Johnny Law

long term forecasts are 99% fantasy but that's different than model trends. Mid November a bunch of cold air shows up some hills may take advantage if the air behind it checks out.

That was me, the good dude AS hooked me up on a night session

LOL nothing else to talk about.....I like the idea of fleece bedsheets but I'd have to open every window and door in my house

Bush is the place for the people with money, that's fine all I was saying is it has a jr Deer Valley vibe.

ahhh I gottcha, I knew the Friendly Gathering thing was there but I thought you were saying no more access.

What ? When did that happen ? Any news articles ?

There is an old now closed ski area that you can ski from Magic, its pretty fucking sweet.

I have like 1000000 pairs but I just find one pair of medium weight merino and then leave them in my car all winter.....my wife hates me LOL

Dude is mentally ill but I couldn't figure out his deal for the life of me. The wife beating deal completes the picture as does the whole not getting a job thing. Your like the TMZ of allentown.....

I don't, one my lady isn't a huge VT fan and two I'm a freak so......but everybody needs some romance in their lives. OP There is a name missing from this discussion....Jay Peak...jay is like a really bad ex gf. She was insane, some days just fucking perfect others ice cold. After you broke up she got into meth and is totally different, occasionally for a fleeting moment you can relive the glory days but the old jay is dead. One of the absolute deepest days ever in 33 years of skiing was at jay, I drove mad hours through the night, chick running the breakfast at Jay hotel let me eat for free because I slept in the car and the breakfast buffet had jello shots. The kid running the ticket booth wasn't even sure if they were going to open, the sp on the first tram told everyone not to ski Green Beret but that he knew we would anyways. That's the Jay I love but she got fat Canadian stacks and no longer exists. Bush is for $$$$ wannabes though the rock has some mad fucking technical lines. Slokemo is fine if someone else is paying or you got one of those baller slope side houses, it's flat so party it up and take some easy runs.....better yet drive 15 mins and go to Magic. They actually appreciate your money are cool as fuck and the terrain is way way better than Okemo, just don't expect anything fancy.

I've had days in VT that are on par with the west snow wise, terrain maybe not but that doesn't mean it was easier just different. Timing is key in VT. Stowe, Killy, Magic....if it snows like alot alot and it's a weekend ditch Killy and go to Pico.......a quiet gem for really two trails and access was Ascutney, shame that place didn't make it excellent trees....Are you trying to get your SO to slob your knob ? Suicide Six, Woodstock Inn is nearby, romantic restaurants and all that shit, Six is small but excellent tree lines and surprising steeps for such a small hill, great place for a 1/2 day.

hahahahah what about the cross dude, WTF is his deal ?

Who doesn't ? I don't think I've posted much that wasn't meant to stir the pot.

What radius do you like ? What do you own now ? What do you like about that ski and what do you not like about that ski ? What are you trying to do with your skiing ? This is the worst question because you generally get answers like buy ski X because well basically I have it.

If you flexed the ban hammer to rustle jimmies that's cool, I love to rustle jimmies. However if it's the alternative that's lame ass shit. I love you root I'd give you a kidney but..... Some of you legit don't like him, a far greater number shit on him because you want to like the cool kids which is serious pussy shit. A bunch of you will drink beer with him, smoke his weed and be cool to his face but then rip him relentlessly online, that's also week fucking shit. The worst though is humans who at the first chance use the tiny sliver, the tiny modicum of power they have to flex nuts they don't have. I was there when the rent a cop brought out his penis compensater and that was dick but this is the exact same fucking thing. You want to bust balls, you want to rustle jimmies that's cool but don't be a dick just because you can.

No it never opened, a young snowboarder got totally fucking insane on the first hit and Barb said shut the whole thing down nobody will ever be as cool as that kid.....

^ how much coke did you loose in that hookers ass last night ? Elk is an vastly overrated hill that people that want to appear hip and cool pretend is there favorite because they are desperately seeking the approval of other wannabes EDIT:trackbiker not Ride

pivots.....end of story

I'll pass, the idea is solid but between seeing them in person and testimonials retention isn't there thing.....but I'm an opinionated asshole so....

As long as they didn't fuck with Great Eastern....

Models show a coastal low and cold air will be around, rain/snow mix in say burlington and the valley's but the Green Spine could pick up some inches. Touring gear and rock skis.....

The planet's angle isn't right yet, too much light....be patient.

love those graphics, super sick setup

Do you think he could be specifically attacking the 90-120hz range ? Gary Foss from Boeing and a K2 guy did a vibration study for SEM awhile back. Long study but they concluded the 90-120hz range had specific influence on a skis top speed for some reason. They also concluded torsional stiffness in the shovel is of utmost importance but this dude isn't increasing torsional stiffness above that which already exists with metal laminates. Thus I can only conclude he's 1. Full of shit 2. D3o has a greater loss factor than metals or 3. Something about D3o specifically attacks the 90-120hz range. The later would be the most interesting because you could maybe make super light super damp skis. There is a company in Indiana that makes a standoff dampner used in making aircraft cabins quieter. It's a bunch of graphite sheets with standoff spacers. I can see that kind of shit working but I'm not sold on D3o.

The only "new" thing he's doing is using D3o. D3o is used in protection equipment, it's a non-Newtonian dilatant fluid. A snowboarder in England developed it for use in protective gear. Non-Newtonian fluids are fluids those in which stress tensors do not flow from every point linearly aka they do weird shit. Newton, the dude not the cookie said this is how shit works and he was mostly right however the weird shit that breaks his rules in fluid dynamics are called non-newtonian fluids. D3o is a dilatant fluid or more simply a shear thickening fluid, it's viscosity increases when shear forces are applied aka it gets harder when you hit it. Corn Starch in water is a classic example of this kind of non-newtonian, paint is a common counter example. This dude is using the D30 gel in the core of the ski to provide dampening, basically as you ski faster and the shear forces on the ski rise so the gel because harder more stiff. When your getting mach looney on a groomer the small vibrations cause additional muscle use than if their were no vibrations. Bike people proved this with power meters thus if the ski is stiffer theoretically less vibrations, less muscle use better longer skiing. Seems interesting but kind of gimiacky, most people getting mach looney are probably on pretty stiff skis already and stiffness and dampness don't work this way, I mean we all know stiffer things transfer more energy. Dampness is vibrations and vibrations are amplitude, (magnitude of oscillation, how fast the bent ski returns to normal) frequency (number of oscillations) and decay (how fast the vibration goes away ). Decay is loss factor or how much of that energy in each oscillation is lost as heat. JL clearly your off your meds what the fuck does this all mean. To make a ski stiff you often add metal laminates, this increases the mass and adds another loss factor. Increased mass decreases amplitude and frequency (more shit = harder to move) however making the ski stiffer decreases the amplitude but increases the frequency because stiffer materials transfer more energy. Additionally metal laminates are often aluminum (often marketed as titanial) and titanium, titanal is not titanium it's an aluminum alloy developed by Austria Metall AG. You take 6000 series aircraft aluminum and add titanium and zirconium, this makes the grains smaller and more refined which reduces Elongation at break or how much you can fuck with a material before it cracks. Both aluminum and titanium have shit loss factors. What the fuck does this all mean ? Stiffer skis don't mean more damp, heavier skis certainly go ride an old pair of Chubbs, this dude isn't necessarily making a more damp ski unless the loss factor of D3o is much higher than titanium and aluminum or in English his magic fluid shit probably doesn't do what he thinks it does.