Johnny Law

I hope they make it, it's too good a hill to not be skied.

How were the crowds ? Are they making money ?

Looks epic, nice one dude super jealous.

Damn dude, heal up quick.

Sick bird !!

Sat Sunday morning for sure, I got no time constraints. I might be up tomorrow, I really feel like taking a day off.........

4/6 damn that's a fucking quality season for sure.

I didn't say he invented it I used the word discovered. He did discover in terms of it's use in ski wax.

There are maybe 10 people on the entire hill, 6 of which are coming down Razors. AS is up front far left, I'm far right, Toast was behind but then zipped past on the far left. My two friends were in the back, said wanna be racer is on some kind of old solly racing ski making short radius turns, all the sudden once he hits the lower headwall he goes full trail width. At this time AS is trying to go by and they get close, not like OMG close just within 5ft, Toast then goes flying by. When we get to the lift corral, he's flapping his gums at AS but doesn't yet realize he's with 4 other dudes. AS asks him if he even races bro and the already spicy wanna be is now in full ape shitty mode. I ride up and try to mellow him out, say hi ask him what's up. He's still fuming and once AS is about 20ft away he's run out of words and goes with you fucking faggot!!! Not loud enough that AS could hear. It was pretty funny, he wanted to be tough but wasn't actually gonna piss anyone off. Who knows maybe he didn't get a BJ at home or something. I really think he was pissed because he thought he was the only person on the hill with skills, so then to have three peeps pass you one of which who has a better short game shrank his dick and he had to compensate.

LOL You should know by now my primary motivation is to fuck with people but there is some truth to it. It's you money do what you want with it, the flying driving thing is interesting. I don't mind driving anything under 14hrs a day as long as were moving, flying makes me want to punch baby jesus in the taint. Not the actual flying, sitting in a chair in a metal tube eating fritos at 32k feet while traveling at 600mph is fucking cool, all the other shit really rustles my jimmies. GSS, I bought a bunch of Killy tickets from my Aunt who for unknown reasons gets a deal through the teachers union I think. I had two left over and got the Best Western at Killy for 400$. Split the room with my brother and it's 200$ plus gas and stuffing my fat face.

Somebody is gonna die.

Boner city !!! Can't believe and airline is giving out free beer of that quality.....nice....Abasin is looking fat.....Copper is underrated.

That's fucking right LOL Wax was probably originally developed when skis were all wood and would soak up water, this created drag and also made already heavy skis even heavier. Today wax composition is still related to the hydrophobic properties of the materials in question but due to base material is of less concern. Today wax is all about maintaining the thickness of the water underneath the ski. Skis use friction to melt a tiny tiny tiny bit of snow and then you glide on that water however like nearly all things it's a delicate balancing act. Too much water and due to the atomic structure of water and surface tension you get wet suck that slows the ski down, not enough water under the ski and you get dry friction. Both slow the ski down and both to a certain extent require different tools for solution. Hard waxes produce a thicker sheet of water under the ski and softer obviously less water. Cold air has less moisture in in than the desert, hence relative humidity and not absolute humidity, thus when it's balls to the wall cold the snow is generally very dry and coarse so you use a harder wax. At blue mtn the snow with the exception of this year is almost always pretty wet and thus you want to use a softer wax because you want less water under the ski. Harder wax has longer hydrocarbon chains (like gasoline products !!!!) and softer wax shorter chains, microcrystal shit is mostly bs but has super short chains and thus is very soft. Obviously you get a bunch of different materials in whatever company you like mix, fluro is really overkill in 99% of circumstances as it's been proven to not last very long, waxing technique and base structure is probably vastly more important if your using any decent hydro wax. It's even possible with the advent of UHMWPE bases that wax doesn't do a whole lot of anything. For all the wax discussion it cracks me up how many retards are dropping hundreds on fluro compounds while running a cross structure with 1degree base bevel. You want a ski to go fast base structure is the number one factor in the game, it's got to be fresh and it's got to be linear, a 3/4 base bevel will reduce drag across the ski significantly, I mean there is a reason nobody is running a 1degree in super g and downhill. I like Hertel Super Sauce, it's cheap, it doesn't give a fuck about temps and it's particularly suited to PA skiing. It's not as fast as a dedicated temp wax when the snow is very dry but with the exception of this year that's pretty fucking rare in PA and when I wax I don't have to think at all about what snow temp is. Hertel was a recreational skier in the 70's from the bay area, he introduced surfactants into ski wax, a surfactant is nothing more than a compound that reduces surface tension between two liquids or a solid and a liquid. Surfactants are really fucking cool, they have a head and a tail and they do completely opposite things, the tail usually repels water (hydrophobic) and the head usually loves water (hydrophilic) these two opposite forces reduce molecule size and thus reduces surface tension which is pretty fucking cool smart man stuff all so our dumb asses can slide down a hill while drunk and high. Surfactants probably shouldn't work in waxes because while they reduce surface tension they are almost always wetting agents and again you don't want to much water under the ski. What Hertel did is discover SDS, SDS is a weird molecular structure compound that a dumb ass hick from Reading like myself doesn't fully understand but what it does in wax is essentially ball up where the outside of the ball is hydrophobic and thus creates a layer of almost ball bearings under the ski. The bigger WC wax companies are pretty fucking tight lipped but they of course quickly stole Hertel's use of surfactants, they add all manner of shit into their mix to increase glide, lately their focus has been on reducing dirt in the ski base both from snow and from the shit we pump into the atmosphere. Pretty fucking cool shit all things considered. EDIT: Shit I forgot we skied last night, it was really good. The grip to speed ratio was at all time levels, Razor's was scary fast. Also AS got in a fight with some wanna be racer, they threw down and AS killed him. I helped him dump the body at the Zinc/Asbestos mine in Palmerton. AS is now apparently a fucking faggot !!!!!! but he did spit the best line ever which is do you even race bro ?

Your missing out if you haven't skied VT, NH, NY and ME. Western trips require planning or a really fat bankroll. Vday 2007, a confluence of energies has produced a monster blizzard for the NE, early modeling suggested a clipper but late runs are showing crazy high snowfall. Hop in car and drive 8hrs over night to VT, have two days of full on boner city, Stowe reported 48". Magic had 27" in the first 12hrs. Two weeks later at Jay I skied another 20" by driving up the night before. I ran a full month of weekends of sickbird pow riding all because it was in my back yard. That's what VT can do, you don't have to plan you just show up when it's going to snow. It's super cheap, I'll be in VT next weekend for 200$ plus meals. It's a shortish drive that is easy to do, smoke a j hop in the car and smoke another when you hit Albany, that trip will feel like it lasted 10mins. Fuck your math, math is pointing at the moon and confusing that pointing for the moon. A ski trip is not the sum of a series of variables in which you punch in inputs and out pops fun, when the fuck did we all become full time bean counters. Skiing has become a bunch of WASPY fuckers who want their nob slobbed constantly...... Truth - People don't like VT because it exposes weakness in their skiing game, pick any random day at Ajax and a random day at Stowe, it's easier to get your dick hard about feeling like your a skiing Jesus at Ajax. I think the pot is now sufficiently stirred....LOL

almost always a week before everyone else because it's a massively overrated hill noobs and wannabe's jerk it over because they think it makes them special little flowers.....lol without that huntah dude on here I don't have a hill to blast shit at anymore.....

I'll be up tonight around 7ish.....at least I think......

I really want to go to Penn Hills, hopefully they pipe that porno jam throughout the facility.

That's a hot ski, all of their lineup is real high quality.

Didn't know about the Kartel 98, that looks hot.

I would say don't buy any K2's but that's just me He should buy 191 wren's and let me ski them.....lol......176 jeffery is like a 24 radius if I remember, maybe longer than he likes. Shit there are 2000000 skis in the low 20's ride them all.

Now that's what I'm talking about, that's thinking like Lincoln. The PE is stiff torsionally, in sandwich construction skis a torsionally stiff ski will have better edge hold. When you get the ski up on edge if it's an old solly noodle or something similar the ski can't handle the twisting force and hence the edge won't apply even pressure. If you had a Popsicle stick and you applied twisting force the ends particularly will twist away from the axis in the center of the Popsicle stick, now if they were skis that means you can't get the same pressure on those twisted ends. Now imagine the same thing but with a steel rod, it requires exponentially more force. That's torsional stiffness, you like a ski with torsional stiffness. Core wood choice is not the primary factor generally. Anything with a metal sheet is going to up the stiffness considerably, carbon rods too though you generally only see them in the tails of park skis, you want stiff tails in the pipe. Carbon construction is super light, strong but very expensive, titanial which is actually aluminum is very popular and as a metal sheet increases stiffness, Kevlar is a good dampener but a little heavy, Aluminum honeycomb is nice but expensive and can have resonance issues eg it vibrates in a not nice way. The PE has none of these stiffeners if you will. The PE is 22oz triax, so you have your wood core which is strips of would glued together and then planed into some kind of shape wrapped around that is fiberglass. You can do this in two fashions biax where your wrap the two individual strands at 90 degrees or triax where you wrap three strands at 45, 0 and -45 degrees. Triax creates a torsionally stiffer ski than biax, not to beat a dead horse but you like a torsionally stiffer ski. Wood can be bamboo, ash, maple, paulownia, fuma, fir, spruce, birch, aspen, poplar. Basically any hard wood that maintains it's shape and is vibration and resonance resistant. You get a set amount of stiffness from the wood but it's the additional stiffeners like a titanial sheet that really ups the game. Outside of paulownia which is a super super light wood generally used for touring skis don't get to caught up on wood choice. So if you look at K2's current lineup you got the Press and the Recoil, the sight is probably too soft but if you want a twin that only leaves the press. In that case maybe try the longest 179 which is a slightly longer radius than your current PE's. Ton of skis in this range though so check them out.

It's redic, super cold air pumps out of Siberia into northern Japan so it snows diamond dust all the god damn time. Plus until maybe 5 years ago going off trail was illegal, not like they take your pass, like speeding ticket illegal so the peeps there generally only ski groomers. That has changed a bit but it ain't Alta or JH by any means. Japan is expensive but it's also culturally pretty different but not so different its uncomfortable. They are friendly, lots of English speakers in Niseko and it's certainly safe. They get alot of Aussies and they fucking love to party. Japan is perfect for that ski trip you want with fantastic pow skiing and are really different culture. There are two main areas, Hakkido and Hansu. Hakkido is flatter but gets redic amounts of pow, hansu is steeper but doesn't get as much snow. Hansu is easier to get to. Hansu is really only the big dog Hakuba. Hakuba is probably the best known Japanese ski area. It's huge with Australians. Hakkido is really the town of Niseko which is broken down further into 5 resorts, Annupuri, Higashiyama, Hirafu, Hanazono and Moiwa. Hirafu is the big dog, everyone goes there. There is another sleeper resort about an hour from Niseko called Rustsu that has some killer trees and is more like Silverton than the mega resort Annupuri is. Best tree skiing of my life and it's not even close, crazy BC access right out the lifts. Furano is the newer hot shit but I never rode there and don't know anything about it. If you ever get the chance or the conviction go ski japan it's tremendous pow skiing and an even cooler experience. Be warned though do not under any circumstances be holding the herb. Smoke others but don't carry any weight.

I don't like moguls, they make my knees hurt but I do remember riding with AS one time on 188 Legend Pros, they bucked me around like a god damn horse. This brings up another good point which is think about buying a ski that is inline with where you want your skiing to be. I generally have lots of very stiff, long, large radius skis because I like to ski fast with long arcing turns. My short game is relatively speaking weak, so I bought a pair of sl skis and dabble in SL racing because that's something I wanted to get better at. If your PE's aren't dead, keep them and ride them and maybe buy another ski that challenges you to ski things differently. Also don't overlook the second hand market, lots and lots of people ski 10 days a year and sell their skis after two or three years. Almost any ski can take two mounts no problem and it will save you lots of money. 50$ grind can save your hundreds and then you can buy lots of skis and really figure out what it is your looking for in a pair of skis.

Cool video. Fuck yes, I would only need about 15mins notice, that's Hakkido dudes the holy grail of pow.

The early March storm is still way to far out, it only shows on a couple of models. It's split stream and the key is how the southern energy comes in, too much confluence and the whole thing makes a big right hand turn for the ocean. GGEM shows the right hand turn, DGEX as always shows a foot plus for the entire NE. There is plenty of energy upstream but axial tilt really starts to fuck with the potentials. The two most accurate GFS/EURO lost this storm completely this morning but that's weather models, check back in Friday for a clearer picture.