Johnny Law

Big fat wet flakes in Reading, sticking at even slightly higher elevations, gotta be all snow at Blue. Pics from Hazelton area showing 4" Stream near blue - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/arlydude

Should be sick

He used to post on TGR a bunch....

Coming in colder...optimistic that this pans out

A super version of magne traction does exist which is serrated edges. They are on the fringe in French mountaineering circles and occasionally pop up in WC SL events, Vonn if I remember right tried them. They are obviously considerably sharper and have many orders of magnitude more contact points than magne traction. There again though there is very limited implementation which means they don't fucking work outside of really niche situations.

Coming in even wetter with more heat......more qpf but temp issues for PHL area, upper level like Blue should do better 4-8", Philly maybe 2" on the grass not much on the roads but we still got time.

This is actually pretty key. The idea behind Magne Traction is increased grip in icy conditions. Right there is enough to know it doesn't work, race courses are incredibly icy. I rode across the bottom section of the Olympic Downhill the year it was at Snowbasin, when you went up the can lift and ran out by the avy gas x you had to cross it to get back to JP lift. It's rock hard snow, like unbelievably firm concrete. If magnetraction worked it would be on every race ski. From a physics standpoint you get further proof that it's marketing bs. When you go downhill on skis your converting gravitational energy into kinetic energy, in a skidded turn your wasting energy due to the increased resistance between the ski and the snow and because generally the skier is too slow to match their velocity direction down the hill with the direction the ski is pointed in. Essentially a skidded turn is less efficient in turning the gravitational energy into kinetic energy. A carved turn in which the ski is on edge has considerably less drag as obviously the only real point of friction is a little base and mostly edge. The other factor is the velocity direction is almost perfectly lined up with the direction of the skis. This is an inherent necessity of the movement along with the radius of the turn matching the sidecut radius of the ski asuming of course the ski is flat. Now you can screw with the radius of the ski somewhat by flexing the ski, obviously if you put more energy into the ski the c shape of the ski or radius is now tighter and hence you get a tighter turn. Straight skis were "tough" to turn because you can obviously only get that c shape with significant flex, you got to really leg it out however if you start with a ski with "shape" in this example you can consider it pre flexed, or more simply the ski already has a c shape to it. When the ski is on edge you actually need reverse camber to execute a carved turn, this is the flex described above. Your weight turns the ski into a u shape and hence why manufactures have been adding "rocker" or reverse camber to lot's of skis. Now imagine a ski on edge, if it's not flexed only the tip and tail will touch the snow, there is a gap in the middle of the ski. The gap is dependent on the shape of the ski or the radius. A ski with a smaller sidecut radius (and larger gap between sidecut edge and snow surface), can accommodate a greater amount of reverse camber, which means it can carve smaller radius turns. A ski with a larger sidecut radius (and smaller gap between sidecut edge and snow surface), can accommodate a lesser amount of reverse camber, which means it is best suited for carving larger radius turns. Skis with a larger sidecut radius are best suited for carved turns with a small tilt angle (since they can only accommodate a lesser degree of reverse camber). And skis with a smaller sidecut radius work well for larger tilt angles (since they can accommodate a greater degree of reverse camber). Ok so what does all of this have to do with fucking magnetraction ? Magnetraction supposedly increases grip right ? Grip is both very simple and very complex but essentially when the ski is angled into the snow surface the angle of the skiers force and the ski has to be above 90 degrees which is actually pretty easy and (this is the key part) the ski edge has to be able to penetrate the snow surface. The thing that looks like a W is the angle between the applied force and the ski, that's the thing I'm talking about that has to be above 90 degrees above. That's easy, the part that causes 99.9999999% of trouble is the penetrating of the snow or the FR in the diagram above. A world cup skier can put literally all of their weight into the snow, there FR's are incredible but as you move down the scale of skiers they are able to generate less FR. The molecular structure of "icy" snow is such that the molecules are packed tighter together thus one way to get penetration is to have a smaller cutting edge aka edge sharpness. If you run the right angles, remove dings and get the right kind of burr on the edge your more able to separate those tightly packed molecules. No where in there do you see any mention of contact points, honestly that's total bullshit the ski isn't slipping because of contacts points it's slipping because you can't get any penetration into the snow and that is way worse if the ski edge is crap which seems likely when you have wavy as fuck edge shapes. You want a ski that grips everywhere no matter what it can be done, I've done it with our ski machine by accident, it fucking sucks because your going to blow a knee out and you actually need a ski that slips but it will grip on pretty much anything and that's all due to the edge burr. If you could really up the amount of contact sure it would work but a decent skier's issue isn't point of contact it's body shit mixed in with a little bit of tuning. So take our racing league, Jeff is faster than me (catching up brother you better watch out lol) because he can generate more FR and at higher levels of angulation. His edges are probably in better shape than mine but that's minor compared to the actual shit of skiing which has to do with things like leg strength, flexibility and experience not ski design or some laughable shit like points of contact. Magnetraction like 50% of the camber game is marketing bullshit, certainly that doesn't make the ski worse it just doesn't make it better ......this is a long ass post to essentially say what Justo said LOL

Latest model runs a mix, some wetter for PA some warmer. Alot of confusion out there.

Sno's issues aren't just Sno, alot of that shit is Scranton related. You could put a hill up on Mt. Penn in Reading that would be bigger than Bear but Reading is a ghetto so that's not going to end well. Sno long term has to cash in on those people from NY going to Camelback/blue or JF/BB or maybe CT people though I'd bet they go Catskills. They have to market themselves as the next Elk, the insider's alternative to the big dogs. Everyone likes elk because they think real skiers go there, that's what Sno needs to do, instead most people don't know they exist and thus they have $$ issues. When you got $$$ issues you can't be a gambler and blowing this early is a gamble, temps look good but it's entirely possible that from now until Dec 15th it never drops below freezing and then your out 200k or something when you business is already close to maxing out reasonable credit.

Who actually has trouble railing a reasonable ski ? Noobs certainly but noobs don't carve. A Romulan era Squad 104 ok that can be a little tough but mostly because they are two I-beams, you really got to leg them to get any kind of flex. Which is why I go back to it being 50% marketing bs, they look at them and go oohhh big ski and then hit the hill and are impressed they are so easy to dance because in reality it's a 16m radius ski with 163 actual effective edge and 99% aren't using the entire edge. There is PSIA drill were you only use the tips to initiate turns, 95% of the ski is off the snow, very difficult even if your a good skier. The body just isn't good at applying even pressure out at the tips of the ski, exceptional skiers sure. I think the radius on the PBR ski is like 16, she's a dancer for sure.

They are LIbtech Wreckreate's

It appears most of the water is going to be in SEPA but the temps will be too high, you have a chance with dynamic cooling. When a bunch of water is falling from the sky you get alot of air moving upwards obviously this makes it less dense, less molecules hit each other and thus less heat. It's not a good bet but it's possible you end up with more.

1-3" By tomorrow night it should be mostly locked down.

Cams are up. This will slow them down, shit another good week and they would have been near fully open. Whatever all of Nov is bonus time and they'll be back into blowing temps at night Thurs.

Euro is cold, all snow out to the coast. NAM came in warmer, front end snow, rain then back to snow. Still maybe 6-10" at Blue on the NAM. I think your gonna see a bander type storm. When you have the big bands your in snow, lighter precip is a mix because of ground temps and the 850 temps. 4-6", 6-8" at Blue, JF/BB probably more like 7-9".

Fuck sounds like it was really good.....wife's birthday last night and we must have gotten into peyote or something. Woke up at unknown house missing shit....

What a killer way to start the season....lazy...wut

Nice dude way to get after it.

The only jam worthy of the glorious day that awaits us....

That shit is mad old...

All you need to know....we will be at Blue and we are the coolest people alive.

No one forecasts that far out except liars... a blip showed up on some model runs, keep an eye out maybe something will happen but your going to have to wait three or four days.

Xing nice !!!! I don't give a fuck if it's butts to nuts, I don't care if Barbie herself is requiring we all kiss her butthole to ride the lift, I'm just so fucking happy skiing is here so I can go back to not giving a fuck about work or 90% of other shit. Skiing is here and it's way way early, that's legit fucking titty sparkles.

Lease, like Denton.

That's quality I would love a masseuse SO....i think there should be a team masseuse at every work place.....