Johnny Law

Maybe Boulder The next 14 days looks all right with lower than average temps, but not a whole lot will change until the AO goes negative. Most charts don't see that happening anytime soon and the above chart says it's going to be a warm December. The Arctic Oscillation (AO) in simple terms determines how much cold air gets pumped into the NE from the Arctic. Essentially going negative for the AO indicates higher air speeds in the Oscillation which drops the Jet Stream and blasts the NE with nice cold air. The North Atlantic Oscillation determines how long storms stick around, obviously this is more important for natural snow but the AO and NAO are very interrelated. Until they go negative cold temps and decent storms will most likely be very hard to come by. The early Oct. storm VT had though was very strange as both oscillation were positive so don't loose hope yet.

Stay in SLC so you can hit multiple resorts if a particular canyon road gets closed. Personally I like the Embassy Suites (Big rooms) and the Little America (Cheap) but most of them in the 600 south area are fine. UTA goes to all of the resorts in BCC and LCC, if your going from SLC you take a surface train to bus transfer station near Sandy and then to the Canyon of your choice. The buses are plentiful in SLC but will be totally full by the time you reach the park and ride lots just outside the canyons. The bus can be ungodly slow depending on the driver you get and you may have to wait at closing time to get on a bus that isn't packed, it doesn't really matter though because you aren't going anywhere anyways. Cost round trip last time I did it was like 6 bucks. Honestly if you can, rent a car as UTA is slow as balls. 20-30 mins in a car is a lot better than an hour 30 in a bus. If you don't look like a pedophile you can also bum rides up and down the canyons, etiquette dictates that you must pick people up if you have room so you probably won't have to wait too long. I've never waited more than a minute at the 9'oclock rush. Snowbird is the shit but check out some of the BCC mountains too, you will probably be too slow trying to find your way around to really hit the good shit before it gets tracked out. Snowbird/Alta are the fastest tracked out mountains I've ever seen. Don't go to Park City, you didn't travel 2,000 miles to ride at a large Killington. Lastly and most importantly don't eat the cheese steaks at the bird, they cost like 8 bucks and are some of the worst things I ever experienced.

Cham is in France, though close by, to get to Cham you need to pass pretty close to Verbier so most people don't bother as Cham is a mad house on its own.

Switzerland is F**king expensive, crap hostel = $40, a slightly less piece of shit hostel can be had in Zermatt or Interlaken. Italy is the cheapest in that neck of the woods but France has the best terrain. Verbier is the big daddy, if they are serious tell them to go there. Bourg St Maurice or Brides Les Bains is a good place to stay in for short stints. Interlaken and Engleberg are supposed to be cool and smaller. I would guess from your post they aren't the hardest of schraplers, in that case they should just go local. Switzerland has an amazing hut system, if they can do it they should check it out as it would be an unbelievable experience. 1. Take trains 2. Be careful, Euroland isn't NA and they don't do the trail thing well, additionally they will be rude in line by NA standards and drop the damn bar on your head. They panic and for some reason feel the need to slam the bar down 1/4 of a second out of the gate. They will smoke everywhere. 3. Stay away from the Bunker...DO NOT SLEEP THERE. 4. Go see Zermatt and the Matterhorn 5. Hike to http://www.zermatt.ch/trift/ drink tea and enjoy 6. Good ole pot is sold in stores as a potpourri, I don't know about the specific legalities but no one cares. 7. Consider a guide.....riding will be alot different with alot more challenges, life will be much simpler with a guide.

Bottom line no snow or cold temps until the NAO goes negative, right now the models say late November. Early season should be good though. EDIT: My dumb ass forgot the chart

They did a great job with angles that make the place look huge....the show is hilariously bad.

The skate is more responsive and actually locks the heal better, though they will reek in about 5 mins. I know people that swear by silk, never tried it but I bet they could be comfy.

Its true...... they also have the clutchest waffle haus in N. Am.

When the 1080's came out soo many people wanted them, some didn't have the $$$ so they ghetto twined there boards. It was mad funny because if they used to much heat to get the bend it would eliminate the bonds between the layers and hello instant delam.......I had some Dynastar big max's I did this to.

Dacks and Catskills are getting hammered, took tommorow off work so I could get some riding in the High Peaks area.

The lower half of Skyeship did not run most mon-thurs last year, some weekends too. I don't think anyone knows for certain what Powder's plans are but I don't think it is likely to change. I would imagine at some point there will be an announcement, you may want to call them. If you end up not going to Killy, Sugarbush is a good alternative as it's only 30 or 40 mins further.

As far as I know no and everything I've heard says it may never. Now is not the time to try to pick up millions for a very shaky project.

I hear that its certainly difficult in the NE, if you have a car, watch the weather and just show up the night before. Most places in VT have cheap nearby accommodations that don't get too full on the non holiday weekends. Additionally, you can always just stay in Burlington and VT is known for lots of B&B's not my thing but some are reasonable. Killy - Happy Bear/Rutvegas hotels Jay - Grampa Grunts Stowe - Stowe Motel - GSS is this the one out by the church where S. Main meets 108 ? I sleep in the parking lot a lot but can't remember the name Burke - Fairbanks Inn Mt. Snow - Alpenhaus Utah is by far the most consistent on early season snow, for almost 10 years now my retarded family has made a Christmas trip there and we've never gotten skunked. Probably 50% of the time we get truly epic snowfall. CO and UT are probably the cheapest you can do a trip for, CO is just as fantastic as UT but I feel they get a little more spotty early season snow. MT can be cheap too and has great snowfall but probably the sharpest rocks in the history of skiing personally I would wait for better coverage....if all else fails......Xanadu ?

I agree, Jay is one of my favorite places on the East Coast but Stowe and the Notch (the area not the resort) have much more gnar gnar terrain. Besides the face Jay doesn't have the terrain like stowe. Erin808 - Christmas...... go West....occasionally VT is worth traveling for around Christmas but most years things haven't really started cooking yet. 06 I think was almost a total wash out.

Hil-fucking-arious.........

Ever been to Burke or Magic ? Regardless your mostly right but they are ramping up development at Jay, so go now if you like it the way it is.

The jib is a sweet ski, ...the Comi-Kazi has been on my list for awhile. P.S. Every company makes a shitty ski at one point or another, so giving any co. the proverbial hj is a waste of time.

Ignore this, Stowe has better terrain but not by a whole lot and its mad more $$$. They are also owned by AIG so their getting sold, I bet it just gets more expensive. The Face is pretty gnar for NE, Big Jay is good too, but its 9-10 hours from Philly, regardless of what Map Quest says the last 60 or so miles are really slow. The best way from philly is what GSS said but the 87 way isn't too bad either. Two years ago I had a day there with 27", twas good.

Because you decided to ignore my first post and continue to post more bs you made up, I will again remind you that your just plain wrong. First 5/ms is on the very low end of what high speeds do, they can travel as fast as 12m/s additionally your chair spacing is off. The only way they are more efficient is if you look at it as cost/capacity, even then you would need multiple cheap fixed grips. Mad River did the lift installation at BC last time and probably this time as well, Eric who works for MRL is a friend of mine who has 20 years experience working on lifts for Garaventa, CTEC and Doppel I'm not making these numbers up. BC will never see a High Speed or Gondy, unless they use my idea to turn the place into a landfill.....Hello 500 more vert.

I'm almost afraid to encourage him but in the general sense he's right. Uphill capacity though is a tricky business with many variables. First, as for Bear Creek a detach is not a real good option, chair spacing can be a serious problem with detach chairs running on really short haul lengths, additionally keeping the weight distribution right would probably result in pretty widely spaced carriers thus lowering the uphill capacity. Additionally BC has a limited amount of electricity available from the Utility, thus a high speed may need to replace two lifts. On site generation is a cluster fuck, go to Kirkwood if you don't believe me. Both fixed and detach actually leave the haul rope when traveling around the bullwheel but the detach is doing it at a much slower rate, this greatly reduces mis loads which can attribute to a much lower uphill capacity. Most detach actually gain uphill capacity this way. Capacity as a whole is limited by the power of the drive motor versus the rope speed, carrier spacing, vertical displacement and the number of carriers on the haul. Generally rope speed on a high speed is twice the speed of a fixed, 2m per sec. (fixed) 5 to 12 m per sec. (detach), remember though that the load interval is much higher on detaches to maintain proper chair spacing. Generally speaking uphill capacity is higher with a detach, but other variables are almost always present. Fixed grips can't climb a vertical rise like a detach, additionally a detach can travel much greater distances. The hold down sheave assembly of some detaches when they leave the gate are super long for this reason, add in the additional costs for more complex grips, compression assemblies, guide rails, auxiliary, conveyors, bull wheels, e brakes, crossarms, and about another thousand parts and you can see where they are vastly more expensive. Now add in topography or put more simply, better put in a tram because towers are going to be $$$ if not impossible. High speeds are expensive and sometimes multiple fixed grips do a better job getting people up top than one high speed. We could have an hour long discussion on lifts but it would be nasty with me inevitably yelling about the dumb ass swiss and their pulse lifts.

Its going to be in the 70's this weekend.....

No discounts until the end of the year, but it isn't even close to made to order. Its everywhere if you look and the picture below shows I'm not talking out of my ass.

Wasn't me, I rip harder than no man, instead I get by on a distinct lack of self preservation. Looking forward to this, it will be nice to have some real terrain and lots of good people who know were the goods are.

The only thing I expect is hard core mofo photo slutting. I have the squish and spray down, I can make 12" look like 4 plus.

Post up your dates of travel whenever you decide, I'll be all over this year so I will make it out. I haven't forgotten the splits either.