AtomicSkier

hey, please, no prostitution solicitation here!

however, compare Blue to CB, and it's night and day. CB REALLY doesn't know how to build jumps, period.

Razors Edge would not be a good terrain park. Paradise would be pefect! Lazy mile would be decent, but a nice wide trail is perfered, like Paradise. They need to add another trail, like I said, between Razor's and Paradise, and make that a terrain park. Nice wide straight trail with a gentle/medium pitch would be perfect.

yea, a few members of the board have them. Sibhusky skied 1.5 million verticle feet last year, but shes out west. Skimom had over 1 million mostly skiing here in PA. I was going to buy one, but decided against it. But I would like to see how many verticle feet i ski.

While Sidewinder may not be the best trail for a park, they don't exactly have alot of good trails that they good give up for a park. They need to build a trail inbetween paradise and razors, a nice straight long one, and move the park there.

Get ready for most mountains to crank them up tomorrow night. WOO!

greek peak is right by Cornell, which isn't exactly on the border of PA/NY.

Congrats on the purchase! you'll love them!

When buying atomics though, the higher end (SX, GS, SL, etc) require atomic bindings, which, imo, are great. You can find some really good deals on ebay.

If you're looking at the SX:7's, the GS:9's are a step up. If you're an aggresive skier, and ski anything PA can throw at you, definatly go with the GS:9's, or the SX:9's. The 7's are more of an intermediate ski, and the SX or GS 9's will give you a bit more performance. Atomics are great skis, and you won't be dissapointed. Pick up a pair of 170cm GS:9's from last year, and you'll fall in love. The bindings that come on atomics (and you can only use atomic bindings, the GS:9's usually have the Race412, you an slide the whole binding assembly on the fly forward and backward a little over an inch to distrube your weight differently, and it makes the ski ski totally different, its amazing). Good luck.

Skis are all about personal preference, you should always demo skis before hand. I on the other hand, did not, but guess what? I absoloutly love my skis. From recommondations by skidude and Ski999, and from Ski Magezine, i bought my skis, and they're just amazing. They are some of the best PA skis in my mind.

It's not really news anywho, but yea, we don't visit that board to often

really? I remember skiing opening day in 01 when they opened soo late, and I was night skiing. hmm, this obfuscates me now...

Camelback usuauly waits for the second night for night skiing, blue usually has night skiing the first night.

yupp i thought someone posted this already? but maybe i'm wrong...but only 1 week!

i found that to be interesting when i read it over on the other board....that would be a cool idea for a ski house, or for skidude's house in northridge. I assume the quad chairs are fixed quads?

well you have to, for racing.

Depending on your weight, 181 might even be too long, if you're looking for something easier to ski. I'd recommend anything from 170-175 at the max. That would be plenty long for you. I'm 5'11" and about 190lbs or so, and I ski on 170's, and I'm looking to go even shorter. 180 is alot of ski for a shaped ski. I'm a bit biased towards Atomics, but they're great skis, and for a great PA ski, you can't beat the Atomic GS:9. Thats what I ski on, and they're just simply amazing.

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no snow...i dont think any place below the blue mt got snow today

it's just fog.

Blue took away Sidewinder, one of the greatest trails at Blue for doing some serious ripping around tight turns, and turned it into a terrain park. In return for the skiers, they widened mainstreet for a dedicated Bump Run (Barney's Bumps). How about that for commitment? I think CB could do it, and should, on one of the front four, leave cliffy along.

Elk has a certain feel when you ski there. I think the "feel" is partly there because you feel like you're in the mountains. No tower mountained guns (all their guns are moveable tripod guns) and no lights (only on a few trails) obscure the natural beauty of the mtn. So its you, snow, and trees. I think the lack of tower mounted guns could be why they aren't a snowmaking powerhouse that Blue is. That aside they do get alot more snow (it's already snowed 1 inch down here, and next day when i skiied at elk they had 6+ inches), they don't seem to get terrain open that quickly, and I doubt they'd beat Blue or Shawnee to open.

i could see if it was square like a normal edge, but that would just slow ya down