Last year I skied a boilerplate mountain and by 2:00 learned to carve the stuff, and I mean arc-to-arc slicing it, no skidding at all, no noise, completed turns still carving tail-following-tip even at the very end of the turn. I've been remembering (probably somewhat incorrectly) how I did that all summer. I want to repeat it real bad. Here's what I did:
I got real angulated at the end of a turn, hips down close to the surface. Then I lunged my torso forward radically down the hill, as if diving into the swimming pool head first, with the goal of lightening my weight on the snow but not lifting the boots off the snow. I felt the tops of my feet hitting the tops of my boots, but the skis kept tracking along the surface. Then I gently, slowly, somehow, landed back on the ball of my outside foot, big-toe edge only, with the inside tip of the outside ski engaging in the snow (inside ski real real light) and my feet up the hill behind my torso. The skis behaved themselves, and fully carved around to in front of me. I was real gentle with the pressure change as the turn progressed, then repeated the whole thing.
It was amazing. I was nowhere near being able to do that these first two days on snow. But I sure want to repeat it.
) I am staying my downhill line of travel. It simply means adjusting my turn radius -- making a GS turn or a slalom turn -- to accommodate the patches. If you are alone on the hill, by all means, go wherever your heart desires. But if you are sharing the trail with others, just shop in a "downward line." 
