Johnny Law

Government work, that actually sounds kind of cool. Litigation is always cyclical from a personal perspective but lately things have been really slow in Philly. The way I can always tell is when we start doing asbestos work. It is so unbelievably boring with the 10,000 plaintiffs and all that you always save it for last, like I can't make hours last. Structured finance slow No Way! I mean we are totally banking on some of those SPV's.

If you don't mind me asking what time of law do you practice in the Poconos/Scranton and is everything really slow right now there too ? If litigation didn't pay so well no one would do it, 60% of the time your odds are only slightly better than flipping a coin and I am only partially joking.

Was Blue Mountain the one with the commerical that said the fastest way to hit the slopes with the guy standing on his couch ? If the knob is ever run properly it could give Blue a real run for its money.

Dear Friend , After much contemplation Taos Ski Valley has decided to open our slopes to snowboarding beginning March 19, 2008. It is in the adventurous spirit of Ernie and Rhoda Blake we welcome the challenges and anticipate the opportunities that this decision implies. While there are many reasons why we have chosen this season to make such a significant change to our company

They do have some sick BC stuff that rides from the radio tower for roughly 5 or 6 miles, If you want more info on their BC pm me I can check my notes and book at home.

Every weather service is in disagreement right now but Sunday looks like $$$$ I'm thinking the Knob but that damn access road is so hard to get up

Time to call out of work

Sick bird!!! This is as early as I can remember....good work.

Jay is sick, have fun and get the poutine its actually pretty good.

In my haste I forgot to mention that even if I was the most self centered skier on the planet, I would be insane to not acknowledge the fact that skiing is infinitely better off since the introduction of the snowboard. Skiing actually owes Jake Burton a favor. Snow sports as a whole would not exist as they do without all that snowboarding has created, new school skiing's culture which is the fastest growing part of skiing, was to some degree taken directly from the great culture surrounding snowboarding.

Relax dude I have no sword in this fight, I could care less what Burton does, but you do know that Burton requires relativley insane buying minimums. I don't know what shop you worked in but if you were there five years you would know this. Here is a thread on PSIA that talks about buying minimums and snow sports, the point of the posts are not important but you can clearly see buying minimums exist. For what it is worth, which is nothing, but I think Burton is cool but even you have to admit they are the biggest player and they let that be known. http://www.psia.org/forum/forums/thread-vi...=50&start=1 How is my creditability shot to hell, Kachina is sick, its at Taos, Alta is on federal land, MRG did allow snowboards and DV is filled with rich gapers. All of this and the buying minimums are independtly verifiable. Lastly I don't care how anyone gets down the mountain, with the possible exception of those weird spring short skis with breaks in Yurp, as long as you are a nice cool person you are fine with me.

Anything before the 15th would be nice......I think they always get a little worried about blowing too early and having it all melt on Dec 20th due to a warm spell. This weekend would be damn spiffy.

Than your an idiot..... if someone has to explain to you how this is all about image than you need to take Marketing 101 again, notice how they deleted 10 pages of negative posts off the Burton message board. Burton is the 600 pound gorilla that swears to you that its a rebel and all that bs.....Burton is the wal mart of snow sports ask any shop people about there policies. If you want one piece of Burton gear you have to take the whole deal crap and all, kind of leaves less room for other brands don't you think. Regardless I always love the alta "poaches" dumb shits think poaching is coming over to albion base, happens every f**king day. Here is a clue, Alta is on federal land if you want to poach Alta throw sick methods off Supreme lift. Regardless Alta would suck on anything other than split boards since you can't traverse to save your life. Snowbird is the better mountain just skip the whole Alta deal. MRG was actually one of the first places to allow snowboarding, but it derailed the single chair all the time so they restricted it to the other chairs. Snowboarders rightly bitched about terrain and she said f it and banned them from the mountain all together. Taos is sick with snow, Kachina is as real as it gets your missing something here. DV is for rich gapers which can be good fun, also they rarely leave the groomers. If you have ever been to Alta and at Collins on a good day you know how fast the pow gets killed never underestimate a place that holds snow. Overall the whole thing is just stupid, these resorts aren't restricting snowboards because they have some bs vendetta. The fact is that there is a market out there in that some skiers bought into the whole 90's skier/boarder bs and will go to these places for this reason alone. What would be crazy interesting is to see the reverse....Brighton would be a good canidate but there entire patrol are skiers, still people would be pissed.

I have tried everyday for a week and nothing......I never win shit.

http://www.mtbohemia.com/ This place really cooked my noodle a few years ago, small but great snow and terrain for 500vert. The crowd though was pretty agro with the whole "no beginners allowed" thing, very cool vibe overall.

^^^ oh my god I had a pair of white 1260's from 200 years ago that just desinegrated......the only thing I could figure is that one of the presses line used had/has a bad heating pad so the epoxy inbetween layers never set right.

All this stuff is easy to fix, just sack up and stop being jong's. This faq will show you how to fix 90 percent of the fixable problems. Delam=Epoxy and clamps Base Repair=retards can figure this out, though you had trouble with the camera and autofocus. http://www.telemarktips.com/BaseRepair.html

Not going to happen, no money if blowing now.

Which one were they on ? 912's? Its pretty simple if you go big skip the bs and get 18's or ninjas everything else is filler. You can get 18's for $150, put them on all of your skis and jesus will reward you. No pics just videos, the bindings don't have all the plastic make them look nice parts on them yet. This binding is almost all metal, kinda heavy but nothing like the Reactor's.

Solly bindings weren't shit it was just that they had a manual toe cup adjustment. Looks and others always automatically maintained the toe cup with the exception of excessive boot wear. On the wings of the toe pieces there was a little set screw that would loosen up as binding was worked, the toe cup would adjust as if your boot all of the sudden became two sizes bigger, no forward pressure means the binding won't work and your ski is coming off. Loctite fixes that problem right up. To be honest I think this was 90% of the problems people had with solly binders, the 914 and 916 is a burly burly as compard to the new z10 which is crap, pure crap. How do you think they made the binding so light, a butt load of plastic. The new looks aren't that great either, the hole pattern is kinda tight and rips out of the lighter skis which lack the glass/metal layers found in other skis, and the heal piece has too many stress points on those little tiny wings. I would take a pair of ninja 916's or 914's over the new looks or sollys any day. Now to the real problem, with the exception of the Duke/Jester markers are only good for expensive paper weights, door stops and a weapon, hence the old I'll beat you with a bag full of markers. Anyone check these yet, very very cool. Hopefully better than the tyrolia heal release. http://www.kneebinding.com/

The main problem with that is that in many states in the US (I don't know anything about CAN legal system) you can't sign away your right to sue regarding negligence. Which makes perfect sense right, imagine you sign a waiver and then park is filled with shrapnel and land mines, under a system in which you could sign away negligence you couldn't sue regardless of what the mountain did. It is an extereme scenario but I think you get the point. Colorado has a pretty good system in which lawsuits are very very tough to bring. With class actions, even in the best case in which the class is decertified, discovery is short and you win on summary judgment or its dismissed, the costs can still be in millions. Resorts will decide that its too much to risk and simply remove the parks. Even if you have never even looked at a park it has definitely revitalized skiing and snowsports in general, next time you are at your local mountain check out the younger generation and what they are in to. Unfourtunently, this is more of a legal issue than a snowsports issue and unless the industry as a whole gets together and plunks down for a war chest this could get nasty.

I knew eventually someone was going to do this, by the way RCR runs Fernie, Lake Loiuse, Kimberly and Nakiska. http://www.snowboard-mag.com/node/28059 Article if your lazy Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Focuses on Terrain Park Safety with an Industry-Leading Initiative Calgary, AB

F***** I heard that too, I love Magic but they need snowmaking, this does not bode well for them.

Totally agree about Powdr....have you ever tried Magic, it has pretty good terrain for S VT. Rumor is though that they aren't opening this year, I thought after last year they were doing relativley well. Anyone ever get to Ascutney? I've seen Mt. Ascutney from Mt. Washington and from what I hear it is pretty steep with all the granite and hang gliding going on. From studing the trail map and Google Earth it looks like you could use the lifts to yo yo the terrain off of Ascutney North though knowing VT you would probably need a DR power mower

That's cool I guess, Stowe has snow too and unlike Mt. Snow it has some vert