This year I'm planning on skipping the very crowded first weekends when there's just a WROD open. My ski season is too precious to risk getting slammed into by some yoyo skiing out of control through the crowd. I suspect I'll start skiing the day after Thanksgiving.
I'll spend day one going stupid slow, fine-tuning my flat-ski turns by doing flat 360s in both directions, which will take a while to do successfully. Then I'll work on railroad tracks, again on near-flat terrain, working on controlling my stance width and making two identical pencil-thin tracks in the snow. That too will take time. If by the end of day one I have done both of those in an OK fashion, I'll consider the start of the season a gold-star one. I may not be able to pull that off.
Variations of those, and hybrids, plus some attempts at one-ski skiing will fill up day two and three. I have an unfixed alignment issue which will be problematic with all three of these tasks (spins, rails, and one-ski skiing), so I may be in the lodge pulling the boots off and the liners out and putting in shims under the liner, or maybe I'll mess with under-boot shims. I'm not certain how to proceed yet.
If the early terrain has bumps or whales, I'll definitely play on those. I can't miss out on that fun. Then once there is enough terrain open to avoid the crowds, I'll let loose and fly a bit.