Johnny Law

Closing is early even my lazy ass gets there around 7 Damn hop ranch !!!! Boner fucking city

They are 97 last I think and they are very heavy compared to the cochise. They are sweet but once you go tech fittings everything else is crude lol Seriously though I do really like the cochise and downhill they are fine, I probably also made it worse by only having a single pole, Billy will fix them a couple punches and they will be cool. The tyrolia adrenalin is supposed to be at the demo, I'll check them out as they are probably the only real competitor to the guardian.

Your always welcome to join our motley outift, were not fast, about 2miles and hour but we are skilled and determined, we don't give up, ever. The only thing we require is no assholes, everyone has to do their part and everyone has to be cool. You'd have no problems. Alternatively if you want to go with actual non-rapscallions I have endless beta and info, once you go you'll want to go all the time. LOL This trip is tradition and one of our crew works a job up in the shale that keeps him very busy so our parameters were tight but your right, I mean we knew this wasn't the perfect weekend. They did, I love that boot, best skiing touring boot I've ever been on, excellent walk mode and super light but I'm gonna need a few punches. The toe box height is low which I've never had a problem with before and supposedly they are 100mm last but they don't feel like it.

Nice dude the beast is a spring gem, way to kill it.

Location: Daks, Angel Slides, Mt. Marcy. Dates: 3-28-3/30 Music: Disclaimer: Forgive the shitty pics the weather was not the best. We were originally supposed to go to King Ravine but the avy danger was too high so and last minute change was made to go to the Daks. With little planning we decided to go out the LOJ, a number of years ago I had a TR on here were we tried to ski Marcy from the top but were once again skunked, this was a redemption trip with a nice little Friday tour as a bonus. We arrived at about 1am and realized we could sleep in the car or the leanto, the car has heat and thus we awoke in the lot to light snow. Our home for the next two days. Shortly after our arrival the snow switched over to a light rain and sleet, we made some fortifications to our lean-to and headed out for Angel Slides on Wright. Angel Slides are the prominent features in the background. About midway up the weather got shit fuck nasty, in the 10mins or so it took to dig a pit and do tests we saw rain, sleet, snow and lots of wind, this slop came in hard. We skied, well kinda, the snow was atrocious, super wet, super heavy slop. This did not stop a member from hucking a 7ft ice feature, considering the snow it was truly shredding the gnar. We were now very wet and some further modifications were made to our shelter, that’s not a fire, fires are illegal…..LOL Perhaps the most impressive part of the trip was a successful Jiffy Pop, in my previous 32 years on this planet I’ve never seen a successful Jiffy Pop. Dangerous but a good way to dry out your balls. Saturday the weather improved and we decided to make the long slog to Marcy. Marcy is the third highest east of the Mississippi and a real bitch. Generally we’ve had no luck in the skiing department when it comes to Marcy. Weather was light snow until about 11am with about 1500vert and 2 miles to go the sun started popping out but alas it wasn’t meant to be. Once we got through the trees, with about 500 yards to go, it went full on can’t see shit with steady 40mph winds, we ditched the skis 100 yards short of the summit and went on foot. Good views from the top…. Looks kinda like the Moon This is proof we skied down but this point I was not in the mood to take lots of pics due to a problem described below, the jack rabbit is real narrow and lots of leg work. Last year I got heinous blisters so I bought some new boots. I rode them before hand to try to soften them up and even wrapped my feet but they got pretty destroyed. I won’t labor the point but it made this a painful trip. Plus on the way in I was clearing clumping snow and broke my pole in half, I made a BC repair but I couldn’t really use it which probably put a lot more work on the left foot. Gotta go see AS’s boot dude. It was a really dope trip with Pine Martens and lobster mac, thinking about a hut trip next year, maybe 10th mtn.

Beer Jesus delivers!!!

Saturday should be fine, looking forward to gettin drunk

That's fucking rich ain't it.....what about little VT aren't they closed too...LOL

Last year on the very last week they were open I went a coupel times for opening to run laps before work and it's like a whole different mtn. The old crew is out but that's about it. The grooming was pretty perfect but not that perfect, shame I missed it.

They are indeed, they are super easy, wild snow probably has a walk through but the the only semi tricky part is the heal piece spacing but even that is pretty straight forward.

Last night was actually pretty good, more mid winter conditions than freeze thaw. Drier snow, grippy without the refrozen pile shit.

Reach around for sure.....I'll bring them up to blue on the 5th.

I got a new touring rig and it's pretty fucking sweet. Cochise Pro Lights, Speed Radicals and Manaslus. As an aside I have an older setup that is free to a good home. They have logged extensive miles across alot of the Daks and Whites, as Han Solo once said they don't look like much but they got it where it counts....they actually don't but they have a free heal which is pretty cool. They are Fritschi Diamir Titanal 2's - http://pistehors.com/backcountry/wiki/Gear/Fritschi-Diamir-Titanal-II How good are they ? Ehh, they work and are light, they aren't tough and have the instatele problem that all Fristschi's have. They are easy to mount and adjust but I'm not sure how many shops around here have a jig if any, I used the paper diagram, it's really not that hard.

I'll be there the 5th...

I'll be in the Whites this weekend and then Aspen, then reggaefest at the loaf and then maybe the rock pile so plenty of skiing left just not during the week.

Welcome back to the big hill....I'll be up tonight 6ish to 8

The no weekday thing chaps my ass but last night I was one of 6 people riding from 6-8pm so you can't really fault them, that's alot of electrcity for 0 dollars in revenue. It was an incredible season but my greedy ass ain't ready to quit it yet, was really hoping they would run 9-5 next week.

That is a masterpeace....I'm a little freaked out about how well you channel your inner Doug.

Not clear, he had some health issues. Gonna steal this for my obit - "Next to skiing, Ron’s greatest love was for the female sex, and he pursued this passion with a libidinous spirit, intelligence, humor and tenacity that many (including some reading this) found irresistible. He was also smart, funny and tenacious. He was twice married, and somewhere in the world is a daughter he never knew."

"This is Ron Funk he's 33 years old and never held a permanent job, his whole life has been dedicated to the sport of skiing " Ron was the fucking man, he's what we all pretend to be, check out the video, it's short and a classic.

Damn apparently he died in January...... some of you cats won't know who this dude is but he fucking lived it. He was the prototypical ski bum if there ever was one. He's most famous for this video, dude's a fucking legand.

Rode last night was nearly equally as technical. Paradise was smooth and fast, everything else was pretty rowdy. I have no standards, I have and will ride dogshit but they either needed to groom or close Nightmare/Dreamweaver that shit was pretty much unrideable for mere mortals.

Nice dude, that's a killer pic, time warp for sure.

Those are Olin Mark V's or maybe IV's but the IV's were Orange I think. They were technically the first twin tip....

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