Johnny Law

Nice dude spring skiing is the only skiing to do at Huntah...

You mother fucker !!! Super jealous, fucking kill some big fluted lines for me. Trip of a lifetime.

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

Ummmmm.....I once had a girl tell me I had very nice feet but that was along time ago, I think the hockey skate and skiing boots have really torn them up. Maybe it was just a coincidence, I remember being 15 and I get a boner every time the wind blew. LOL

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.

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

Was the earliest we could all get there and figured why sit in the car. Its a pretty easy trip in, one trail, relatively flat.

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.

This is super fucking cool dude, looks like a crazy interesting place. Going to have to try to check it out.

Nice dude did you have a good time ? Was it as scenic as I remembered ?

x2 Good news though, never want to see a ski hill go out for the count....well maybe Mt Creek or Huntah....

How's coverage ?

Was good this morning, last day for me at Blue unless they do something crazy.

hahah I guess at some level that kinda is the point of a TR...all right I'll give it a try.

Nice dude, you've hit your skiing Renaissance !!!

Little Jay/Big Jay and the 242 runs, keep this shit in your dome for when you get up there and you'll see what I mean. Strictly for the legit, don't want to go the wrong way up there and end up in Canada. Moe, nice dude, super jealous. Had a dream the other night on hellbrook with waist deep......do any touring lately ? Gilpin I heard was skiing well.....hopefully I'll run into you on the rock pile later this season.

Of course they do, it costs 30million and is there brand new to do, what else would they have their mind on ? I don't disagree with you necessarily except that its a matter of expected performance. When you buy a pass you expect based on recent history to do Dec15ish to about the third weekend in March, so when they pulled that shit earlier is was not up to normal expected performance, worse they tried to float bs about it being weather related. That's a lie, that's a trust thing which is far bigger than simply closing early to save money for the water park. So when they caved to pressure that was beyond expected performance and thus people were very happy.

They do guided tours and really I believe its actually against the law because of some kind of wildlife. Sugarbush is allright, Castle holds some excellent shit but the people that ride there are wanna be's of the highest order, too much $$$$$. MRG right down the st has better skiers and less bullshit.....

Finally got my shit together, 5th - 14th but going to do two days at the ride. Maybe I'll post a tr, but this trip would feel too much like general braggadocio......

Holy shit, never in a million, major props to blue.

Sick Bird !!!!!!!!! Really nice dude, all that travel can sometimes really pay off.

Highlands is boss.......

Damn dude sorry, that's a real shitty move. I don't understand how these assholes don't understand that pass holder/mgmt is a relationship. I can't think of anything else where you pony up hundreds of dollars months in advance with really very little guarantee that your going to get something. These people are very important, they don't make you that sweet sweet profit, that's noobs with kids renting and buying lots of food but the pass holders float you in the really bad years and during the off season. So you got to show them some respect and treat them with common decency which is don't lie and don't pull midnight bs moves. This isn't all that surprising considering the financial situation...it wouldn't sunrise me if they aren't open next year which is sad.

The difference is with a Marker your compensating for the lack of elasticity with running a higher DIN. Where as with an FKS or something similar your running a lower DIN but the binding by design will give you a little more time if your getting funky. So I run 7's across the board and ski long radius skis relatively fast all the time. If I was on a marker I would have to run 9's. Its a personal thing but I can tell you the industry favors retention over "pre-release", 20mph into a tree is going to fuck up your life generally, 30mph + and that helmet is just a nice container for all the nasty bits while an ACL is shitty for sure I can't think of anyone dieing due to a blown ACL, I mean sure somebody died from surgery complications but not directly from the ACL. Last I heard blunt force trauma from shit like trees and lift towers are about 50% of fatal accidents overall and almost all of the fatal accidents east of the Mississippi.

If you like Texans head down to the Wolf, like bee's to a hive. What about DE ? Until recently most people didn't know it was a state on the EC. Excellent beaches, waaaay less joey's and tax free lol Shit to be real even DE now is becoming dirty jerz