Ski

Two weeks.

I think you guys would grow on her if she sticks around, Jeff. (I don't mean that literally, TP4)

Man, you're in a shitty mood, too. Principal on your ass for something? I guess Atomic, Rossi, Elan, and all the other ski manufacturers are ridiculous for saying that a ski begins to lose it's torsional rigidity after a certain amount of time on the snow. I never really cared all that much, so I never asked a rep exactly what constitutes a day. I wasn't going to be all anal about it. I just took for granted that they go by a normal ski day for a typical European skier, which would be five hours or so of skiing fairly soft conditions. After all, it's only a useful number if it accurately depicts the average skier they market toward. You have to understand, 1st Grade, that most skiers in Europe are smarter than us about the subject...and a fourth or fifth generation skier is ready to handle more than the typical guy from Wilmington, DE, that walks into a part-time ski shop. It almost ski season: attempt to be nicer!

If we're going to talk about horses, I have to stop watching Freddie Got Fingered.

Great. Now I'm stuck with a horse. I hope it'll eat dog food, 'cause I'm not going back out.

Talk to any rep and they'll tell you how many days are in a ski. It's not a secret. Most high end skis are right around 100 days. A ski has a limited number of rides in it. Well, fourth graders DO get free season passes to encourage them to be lifelong skiers. But my point is that ski areas make entering the sport way too expensive. Price is the number one reason people don't take up the sport. And gear is a helluva lot cheaper than the money made from someone's lift tickets and food sales. CB sticking people for $125 just doesn't set well with me. Maybe I'm crazy, but Warren Miller wrote an essay about how ski areas should be more like drug dealers. Give away the retired rental gear for free...give heavily reduced rate lift tickets for beginner lifts. Get people "addicted". But we are free to disagree 1st Grade.

Runs to the store that sells horses.

Danger, don't harsh my buzz. But that does remind me of a college party where I was helping this girl out that had gotten really drunk and barfed outside the bathroom door. Then, like an hour later, one of my buds is on the couch making out with her. Which begged the question: how did that taste? We repeated the question to him almost daily for the next three years. Jeff: Tiffany's is closed. You are shut down

Yeah, the big day is two weeks from tomorrow! I hope everyone has their shopping done. My wife wouldn't let me get those channels, but if you watch it long enough, it unscrammbles for like two seconds every couple of hours.

TP4, I'm a kind, gentle, extremely wealthy, muscular guy that is suddenly alone in this enormous estate...I wrote 'cook' and meant 'cook'. You guys-with your vulgar minds-really disappoint me.

Not to bring up a bad subject, but how are you getting around Lib? And, yeah, a long hike this weekend would be cool.

Well, hello, Kristeezy! I just tragically lost my wife as everyone knows (right everyone?)...and now that I'm back from the war, I was wondering, well, if you liked to cook?

You guys with your negative karma...it's NINE days 'til ski season. It used to be HUNDREDS! I'm skiing Belleayre next Saturday and nobody else is allowed. Just me. Nobody else. Me and a few lifties. The rest of you people can head to South Street. I'll take some pics and MAYBE post them. (Oh, and Zonked can come if her dad lets her.)

'Dude's right on this one. I saw the one's they had on sale last spring when I was waiting for Jeff to show up. There was a rack outside the rental shop area, across from the ticket windows. I took a look at the "high performance" skis and thought they must be mismarked. The best set had well over 100 days on them and the edges were down to 20% in most spots. Are they worth $125? Well, they are worth whatever people are willing to pay, I suppose. But calling them HIGH PERFORMANCE when they are down to their final 20% of life might be considered misleading to some people. People buying them are getting sloppy skis that they have to be very careful when they tune the remaining edges...and I'd advise anyone stepping into them to consider a retension test first. I bet they'll have to crank the bindings to their max setting just to get to a fairly safe release point. Okay, so this is just my opinion after having looked them over. Sorry, Ash, I don't mean this personally, but selling used rental gear at a premium price is going to get questioned. If you don't believe me, just do the math. First, estimate how many days a pair has been skied. Each manufacturer will tell you how many days of life there is in a particular ski, as well as how many times a ski can be sharpened, especially on a machine. And I can almost guarantee every ski I saw would be considered past it's life by the manufacturer. Would it kill CB to simply give them away to people buying lift tickets? Maybe encourage them into the sport a little more?

Jeez, she was totally striking a pose for you.

Holy sh*t, I think I know why. Eh, no disrespect to Kristy, of course.

Any idea who the Brittany Spears chick is? Just curious how she fit in...

"much-updated look when skiiers arrive." The newspaper doesn't even know how to spell us... As far as Cordaro goes, I'd say he was less gangsta and more Sopranos.

Montage deal complete BY ROGER DUPUIS II STAFF WRITER 11/07/2006 Clouds of litigation were succeeded by clouds of celebratory cigar smoke as Lacka-wanna County completed its $5.1 million sale of Montage Ski Area.

I'm still reading through this thread.. I'm 10 miles west of Lake Wallenpaupack and skiing Belleayre if it's open---both Sat/Sun.

Where ya going?

AHHHHHHH, YEAH!!!!!! THANKS FOR THE NEWS, SNO!!!!!!

Hell, those guys installed the snowmaking for the Olympic mogul events on a newly created slope that didn't have any prior plumbing. Have some faith! (I meant that to the doubters, not Sno...)

Yeah!

Shin guards? Dr. D's waxes?