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Warmed up a bit today but the surface never got sticky. Ballistic speeds could be attained on Lehigh. I made an hour of park movies. I'll post them as soon as they are edited. JADIP at JF
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Why go the the flower show when you can still ski here? I try not to distract from skiable days by doing things as mundane as flower shows.
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Yea... sooooo... I make a valid post... even make some movies... then 16 responses are created out of the 26 that have total horseshit posts. This thread has msg numbers and the way I see it.... posts 4 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 should all be deleted. Why should we talk about dickhead shit? Just ban the dickhead shit. AND blocking GSS is not the answer. Banning GSS from excessive garbage postings is the answer.
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Nice fast rides, much like yesterday. Forget the flower show. GO SKI this week. JADIP at JF
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Ice is nice...speed is goooooooood... but control is the key to coming back and doing it again tomorrow. It all boils down to the Skier's Code: 1. Always stay in control and be able to stop or avoid other people or objects. 2. People ahead of you have the right of way. It is your responsibility to avoid them. 3. You must not stop where you obstruct a trail or are not visible from above. 4. Whenever starting downhill or merging into a trail, look uphill and yield to others. 5. Always use devices to help prevent runaway equipment. 6. Observe all posted signs and warnings. Keep off closed trails and out of closed areas. 7. Prior to using any lift, you must have the knowledge and ability to load, ride and unload safely. 8. Inverted aerials are not allowed. Poconoe hardpack is 99% the normal surface in NE PA. Look at what BDK said about Monday's snowstorm... he said the powder was one of the best powder days this season... but the very next day after daily grooming that powder was solid groomed cord... hardpack again. And it wasn't anything bad to ride.. for me to ride.. and fast. So I have my fun on blues and stay away from narrow, or steep, or blind head walls with SPOREs sitting in the middle of the runs or trailwhores winding back and forth taking up the whole width of the hill just waiting for me to run their stupid asses over. Lehigh has a clear shot to the lift from the one headwall after the crossover from Janes. Seems to be the safest place for me to play. Exhibition has two blind spots headwalls that makes for great speed to ride but then surprise!!! Some dick with their 4 year old kid in the blind spot. Then what? My 230 pound fat ass runs them over at 40 MPH? I don't need that shit. Not again. I've been to the ER 13 years ago for running over a skier. I'd like to not do that again. Its sort of like hitting a deer with your car. The deer isn't smart enough to know to stay out of harms way and will actually run in front of you regardless of your ability to stop in time. You ever pick someone else's hair out of your teeth? Too many skiers are clueless. Noobe boarders are even worse.... sitting in the middle of the blind headwalls. At least the skiers top half or head is visible from above.... but boarders laying in the snow making snow angels in a blind headwall are just Darwin awards waiting to get run over. I ALWAYS stay in control and am able to stop or avoid other people by NOT going too steep or narrow and waiting for the hill to clear before jumping off the headwall on Lehigh. Too many skiers ride way beyond their ability just to say they did black diamonds. Its just dumb luck to make it out alive every day, again and again and again. I don't play the odds, hoping there's nobody around a blind corner. Go every day like I do and some day there will be that dick with the kid on leashes in harms way....staring frozen like deer in the road. 3. You must not stop where you obstruct a trail or are not visible from above.
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The point is its getting old. Its one thing for GSS to post one stupid comment a month... or a week.... but that not his mode of operating here. Every thread that has a GSS comment is turned into really stupid shit. I said it before.I'll say it again. To the forum moderators .... DELETE ANY and ALL GSS postings he writes in any thread I started.
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RE: Wow...Tom is sick..was he in the X-games??? I don't expect anything but the usual doshbag crap from GSS so why don't you surprise us and shut the hell up. Get out and stay out of my threads. I post trail reports so people can see that we still have great conditions not to get insightful remarks from idiots. I got a request to make movies of the park so people could see what the features are. If I don't film any huge tricks its not my problem no one is doing anything that day. So don't bother busting on the riders that do play in the park. Not everyone is a mutant ginger with a Burton contract. And to toast.... yes that's me.
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First time I have ever been in the park....filming Tom. I just don't know how you kids land on hardpack without breaking a hip.
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Fast riding today on groomed cord. Got some movies.
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Freak lawn mower accident. I lost all the fur so I could wear a surgical mask. Masks leak air if you have a beard. I couldn't breath cold air without a mask for 4 days and something as simple as walking the dog 50 feet made me have massive asthma attacks. I thought I would never see snow again. and RE:Why don't you post a pic so we can say HI when we see ya? you know me but I don't know you are Fluffy by name and face.
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My wife calls it the Mr. Clean look.
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After 2 weeks off the snow with a chest cold it looks like the snow gods have smiled on me for my first day back on the snow. The Timmy bus did not cancel because it did not start to snow here until 9AM I lapped Exhibition for a few hours. It was like riding in a a snowglobe all day long. Good to be back. JADIP
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My bus does not run in deep snow storms so there's a good chance I have no transportation Monday 03-02-09. I'll pay $50 for round trip transportation to Jack Frost or BB from Jim Thorpe. PM me. Issued by The National Weather Service Philadelphia, PA 2:45 pm EST, Sun., Mar. 1, 2009 ... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT INTO MONDAY AFTERNOON... THE WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT INTO MONDAY AFTERNOON. SNOW WILL SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE REGION THIS EVENING AND BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES OVERNIGHT. WINDS WILL ALSO INCREASE LATE TONIGHT ALLOWING FOR BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW WITH VISIBILITIES FALLING BELOW 1/4 MILE AT TIMES. BASED ON THE LATEST FORECAST TRACK OF THE STORM... IT APPEARS AS THOUGH 4 TO 7 INCHES OF SNOW WILL FALL IN THE PENNSYLVANIA COUNTIES OF CARBON... MONROE... BERKS... LEHIGH AND NORTHAMPTON. IN THE NEW JERSEY COUNTIES OF SUSSEX AND WARREN... 5 TO 9 INCHES ARE EXPECTED. THE STEADY SNOW IS EXPECTED TO TAPER OFF TO SNOW SHOWERS ON MONDAY AFTERNOON.
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FLOWs can be opened and closed with mittens on and I always had to pull off the mittens to put on ratchet bindings. More time stolen from the ride time. I didn't buy my FLOW bindings by shopping for "THE BEST" bindings. I bought them in the off season and found the cheapest FLOW binding offered. I've looked into newer FLOW models and really didn't see much of a difference between the $90 bindings and the $300 bindings. Since my style of riding is real old school alpine ... forward facing stance at 33 degrees... I don't have any issue with the rear foot being the mushy FLOW binding compared to the rigid Burton binding. And since I don't take off the forward foot all day I don't care if its a standard ratchet binding. And to TOAST. Your crap belongs in the DOSHBAG thread. again. You have nothing to say about riding high angles or alpine? Shut the hell up. RE: DUDE. that is my quote that i use when ridiculous shit gets said on PASR, and i'm not happy about you using it without my permission.but, in this situation it is necessary to be said, so thanks.
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I learned to ride in Burtons at 33 and 6 then started playing around with stepin bindings.... CLICKER, SWITCH, etc. I never liked any of the boots for stepin bindings. They just were not as rigid as stepping into a Burton binding. So 3 winters ago I sat on my fat ass and strapped in 2000 times with Burton bindings. Each strap in and shoulder roll over and push up added up to great exercise. Then I got lazy. I bought FLOW bindings for last winter at the Army Navy store for $90 and never sat in the snow again. Every second sitting in the snow takes away from ride time.... or should I say lift time? I like to get off the lift and be gone, not hang around strapping in. The faster I'm gone the more rides I get in the day. Since the ride only lasts 30 seconds , why spend a minute sitting in the snow? Also... waiting for a whole crew of boarders to ratchet strap in looks like a bunch of gapers. Flows gets off your ass and gone in a flash. I found that the FLOW bindings do not have the same rigid support as Burtons so I wear the Burton on the high angle leading foot. I don't think the FLOWs or K2 Cinch binding were designed to be used at angles higher than 30 degrees. I wore out a Burton binding after 2 seasons so this summer I bought new Burton bindings. This year I also got K2 cinch bindings to backup the FLOWs. The cinch has many more moving parts compared to the FLOWs and I don't know what to expect to wear out in them so I only ride the cinches on a spare teaching board. Its nice to be able to hop out of the bindings quick and run around and hold up a student.
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What stance, angles, do you normally ride on a regular board? I ride 33 degrees in my forward foot...in a Burton binding and 6 degrees on my rear foot... in a Flow binding.
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Nope. Caught a chest cold Feb 17 and was down for the count. Couldn't walk outside for a week without choking on cold air. I'm cured now. Timmy bus is scheduled to start up again Monday.
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Jack Frost Saturday 2-21-09 Roll Call
Robert2 replied to phillycore's topic in Jack Frost & Big Boulder
Very possible. I'm the one with the vision problem. But check it again. This link you checked shows the daytime high and low, not any hourly detail. I never check weather for just the daytime high and low. I always look for HOUR by HOUR to find out what its going to be like when I get on the snow. You guys talk about meeting at 9 AM so chances are you are going to freeze your cookies off if you dress for 35 degrees instead of 9 degrees. -
Jack Frost Saturday 2-21-09 Roll Call
Robert2 replied to phillycore's topic in Jack Frost & Big Boulder
weather.com says Blakeslee PA will be 15 degrees at dawn. Then 9AM 20 degrees with 10 mph winds making it feel like 9 degrees. Where did you get your 35 from? -
Same as yesterday. JADIP at JF
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Why do you say sugar-granular surfaces suck? Its dry. Its not wet or sticky like mashed taters. It rides fast with good control. Its soft enough to have a fall on and not get broken. Its not solid corduroy hardpack and its not blue ice. We don't get many days of deep powder so what do you think you have to wait for to go ski? Seems to me there's nothing wrong with enjoying a great day riding on sugar-granular surfaces under blue skies today.
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hahahaha...I missed an E in under blue skies HAppens a lot. I have a vision problem.
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Winter is back and the cold is doing its thing here. Real nice dry sugar granular surface. Nothing sticky. No slush. Fast riding. It wasn't real crowded .... no lift lines waiting...... and the lift operators said it was not as crowded today as it was Saturday. I shared the hill with no more than 4 people at a time most of the day so I missed them with room to spare. JADIP
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The boot may be too tall for your shin. I've had Burtons, Air walks, and 5 other brands of boots over the last 13 years. I found that a shorter boot would not bite the muscle in the back of my shin. They don't make boots with shin length from heel to knee in mind. They make boots in shoe sizes and assume that if you wear a size ten then you probably are 6 foot tall and have a lean leg up to the bulging muscle in the back of your shin. Sort of the wine glass shape then where it starts to get fatter. I'm short, 5'6" so my short legs do not fit in just about every ski or snowboarding boot I've tried on. I've worn boots for 3 runs and never again after determining they where too tall for my leg and bit me. The Chinese have been making snowboarding boots that are meant for short people ... not Americans.....with a shorter shin.... that boot fit me but I can't find another like them. I got those boots a few years ago ...last on the shelf of a discontinued brand. When they started to leak water I used car repair fiberglass mesh and epoxy glue to wrap the toes and make turtle shells. If anyone has any China trips in the future then let me know and I'll pay you to buy me boots there.
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Feel free to interchange Richard with Dick any time you see Richard in my posts. Just trying to keep them clean even though GSS insists on screwing up every one of my posts. Mods.... feel free to delete ANY and ALL GSS posts in any of my threads.