Justo8484

just go to whistler or hood late season, like in may, when everything is mad cheap. that way you're not paying for instruction. if you go with a good crew of friends, you still push yourselves and learn a ton.

wtf is snowave? the only thing i can find about them is that its some japnese ski tourist company? i don't know of any snowave that has anything to do with blue? i guess you mean snowgrind, which isnt a much better name at all, but josh knows how to groom a pipe, thats for sure.

those are pete's skis. he doesn't really wanna sell them, but if somebody bites for that price, he'd let them go, is my guess. thats why the price is higher. also, it looks bad if his skis sell before our customers skis do, so all of our stuff is priced a bit higher than the customers' stuff. and army navy wouldnt have had the pontoons, they cant carry k2.

check out the salomon relays. everyone i talked to who rode them last year loved them, they're pretty flexy due to the different style heel cup they use.

it was actually some boot we got at the very end of last season but never put out on the floor, so i'm not exactly sure what model it was. the flex says 130, and its a 96mm last, but its not the same color as this year's raptor boot, so it might just be that we got them early and in a limited edition color or something like that. i know that's happened before with some lange boots in the past. but anyway, head's 130 flex is way way soft for what is supposed to be a race boot.

have you ever been to canada? i'd move up to whistler in a heartbeat if it was at all feasible.

yeah, that basically proves that unless you roll up to boulder with a bunch of friends to ride with, as good as their park is, its just not fun dealing with the local crowd up there.

i totally see your point, and agree that there should be some sort of easier way to allow people to run gates of some kind if that's their thing. i also think the under 18 thing is dumb, and would most likely be able to be eliminated if there were some type of course set up all the time. the only time i had to sign waivers and have my parents sign off on stuff when i was under 18 was for comps, which i guess is what nastar ultimately is. you're riding a portion of trail that is not open to the public and therefore somehow isnt covered under the resort's general liability insurance i guess? i guess my point was that its not really a valid comparison based on the different crowds that they draw, and also the number of people that they draw. from a marketing standpoint, i just dont see nearly as many people being stoked to go ride at an area because of their new timing setup and brush gates on their nastar course as i do people being stoked to ride the superpipe thats groomed nightly or hit the new stupid art sculpture of a rail that blue might decide to make for this season. not saying either side is right or wrong, thats just how i perceive the ski areas' ideas of what is more worth their investment, really.

while i agree that there's no reason all the areas around here couldnt, and shouldnt have nastar, comparing them to parks and pipes is an argument that will neither start nor end well. they're different entities catering to different crowds, and both should have their place at ski areas.

you know how far that method got me...

cause down jackets are sick. especially when they have fur hoods. you should know all about this living in the A doug.

i tried on the new RS boot in the shop tonight. we didnt get the RD in, since i dont think we'd really sell that many. the ones we have are a 96mm last and a 130 flex, i couldnt find them on head's site, but i believe it would be the raptor 120 RS? anyway, they felt super comfy to me, which means unless you have a skinny foot, they're gonna be tight. also, i thought they felt really soft for what is supposed to be a high performance race oriented boot. i'll have to double check on what model they are tomorrow.

i don't think they're really pursuing the racing stuff so much anymore. as sibby said, the majority of their customer base is in the freeride market, as their, even the non twin tip models, cater well to softer snow and more finesse-oriented skiing as opposed to a ski like something that fischer or volkl makes, that really likes to be pushed. (please note: my remarks about above skis are generalizations, don't rip me apart for it por favor. finesse isnt really the word i'm looking for, but i cant think of anything better at the moment. k2's stuff just tends to be a lot more forgiving of a ski.)

ha the one in the green coat is me retard

sick pics trev, especially the one with that kid in the dark green coat...

but that makes way too much sense! i mean i guess the 6pack makes sense for future expansion, but uhhhhh, its gonna require a lot of expansion to really get full use out of the thing. even on the busiest weekends, you can still see plenty of chairs that dont go up fully loaded.

well, if nothing else, a pretty awesome boot got made partially because of bode's deal with head.

it was in mid may. same time last year we got about a foot of snow though, so who knows. it was perfect weather all week though, nice and sunny and warm. the only way it could have been better was with a bunch of fresh snow. the drive from seattle was about 5 hours or so. basically it's their killington.

why? its not like its some new material or something that would be likely to break due to it being so new. there have been skis that have done it for years, its just now that its really catching on and everyone is doing it. volant's spatula had reverse camber, and that ski came out like 5 or 6 years ago. k2's pontoon did it last year, and they were prototyping the hellbent, which is new for this season as well. line's been making skis for pollard with reverse camber for several years as well. one of the guys from the shop rode the gyrator at blue last year and said it carved just as well, if not better than his other boards.

i've heard both that it definitely wont be open, and also that it will be open, so who knows. i'm leaning more towards not open though. you'd think they'd update their website more often. there's still photos of me in the first page of the photo gallery, and that was in february or something?

funny thing about kt's gnarly little drop there, is he was making fun of us for even wanting to hit it, so he sat on his tails and went for it. i think i ended up 180ing it maybe? and it wasnt my first 450 out, it was my first right 450 out though. i got left 450 at park city over spring break. oh, and the engine overheating was my headgaskets failing and bringing on a $2500 repair bill. so much for cheap vacation...

it works just fine on the k2 hellbents...

uhhhh, we're not a chain, we only have one store... and if you've seen any of the work we've done for both freeride and race boots, you'd see that we can definitely fit a boot for performance. in all honesty, i've never even heard of billy kaplan, and 200 just to sit down with the guy seems pretty steep.

just come into the shop, we'll help you out. but you're only 12? i kinda doubt you'll even be in an adult boot, but i may be proven wrong.

the idea is that if the jump's built correctly, not only can you do better tricks on it, it's easier to learn new stuff, and its also much much safer too. i've fallen hard on jumps out west that were easily 50 feet, and it doesnt really hurt, but fall on something 20 feet around here, and you're bruised up for a week because the landings don't match the lips at all. 70 hours to build a jump of that size, that can easily be maintaned and last for an entire season does not seem like a bad investment. if its built right the first time, it doesnt take as much work to keep it nice for the rest of the season.