Johnny Law

Bingo Saddleback could have opened they chose not to. Jay will be open too much money around to throw it away on bullshit. NEK gov't entities will pony up the necessary backing on 4mil worth of loans if necessary. Outside of VR and shit the mts that work are those in which the P&L's are rounding errors in a much much larger enterprise, think Aspen resorts. Ski Co is owned by the Crowns who are JPMC and General Dynamics a couple mil loss or profit is essentially irrelevant to their situation. If your hill isn't going to be owned by one of the mega conglomerates and isn't a one off cash cow type dealio your only future is to be owned by one of those types.

Sands is Alberta, Dakotas is shale. Lots of peeps knew there was shit in there but without ERD and really propants you couldn't get the shit out. Basically you drill a long horizontal string, jack up the pressure with drilling mud and use the propants to hold open already occurring seams in the rock formations and collect the gas or liquid that is forced out.

At least something is frozen in the NEK......finally maybe get the Q out of Burke......I won't repeat my rant on the industry rather I'll just say this isn't a surprise at all....

Monks is fantastic but second to UJ's......hahahah....country bonus....

Is this like a date ? Are you trying to fuck somebody ? Vetri Talula's Garden Amada Zahav Those are kinda par for the course though certainly excellent resturants, however if it's a friend or something I try to pick something that fits their personality or is less well known. Let's say they are into music or like offbeat shit, I want to have the ability to talk in a romantic setting Victor Cafe though I guess that's more well known now. Smaller gems maybe something like Little Pete's, the Royal or La Minette. Bars are the moment, I really like A-bar if I'm out with someone I want to talk to, american sardine bar, south kitchen, varga, garage and if they are cool Fiume.

It goes they should open back up I mean that's good conditions at mrg

Sickbird !! Looks like a real solid trip

Excellent ! Way to get after it

Music: First I only have some shitty cell phone pics, sorry but I'm currently in a no camera ski mode. For many years i was in camera mode but no longer maybe next year. This year in a lot of ways sucked hairy donkey balls, it didn't really snow and the temps where more variable than a drunk Russian on a tilt a whirl. That said it was also one of my most fun years, old people, new people coming together to have fun and i think the shit fuck snow actually created more fuckery which is always great. CO is the spiritual end to my season and with that in mind may I present to you a super quick tr. Friday and Saturday I skied WP it was excellent spring skiing. Sunday I skied Vail and stayed in a baller pad, the Kardashians were also there if your a fucking retard and care about that stuff Monday I skied Ajax and rode a bunch of next years skis. Tuesday is where the fun begins, weather looked like dog shit but at noon it started to come down in sheets. 6" was reported and the plan was on for the holy grail the bowl. Highlands is the best of A$pen and the bowl is the best part of Highlands if you disagree your wrong Stoked to get fresh bowl The trees past the weather station were for sure boner city but the center punch was untracked and considerably steeper so center punch it was. I sent my brother to White Kitchen and told him to send the cornice. hahahahha Because he's dumb and trusts me he sent it. (picture so small) That's not that rowdy unless you know White is 42/38 avg Snow was good All of those pics were taken while my ass was posted up on Steep and Deep which is 42/39 avg snow was real good there too Blah Blah Blah shit was boner city until Saturday, for those that may not know a fine pair of titties almost regardless of size is my true weakness be it CBI and the eternal fried v sauteed or any number of ex's. Now I was sort of burnt out on trying new skis but the Stockli rep had a slamming rack and it was like 60 so shit's on display, she says take the new 95 Stormrider out and I of course agree. Distracted I never did anything other than flirt and didn't notice the brake assembly had a bent right arm which would prove to be my undoing. Two lefts and we are picking up speed but the second I shifted weight to carve right the bent brake arm caught and the ski released and I kept going straight. This did not end well.....well mostly. Aspen Er is actually super nice and very fast, I left with a slightly deflated ego, weird patellar tendon and an upcoming trip to get meniscus looked at. I still skied today at highlands because again highlands is the shit and they do spring right. I took some runs then partied on the deck at cloud 9, took some more runs and then partied some more at highlands alehouse. For the uninitiated Cloud 9 is maybe the best spring party anywhere as for why I read Vogue well because I'm a man of impeccable taste and style. http://www.vogue.com/13419384/aspen-cloud-nine-ski-restaurant-party/ Hey guess what that was actually pretty long.........

It's actually pretty easy to do and it can be tough to find a local shop

Why ask a question just to humble brag ?

I'm good but thanks for the offer. I'll be at WP friday/saturday, vail sunday, aspen next 6 if by chance your skiing any of these let me know.

I wish, I leave for CO friday morning....

Hillmans Bowl Up top of bush ripcord area

Dude was at Basin yesterday said it was real real good. A+ whirly bird conditions.

ehhh.........tuxs is doable generally. Sherby is gone, the tux's trails up last I heard was hiking to the bowl lots of flowing water ice from Hojo's to the base of the bowl. Runs are narrow and boney, Hillman's is considerably more technical than normal and the biguns like Dodges/Cathedral don't go. East Snowfields I heard are the best right now and they have been getting some psuedo corn harvests but it's pretty rowdy. Two semi serious injuries last weekend late day freeze up is hard and fast. That said I'm sure it will be fun as long as you know going in it's gonna be a bit spicy. I would definitely have crampons in the bag and use an axe for sure. I've thought about tuxs but concluded unless something major changes it isn't worth the drive, I'll take a couple tours in CO. VT resorts there is snow around but maybe less than you would think and their should be plenty of closed resorts. Burke is throwing in the towel this week and laying off 160 workers. In order of probably best to probably worse areas it would be Jay, Stowe/Smuggs/Bolton, Killy, Okemo, Bush. Lots of snow snakes around for sure.

Sorry dude I didn't see your other question but justo nailed it. MC are pretty good, if you do alot of touring you'll end up hating the connectors but that's after like 100's of beater ec touring where you bend the front clip on rocks, stumps, ice bulges basically shit your not supposed to do with skins. Don't worry that much about trimming them, kickers are only a small strip down the center of the ski and they work well, as long as you don't mangle them they will work, they might look like shit but that doesn't really matter. The debate with skins is mohair vs nylon or a mix, mohair packs smaller and glides better but holds more water and doesn't climb as well particularly on drier snows, Nylon is definitely cheaper too. Honestly though it's like religion on mohair, mix, nylon. Buy something decent, beat the fuck out of them and then buy your next pair based on whatever you didn't like about the first pair. It is mostly based on what you want to do with them, in the east touring tends to be straight up straight down, were as out west say CO longer very flat approaches in that case I'd go straight mohair for the glide. Honestly though shit now is so good it almost doesn't matter. The first time you go your going to fall at least once, you'll attempt to tear your pectoral muscle getting them apart, the wind will blow either when your putting them on your skis or putting them back in the bag and they will most likely get stuck in your hair which totally sucks. Rest assured this is all part of the wonderful process of ski touring. Lastly when climbing steeps if you start to slide you have to lean back on the tails which is counter intuitive, you likely lean forward and you'll face plant this too is all part of the process. Obviously its best if you can do all of this while touring with some legit OG western types who subsist of nothing but gluten free water and the positive vibes of the universe, they of course will climb like a billy goat on meth but at least your foibles will provide lots of entertainment. _____________________________ RE:New Gear Got a sweet baby blue helly hansen outfit.....apparently I've gone full investment banker.......

I got five on the CB/Aspen Interconnect......I like that drive all the way around but after 4 or 5 times your over it.

Most excellent

It is really tremendous exercise but something that no matter how fast or slow you are you can get out to really wild places, plus out west the ability to go just a little bit further than most is all you need to get lots of untouched. There is surprisingly alot of debate about hike modes and touring. I have no idea why I think they are infinitely more comfortable in hike mode but some guys swear it gives you blisters and I guess it could get a bit hairy if your posted up on something steep but then your using a boot ladder anyways. The best boot is whatever is the most comfortable unless your just doing slack country in that case pick whatever you can stomach touring in but gives you the downhill performance you desire.

Sick dude sounds like a perfect day.......good idea on the guide shit I'll have to remember that just to skip the collins line.

Tech is the best but requires new boots unless you have swap able blocks. AT bindings are a spectrum from downhill like to randonee/at racing gear. The most downhill like are Marker Dukes but they are heavy and the toes slop out eventually the guardian and the tyrolia attack are in the middle a good balance of weight and alpine like performance. Of the two the tyrolia is slicker but not as reliable as the guardian and the attacks heal slider lock mechanism sucks in deep snow. If you think at some point you want to put on distance tech is the way to go, they are redonk light and skin like a billy goat. They ski a bit strange because there is like no binding and in your mind it feels weird but you can rip on tech setups just like alpine. Whatever you get buy good skins, uphill sucks no matter what the binding if you cheap out on skins or don't take reasonable care of them.

Boner City man ! Legit pow pow out west is easy to ski point them and hold on......

WTF fucking skanks

Where you going we should meet up and talk about the Killy/PICO interconnect