Johnny Law

I'll be there both days.....plus I have Alien and Pineapple Milkshake

It's slightly more modern v-werks katana. So force is mass x acceleration right, so if you want a ski to truck at least theoretically the easiest way to get there is to give it mass. Now that mass can't be in a noodle, the really crazy heavy but super soft ski I'm not sure exists and up to know the sort of holy grail is a light ski that is super stiff and trucks. Metal is obviously the material one first goes to, sheets of titanial, carbon stringers, more glass to some extent but metal by default makes a ski heavy so again if your trying for a the above ski you going to need a new material. Goode/DPS some other all have experimented with carbon fiber, grahpene's pseudo cousin but traditionally light super stiff skis kinda sucked because they were a real jarring ride. All the energy is being put back into movement in the ski so on smooth snow it could carve as well as a more traditional race type construction but when it went to chop or crud it wasn't nearly as good as something like an OG LP or Belafonte. The first ski I ever rode in this sort of category that could sort of do the dance was the V-Werks Katana but even then it wasn't ever going to be a straight up crud buster. I didn't demo anything last year because I had two different boots and i honestly couldn't really hack it but graphene would make some sense. It's got redic tensile strength and should be superior to carbon fiber in terms of pure strength. The question is can it really handle a foot of Sierra Cement or super chop and my guess is better then other skis at the weight but you can't just replace mass with stiffness, it would probably be a great BC ski for EC peeps but who the fuck really knows until you ski it.

Sundance has some legit skiing around it....

There are few better feelings then when you pin it through some kind of EC only shit field and fucking nail it. Rock here, glacial ice there, shit snow with weird piles, random brushy trees scrub shit and you fucking kill it.

Sexy.....I want to hump them

I'm not shitting on bear i rode there a ton but most seasons they have a week or two where it gets dicey.

Belafonte, pb&j, vickicks, super 7 at your convenience.

I'm a moment fan boy so grain of salt but all their skis are awesome, PB&J can do anything, super fun stiffer bacons, bibby pro the playful charger blister loves and my favorite the belafonte, a stiff high speed big arc ski that is super confident at speed but an approachable legit charging ski. You'll like the bibby pro that's a super ski. Nordica Enforcer on super roids, uniform stiff flex, the 96 version is one of the straightest skis on the market at plus 25m radius sub 100m waist. At speed its a big arc machine, very fast very big, tougher to skid and pivot so not the best bump ski but flat tail so it's going to put you back up if you get too in the back seat. No metal though and light so any kind of chop, refrozen unevenness your going to feel it but for a hybrid its got racing ski like pedigree on groomers which is most impressive when it can also handle a foot of fresh decently. I got half 27.5 half 28.5 and two pairs of skis where the right binding is 27.5 and the left is 28.5, at some point I'm going to go to step in and the binding is going to be a whole size off. I'll just wingtip it like indiggio lol

I'd bet a 100$ the most successful business at blue including the mtn itself was the carny food guy that was in the valley forever......highschool ski club was all about scrounging up the money for a corn dog or something...dude had legit legit lines on a tuesday night

I'm too old and busted to ride park anymore but anytime I see that park it's straight up nostalgia trip

Technically you don't even have to ski it, one could just get sendy and roll/rag doll down the apron and I think it still counts.

Rocker in groomer skis is all marketing horseshit, of course they will initiate the turn easier the effective length on some of these skis is like 165 but if I'm buying the skiing equivalent of a gun surfboard, something long and stiff that wants to go go go and be driven all the time like say a MX98, the older Bsquad, OG LP's, Mantras or the m103 that's the exact opposite of what I'm looking for. That said reverse camber fucking murders pow, can you ski 2ft of diamond dust on 63mm waisted sl skis ? Sure but it's exponentially easier and more fun on some monster boards with lots of reverse camber. Positive camber, particularly in a twin tip introduces negative pressure above the tails and sinks the tips. True reverse reverse skis like the dps spoon fucking murder pow, it's point them and go, it's how you ski pow in your head, zero work all fun, schmear turns, the sort of power slide are super easy and fun. The downside is you literally can't physically carve them, if you get them on edge your legs go apart which is pretty cool plus on any kind of approach that requires side stepping or something the lack of edge underfoot blows. Most people aren't going to have a quiver full of skis with a dedicated traditional cambered ski for hard snow and some reverse reverse monsters for pow so you make a hybrid. Positive camber or at least flat under foot with traditional shape, big floppy tips and tails and you can semi-legit sell somebody a one ski does everything and not be lying. DPS RPC, Super 7/Squad 7, etc etc etc they can carve pretty well on even very hard snow and they can handle 2ft, now it won't ski as well as dedicated skis but most people don't own 15 pairs of skis. ON3P and Moment have I think the best working versions of hybrids, the death wish works though is an imperfect ski, the Bibby Pro is legend etc etc etc It doesn't matter at all but it kind of does, lots of reverse camber shortens the effective length of the ski so if your a 184ish normally 194 is probably a better option. Also it generally narrows the balance point of the ski, so the rossi super 7 has a narrowish balance profile which when combined with a pin tail can give this weirdish feeling from the tails. So if you carving a semi aggressive arc the tails on most skis sort of thrust you out of the turn and provide instant feedback if you in the back seat but skis with lots of rocker tend to let you hang out back there with no real feedback except that they obviously aren't' engaging the front of the ski as well. How much does this really affect anything once you know and stay centered ? Not really at all and there are big fucking pow skis that don't have that problem like the shiro.

Tussey is like Spring.....dangerous lifts

Expectations lol.......gotta embrace the yin and yang, the good and the bad.....some of the best night's I've ever skied was with straight up dog shit murder conditions......shit gets fun then just trying to see how fast and clean you can ski in such terrible snow

Chair 40...nice......

Y'all for real ? Reverse camber is not for hard snow

Was legit excellent day, snow was pretty awesome, good peeps and beer. Big shout out to enjorales for the meat shit was tight.

Thanks everyone for the kind words today was super dope, one of my best ski days ever. Injuries are never fun and not skiing sucks hairy donkey dick. I never doubted I'd ski this year but not drinking at 1030am and hanging out with you losers adds some extra suck. Snow today was excellent and paradise/challenge were a sweet bonus. It's most excellent to be back.

Switchback was the last trail designed by a professional and it shows, it's a straight build up of speed to narrowish left right left that sort of plays with a double fall line. That's probably the most complex turns on the hill, the top left right on NMDW and sometimes the big bottom left are better turns but switchback is the best actual interesting trail at blue. Doug is right too you have to ski it in about 4 turns. No way that trail is way too complex for the zinc-ies, the top is flat so they blow into the actual turns way too hot to trot, slam on the brakes and then flail around the corners. Before the first turn is generally pretty firm as again they just slam them sideways in a desperate attempt to kill speed, then because it narrows a burm forms on the left hand side which funnels people into a smaller and smaller track which makes the final left more of a straight. Bumps on that trail would straight up murder people and destroy the speed that makes a mostly flatish trail interesting. Bump up Widowmaker top to bottom, it's a straight down the mtn trail and Blue has two better ones in Challenge and Razors.

Lazy is too slow unless the snow is almost perfect, Main st has better consistent pitch to make turns.

Fuck that looks so nice.......

I drive from Conshie to Blue kinda alot and that's just how it is. Some days it's an hour some days it's two, no use fighting it you can't do fuck all about it. I always look at it the other way I'm skiing for 2/3hours but I could be at home or work.

Don't listen to anyone here, not even me. All they do is yell out some ski they had they thought was dope and even half decent skiers could get a fucking 2x4 down the hill. What do you like about your current skis ? What do you not like about your current skis ? What radius do you prefer ? What do you want to do with these skis ? Do you want a ski you have to drive all the fucking time or something more playful ? There is an enormous amount of bullshit out there about skis and at least in my mind it only really comes down to three things, radius, stiffness throughout the ski and shape/dimensions. I have skis across the radius, from 11 sl skis to 35+ big mtn ak skis and I've used them all at Blue for certain things. 203 shiros were redic redic when it went to random ass piles at say lower main st, they simply did not care but they also didn't really carve until I got them moving because my ass doesn't weigh enough or ski well enough for that kind of radius. SL skis are super dope but your going to make 100000 turns and be out of gas about half way down most runs. Skis that do everything tend to do everything ok but nothing amazing. Find out what radius your looking for and think about do I want one ski for everywhere I go or a quiver. Identify well made skis that fit your criteria and then go from there. Waist dimension is not nearly as important as people think, unless your racing or carve like AS it ain't going to mean shit. Do not listen to buy ski X that shit is worthless. I don't know that much about your skiing and what your after but I'd guess one ski quiver, my recommendation would be something like a Moment PB&J, ON3P Wren 98 or Kartel 98 if you want more jibby but again the specific ski is irrelevant until you know the criteria. Ride a bunch of people's skis or demo if you can try all kinds of shit even shit you don't think you'd like and identify the physical criteria your looking for and then ask lots of people about say a mid 20's radius, even flex, stiff, 100mm waist ski that can handle bigish dumps while being able to hack super firm hardpack in PA. Justo or Toast may have a totally differnt idea about what that ski is then say me or doug or whatever and that's cool because we all ski differently.