AtomicSkier

Highlands Bowl requires hiking. Best skiing on the mountain

Awesome man....how many days in Aspen?

There is a thread in the gear forum you may want to look at

LOL...I have Mantra's...I can tell you how they ski . You have reviews of Mantra's where people talk about their inability to turn quickly . Sure, I could ski them on anything, but why? I want the best ski for the conditions so I can focus on enjoying the conditions Why do I like big skis? Long skis truck, short skis suck. Me (190cm), Doug (193cm), JohnnyLaw (197cm), and JohnnyStyle (194cm) all ski on skis longer then 190cm... JohnnyLaw and Doug even ski them at Blue every day. I've been there done that with short skis. The fad of short skis is over. The stability, power, and dampening of long skis is undeniable.

Revise whatever statement you want. I have both skis. Any ski bends. Gapers think Mantra's are a powder ski. They're only 96mm in the waist. I bought them solely for a stable groomer ski in the east. I wouldn't be caught dead on them on a powder day, or a day after a powder day. Sorry, let me revise that statement. I skied two runs at Blue Mountain on a powder day with them, walked out to my car, and got my Gotama's. Also, take that review with a grain of salt. It says "but when it comes to short-radius turns, the Volkl Mantras take quite a bit of muscle work to get them to do what you want." The Mantra's are way too twitchy to be skiing groomers out west. They're much more suited to east coast terrain. At 22m, they feel like slalom skis to me. I skied them one day at Snowmass on a bluebird day two days after it snowed. The groomers had just a bit of non-groomed snow on top for me to back off, just as I would on SL skis. I also would argue that they're NOT a smooth ride. You feel everything, not very much dampening in the ski. Root skied both my Got's and Mantra's through chowder at Blue, and he was getting bucked around (as do I) on the Mantra's. The Got's just truck through chowder. It really boils down to they're not wide enough, not dampened enough, and require too much attention to be skiing off groomers. Granted, I don't know how much this applies to the junior models, but it doesn't look like they made junior Mantra's in 2011, but it was more to correct Sib's misunderstanding of the Volkl line.

I'm curious as to what Bobert has to say...

What Volkls? Test some pow boards for me...sickbird

I'm correcting you. Mantra's are a fat GS ski, two sheets of titanium and vertical sidewalls. I know they're touted as the best all around ski, but they're just too twitchy for pow days. My Got's are much softer which smooths things over so much nicer Mantra's are a Porsche, where the Got's are a Benz. Timless, check out the junior Gotama's...JohnnyStyle and I saw some little grom at Snowmass rockin junior Got's...looked pretty badass, and rockered, too.

179 is way too short. Step it up Justo.

It's less then $199 a night. I'm bringing my dad I think (he's hoping to move a potential conflict that week) in hopes that maybe he'll want to invest. I'm thinking about my future

I'm about to book a trip to Aspen late May for my birthday...taking the clubs and staying at Hotel Jerome

Good question...Even though I do have new boots as of last season, the recent announcement has me worried.

heh didn't even realize there was one down there...ya, centrally located.

I flew into SFO yesterday and finally got a picture. I see this mountain every time on the approach into San Francisco less then an hour before touchdown. This is Mammoth, right? Here is my route: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL185/history/20110405/1020Z/KPHL/KSFO

I'm done. 61 days, 25 days out west, 50% of those being powder days. Good season for sure.

The morning call article says both owners say current employees *may* be hired by Buckmans

wow i thought this was in highlands based on nick's initial post, but after reading the article it was in Maroon Bowl. Second death this year just outside the boundaries at Aspen/Snowmass. There is some awesome BC terrain that looks so tempting. Johnny quickly reminded me this past trip of the HUGE slide that was visible during my first trip to Aspen when I commented on how appealing it looked.

so sick bird johnny law...see you in jackson next year

Less laps at a higher quality More difficult run that a few have been down My perfect powder run...3000 vert of 40+ degrees wide open face, 15"+ new, and some super fat skis under foot just surfing down making huge turns. I'd only ski one run cause it couldn't get better then that.

wow props to CB for getting it done. 2nd weekend of April is impressive. Nice.

wow nice moe....my rents had property near magic but never got the ski there. anything else planned for the rest of the season?

I didn't see this earlier, but this isn't the way you get people who can afford $100 lift tickets to Aspen to donate.

Because haters like you were cunting up the thread.

It's worth it to me because I like it there. Some people think BMW's are overpriced when a Daewoo will get you to point B just the same. To each his own just when i thought you drank the COolaid All the people on PASR that have been to Aspen think it's great. Those who haven't...hate.