Johnny Law

James and lightning ridge ! fucking sick, jonesing for UT bad

Northern VT is fucked, they need a foot of fresh to cover up the glacial like ice. Central VT is much better Killy is actually in good shape.

I hope the emergency food supply is actually just a giant bucket of fried chicken, you can eat fried chicken for anything warm or cold. Also it doesn't ever seem to go bad..... Sick pictures, super jealous....I like Doug steeze, good to see its catching on.

Split board is shit compared to dyna skis so BC you gotta to really want to board. The other thing is when you sell something as the rebel alternative it inevitably becomes mainstream and then the main reason alot of people got into it no longer exists. Skiing was lame and snowboarding was cool, now skiing is cool and snowboarding is what a thousand of their friends are already doing.

Alot of next years shit is being leaked. Vwerks Katana, whistle tip LOL rossi's, Diamir dynafit, lotta squad 7 type skis.

Anywhere cool ? 8 miles is Looooong

The 88 is the jr ripper, the 98 is a fucking caddy. Excellent edge hold, big radius ripper. Like a more modern LP.

I said this in another post but go the other way, people yelling out random skis ain't going to get you were you want to be. 1. What is it that your current skis aren't doing ? 2. Where are you going to ski these potential new boards ? 3. What kind of skiing do you like/want to do ? You have two skis that are pretty similar a 15.5m and 19m radius carvers that are pretty much conventional construction. They are not soft but not super stiff. So if it was me and I was going to the demo, I would one identify the manufactures I like, basically who makes good shit and who makes crap. I don't like most solly's, K2's or nordica's so I wouldn't ride them unless I had extra time. I would ride rossi, line and some volkls (sorry AJ but the bottom part of their lineup is Chinese shit). Then I would identify what skis in their lineup run with a mid 20's radius and upper 20's and those that have aggressive camber designs. This does a couple of things, one I can figure out what I like about skis and what I don't like about skis based on their design rather than well Johnny on PASR said they are hot shit. Two I can better figure out what it is I want out of a pair of boards, all your shit is kinda tight radius so maybe you want to make big fuck you turns and these boards make coaxing big turns difficult but you don't want to blow 900$ on ski that only does big fucking turns. So then you get maybe something like a super 7 which is 22.5 but is also essentially a powder board, it can rip bigger turns at Blue and handle pow when you travel. Again I'm not saying go buy the super 7, I'm saying identify what you want and learn how to get that based on how the ski is put together. Then when you test them out you have some kind of metric, rather than just these are cool or these suck which alot of times isn't based on anything. The biggest lie in the ski industry is that ski X is awesome for 70% of people, skiing is like fucking, we may all end up at the same place but how we get there is 90% of the game. EDIT: I have lots of ski's across the radius and design spectrum, they all turn, they all can make tight turns and they can all make big super g, design only makes certain things easier. A 39 radius ski can still be skied very nimbly its just alot of work compared to a sl 15m. The one exception to this is deep pow, design in deep pow makes a ton of difference, though a full rev rev ski has almost no use in PA.

The piles are coming along nicely. I'll be there Sat and Sunday morning.

Spruce gets beat with traffic, too many idiots. Toll house is the shit, I know long green groomers don't get much love but Toll House is the shit, Great Eastern at Killy is the best trail in VT.

Snow was good last night and nobody was there. The blew a fuck ton of snow, everything should be good by Friday.

I'm sure they will try

This is very good news, the stratosphere has suddenly warmed. Every once in a while the polar vortex which moves particles west to east or what we call wind essentially goes on the fritz, rossby waves which are weather in a sense get through the troposphere and into the stratosphere. This warms the stratosphere by tens of kelvins and throws a big fucking monkey wrench in the polar vortex. The polar vortex when strong hold's cold air up by the arctic which is good for the arctic ice and the polar bear but bad for EC skiers. This sudden warming makes the vortex wobble which blows very cold air down into the EC. This means generally the EC will be cold for about a month and obviously increases our chances for significant snow events. This is actually bad because it relates to global warming but its kinda like sloppy seconds or something similar, not really good news but really good news in relation to the currently available alternatives.

Mary Ellen Gulch has been on Dick Bass's radar since at least 06, he swapped land to get UT on board, well and for that mtn coaster shit. He has lots of power via mining so the UT people pretty much suck his dick. That area is ok, great views but they really like it because it has some low angle shit. The bird is kinda vertical, even big emma isn't really all the beginner friendly and the tram just straight up makes them piss their pants. Mary Ellen would provide somewhere for those riders to go. Its 800ish acres and maybe 3500 vert so not exactly minor. The other thing is you could theoretically still get the Bird when the LCC road is closed via American Fork but don't quote me on that as I'm not sure that is actually the plan. In 2011 the US Forest Service accepted their plan which basically means they will now look at the 2-3 year environmental impact statements and watershed reports. Long story short I know Bob Bonar and he actually runs this shit, currently they have to get through the Gad Valley Improvement impact statements first and then do the two year dealio with Mary Ellen Gulch so what would that be 2015. In reality they have the Gad $ which is night skiing, magic carpet and new quad, they don't really have the Mary Ellen $$$ lined up yet so you won't be skiing there until 2020 probably. BC wise I think peeps are worried this will allow the Bird to control access to Baldy Bowl and White Pines but they will probably not push that. Watershead people are pissed as always. The BC people don't want White Pines becoming the next Scotty's bowl and are maybe worried about the increased potential for slide related problems. I'm not a huge expansion guy but this at least relates to skiing, they are only doing this to improve skiing...well mostly.....so I'm not exactly for it or against it. More they are going to do what they are going to do and this one doesn't really fuck up the neighborhood. If it was my decision and it ain't, I build the Alta/Brighton tunnel and put massive underground garages at the bottom of LCC and BCC. Everyone must take the train which is mostly above but goes underground for the big slide paths. This light rail uses the aforementioned tunnel to move between the two during high slide activity. The roads are only for emergency vehicles. Rail connects to SLC/Airport and maybe eventually to the Ogden/Snowbasin area. Too many cars in the canyons, particularly LCC so you gotta do something but stringing up a billion lifts just doesn't seem reasonable.

Keep driving.....

I'm thinking about doing the deal tonight, props for getting out when its cold and they are blowing.

Its the fucking sheriff, now I will never be a huge fan of cops but this shit was fucking disgusting. Dude is sitting in an unmarked SUV in the moonbeam lot at solly, its snowed like 12", Christmas break so non-UT people. Some random walks out of the lot and into the woods right next to the giant snowcat path and takes a piss. As he is walking back to the car sheriff dude comes running with a water shed ticket, random's got a beer in his hand and turns out he's 20. So he gets an underage and a pissing ticket, his dad gets a supplying to a minor all because he wanted to have a beer with his kid at the end of a good pow day. That's the difference between a pig and a cop, a cop realizes these aren't criminals tells them to keep that shit on the DL and go does actual cop work. Pigs load these two people up with tickets and shit because he can even though they aren't hurting anyone. Meanwhile back in reality as the sheriff is writing all these tickets about 1000 snowcats and snowmobiles come flying by belching diesel fumes and shitty two stroke exhaust but that pee is just too much man gonna fuck up the watershed. It would be funny if it wasn't true....in NH at King Ravine there is a real nice BC cabin that has an outhouse. Somebody has to go out in winter and break that shit up as it freezes and causes problems. Big ass sign on the door to the outhouse says this is only for shitting, if you have to pee use the woods. Nature can do pee no problem, it has millions of years of dealing with pee but somehow in UT pee not millions of cubic feet of diesel exhaust is the problem.

That shit is tough and even more so when you get to just show up with a bunch of people who have ridden the course a billion times before. Major props for putting your thing down.

Its fucking bullshit, the interconnect is a 20 year pipe dream of land developers and idiots everywhere. It doesn't make life better for skiers and it ruins classic BC lines and areas in an already super crowded area. Long story short there is bullshit between the lease holder for Park City, and the lessor. Essentially Park City pissed off a canadian company called Talliskier, Talliskier then purchased the lease rights to some of the land Park City needs to run its operation. It was a 99 year billion reup type lease but PC fucked around and Talliskier acted like dick faces too and the whole thing got pretty nasty, my recollection is the courts worked it out. This all stems from the same problem, the Canyons in comparison to BCC/LCC is a shitty place to ski but the only place were you can really do new construction. So a bunch of real estate guys pretending to open a ski area blow up housing and shit at the Canyons around 02 when the olympics were in town but people don't want to ski or live there so they have a big fucking problem particularly when the greater housing market is in the shitter. Very smartly they figured out if they run a lift from the Canyons to BCC which is actually very close now people will want their shitty condo's for 1.5mil and they can be very happy. First off this kills prime fucking touring, real UT classics and second of all its very stupid. Who the fuck is going to leave Brighton/Solly to ride at the Canyons ? Its going to take an hour full round trip so add that in too. Its going to be alot of one way traffic, peeps that want to live at the Canyons but ride at Brighton or Solly, neither of which by the way need more PC fuckers. Never mind that if you take a piss in the woods at Solly they pop you with a watershed ticket but they'll let Dick Bass and friends run diesel trucks all over the fucking place and string a lift up every possible square inch because well they have $$$. Its stupid, it is another real estate deal sold as having something to do with skiing. UT is not the Alps, it doesn't ski like that, there is very little advantage to being able to go from Alta to the Canyons and there is alot of downside. Unfortunately conservation is not exactly our strong point and the buffoons and land developers will probably eventually win this battle....

Holy shit look at that fucking "quad" chair.....looks like two doubles and welder hahahah Hopefully its a full stock YAN so it falls to the ground and kills alot of people sometime soon, my guess is they don't do a whole lot of maintenance. From the look of the building its a full YAN, would have to look up into the mechanicals to see if it got the late 70's leightner/poma treatment but I'd go 30% they didn't. Would not want to spend alot of time on those fucking things.

I'll be there around noon

Just go, it snows in March alot. To be frank if this is your first rodeo your going to spend alot of time floundering anyways. The only place in NA with a general level of ridership in the same planet as Jackson is Squaw who then go to the wood if its really going off. This dude is from Phoenixville and lived in PA until he was in his late 20's. At Squaw he's just another of 1000 rippers and Jackson is even a level above that. Its such a different experience than so many other places, I would be happy to rip groomers all day in 50 degree weather and chill at the moose.

It has been defacto legal for like 40 years. Walk down church anytime at night and if you look like you smoke somebody will ask you if you need. Slokemo and its brother who shall not be named with the massive fake ass village are lame. Though Stratton does actually have some pitch and surprisingly good tree skiing. Regardless the lower VT gem is Magic Mtn. No bullshit, steep, excellent tree's and an entire mtn that is connected but went out of business a long time ago. Its also not 1000$ a lift ticket, if you can ski and don't need your dick sucked check it out. Excellent taps and cheap. Sugarbush is where Dick Cheny would ski in VT. Regardless nice trip dude, any skiing in VT is a vast improvement over PA.

Incredible

LOL In my defense I have poor eyesight (20/100) and wear nothing but boring blacks and greys to work everyday. Skiing is fun, skiing is living so throw on some bird sex colors and have a good time.