fall-line, each turn a party for the feet, until we skated into the meadow below. Looking back up, we savored the moment and relived our descent, our faces as wide and fixed as if we were on acid. We'd be back hiking the next morning. We were, after all, spring's children of the corn.