Johnny Law

Your Open = $$$$$ I heard 16 today

Your interlogged which sucks, tomorrow you will be fine, it sucks but check out what happened to GMD a few years back. The good thing is this snow is on pretty stable snow pack so things should be total boner city once they take care of a little work

As always the answer is the almighty dollar, non pass holders just don't show up after mid March. Its not even a PA thing, most mountains in N.A. close with plenty of snow on the ground. For example, Alta closes in April while its neighbor stays open until July.

No No your right and I should be the one apologizing. Yesterday was a very bad day in a month of bad days at work. My previous comment to you was childish and unnecessary. Again my apologies. The EHP has no camber out of the box so while your certainly right I would still characterize it as a fun shape. Different strokes for different folks.

Nice man, that's a good size air. Props for sending it. Still I need to know what you ate ? Eggs ? Bacon ? How will I live without this vital info ?

EPIC !! I seriously love it. Though what did you have to eat ?

Go back and read again fuckknob, I don't know what school you go to but go ask for your money back. First post Reverse Reverse and 100-110 ski for hardback ( see that indicates that you should bring two skis one rev-rev and one 100-110 for hardpack) As for your second post re the EHP notice I wrote this - There are a ton of skis out there with fun shapes. (not all are rev-rev but they all have rev camber or sidecut) Its from the same post you quoted

Killy and Mt. Snow aren't anywhere near each other. Snow is in West Dover and there are plenty of cheap places to stay Austrian Haus, Big Bears Lodge, Austin Hill you also have the option of staying in Bennington. Killy is a little more difficult if we are talking dirt cheap, Happy Bear is the cheapest on the access road but there isn't a whole lot more than that. There are mad cheap hotels in Rutland and the best news ever is that Rutland got a Little Cesare's.

Bullshit

Or they do a pay lot, pay and your close don't and wait for the bus. If you don't pay at Flatton your like nine miles away.

Sidecut is only useful on groomers as you aren't carving in real pow, for the most part its a real hindrance as the tails and tips are keeping you from being able to really pivot the ski. Straight logic tells you that most of the weight you put on a ski is directly underfoot and therefore in a powder only ski having the widest part of the ski in the shovels is retarded. You certainly want to get face shots but flotation is super important. The main drawback is that they don't carve at all and can be a little more tricky when it comes to traversing or side stepping but its a pow only ski so who cares. Some manufactures have experimented with multiple sidecuts to retain at least some hard snow skills. The ARG and DPS 138 both have 1mm of sidecut directly underfoot so you can at least make it back to the lift. Camber is the real dealio, a lot of companies are using multiple cambers on non pow skis such as Armada's elf tech and some of the Moment skis. But for pow there is really no reason to have the tips and tails lower than the underfoot. You want the ski to float and avoid the dreaded tip dive. Everyone no matter how well they ski has to some degree change their stance when its super deep or more thick as a result of water content. Skiing from the back seat is tiring as is dangerous as well. With reverse camber you can't sink the tips, I have ARG's and have tried and its just not possible, you can stay in a more aggressive forward stance and really slash and burn. If you ski pow or chop or sun crust on rev-rev and your body is on a conventional pow ski, he stands no chance. They are long and fat but the lack of sidecut means they pivot with great ease so they make a really great tree ski, lots of EC tree skiers still rock spats. Seriously 100% reverse reverse in pow is what shaped skis was to hardpack, once you make the change you'll never go back. There are a ton of skis out there with fun shapes. (not all are rev-rev but they all have rev camber or sidecut) Armada JP vs Julien, ARG, Alpha 1 and 2 4frnt EHP Atomic Bent Chetler BD Megawatt Praxis Pow DPS Lotus 138 K2 hellbents, obsethed, Pontoon Moment Reno Rocker, Comi and Komi-cazi Volkly chopsticks, Kuro, Spats, (New Mantra) Rossi S7 Solly Rockers Movement Flyswatters, Movement Goliath

The only lifts at Blue worth riding wouldn't run, the 6 pack sits out in the open and the quad runs kind of high. GSS can correct me if I'm wrong but the quad mostly runs in the open and above tree line. The only chance you have is to find a low to the ground fixed grip that is hemmed in by trees. I can't think of any but somebody here might know one. If it was me I might bring a rap setup too as it would just save alot of time. LULZ

Hahah that's some interesting history...

Reverse Reverse and 100-110 ski for hardback. A 110 ski isn't really any more difficult to carve than 80. Reverse Reverse is the greatest thing to happen to skiing since they got rid of straight skis.

Saturday before the snow went to shit you could find boot top in the woods and outside of the resort boundaries. Nipple deep though didn't happen unless he's a midget. Pillows ? Only if you use that term very loosely.

I don't understand where your pain is ? Whole foot ? Intuition liners ($200) would certainly feel better and be way warmer but either way it sounds like maybe a good boot fitter would really help. Lots of people in UT do really really good work with intuitions. http://www.intuitionliners.com/products2.htm

It almost has to be... The problem if I understand you correctly is that after you got your Hottronics (lulz) your feet hurt. What happened is something in your foot bed changed, the decreased room has caused reduced circulation and your getting cramping in your arches which can be pretty painful. It gets worse the more you work the ski. First check that they installed the footbeds in the right boot, it sounds stupid but depending on how old they are and how they have deformed its a easy mistake to make. The way you can usually tell is your feet leave stains on the footbeds the area with no stains is where you arch is. (Gross I know) I don't have Hottronics but I believe they are wired underneath the footbed and can be damaged if you rip the footbeds out so you may want to take them to a shop. You may also need new footbeds which can be $$$ if they are custom. The only shop I trust in a 8 hour radius in Pinnacle in Reading, the head tech guy is really really good and the older guy who I think owns the place is a very competent boot fitter. Take them to him and tell him exactly whats wrong, don't let anyone else work on them as their other people don't know shit.

whole lotta melt..

Blue Knob has a mid mountain bar that is Buffet themed, but the lodge is at the top of the mountain not the bottom. Additionally all lodging is condos and such. What a stupid question......

This is grade A 100% fucking retarded, I pray that one day in this country managers of all types will get their heads out of their asses and realize you just turned a non-event into a fucking big deal. Be an adult, some guy just ribbed you on a message board, big deal. SL is private and they can do whatever the fuck they want, what bugs me is that some dickwad didn't think about what happens when you suspend this guys pass for the year. You turn a nothing into something thousands of skiers will see. Its horrible that someone died while skiing but that life, far more people die falling off the toilet or lefty's using tools designed for right handed people. Legally speaking this isn't worth anyone's time but that is never the rules we play by. Its not a constitutional issue because SL is private, rather its more of a contractual issue. SL got him in a catch all clause, chances are some appellate judge would throw this shit out five years down the line. Lets hope the former pass holder is far more intelligent than those at Boyne and simply goes somewhere else.

^^^ Thanks for the info man and good to hear you're feeling better. Weird timing but my sister texted me today and told me these guys finally have a working product. Apparently its a 100% real working heal releasable http://www.kneebinding.com/

In some falls, most commonly backwards twisting falls the binding won't release.....ever. This essentially means your blowing an ACL. The reasons for this are actually quite simple. Originally your boot was connected to the ski in a system that had no release (leather straps and so forth) unfortunately in the most common types of falls the ski acts as a lever in opposite force of your leg. Levers can exact tremendous force and consequently leg brakes were very common, additionally due to the way in which the force is applied to the tibia and fibula spiral fractures were common as well. I'm no doctor but spiral fractures can be difficult to treat now let alone in early part of the century. With the rise of stiffer boots and better skis some smart dudes got together and realized this was way too dangerous and essentially came up with the binding we use today. Two springs in the toe and heal, when lateral pressure is applied to the toe piece your ski releases. The DIN is a fancy french word for what amount of force requires compression of the springs, hence why sit skiers and others replace the din spring with metal sheaves or just pin the whole damn thing. There were actually some other designs and in some aspects better designs that for various reasons didn't take off. AFD's, lifter plates, rollers and some other crap was added along the way but binding tech is still pretty much the same as its always been. The Look toe piece has essentially been the same since the 70's and the heal prior to the PX series was essentially the same since the first turntable design 40 years ago. The main drawback to this type of binding is that it only releases from the toe and ski industry bs aside does not release straight up. There have been a few experiments with electronic bindings (Marker) and heal releasables (Tyrolia and Line) but they all sucked. They released so much that you were far more likely to crash into a tree and die than you were to blow an ACL. What's happening in your body is also pretty simple, the toe piece from a physiological point of view only measures force exerted across the lower leg bones (tib and fib). In a backwards twisting fall you femur is jammed into your hip socket and essentially locked, you lower leg is at a 45 degree angle to your femur. The force of the twisting fall is spread not in the tib/fib but across it and ultimately into your femur and knee, because of this there is no force "twisting" the binding open and force continues to build across your whole leg. Eventually you pull your shit together (hammy pulls you up) or something is going to break. ACL is the weakest part and that is what is going to go, the reason they call it phantom foot is because no twisting action or force is being applied across the lower part of your leg so there's no way for the binding to release. This is far more common in women as they generally have weaker hamstrings and generally have smaller intercondylar notches. The way to fix this problem is to have a heal release that would effectively measure force across the femur, the problem with this is there is a ton of lateral force exerted across the heal piece all the fucking time in regular skiing. Up to now nobody has figured out a way in which a mechanical binding can consistently distinguish the difference between people tail gunning and blowing up their leg. This is why people snowboard.

Good to hear you liked them, I have a pair of JJ's that I'd like to throw Duke/Barons on and wondered what people thought about the Marker toe pieces. The mechanics of the binding are nearly identical to the Look/Rossi P series so I thought retention should be good. How is the screw pattern ? I couldn't throw a P series on the JJ"s because the pattern is so narrow, with the way that ski is constructed chances are I would have pulled them out. I was hoping the Markers had a wider screw pattern. How is your knee doing ? Hopefully you've gotten to the point where you can move around pretty good. Ahh the old phantom foot, the scourge of modern bindings. Some companies have and still are screwing around with an actual heal releasable binding. Far as I know, no one has got it figured out yet. Weird thing is the 50's era Spademan actually eliminated the whole phantom foot thing, maybe we all need to go back to that.

Let us know what you decide to do, I'm definitely interested as my brother needs a car.

They are nice boots, the forward flex is kind of cool and they finally come in something else than the bumblebee motif. I like that you can fully customize nearly everything, and the old Rachieles were the shit. Why Jesters ?