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Nice dude, I'd give at least 15% of a kidney to be riding right now.
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Nice dude, some precip maybe for you guys, kill it.
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16 or 17
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Didn't want to intimidate anyone LOL Honestly they were a free hook up from a buddy so I didn't have a choice.
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Snagged a pair of Rossi WC's 155, 11m radius I believe. If you need another rider I'm in next year or somebody can borrow them if they need something proper radius.
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They did, about 1h 45 mins which is about 45mins too long but they are oldish and don't do outside shit generally.
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No that was a planned previous trip that didn't happen.
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Dates: April 5th- 14th Location: Telluride and A$$pen Musak: So I’ve never really posted anything about this trip before, to be straight its spring skiing and I figured it is only going to come off as douchey, but summer is long and I’ll try to keep the look how cool I am shit to a minimum. I’m not important, my sister and her bf are important in a small pond way and thus I get to mooch on a pretty great trip. Essentially this trip is theoretically a big vendor/rep deal, they bring all their shit out and the worker plebes get to test it. Before the Aspen demo portion me and my sister headed south to spend two days at Telluride. I love Telluride it’s steep and is by a landslide the most beautiful place in the lower 48. View from my hotel door (Victoria Inn, 1 block from lift 8 and cheapish) Town Colorado is so ugly Revelation Bowl in case you can’t read Palmyra Telluride is amazing if you get the chance definitely go there. It was spring skiing and closing week so no actions pics also I skied a lot alone. However we drank a lot of beer and had serious fun. The lineup, for a person as obsessed with skis as I am this is a Roman Orgy style lineup. Basically reps set tents up at the base and you get to ride all their skis for free and as long as you want. Most of the others on the trip are from FL which is awesome because they leave the interesting boards alone. I got to test these bad boys, it’s reasonable to look at them and call bullshit after all cnc’d core’s and carbon/edge tips and tails scream bullshit but I can assure you they are the real deal. They are super fucking light, they carve like a 68 waisted world cup GS ski, super quick edge to edge and they don’t give a fuck about chop or crud. Unreal hard snow performance for a ski with this much rocker, if I can pick them up proform buying a set for sure. If you see these go fucking ride them and they will blow your mind. They are the future. My parents and brother brought the snow with them, 8-12” of butter cream and even old Pocono shufflers are getting into the act. I was determined to be first up the cirque the next morning, sadly I failed as was only 4th. This was on my 4th run, overall I got 7 in, the first 5 of which were pretty much knee deep untracked. I ran into Johnny Styles on the next run and he showed me and a buddy around. My brother decided to get all Tussey Mtn on the bitch. Highlands holds a real special place in my heart so I was pretty stoked to get to share that experience with my brother who was a bowl newb. The bowl is the soul of highlands, its identity, every able bodied skier should haul their fat ass up there and do the damn thing before they die. Bros up top Entire Law Unit at the bottom That was supposed to be it but then it snowed another 10” and fuck it we always have time to ski pow. Not bad for somebody living in South Florida Then again maybe not….. Lastly you get to meet a lot of people on this trip, mostly reps from CO however I did get to chat with one particularly interesting fellow. He’s 92 now and tells Grandpa Simpson stories but he did invent the goose down jacket and still skis pretty well so he’s got that going for him. I got more pics, mostly of skis I demo’d but I think that’s enough look how big my penis is for today. Thanks for stopping by.
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Loaf still going strong. Nice work dude.
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Brilliant !
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Dude you fucking did it ! Welcome to the club, you've joined a rather small number of people to experience the EC BC. Stoked for you dude, Tuxs is the first, the eye opener to what's out there and how strong and capable of a person your are. Your dead on about the seeing the bowl and the feelings you get, pictures can never do the scale of these places or that feeling you get any real justice. If you ever need route info or beta on other places don't hesitate for a second, at least for me the first one sort of ignites a fire to check more places out. Plus you got the kid involved, I can't wait until I can con my kid into some damn fool expeditions.
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Highlands Bowl is a personal fav but gotta be asshole puckering to see that much move like that .
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I rode two, 10-12" storms this week, CO is going off. Maybe a TR later....
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Nice dude spring skiing is the only skiing to do at Huntah...
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You mother fucker !!! Super jealous, fucking kill some big fluted lines for me. Trip of a lifetime.
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This gets into a strange area of wax in which scientific studies concluded the pore structure of the base is not large enough for wax to penetrate but I was saying your pulling working wax out of the base structure with the fiberlene pass. A hotbox is probably the better way to go anyways but it would be interesting to examine the base structure rather than the wax. Essentially which exposes base structure better, scraping or fiberlene...... IDK the whole wax thing is weird, on one hand it certainly makes the ski faster on the other hand its pretty clear that the wax molecules are too big for the base structure......probably would be better just spending the time skiing LOL
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Maybe I'm out to lunch but scraping is pretty straight forward, you can do it really anywhere and if you crayon particularly on fluro overlays you can do little to no scraping. I'd worry with a fiberlene pass your pulling off that outer layer of wax.
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They are a permanent addendum. They were about 10 years old, the clip system was always flying apart, seemingly at the worst time and the glue was a great mix of old glue, pine needles and newish glue on top. It was unfortunately their time, they had a hard life as the EC BC is generally boney on the approach. I'm going new touring setup next year, Plum Guides, Dynafit Stoke with Techinica Pro Lights. The old setup is 10 years+ and is about to blow up, certainly whenever I'm farthest from camp. LOL
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Dates: March 29 -31 Location: Daks, Peggy O Skied: Lower Wolfjaw – Bennies Brooke Saddleback – New and improved Back in the Saddle Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84i7zQ_ACnU General Disclaimer: I am really shitty with a camera, if you want to really appreciate the scale of these places go yourself. Irene dropped about 8” of rain across the high peaks, this was very bad however a silver lining of this event was the creation of new slides and perhaps more impressively the elongation of existing slides. With that in mind we headed out to see what was new in the neighborhood. Alpine Start at about 1am Camp, we arrived at 3:45am which isn’t bad for 3.6 miles After 4hrs sleep it was off to Bennies, Bennies Brooke slide used to be a real pain in the ass bush wack but we had heard after Irene it runs straight into the south trail. Only ski suspension bridge I know of John’s Brooke Bottom of Bennies We are going to ski that….. Bennies is about 2000vert off Lower Wolfjaw, turns out it was quite boney and we had to bail on the top 1/10th. Skiing was interesting, probably the stiffest crude I’ve ever encountered, about 2” thick with straight glacial ice underneath. Made for cool ice bulges though. Skiing was poor, a lot of lean back and point them. I do not want to see the video of me skiing this section. LOL Day 2 we wanted to check out an old friend, we couldn’t believe all the trees and rocks Irene brought down Bennies and figure Back in the Saddle may now really go almost all the way down Orebed drainage. Half way with the goal in our sights Going Up The top of Back in the Saddle Slide now merges with two others right about at the col in-between Saddleback and Gothics. We had already been up Gothics two years back when we skied a slide called True North so we decided to head up Saddleback. I really wanted to peep the slides on Basin. North and West face of Gothics Big burly slides on Basin, coming back to ski that for sure. After some time spent dicking around on Saddleback it was time to shred the gnar. We bushwacked for about 100 yards and found the top. Looks tasty, snow was a cream cheesy recycled pow. This slide runs about 1500 vert but you can ski the drainage all the way back to camp. Catching some BC air Beautiful ski out next to the Orebed drainage We don’t eat shit, my total pack was 50lbs and my food, including 6 lobster’s was almost 20lbs. Ski out was very interesting, huge ice falls and some tricky scrambling in ski boots, was nice to “ski” most of the way though. Really excellent trip though my feet are going to be angry at me for some time. I had accidently left my skins at the top of Bennies, which I didn’t realize until Saturday morning, booting 3k vert for 8hrs is not great in alpine boots. Next stop Telluride and A$$pen.
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This is super fucking cool dude, looks like a crazy interesting place. Going to have to try to check it out.
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Nice dude did you have a good time ? Was it as scenic as I remembered ?
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Our New Name....Montage Mountain Resorts...New owners.
Johnny Law replied to KCSKI's topic in Montage Mountain
x2 Good news though, never want to see a ski hill go out for the count....well maybe Mt Creek or Huntah....