Johnny Law

Dartmouth is a good place to ski and it has lots of character

Here's what you do, you have essentially two weeks of vacation available so you turn it into one or two traveling shit shows. Grab some friends and some booze and have at it. Lots of cheap places to stay around every mtn so just bring money and a sleeping bag if you decide you'd rather spend the loot on some bud or something. If you stay at any mountain for a week your going to get bored unless its absolutely nuking and most mtns have zero nightlife in VT and NH so why not move around. Week One NH Attitash, Pats Peak, Cannon, Wildcat, Loon, Dartmouth, Cranmore Week Two VT Magic, MRG, Smuggs, Burke, Bush, Pico, Bromely I'd do the VT mtns in the order because you would see the whole state and it would minimize the time spent in the car. I don't remember were exactly all those in NH are located so you would have to look at a map to change the order. You could do something similar in NY state but it be a waste of time, Whiteface and Greek are cool but that really it. If you do something like this you would have skied at a lot of places that are somewhat off the radar and you would have seen almost the entirety of VT and NH.

Hope you brought your DR Power Mower...

I've seen them all over VT, Stowe and Burke I distinctly remember. Weird but someone from here must be putting them up because they are all over.

Ascutney accesses one amazing run everything else is worthless, this run however is world class. Suicide Six is tiny but no one is ever there so its good for a half day or something, fun low angle trees. Bolton has some good BC stuff and one decent run but most of the hill is pretty flat Burke is a great mountain, constant empty bleachers with a great little town nearby, best mountain food in VT. BMA is there though so lots of uber rich aholes. Great trees. Magic is a gnarly little mtn with lots of cliffs and glades, always empty, they don't blow snow so if mother nature hasn't provided its going to be crazy boney. Almost always this close to going out of business. Pico is a nice mtn that sees far less crowds than Killy, lacks sustained steepness and the lifts run infrequently at best. Queeche Lakes has two trails and is for noobs that want to learn, don't go there. I've never been to the bowl, hopefully this year I can get up there. The rest are well publicized.

Trees at Bromley are ok but Magic is a much better mountain and is in the same general area.

Wow what a cluster fuck, WME makes shitty movies as they pretty much phone it in every year so I really don't care if we never saw them again. However, if Warren Miller the man essentially goes and creates another Warren Miller company he has to a large effect made WME useless. I would imagine that is what the contract is all about hence WME assertion that Warren Miller violated his contract by doing work with Level 1. It sounds like total bullshit but they don't have to win in court, all WME has to do is make Level 1 spend more than they got and Level 1 will settle for some bs or go out of business.

No, he can be on the team yet at the same time an independent in terms of training and such though I would have to believe the team wouldn't have been to fond of that.

x3 the lobster claw is what every mitten/glove should be.

Slowkemo or Bromley would be perfect, lots of low angle groomers to make any Pocono shuffler feel like Bode. Suicide Six actually has perhaps my favorite groomed trail in N.A., whatever that one is that comes straight down the hill is crazy fun. Seriously though Europe would be perfect lots and lots of epicly long groomers all scrapped nice and hard by 6,000 drunk British tourists power wedging all 10 miles and 6,000 vert of it.

x2...jb weld has never let me down. Come to think of it, it may be the only thing holding one pair of skis I have together.

Shit I didn't see your post about Inter, Interlaken is the shit the Jungfrau is everything its cracked up to be and more. Grindelwald alone would blow your mind, add in all the shit that's in local area with Wengen and Murren and you could spend a life time there and never get bored. The big boys though are Davos and Sass Fee....shit I gotta run to a meeting but if your thinking of Switzerland let me know and I send you some info.

Mottarone I think is the closest something like 15 miles, I think though its just for noobs. Tamaro in Switzerland would be pretty close too, like 30 miles. I don't know jack about the place other than the vertical is pretty damn small when compare with what around, maybe 1500ft or so . Skiing in Italy is all about the Dolos - http://www5.dolomiti.it/eng/sci/dx.htm They do it Italian style, laid back with lots of espresso and smoking. Lift lines in Yurp are like cattle shoots in a feed lot, no one waits their turn, its just push push inhale until you get on the chair. I don't know a whole lot about the resorts but Cortina is the catch all, good vert, bigish, lots of snow but tends to stick to the noob side of things. The gnar places that you would actually want to go to are in the Aosta Valley ski complex which contains the following areas; Alagna Valsesia, Breuil-Cervinia, Courmayeur, Cr

Sweet major props Saurus, the collective all owe you a beer.

My mom told me they sold the shop to Buckman's but I haven't been by to see it myself. It kind of sucks because they were the only decent shop in Reading.

Wow that a ton of work and it looks like it will be a great little glade.

115 isn't too hard to find, Look makes a widely available 120mm as does Marker in a 125mm. Now trying to find something above 130....

Sick ! what clamps are you mounting ?

Exactly, though you don't always need a winch cat depending on how you do it.

I'll have to check out the guys in Northern

10/5 is pretty crappy though its taped so its probably pretty waterproof. 20/20 is what you want. Orage makes some really nice pieces if you can find them and have the loot, they tend to be a bit more stylistic. Eider and Arcteryx make really really nice technical jackets, pair one of those with a Arc wookie fleece or Patagoina R3 fleece and you'll be nice and toasty down to -20 with three layers. 686 makes some nice jackets too and their smarty system is pretty versatile. Norrona makes excellent technical gear that looks more stylish than the Arc and Eider stuff, though supplies are limited as its all coming from Norway. If you have the $$$ go with a multiple jackets approach, tech shell for BC or shitty weather, and everyday jacket for normal riding and a puffy down for when its really really cold. If you pick them up in July you can save major money.

SICK BIRD

That's fucking sick

LEGEND OF THE WHITE BUFFALO !!!!!

x3, preferably some big reverse reverse boards so you can just park and ride.