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Hahaha that'll be a sick setup for you.

Yo Stevo check out this thread for a good laugh on this subject. The fun starts at the bottom of page two. http://www.paskiandride.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7550 Remember, the fact that you whip a Ferrari has nothing to do with your skill as a driver...

I'm 98% sure you're gonna get no interest here. You're market for this thing is gonna be in splitting up everything and hawkin' on ebay. To be honest you'll probably get more for the charger than you will for the camera, and probably close to the same with the memory cards. G'luck stevo...

Jeff, knee injuries are WAAYYYY worse than shoulder injuries. I know a guy that did the same thing to his shoulder that you did and he was out riding like 2 weeks later. You gotta be sooo careful with knee injuries.

http://www.paskiandride.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7815 Give that thread a try. Only posted 2 days ago. I'd love to try tele skiing, but don't have the money to afford that AND park skiing.

Never used them until last nite, and they definitely made a difference. However, thats also because I wasn't wearing the greatest gloves. I lost my Level gloves, and I'm soo bummed cuz I had multiple zero degree days in those and was never cold. I've been wearing these crappy Nikes I got for free. Buy good gloves like Levels, Hestras, etc..., and don't waste your time with liners.

Ummmm, yes we do. Beginners often move in random directions and are unpredictable, making them a higher risk for even the most agile skiers to accidentally hit if those in question make a sudden unexpected move. Furthermore, when they see people maching down a trail at them, it strikes fear into their hearts, and the most common reaction to this scenario that I've seen is that they fall down. Happens all the time on all the slow skiing trails at Blue. Even if YOU can play human slalom, that doesn't mean that all the people who consider themselves expert skiers and riders just because they can do Challenge in a wedge are able to. Just like we need to set the example by taking off our skis and boards to climb the steps into Sidewinder, higher level skiers and riders should set an example to those who can go in a straight line just as well as we can, but don't necessarily have the higher level of accident avoidance and traction control(ie. stopping and turning) that we do. Disclaimer: I'd like to note that if Burma Road has snow blown all over the sides of it like it currently does, anything is fair game on it.

Stayed tuned for Demo days at local mountains. I know Elk had one recently on a Friday, but I never heard any follow up on it like who came and what not. Last year K2 rep Tom came to Blue's late in the season an had a large amount of skis on hand for demo. Other participants included Nordica, Elan, Blizzard I believe,Volkl, etc... Some of them might have '07 product already.

Haha nice. You bumped up quite a bit there. The PE is a ski that will let you send it and charge hard. The noodle you bought before woulda been a bit floppy.

Todd Richards and Pat Parnell commentating Olympic hardboot snowboarding was by far one of the funniest routines I've ever heard in my life. They had everyone at the site laughing so hard they could barely do their jobs.

Not cats, but people who actually do the grooming. Don't hold me to this, I just think its true. I need a true insider to confirm.

Snow Grind web address. http://www.snowgrind.com/index.html Danny has been doing most of the park grooming. From what I understand he does ski. However, I don't think he skis everything in the park to its full extent. There is no problem with that, at least hes out there. Between all the other trails, and the fact that to my knowledge they only have 3 guys that are grooming right now, they definitely don't have time for something that takes as much time as a pipe does on a weekly basis.

This post is messin' with my mind mannnnnnn. What if Friday really is a weekend day??!? Duuuuuude I never thought about this before. Groooooooooovvvyyyyyyyyyyy maaaaannnnnnnnn!!$#%&&*$#%$#**~!!!!!!!!

Yup, I regularly do when I'm up there, even if I'm not on duty. Yesterday I think I did it 5 times in a few hours with a lil help from my friends. The reason they get so packed with snow is the fact that people walk up them with their gear on. Snowboards hold a ton of snow and it all gets put onto the steps as people tap and drag their board sideways up the steps. Everytime we were up there shoveling them off, we told more and more people to "please take off your gear," and by the time we left the steps were not getting packed even as close to as quickly as they previously were. I'd love it if the members of this board could set the example for the other people entering the park. Please take off your gear, boarders its not that hard to take one foot out and then put both in once you're at the top. The people who need to be educated obviously are not reading the signs, so please educate through setting the examplethey should want to follow. If they see all the people who can rip ollieing up the stairs or hustling up them with their gear on, we are going to keep on having the same problems we are having with keeping the stairs clean and having people with no clue whatsoever. While shoveling the stairs I've been politely asking people to remove all of their gear and please remember to stay well to the sides of landings if you won't be hitting any of the features. I've been nice and explained things calmly to people who had questions or made rude remarks, and so far it has worked like a charm. The same people were taking off their stuff every run, and sure there were still a few clowns who walked up them with their gear on, but every little bit helps. I'm hoping we can get someone in uniform up at the steps this weekend to maintain/inform, I see it working if we put some effort into it now. A sort of "troop surge" if you will.

Actually yes they are. There halfpipe regularly gets accolades for being one of the best in that region, and everyone I've ever talked to who has gone to Sunday River has awesome things to say about their parks. Its mostly just that not a whole lot of people make the trip because Vermont is just that much closer. In terms of who is building the parks, I've heard some positive, and I've heard some negative. I've never had the opportunity to meet the guy, but from what I've heard hes a pretty nice guy who means well. Management has told him what they want, and that is what you are seeing. I love the flow of the top part of the park right now, and have heard from several others that they do as well. There are some great jib options all the way down to the first turn, which has naturally become the first stopping point. Due to the tight turns of Sidewinder, I've kinda lost my belief that the park could be a couple nice lines that flow down the whole run. Instead, I feel like its much better setup in stages. Right now I think the top is dialed, the middle section(bus, swingset, double jump line) is pretty damn close to dialed, and the last section could use a little work. Back to the steps, I don't think they are working in the aspect that most had anticipated they would function, but I do believe that they have done something beneficial. Everyone is now forced to recompose themselves after climbing the steps, and most of them look around before they start down the trail, causing a lot less of the people who are actually riding the features to get snaked by those who the steps were originally foreseen to keep out. Once you make it down towards the middle and lower section on a busy day, then its a different story, and I see some bad accidents in the very near future with how little space there is to manuever for jumpers and gapers on the last hits in the park. Hopefully nothing will happen, but one can only hope.

Nice to see at least one person standin' up for the guy. He's been gettin' a sick dosage of Pennsylvania hate lately.

Yes, but like Mary from Bear Creek posted above, he/she won't win anything decent for it. They'd likely be better off competing in the open category. People usually know which category they should enter, but whether or not they do so is sometimes a bit sketchy.

Like Toast said, that means nothing about whether it was a freestyle skier. Thats kinda like saying someone who drives a nice german car is automatically a good driver, it may or may not be true. That sucks you got hit though man! I like to hit back if at all possible, and don't forget that liftline dominoes is not a frowned upon way of getting back at someone for f**king up your run.

AHHHHHHHH!!! I hate that when you mess up mid run due to a heavy night of partying the night before!!! Haha. No jokes though good job man.

This is your first and only warning for the "bitches" comment. If you'd like to debate people, please do so respectfully, because right now you're not earning any. Based on how much money Blue has pumped into the parks/pipe in the last couple years, the fact that they now have Freeride programs for both skiing and boarding, and that Come Around still has freestyle features on it even though all of the other parks are open, I would not hesitate to say that you couldn't be more wrong. You post like you know quite a bit about the mountain... If so, then why do you appear to be unfamiliar with the reasons that management at Blue has given for not instituting a park pass system? It is a fact, not my opinion, that the industry is supporting to an ever greater extent the park/pipe/freestyle scene, and it will not be the parkrats who are going to other mountains, but people like you will be forced to deal with the fact that there is money to be made from styles of skiing and riding that are other than your own. This is a hot one so I think I'm gonna leave it alone.

Yup yup. Government sponsored if I'm not mistaken.

Yup already did it Saturday night. Gotta get crunked though.

Thanks guy!

Word on the street is that Ed's House really doesn't officially exist. Yes they are still setting stuff up, but due to liability they don't want the Ed's House name being used anymore.

Just a few shots from today. Hopefully the park will stay nice. Probably workin' in there a good amount tomorrow afternoon.