Avoid staring directly at the nose of your sled. Fix your gaze on the middle horizon—roughly two to three obstacles ahead. Processing upcoming terrain patterns in advance gives your motor reflexes time to plan safe evasion lines before speed forces an unforced error. snowrider
Gifts persist across attempts, but crashing resets your distance counter to zero. If a present remains near a narrow cliff gap or between two rolling boulders, let it go. Long, unbroken distance runs generate far higher high-score prestige than an extra collectible.
Riding along the extreme left or right borders cuts your escape avenues in half. Staying within the middle third of the mountain ensures you have freedom to evade either left or right when sudden obstacles spawn over steep hill crests.