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No offense but you don't understand skiing, skiing has almost nothing to do with numbers, how fast, how much vert is all entirely meaningless bullshit. There is skiing as a lifestyle and skiing as a sport and your not even doing the later. Skiing is about the turn, i don't give a fuck if I do 60mph if I didn't ski at 60mph the right way, your technique is pure survival, what can I do with my skis to get down X. Useful, fun to an extent but if you want for it to get real interesting you gotta get the ski up on edge. Skiing, at least if you do it right, isn't also always about skiing. When you understand it as a lifestyle its about the people you ride with, the time spent with people you like fucking around skiing or drinking beers, being outside in nature and sometimes lots of time alone thinking about whatever. It keeps you grounded and connected, it's not an escape from the rest of life and it's bullshit but it puts it in proper place. If your bored your not pushing yourself and you aren't doing skiing the right way.

I had a fun and slightly scary moment on the getting on the lift yesterday. We had 6, but we were in the corral kinda funny. 3 PASR's were on my left, I was in the #4 seat, with Enjoralas and dad on my right taking #5 & 6 So the chair comes around and we move out to load. Enjoralas and dad were a little slow, and a snowboarder saw an opportunity to make it one chair quicker. Only, he didn't move over to open spots 5 & 6, but sat down in position 4. I hear Enjoralas start yelling "Root Root Root" and I look over my shoulder and see a snowboarder sitting in my spot. He realizes he's about to get crushed by 230 pounds of Root's ass, when he tries to slide over (unsuccessfully, of course). I think he hooked an edge of his snowboard, but the next thing you know, he was getting sucked off the front end of the chair like a USB cord going into a vacuum cleaner. At one point, he was laying perpendicular across the front of my skis and I thought that this may not end well. He eventually got off my skis and ran over by the chair before they stopped the lift. I was laughing hysterically. I'm still laughing about this. Enjoralas and dad let him ride up alone. Good call. When he got to the top, he crashed getting off the lift. What a fucking Jerry.

Saltlick you're burning yourself out with these long sessions man. Do you feel obligated to get the max value from your pass or whatever? If so thats a surefire way to kill your hobby quick. Get stoked to ski, go skiing and leave when you get your fill. If that's an hour then it's an hour. If it's longer then great. If you don't feel like rolling out of bed one day then stay in bed. Just my opinion and I'm not saying this is you, but in general, when skiing becomes a job, obligation or a cost - benefit analysis you may a well give up now.

I took some pictures too. Thanks toast! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Are you glued to your monitors watching snowfall on that intersection in the middle of Jackson Hole and counting days until your flight? I'm trying to memorize the major zones in the Arlberg ski area that we'll be leaving for this Saturday. Have never skied in that part of Alps and can only anticipate things based on friends' feedback and various reviews. The area is huge. The fact that it's hard to find online maps of all individual zones isn't helping at all. Roughly it's divided into the very busy, popular and advanced St. Anton, more intermediate-friendly and less busy Zurs+Lech+Oberlech, quiet Warth+Shrocken and a Sonnenkopf, which can only be reached from St. Anton by bus. The villages are all scattered around 4000ft elevation, the peaks in the St. Anton area can reach 9200ft, but generally stay around 7500ft. The easiest Warth+Shrocken have a 1800ft vertical. At St. Anton the vertical is about 4900ft. The skiing areas are all connected (except for Sonnenkopf), and like Sella Ronda in Italy, they have a circular route here called White Ring that one can take to tour Lech-Oberlech-Zug-Zurs in one day. Except that if Sella Ronda is about 40km long, here it's more like 20km, and so we should be done with it in half a day. You basically hop on a lift, ski down, hop on a second lift, ski down, etc until you make a complete circle and come back to where you've started. From what we've gathered when we planned this trip last year, St. Anton is the most expensive area with lodging that costs several $K per accommodation per week. The price is driven by its popularity, difficulty of the trails and intensity of night life. People on a budget tend to stay in nearby Lech or even Sonnenkopf, with the latter having a big disadvantage of being disconnected from the rest of the skiing area. We picked Warth as the smallest and the quietest connected village of all. Price-wise it's somewhere in the middle. The 2BR apartments for a week cost us around $900. During summer it's possible to drive from Warth to Lech and then farther south to St. Anton, in winter this road is closed. This would make Warth disconnected from the rest of the resort, but a few years ago they've finished a lift that can be used to expand from Warth+Shrocken area into Lech, Zurs and then farther to St. Christof, St. Anton and finally Sonnenkopf. We'll have to continuously keep track of time to make sure we can always ski back to Warth, for otherwise we'll get stuck for night in a place with no easy way of getting back "home". The plan is to ski for 6 days, weather permitting, and take a small break in the middle to drive to Neuschwanstein castle. The skipass is gonna cost €280, plus the rent will be about half of that. Now, that's when I'll get to hand-flex all those Austrian Kastles any way I want! Warth+Shrocken: http://www.ultimate-ski.com/ski-resorts/austria/bregenzerwald/warth-schroecken/ski-area.aspx Lech+Zurs: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/resort-guides/Ski-Lech-resort-guide/ St. Anton: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/resort-guides/Ski-St-Anton-resort-guide/ Sonnenkopf: http://www.ultimate-ski.com/ski-resorts/austria/vorarlberg/sonnenkopf.aspx White Ring: https://www.skiarlberg.at/en/regions/ski-area/lech-oberlech-zuers/the-white-ring Map: These maps are difficult to read because they try to show perspective, but this ends up distorting the scale of the resorts in the back. E.g. Warth+Schroken in the top-right corner of the picture above actually look like this on a dedicated map. And hey, do I see three peaks here as well? MC for sure!

I stopped by on my last European Delivery.

Can you imagine how much fun that place could be with legal weed in NJ during a July heat wave? Open a weed shop in that mall and make bank.

Holy fuckkkkkkkkk Candide is one of my most favorite skiers.

I don't think Salty works on his skiing. He just tries to get back to the lift as fast as possible for his stats and then hopes to navigate the liftline quickly with both poles in one hand. When the lift stops it must drive him nuts. Yeah staying occupied during downtime is good. One season about 11 years ago I used to ski with an iPod but I haven't since. Right now I'm on hold with my bank getting info for my accountant it's brutal..I'm on hold for the third time over a very small amount of money...

I say that all the time, I just say it at Blue.

Tailgating? This is what people complain about?? There are a lot bigger things to complain about than fucking tailgating which is harmless. If the tourists are concerned about getting a good spot then they should get there early. If they're upset about alcohol then the lot is the least of your problems. The trail of trash under each lift is a more viable concern. Sorry I missed Barb. Eaf will tell you that we're all in some sort of Blue cult but it's ownership like hers that makes Blue another reason for being a loyal blue passholder. I've been around PA skiing a long time and most owners aren't walking out to the lot and talking to the people like that. Blue's customer service is top tier 100% of the time.

Well, there is gas and tolls (vignette) that I didn't count, but other than that it should be all.

I'd rather ride Mountain Creek and Camelback in the same day.

One of those days I wished I switched over to Blue. Conditions were good, but there was a race on Challenge, so it and the glade was closed. Got to east mountain right at eight and found Already closed for the race team practice. Skied River Shot until they started the second lift about 9:30, then with both lifts feeding one slope it became downright dangerous. The only other black slope, t-bolt, was packed too. Decided to call it a day. On a brighter note, my new Bluetooth tunes controller seems to work better than my old Square Jellyfish. Had to put some gel epoxy on the buttons so it would work with my gloves.

tell them to go fuck themselves, we dont want their support

Nosedive is the easiest black..and there's skiable woods on both sides of it..hayride and centerline are also both groomed black diamonds. If you want to try a long natural bump run try Chin clip off the gondola. That's a neat run. Also there's some really fun blue trails off the big spruce chairlift.

Hotel living, and now waxed skis. LTD Doug, ltd.

https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/whistler https://www.facebook.com/WhistlerSnowReport/ I think opensnow is ok. The guy that used to do Wasatch snow forecast does the opensnow for Utah, so i guess that could give opensnow a little street cred.

The BTNF avy forecast calls for 4-8" the next 24 hours. https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/jacksonhole

If kids aren’t supposed to see people drinking alcohol then my kids will be super fucked up! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

About $600. Apparently ZRH is a popular destination. There are like three daily flights going there from EWR.

Looks like 3 solid nights of making snow Wednesday through Friday night. Hopefully they blow enough on Barney’s to reseed for this weekend. Also bump up chute too [emoji120]

agreed.

Wow I thought it was ice cube!!

Thats crazy. I would have to live there for a bit. Not sure a vacation would cut it

Hit the Cabot store up for unlimited free cheese. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice knowing you jeff!

"Big ups, to all my haters!" -Shawty Lo

And the Candide Kamera series

Holy fuck is he redic....a few words is really good too

Yup Atomic Jeff is not a weather person and he's just gonna jinx it...post about snow that's fallen not about snow that's forecasted...

Don't go higher than 170 though If you are feeding 60 grams of Smartlyte, a commonly recommended dose, you would still not be providing the 113-170 grams of salt that your horse may need, depending on the salt content of the total diet. Y

Perfect gameshow. You end up in a lake if you fail

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F-kin jersey! Only a$$holes are from jersey! Wait, what?

Ski as much as you can. You'll miss skiing when the ski season is over. Maybe you and Matt Edge can take a spring trip together to Tuckermans ravine. Soon you'll have your blue mountain season pass which will put a little more pep in your step.

Wow just wow. Salty is getting jaded. He's too good for the poconos.

Salty sounds like you got a little taste of your own medicine. Maybe next weekend ski somewhere different for a change. When you like skiing, skiing the same runs over again doesn't bother you because you are skiing..we've all skied the same runs at Blue over and over again and still wanna go out there.

Iron Chef Walt prepared a wonderful smorgasbord of meats for sausage Sunday. Great job dude. Thanks as always! Skiing was meh compared to yesterday.

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I'm just teasing, @saltyant Though I don't see how taking off skis and walking is actually safer than side-slipping and/or traversing, unless you don't know how to do either, in which case why are you on something that steep?

Yo, I know how to use my edges and keep my damn skis on.

Fuck Jarjar. Worst character ever.

Hey, good for you; that's no small thing. I'm way older than you, but even back in the 1980s, UVM was considered a "public ivy" and was very selective for students from out of state. I spent some time in Burlington because my Vermont cousin went there and we were good friends. I saw Phish play at Nectars and had some amazing gravy fries. EDIT: The dorm scene was pretty crazy , though. And I went to Syracuse, which wasn't exactly tame, either. But UVM: wow.

Let's not and say we did

Sorry about your situation. Going back and forth all the time must be a real pain. That pass and skiing in between is definitely a good way of making those trips bearable.

Some trip facts Some quotes from the trip. “I’d come back for the food and the wine, but the skiing sucked” “I got some white stuff on my face again” “It’s still snowing” “Is it snowing?” “I should have drank more water and less wine” “Raclette is ready!” Quote from the guide (read these in a broken French accent) “I propose a coffee” “Snow is thin, stay safe” “Im not sure what’s ahead, but it’s ok I have rope” At a minimum we have bought 4 bottles of wine per day, not including what we had after skiing and or with dinner. All bottles were under 10€. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Last day at Grands Montets, and more face shots were had. Legs were feeling a bit tired but the snow was deep and we headed back to the honey hole for 5 hot laps, ended the day with a beer, hot wine and fondue at a little hut off trail. I didn’t pull out my phone at all today but we got some great go-amateur video that may or may not get edited. It’s still nuking in town but unfortunately we fly out tomorrow morning. This was a trip for the books for all of us for sure, can’t wait to come back! Off trail beer/wine hut Skiing the road back to the bus to the bar Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fuck yea astro!

every so often ill browse a bit on AZ and post an obligatory "Free GSS!!!"