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Not the new Peak to Peak but a gondola collapsed for unknown reasons, basically one of the towers broke in half and the cable dropped. http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/C...BritishColumbia Looks to me like the same type of Dopplymar lifts that are at Tremblant and Stratton. No major injuries so far but people fell 30+ meters and a few gondolas hit the ground or stopped a few feet above.

Haha. Hey for my 2 cents, the seats in my dad's Corvette are amazing, definitely the most comfortable seats ever. As for performance, you can't help but have a shit eating grin when you drive it. I think ski boots can be made comfortable but there is a sense of masochism among expert skiers where painful supposedly equals performance whether or not that is true, and that was true at one point but today with the way skis are shaped I don't believe that to be the case. A lot of great skiers I know are rocking supposedly softer "comfort" boots over the Langes and the Nordicas and ripping it up just as well as those guys, despite having a "soft" boot or whatever you want to call them.

Thanks man I really appreciate the update. Most people on here who change their opinion on something will never come back and update us on it. If it can prove to be a favorite board of someone who previously hated it then they must be on to something.

Ski boots are so god damn hard to find the perfect pair. Dropping 2 whole mondo points is very extreme. If you had shin bang originally then it was obviously too large but you might have been better a half point bigger. If it was one or two pressure points I would say a little grinding would do it but if its all over then the shell is probably just too damn tight. My favorite boots this year are Dalbellos but previously I had been a fan of Tecnicas, but I generally have a wide foot. Putting on a pair of langes makes me cry. I would usually try on every boot over the course of the first few weeks at my shop each year, and of the 25 boots we had, about 3 would fit me well and usually from the same brand. My advice to you is to try on no more than 3 boots a day, and spend about 20 minutes in each boot. Once you find the best one, come back the next day and try them for 20 more minutes. You just get no feel out of it if you only put them on for 5 minutes at a time.

Great pictures, I'm so glad JF is open now the terrain is a lot more interesting than BB.

Nice. I can't tell you how many situations I've been in where I wished I could sew, there are a lot of useful applications. I splice line so how much harder could it be?

Nice pictures, I'm glad we're getting more media on PASR this year. Now we're in that classic "there is snow on the trails but everything else is mud" stage of early season that we invariable get to after the first thaw. I was thinking the damage would be worse than that.

The only thing is that yesterday it was really warm, 50-60, and today it was more like 40. That is a big difference. So even though it rained more today, it probably won't be as bad as yesterday. But yea, it is going to be REALLY bad at Bear. If Hunter was showing dirt patches on previously opened trails at around 5pm today, it will be bad to see the webcam at Bear in the morning.

Thats the best video quality I've seen on any amateur video, period. Editing is very good as well. I'm going to start hating on the riding because my friends and I taped our selves when we were at that level (though youtube/vimeo weren't around at the time so we didn't exactly share). Keep it up.

Man I just took the worst bike ride ever. It is POURING way more than at any point during the day, and its getting really close to freezing. I was soaked completely by the time I got back from the library. Its impossible to see the difference between 1/4" of water and 3" of water at night and I definitely hit some of the latter. I intellectually know that this much moisture just wouldn't come in the form of a snow storm but god I wish that was 3 feet of snow instead of 3 inches of rain. I saw some ugly numbers around, 1+ inches of ice coming down tonight in some places. Ouch.

What do you mean by the last part about Monday? I haven't looked at the weather in ages since I'll be buried in textbooks for the next 192 hours. Looking forward to Mount Snow Dec 21 to restart my season off. Injuries suck so bad, my girlfriend blew out her knee playing soccer and its tough snowboarding sometimes, though I do believe knee injuries are more of a problem skiing than snowboarding. I hope my neck doesn't come back to bite me this year, I'm taking it easy in the park until I really know how strong it is. I do know that it doesn't bother me free riding and I was worried that the vibrations might bother it because for a while even driving in a car made me feel like some asshole was poking needles into my neck.

You don't bring any entertainment though. I like a good flame battle but your stuff is so weak its not even worth reading. You're right, Papa/ski battles were hilarious because Ski knew what he was talking about and Papa knew what he was talking about and there was history that made the subtle digs really great and they were arguing over an ideological difference that was never going away. Who are you argueing with? What are you argueing over? It looks like you are just insulting Nick for no reason & having a strawman argument with the instructors. Your stuff basically boils down to "I'm cool, your an idiot, fuck yea". It's doesn't have any entertainment value for anyone else but you, its just childish. I'd rather you never posted again if thats all you are going to do, Realize that PASR isn't newschoolers, TGR, or snowboard.com with 50,000 members. We're a group of a few hundred that post, with a few dozen that actually meets up and skis together so its a lot less of an anonymous board than you think. Only about 30% of the posts are written by people that I don't remember having read a post from before. I lot I know only through PASR but still, with a small board you build up an impression about someone just the way you would in real life. You obviously know what is going on at Sno, so contribute something from that front and then people will actually start taking you seriously. Why do all the flames happen in the Sno and Bear Creek forums now?

The problem with the "well I'll see how it feels and it doesn't work out I won't do it again" school of recovery is that the one try can cause a LOT of damage and sets you back even further, no matter how easy you take it. I went back too early after a neck injury this summer and it put me back weeks and weeks. I lasted about 15 minutes playing the sport before it became way too painful, even though it hadn't bothered me during the normal day for a few weeks.

If it were cold enough for snow I doubt that much moisture would be in the storm anyway, its southern track is what gave it so much moisture. It is a LOT colder today than yesterday, so there will be a lot less damage to the snow. No one will have dry snowmaking ponds this year.

This is an aside but AtomicSkier do you buy into global warming? I can't find the article now but I read an article in an engineering journal that said the majority of US engineers DO NOT believe in global warming, where as the majority of the full population does.

The bubble is a bad idea for Bear, while it might save snow sometimes, on the nights when it would be possible to make snow, it would never cool down as fast as having nothing so you lose snowmaking time. And what are you going to do? Keep it air conditioned all year round? That would be horribly expensive. The Xanadu one looks like a loss leader just to get people to come buy crap at a mall.

That really is the question, how do you drain the water without destroying all the other snow that wasn't under the tarp? I don't have an easy answer. The whole idea of it, aside from covering maybe some of the lips, is not easy or someone would have done it already. But I feel like if they are losing $40k+ of snow a year, plus opportunity costs, there is a solution to the problem that would be worthwhile.

Really, the big thing for me is the snow quality. Lifts are good, terrain is great, management has made some lame decisions but nothing that egregious yet other than closing early last year (lets see if that becomes a trend), but the big knock is the snow quality. It is 2nd worst in my book behind mountain creek on a consistent basis. I see more ice, sugar, and death cookies there than anywhere else. Part of that is elevation, but a lot of it is snowmaking system and grooming.

Thanks for the numbers. Back of the napkin, you paid $0.85 per sq foot or about $7.7 per yard for that tarp. I found comparable tarps for $0.27 and $0.74 so I think what you are paying for is odd shape of that tarp so it had to be hand made I'm sure. http://shop.coversuperstore.com/index.cfm?...;categoryID=268 http://shop.coversuperstore.com/index.cfm?...;categoryID=268 It is still impossible to cover a whole trail, assuming 100 yards wide and 500 yards long, you need 50,000 yards of material. The cost is not really the problem, it would be $13,500 for the thin one and $37,000 for the thick on, but the weight is the problem. The blue cover would be 9 tons and I didn't even figure out the heavier cover because that is just impossible. The better solution is to get tarps for strategic areas. Whales, jumps, lift loading and unloading, areas that are critical or have a lot of valuable snow. The real problem is what happens to the water. It isn't permeating into the snow under the cover, but rolling off so its going to hurt the other snow even more. You would need to find places where drainage is possible. Plus if the tarp freezes after, you are screwed. I know for sure that a 50x50 blue tarp can be handled by 2 people. The 100x100 heavy weight one is more of a problem, but still 4 or 5 guys can move them. Unrolling them over the snow and staking them is quick, rolling them back up is the hard part. Maybe a start would be to buy them to cover the lips for park features so that you don't have to farm the snow off the rest of the trail after a storm like this. Get a few dozen 25x25 foot tarps, and two or three 50x50 for jumps. Still not sure it is possible to break even solely on the saving of snowmaking costs, but once you factor in the opportunity costs of having to close mid january like has happened a few times before, it might be worth it.

Thats awful. Mark I'm not looking for the number, but is it possible for you to quantify how much snow is lost after a storm in volume or dollar amount? I always wonder at what point is it cost effective to do something to actively protect the snow from rain events. I was thinking something along the lines of a baseball tarp unrolled over whales prior to them being groomed out during this time of year. It would be a lot of labor costs, but at some point it might break even.

Uh, not really. Fiberglass is near impossible to recycle so no matter what its made of, the board as a whole can never be recyclable. Though they do use sustainable wood and what not, thats all good, but I really don't think there will ever be recylable snowboards. I'm interested to know their lineage, is Mervin behind them or did they just license Magne Traction?

You still have those? How did they not get snapped up the price is absurd.

Ha now there is a reference

Really? I have Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.10 on 2 different machines with Firefox and have no major problems

There were 5+ days last year that I went into the trees and it was fine, and those were not in a row.