This game is fun but its a pretty bad game overall, its very confusing for me too and the camera does suck at times. The little video clips are pretty funny but i dont care for this game. I did make it to snowbird which is a pretty kewl mountain, im from utah myself

Its tough impressing all the people but what i found that works is do a few good tricks to get your "impress mode" or whatever going and push start, hit x to start the run again and you will start at the top of the mountain still in that mode so you can start impressing people right away.