Philpug

A bunch of Bears will be there. It is a demo day, ask the Goode rep where I am, he will know. I will be waring a red/grey jacket, grey pants. A giro fuse with a helmet cam.

We are going to try Elk again this Friday. Honest. This time I even have the tickets.

Bumps & Jumps.

I got some volant Fat Bastards at Sports Authority for $120.00, they were $800.00 origonaly. Even on pro-forms they were about $400.00. $120.00 is real cheap for a fat ski.

Duane helped me with some Volkl's for my wife his price was as good as any internet price I could find. It is worth at least a call or PM to him.

I just signed my son up for Mt. Hood for 6/25-7/1.

I buy most of my gear on line but Duane at the Ski Bum has helped me a couple of times and qite franlkly, I was very impressed.

Peter at Nestors is as good as anyone can be. George at Salters is awesome too.

The Volkl Unlimited Series is a great choice, the AC3 especially. From Atomic, the Metron 9 or 10 are gread skis, they carve fantastic and are also great "crud busters". Avoid the Izor, a lousy ski in current form, I hear it will be changed for next season. But boots is where you need to concentrate. Boots are the most inportant piece of gear. You will get more enjoyment/performance from a better pair of boots and a lesser ski than the opposite. PM (Private message) "The Ski Bum", here in the forum, Duane from the Ski Bum in Chadds Ford. He can set aside some time for you and give you some great choices.

Another thing I love about MRG..truth is 'snow conditions'... Mad River Today Feb 18, 2006 at 09:00:00 The wild winter of 2006 continues and once again THE BAR OPENS AT 11AM, come on in and catch the Olympics, enjoy a Single Chair Ale and maybe even take a run or two - If You Can! After warm temps with sunny skies and some of the nicest spring-like conditions you could have imagined on Thursday, things turned ugly (again!). What a difference a day makes. On Friday the temps plummeted from the 50's at 8 AM to below 20 by noon. We saw an onslaught of rain and a tremendous wind storm with 80 mph gusts that took out power for the entire day. The rain turned to blowing snow around noon on Friday and we have picked up an inch or so of new snow. We lost a fair amount of base during this weather event and things are certainly wicked firm this morning. Today's skiing is for EXPERTS ONLY! We plan on "skiing" on roughly 9 trails off of the Single, the Sunnyside Double, and the Practice Slope. Due to the limited terrain, tickets are $35. Come on up and ski the legends that are Antelope and Fox/Vixen!

Betsy is one ornery sweetheart (along with being a scratch golfer), we have spent many of nights at the Barn drinking and shooting the BS. She sold MRG to the co-op for (literally) millions less than she could have to ASC who owned Sugarbush at the time. If you go up there, you can snowboard at Sugarbush which still has some awesome terrain, most as good as MRG.

I have no problem with someone having to ski their "home mountain" 24/7, but don't talk trash about somehting you know nothing about i.e. slamming MRG saying that the owners are snobs and such and that they know the "end all" of it.

Yep, stay at "Bear Creek"

I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you. I am not going to say it will never happen...but it will never happen. MRG is basicly a "non-profit" ski area. The co-op runs it and the share holders are very subborn. They put (example) 1.5m into refurnishing the single chair vs. 1.2m for the cost of replacing it with a newer chair (the numbers are probably wrong, but you get the idea). Betsy sold MRG to the co-op for about 60 cents on the dollar so a big conglomerate wouldn't some in and homoginize the place. As far as discrimination, hardly. And please do not put up snowboarders on the level of what happened with african-americans, it makes you sound very foolish.

LOL, that sounds like my comments about Blue Mountain. MRG is an awesome place to ski (not snowboard, obviously). I have skied MRG in bad conditions and epic conditions (2' of fresh and (about) the 10th skier down Paradise) and both ends of the spectum were great. MRG has one of the few honest snow reports on their web site where i have read "Skiing is not good today, don't come up, it is a good day to run errands". Uphill capacity is low because they don't want crowed trail, something I have chastised Elk for but commend MRG for. You have to ski MRG to understand it.

MRG is what east skiing should be. VTmark,,love the Eddie Izzard sig.

I skied Mt. Snow on Sunday, we had great conitions. Infact all of my 5 days this week in VT were 7/10.

Actually it has one of the lowest.

I am up at MRG right now. We skied MRG today and it was typical MRG conditions. There were fresh tracks to be made and there were spots were it was "dust on crust". But MRG, is one of the purest skiing experiences you will ever have. We are staying at the Mad River Barn which is owned by Betsy Pratt, the former owner of the resort. Infact she is standing about 15 feet from me right now.

No west trips planned for this season with the ASC pass, we are going to Sunday River in March. We picked a bad year not so go west, Utah looks killer.

My trips have been good, not great but not bad either. One was a day of fresh.

I have been very fortunate with my 5 trips to VT this year. Exceptional conditions concidering how this winter has been. But as marginal as this year has been, there has been worse.

I have been in Kryptons since last season. I was the first non-Dalbello employee to get them and I also have taked to Plake about sone of the design aspects. With that said, I have never been in the stock liner, I have been in a Thermoflex since day one, infact I never received the stock liners. I got my boots before the stock liners were even in the country. I was in Flexons for 20or so years and the transition to the Kryptons was a non issue, I was comfortible in 3 turns. I do hear the stock liner is higher volume though. Throw some Thermoflexes in there and you will be set.

10 days so far in Vermont and, fortunatly one one marginal one. 10 days up there is better to me than 20 days at Blue or such. I am heading up Wednesday for another 5. I am happier with quality over quantity. If I still lived 20 minutes from Camelback, I might be singing a different tune, but it's still my tune.

The Bears aren't going tomorrow. Phil is 0 for 2 at Elk this year.