Papasteeze

Sammy Carlson and Simon Dumont may get together a small camp with 10-12 campers at Mt Hood. It is a serious consideration, talk to nipples, he has been talking to sammy and has the details.

I got a house last spring that has some sick terrain, (part of an old quarry) creek for water supply, cliffs 50' of vertical drop in, this is the start of nipples rail garden. I gather, I design, I cut, I weld. We have a huge scrap yard. full of old farm junk, it's like we found treasure, lol... I'll get nips to post some pics. 16' is fine, the freakin thing is pushing 200 lbs. (some very beefy steel)

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Belleayre got a new lift... http://www.belleayre.com/company/superchief.htm

you have to see it. I am calling it a progression rail. It is 2x6 tube steel, to wide to be a rail, to narrow to be a box, Nipples and I figure that for the backyard it will allow for everything 450+ on, 450 off, disasters, switch ups, and the ever popular pretzel. The next one is a technical shot gun 5' up, 10' flat, 10'down, probably will only work in the winter.

I knew that was going to happen, it was pouring down here, I figured that if we had gone, it would have rained and if we didn't, it wouldn't. Oh well, we had a productive night, Got all the steel cut and ground ready for welding for a 16' flat down.

it's raining - I don't think we are going to chance the road trip being a wash out. Going to cut some more metal for rails.

They are very progressive. Cool announcement! Good idea!

I am blind or to lazy to scroll to the bottom or both! sorry

looks like they didn't renew the PASR link

they got 1m on the line in due diligence. They are posturing. It's a scare tatic. You are right though, once countersuits start being filed, it's not good for anyone. Lot's of animosity is created that you can't take back later. The old expression of goes around comes around comes to mind.

Probably Josh Bryant of Jibij Ski shop However now that I think about it, it might be berman since the hype in this thread and since he has seen QUICK!

The sale hasn't closed, technically it did sell though

call me stupid, but who is r miller?

If I am up this sunday we will have to compare feet - I have 28.5 boot with one very full season on them, you'll have to check em out for your self

Krypton's toe box is huge, my toes slop around a lot, so from a performance stand point they are lacking, other wise very comfortable - oh the liner packed out faster than expected

it's a sick boot, but after readin hundred of posts on NS (search SPK) i couldn't find any first hand comments that were consistent. The have all the modifications that were customized on his foils plus lots of other stuff that makes sense.

ah yep...

suck it up, we do over a hundred every single freakin trip.

I remember getting emails encouraging me to vote for this place or that. I am sure the results are loaded by voting campaigns.

not sure if you mean that to be a good thing or a bad thing. No offense DH but how many days did you ride here on the east coast last season? Every Western park that we have ever been to in the west does not have the crowd problems that the east does. If there is a crowd on a western jump it usually has several people filming with an area to the side that you can observe from. If someone wrecks and can't be seen from above it is those people I have seen clearing the landing, waving off the next drop in. Etiquette/spotting/traffic control whatever you want to call it.. When you have one jump line that has rails stuck in the middle of an in run to a jump with a congestion of a hundred people one tenth the size the of a western run you are talking about hundreds of times the congestion. How can you say that traffic control and or spotting is not a smart thing to have for the enjoyment and safety of everyone. I am not talking about the buddy system, I am talking about resort staff taking the responsibility. Where is the negative, the cost, the liability? Look, I have seeen my kid nearly decapitate someone because they came into a table from my blindside, I have seen him come down the side of the pipe into a leash, I have seen him dozens of times have to pull up because someone cut him off. I have hustled him off a landing by going as far as picking him up because the next person hasn't waited to see if the jump is clear. Every season, it gets worse. And Tre.. I am not talking about you directly, I know you. You help out a lot. I am talking about the attitude that it isn't park crews place to help educate, that it isn't "crews" job. You are on the park crew because you like racing and need a pass? think not. you are on park crew because you love to shovel heavy stuff? doubt it. You are park crew because you need a job to pay your bills? HA! You are probably on park crew because it is cool. It would really be cool if crews stepped up to the plate and help teach people. All I am saying is that if Ski patrol will not/does not police the parks - then next in line is the "crew" and if neither is going to do it, I certainly will for the safety of my kid, number one - to help teach others, secondary.

They said that I was a lawsuit waiting to happen. I told them I would take my chances with that. I was dealing with park crew who were sitting off in the trees laughing at the people wiping out on that jump who would occasionally rake out a bomb crater at the bottom of a 10' box. They thought the wrecks were there own comedy show. Keep in mind this was at CB. Patrol didn't yell, they just said basically that customers are not allowed to conduct crowd control. I am saying that park crew is part of the problem if they complain about etiquette and then say "it's not my job" I doubt there is a line item in thier job description that tells them they are not to be actively involved with patrons education and subsequent safety. I could be wrong. If you think that my holding of jumps forcing people to look above before they drop and to clear the landings is part of the problem then I rest my case on why you shouldn't be let in the parks. I shouldn't even reply to you, but it is clear that you need some educating if you think that holding jumps is a problem. Just doing my part to educate another noob.

Dude, It is my opinion that you are part of the problem or part of the solution. Get off the park crew and onto the ski patrol if park education is truly a concern to you. It was amazing to get repremanded by the park crew at CB for holding jumps. Ski Patrol came to mediate and told me that I couldn't stand in front of the jump and "hold it" to allow people skilled enough drop in from the height needed to making the landing area. Kids screaming DROP from a hundred yards atop of helmeted noobs was doing nothing to keep them from getting cut off. I think that will change with the park pass program at CB now. If parks keep progressing and expanding and if they keep selling the amount of tickets per acre in our area, the only solution will be spotters on the jumps just like they do in competitions who signal all clear to the next person waiting in line at the designated drop in point. That in itself will educate so many in one season on what and how to conduct themselves when they visit again. Tell me why park crew can't take some time out to do some spotting periodically? Are you even allowed to do that or is there liability involved because you waived someone on? CB_Crowd_control..bmp Here is a typical day at CB Notice the 2 guys holding the jump? people sitting in the landing zone, Now that I think about it, this is just a great example of a poor layout which is the park crews responsibility, correct?

We will be there! Doesn't matter which day, both are school nights.

I have the kryptons they are packed out although I think I can get another season out of them, we shall see when the season starts. The SPK are for nipples. 2 buckle and comfy! Custom foot beds are a given for better control. The SPK by all accounts is a park only boot, it is more upright with lots of additional padding. The concensus is that performance out of the park will be hurt due to the design which I don't consider an issue for nipples except in the half pipe. It is light weight with added cushioning and a low cuff with a built in "booster strap". nips has big issues with shin bang that I have yet to get remedied for him. Everything makes sense for him to rep that boot and the Z12 TI B90 binding and possibly the foils.