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For those that are interested. Wallisch, SeanyJ, along with Brogan will be at Big Boulder warming up for the Dew tour Comp this upcoming weekend at Mt Snow. Just thought I would throw that out there in case anyone is interested in watching these guys together.. Seany is progressing at an incredible rate and those who follow the sport, all know who Wallisch and Brogan are.

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Some people will do anything for attention.

Results?

mountain? one time in the 70's I saw pink elephants

shawnee....... an often overlooked gem here on PASR for taking guests to. Excellent report!

werd... dey all do it cept mayb my elk crap dont stink

hahhahaha They figured out if they groomed less, it will slow people down and then subsequently they need less patrol blowing whistles and lesss people entering names into the database.. Wake up people, this is tough times and Blue has a new angle on profitibility.. Experts can ski on any condition.. What are you guys? A bunch of beginners? /joke

boulder has a great beginners park now.. just saying cause they haven't had that in the past. Sorry for hyping Boulder, but its true. along with the college student discount today/tonight... ah yep..... you should know lots of sno transpalnts there willing to give park tips.

I better.

noooooooooooooooo I think your personality is far more uhhhhh ...... obnoxious...?

Thought I would get the word out, since I remember a lot of grumbling about Boulder not offering poor college kids a break. Sorry for the obnoxious colors and bold font, but this has to be a good last minute deal for the snow lover?! There are various venues of entertainment today/tonight..

split the difference if you are just starting out in the park. ( half way between progressive and traditional)

I got several texts all claiming new tricks and other super stoked rants from people at Boulder today.. You could see the grins intertwined amongst the words.

It doesn't look like it is cold enough to freeze deep and they till and groom in the morning, so they will have broke up anything by opening. I bet it will still be soft tomorrow.. errrrr today (monday) Let us know how it turned out.

Hello and welcome! Have fun!

Excellent...! Sounds like a decent set up. have fun. take it easy and don't be afraid to ask questions. There are a lot of people with deep knowledge like Justo. Keep us posted on how things go.

where do you live? if you can get to 476... we can get you to the slopes.

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Duofold makes some awesome polyester thermals. I would rather have quality thermal and and a cheap winbreaker tahn the other way around.

There are killer deals on Newschoolers. mostly used stuff, a lot of it is well used, but there are a lot of good deals on "older equipment" that is in great shape. newschoolers.com then click on the buy/sell/trade forum. a lot of shops have last years equipment and older that is new. Ask them what the best deal they can make on it. Tell them you are a buyer and they will bend over backwards.. If you were close to me in Newark, I could get you a brand new set up easily in your range for example. take a park skier friend with you to the shops, ask to speak with managers, not the clerks.

Tell them to get over it and do them a favor and force them to go to Boulder if they want park.

December 27th 2008 I am not great with details, so in an overview fashion..... The snow was soft and fast for the most part, albeit a bit wet from light rain during the night. Great conditions when falling on your butt! No rain, no ice from the precipitation last night. Cloudy, however the light was good and the sun did peak through occasionally, temps were in the mid 30's at 9am warming to low 40's by night fall. Crowds were light with little lift line wait, if any. All trails were open with deep coverage with some exceptions of some ungroomed small trails. (2 groomers decided to take a short holiday break last night.) Tannebaum is set up as a truly beginner park with all the features low to the snow. This is a new and much need improvement for Boulder. Great for taking your inexperienced friends to learn park. Freedom with all the Boulder classic jibs flows nicely and the skier group I was with lapped it continuously. Widow (Love Park) was set up as an intermediate park with longer rails and boxes, 3 jumps at about 15-20 feet that are lofty so you don't need to barrrel your way into them. They are easy to overshoot, so all you experts take it easy! These jumps are great confidence boosters in that they shoot you higher and give you good hang time with out having to go mach 10. Big Boulder Park opened with 2 jumps tonight at 5 pm. John did a great job with building hybrid step over style jumps. These jumps the first at ~30' and the second at ~50 lip to knuckle have the knuckles of the jump higher than the lip. These are great jumps in that just after the apex of the flight you pass over the knuckle. Essentially if you end up short, you aren't dropping out of the sky from 20' and wrecking yourself. They are forgiving and great for learning those bigger tricks. I should add the group of snowboarders, Billy, Louie, Scott and a couple of others were raving over the first jump (30') as being super sweet. You can over shoot the first jump, as also in Love Park. so train someone already experienced and please people use spotters! It is the holiday season and there are people who are learning their turns and oblivious to park etiquette in spite of all the signage. The second jump at the bottom (they haven't built the middle jump and frankly, I don't think they should) is intimidating by the look of it. rest be assured I watched whisper quiet landings tonight like I have never ever seen on the east coast. The group of skiers that I was with about 12 or so were steadily progressing up to 9's and 10's and would have kept going had the fog not rolled in. KT threw a massive steezed out 10 to a deep landing, a snow snake bit him and twisted his knee up pretty good. We all hope its nothing serious. Okay I wrote a book, but after reading some rather sour reports of recent, I thought that an eyewitness report was in order. The long and short is that Big Boulder is now everything everyone has come to expect and more. The weather looks really favorable through the week next week. If you have friends that would like to try out some quality park features set up in a progressive fashion by trails with increasing skill levels, then I would encourage you to visit to experience the best the Mid Atlantic has to offer. Should be a lot of kids really throwing down this week so you can watch that too! Lastly. On a personal note. Those stepover jumps on Boulder Trail are the "shit"! Thank you! I have been asking for that style for a solid year now. There are some very stoked kids anxious to come back as a result of that build. Props! edited for spelling

Thanks to everyone who came today. Everyone had a great time. Most of all thanks to Big Boulder for extending their hospitality way beyond expectations.

I know its getting late to confirm that Steve Stepp, Tom Wallisch and Sean Jordan will be there tomorrow. There will be Turbo posters for Tom to sign. The weather is supposed to let up by 9am so the conditions should be great, maybe a little wet but soft none the less. Turbo will be playing in the Boulder Park Lodge. Turbo by Level one has a lot of footage and Segments of Tom and Jon Brogan. Food will be coming about 1pm Ian inspected the features and put the tweaks on Widow tonight. Everything should be in great shape given the crappy weather we have been having lately.