Johnny Law

Those and the year after were nearly perfect and now they are gone..... That Mantra deal you posted sealed the deal, I really don't need another 90ish underfoot ski but its a great price and the Mantra is a good ski. Igneous makes custom boards that are wicked stiff but they are crazy loot, 100 bucks is awesome.

The bridge is Chinese crap, Volkl splits production, cheap shit gets produced in China the big boys in Europe. Mostly Germany or sometimes in the Atomic factory or the Elan factory. Bridge is a delam machine with crappy thin slow bases and the poplar core with no stiffeners means its a noodle. Lot better noodles out there. A friend I ride with has warrantied two pairs and the dude skis like Baryshnikov. Addict is too stiff and the dimensions are all wrong for an all mnt. ski. Fischer makes quality skis though so that's one up on Volkl. Old school Legend Pros (two/three years back) were one of the greatest skis ever made. Destroy Destroy Destroy lulz. They had endless power, rock solid construction, were unflappable at nearly any speed, were easy to engage and were quick edge to edge without being twitchy but they needed some leg and Dynastar softened the tips and tails and made them less torsionally stiff. Fuckers ended one of the most amazing charging skis ever made.

Both are terrible skis

Quandry, Torrey's and Shit for Brains sounds like a hell of a spring, super jealous. Any thought of doing the 14er thing ?

Don't do it if you want to be skiing. First, anyplace you'd want to actually work they are just going to throw you on park duty since your a noob. Second, its alot of work and not alot of skiing. Personally I don't like the idea of setting up bamboo while its waist deep.

A few years back I was riding Honeycomb when it was so windy the lift chairs were bouncing off the towers, pretty scary and it took forever because they could only jog the lift in between gusts

No I'm in the blue jacket, glasses dude is my cousin and I bust his balls constantly about the tele's. Fucking hippies

Dates: Easter Weekend Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTeWoXlWaBA Location: Mt. Adams/King Ravine Every spring east coast skiers flock in droves to Mt. Washington’s Tuckerman ravine, while they bump the shit out 2 small areas they mostly ignore the surrounding areas and its much more interesting terrain. This trip was both the most difficult and most rewarding EC BC trip in the last few years. I had been to King a bunch of times before but the high water and insane snow depths made the usually quick slog stretch on for 7 hours. We had 8 separate creek crossings with only one bridge and the snow depth was so high you either negotiated parts of the trail on your hands and knees or took half the forest with you. I don’t know if I’ve ever been more tired than when I hit camp Friday night, yet 12 hours later sitting on the summit of Adams eating lunch with thoughts of scralping King Ravine all that bs went away. The weather was unreal, my sleeping bag became a mattress and we hiked everywhere in tshirts. Its not something you can explain unless you’ve been there an experienced similar things but for long moments of that day everything was as close to perfect as I’ll ever see. Memories like that just aren’t made at the resort. Shit we have to go all the way up there… Trail head accommodations were sparse so we got an alpine start, our reward for this trip is some a hole broke into the truck while we were gone and stole a bunch of our shit. This is a bridge, they are pretty sweet for crossing creeks and rivers. Somebody should forward that info on to RMC. Fun is negotiating rocky creeks with 50 pound packs while every snow bridge in the tri state area collapses. Ski boots are surprisingly water proof. The aphribach trail may be one of the most beautiful trials I’ve ever seen, normally we use shortline which is far quicker but lacks the every ¼ mile waterfalls. Our weekend accommodations were excellent, they view unrivaled in the NE. Outside our front door Getting closer Long way from home…Crag looks so small Our objective – red line is decent green line is our bootpack. For reference that’s about 1200 vert and the top of the green line, great gully is about 150 -200 ft wide up top. The steepness varies from 45 -55 degrees. Skiing is cool Back up was interesting….lots of water coming down with the temps so high Not a bad way to spend a weekend Back up top we schralped some low angle summit fields and eventually went back to camp to eat lobster and steak. The trip out sucked but in all my trips to bigger more snowy places I’m hard pressed to come up with a more perfect day than that Saturday, sometimes the EC just all out delivers.

ugh...so jealous

lulz Is eldora the one with the unbelievably shitty road ?

Backpack, headlamp and sleeping bag are mandatory, ice axe and crampons are very rarely used as a established boot pack is almost always in place. The good thing about a group is you can split the weight, 1 dude carries stove and cooking shit, other dude carries food and all other carry beer.

With Jesus turning on the blast furnace this weekend I could see where this wouldn't be a normal tuxs year. I'll keep a look out and pull the trigger early if necessary. My normal bc partner is getting his master's so this weekend's trip is his last this year. I don't mind going by myself but its always better as a group....safety meetings are not nearly as fun when you are the only one laughing at your jokes.

Looks like there is some interest, maybe we should try to rally a small group. Its still kinda early for tuxs, I have some other trips in that area next two weekends. Late April/early May is usually the best time for tuxs.

Anyone else going this year ?

You are correct Bear faces NE, beyond problems that they can't fix the only thing that may have helped was better drainage but that's very expensive.

I blame all those delicious waffles....funny thing is at the top it was foggy as a mofo and I ran smack into a small section of moguls and slid out, never even saw them.....maybe I just need to get my eyes checked. Regardless I'm sure I'll see all you guys at Blue next year and I'll train all off season so I can keep up.

For awhile Bear was convenient but that ship has sailed....thanks for the memories BC.

Friday - Stowe Sat - Smuggs Sun - Killy All three have excellent coverage pretty much everywhere. The only brown spots were at the bottom of toll road at Stowe, bottom of Skyeship at Killy and bottom of the village lift at Smuggs. All three should be fine for early April as long as things don't get too crazy weather wise. This storm was mostly a non-event for Northern Vt., no rain until Sunday and at Killy at least it was mostly freezing rain except at the extreme lower ends of those mtns. April should be great.

Norther Vt. was fine Fri/Sat, no rain, today it only got shitty around 1pm

Don't worry if it gets out of control I'll just post up a bunch of funny ass shit about them. Two cousins and my sister worked for them....interesting family.

The key to the Canyons is skiing the slackcountry, no other resort in UT has slack like that with so few people. The other resorts may have better terrain in the area but you can't use the lift for the up portion of the trip.

Whistler next year is a good idea as I have to believe things are going to be mad cheap.

Forecast is alot better today than yesterday so lets keep that trend alive....

Sick dick deep pic...this thread has potential.

My fault, I wasn't sure so I probably should have just left that first part out. Though that doesn't change the fact he has no idea what he's talking about. Regardless my sincere apologies Ashy