Johnny Law

I want to eat there too, since I missed CBI I'm now way behind lol

I'll ski in anything and say it was at least decent but racing in dog shit snow no thanks.....

There are already rules about this, they better hope he is cool or they are getting sued and will likely lose.

Because of the way the jet stream works and the 850mb line. In PA if you want it to snow you need water, water comes from the southern stream, it also brings warm air which is bad news. Cold air comes from the north and due to the air density issue cold air tends to form a bubble. Therefore if you want big snows you need both at the same time, cold air from the north and southern stream energy that brings the water. This is always a long shot and half the time it goes OTS like the 12-16th storm. The good news is when it does happen you get mega snows, blizzard of 93 was like 20 degrees out which is super rare for PA. 4 billion years ago proto earth got knocked on it's ass from a Mars size object, it was an oblique angle thank god or we wouldn't be here, This slowed our roll to 24 hour days and gave us axial tilt of about 14 degrees. Because of this tilt you get very little light at the poles, this creates a circling pattern of air movement, this is the Arctic Oscillation or the so called polar vortex. Most of the time it hangs out at the pole but if you get instability, normally warming of the upper atmosphere the oscillation starts to wobble and cold air spills out into the northern part of the US. You'll hear about the AO going negative, this is super super key to NE weather because it's generally the only time you'll have the cold air. There is another oscillation in the North Atlantic referred to as the NAO. This provides blocking and helps storms ride the coast instead of going OTS. You also want this going negative. Lastly while conceptually a little weird there is the Bearing Sea rule, basically if the EPO is going negative and throwing energy into the bearing sea, mark that storm in your books and it will pop up on the EC two weeks later. Obviously its not 100% but is generally true. If the mountains in the east were younger and therefore higher 70% of the time you couldn't ride them. The rock pile ain't that high and you couldn't really do shit up there if it was 8k feet. Another storm showed up on GFS for jan 21-23, follows bearing sea rule, gfs shows 15-20" for PA. One thing you have to understand about weather models in winter is that they almost always show a storm a week away, they simply say here's your chances, if we get it or not is a whole nother story.

Lotta weed got smoked in that yurt......do we have a pouring a 40 out emoticon ?

Mad disappointed I missed cbi, wife's friend kicked the bucket and I didn't know I had to attend the funeral. .......snow was decent...

Today was nice, snow on challenge and switchback was very good. Tomorrow should be even better

He can ski it I think he just doesn't like to. Razorback for racing league has to be as steep. Do I look shorter ? Maybe it's because unlike most people I don't wear shoes lol. I'm only going by the last physical I had maybe I shrunk.... I'm not that slow LOL though I have noticed it as well.

Like a super metron kind of.....that would be super interesting They aren't hard to ski, easy to get up on edge, easy to wiggle. I'm 6'0" 175lbs and not a former WC racer so I need a bit of a hill to really carve them, on lazy you can feel the 33 radius on Main St with considerably more speed you can't. Considering you have PSIA background you may find them easier to carve at slower speeds. They were a science experiment of sorts, see how much rocker can compensate for length. Also I have a pair of Bsquad 104's that are a 36 radius that are super difficult to ski, you have to leg them all the time so I wanted to see if it was the radius or the ski.

LOL if your BSL is close your welcome to try them out...they want alot of hill but they are surprisingly nimble..

Shiro 203 and ON3P 186 Vicik's,

I thought that too, or the last two pair I've been riding are big reverse camber jobs...ehh who knows ?.....I'll give them a tune and see what happens.

Switchback was total dog shit..COOKIES......Challenge was the best, Razors a little more chunky. Riding new skis and I had weird grip going all night, one run down challenge and I got perfect, next run with a similar line no grip......gotta be a tune issue but man was that weird.

be there with bells on

Looks like a big ice storm on tap for Monday, could be 1/2" Southern stream energy bringing warmer air with it.....16th time frame may still work, southern stream bringing the water,northern brings cold air.,...

OMG it's a fucking death machine !!!! Won't someone think of the children....

TP4 - GSS rap battle ?

Skiing tonight ?

They generally blow pretty crap snow so not surprising. Blowing on Sidewinder, Dreamweaver and upper main st. Groomer working on the lower parks. Next time it's likely to be over 30 is Wednesday. Everything should be open this weekend with the exception of features on Sidewinder.

I hope it works out, timing is nice, lot's of cold to get everything open and then a nice natural storm would be titty sparkles.......looks like we are right back into the freezer after but the EPO is going positive which probably kills the chance for snow for most of the rest of Jan.

Bumblebee bowl for sure That they don't care that we drink beer in their lot at 1030 and then check tire pressure The big lefty when Nightmare goes to dreamweaver, full speed fast night with good grip snow, thousands of muscles all firing in perfect coordination for that ripping big sweeper, often it has a little lip on the inside and for a second it feels like WC super G.....well for retards. The sort of double fall line on Switchback, the little left to tighter right back to the left line in the middle sometimes almost has two breaks which keeps shit spicy. The people, your all a bunch of drunk or high degenerates but there is not a finer crew of snow sports enthusiasts on the EC.

Next serious chance for 6"+ is around the 13th-15th, a pattern change is necessary for real snowfall. It very rarely snows in PA when it's this cold. 190hrs out but models have consistently shown 6"+ in this time frame.

Stop acting like a bunch of bitches........ I was this close to calling off and riding this morning, looks pretty fucking tasty up there

Rode tonight, was better and worse than yesterday. Better snow, not as smooth. Who cares because they are blowing the fuck out of the hill. Razors is ready, Burma is ready, challenge has piles up to the guns. They started blowing on switchback and tomorrow is the coldest night. After 6 long weeks were going to get a bunch all at once.

If you look at the picture it's pretty clear beacon=body recovery....