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Torah is bangin and rips harder than I ever will. I like Kelly's style a lot though. Who says Burton shit never breaks? How embarrassing for Burton, and how much does that say about White that he can throw down on a broken board?

25' table? into a 10' step up that you can carry pretty far

Tell me about it, its like sticking a fork in my ear the whole time. What the hell is amplitude? We complain about it every year but the XGames are the only place the word is used in relation to snowboarding and skiing, it kills me. He got a lot of air he got high out of the pipe, he didn't get a bunch of amplitude, amplitude is a measurement not a thing what the hell.

All of that is true, don't know when they go on sale though. Last year that deal lasted till 6/1, so its not like you need to jump on it just yet.

Tell me about it, so glad my girlfriend rips, a girlfriend either has to not board and let you go, or go and rip with you. If they go and suck, that would be the worst. My girlfriend does jumps and rails but hasn't done a pipe yet (probably because we can't find a good one, I have only dropped into 2 so far this year, and neither was great) The women went off tonight, they're stepping it up every year so much I think its almost more fun to watch the women because you can practically watch the progression of the group. You go to mens and its more about who can land their tricks in one run, most of them can do those tricks in practice so its just a competition composure thing, where as the women are riding on the edge of their ability during the comp. Go back and look at the olympics from a few years ago, tonight trashed that. Where as if you look at mens last year vs last olympics vs SLC olympics, it hasn't progressed nearly as much because they're getting close to the limit of it. I'm really impressed, the only thing is its the same 3 or 4 girls, so it is moving the bar up and they're young, but I would like to see the rest of the field get stronger.

Where the hell is tonights stuff? All I got is the 52164315 basketball game ESPN has televised this year.

Went up today with my friend, lapped the crap out of the place, not much in the way of lift lines and fast lifts. I don't think I had ever gone to Camelback on a weekday before when they where fully open, it was a lot of fun. Conditions where fast and hard all over, ice on a few trails but mostly good. We got there for 8:30 and stayed till 2, there was a big different between the morning and the afternoon (duh), but 1:30 it was pretty beat, but in the morning it was amazing. Best run for the day was definately Pocono Raceway, its not steep but if you bank in at high speed you can go crazy fast, its super wide, and lots of roll overs to ollie. We also like The Asp a lot, and Cliffhanger, and Nile Mile. We had fun on those. Worst of the day was The Hump, its not really moguls, its just screwed up. They where making snow in some places all day, about 3-4 trails where closed for snowmaking. Both pipes where closed for snowmaking, the little one was kind of stupid, it is cut but they have the fan guns IN it and are blowing AT the walls. What? The big pipe had no snowmaking, but it was definately ready to be cut, plenty of snow, already starting to get shaped. I'm glad to see they are letting the snow sit to compact a bit, that looked really really good. Laurel glade was laurel glade, same as always small boxes and rails, but the rails looked better than they have in the past. Lower moore ramble has 3 little jumps with basically no table/knuckle/landing. It is a ramp into a flat spot into a marginally less flat spot, I guess I'm glad it was like that cuz it was good to practice my front 3's on since I need small jumps (I'm a glass half full kind of guy). There is one kind of step - up table that was fun to launch some bigger shiftys and methods but it was still pretty small. Rhodo was closed - seriously, wtf. I can't even begin to describe how ridiculous it looked. You have a straight run down and you have 3 wall rides that are at the top of quarter pipes, none you can transfer over. Yet they are in the MIDDLE of the run and not the end. So yea, I'm coming down, flowing through 2 features and then, up take a quarter pipe and send me back uphill. Ok now I'm going down and up, hit a quarter pipe and send me back uphill. Do you see how that doesn't flow? And only 1 jump? Well I guess 2 if you count the one on moore ramble, but 1 frickin table top, with crooked ramps. I guess they're trying to be "creative". A few rails, they hadn't really made ramps yet (well I hope they hadn't cuz if they had, wow), they look fine, but they're not as good as anything else around here, even Shawnees look better. Oh well, glad it wasn't open so I didn't have to waste money on a park pass, wished I had brought my camera to take some pictures.

I'm with Justin, and the crowd. Dumont got f'ed. I think they should have put him in 1st and made T Hall work for it. Not to mention T Hall is a douche for coming down and being like hey your great but here is what you should do next time. Let him do what he wants he is going bigger than you.

I'm tuning in for pipe I missed slopestyle but I'm hoping for re runs. Why is it an 18 foot pipe and not 22? I'm liking it it though, except how they keep saying "amplitude", shut the hell up. When I go to camelback tomorrow I can't wait to hit a competition grade pipe it should look just like that one. Right? Right? I hope.

I think the new strategy is to offer different levels of features on different lifts so they don't intersect + add a much larger amount of beginner stuff to keep them away from the big stuff. In the old park riding your choice was to ride down the big park to get to the small park (like Blue is now) or take a green trail all over the place to get there. Now there are top to bottom beginner and top to bottom expert, separated.

What are the options? Does it recommend 80->287->Thruway?

Good TR. I can ride creek any friday/saturday/sunday in the next 3 weeks before I go back to school. Freeride/park I don't care, PM me, I don't know many people who ride Mountain Creek anymore so I generally ride alone there too.

No, it doesn't. I worked in a shop all through high school and I still go back during my winter break to help out, it might not be 2, but it is DEFINITELY less than 5. At 5 minutes each you are only getting 12 pairs done an hour, or 96 a day if you work 8 hours at that pace. Thats not many, we could do about 100 in 4 hours, so 25 an hour, so about 2-3 minutes per pair. You just can't do one ski start to finish at a time. One guy is running them over the baser and passing them to a guy doing the edges passing them to a guy waxing, its easy. If you gave me one pair to do in 5 minutes I'm sure I could, I definately have done that before when we run out of rentals that are tuned in a certain size and we need one right then. Thats not for a hand wax or a stone grind though, a hand wax + stone grind + ptex can take more than an hour easily. But it is a totally different result.

Absolutely. The only mountain I have ever seen with all white lights was St Sauveur in Quebec, and it was amazing. I've done a lot of night riding after school in my life, and that was a whole different experiance. Mountain Creek has them on 1 trail (the superpipe for TV at night), and it was a huge difference, I don't buy this "White is too bright" crap at all.

It can be done, a stone grind + edge tune + hot wax takes 30 minutes? Just offer to pay for a rush charge and they'll do it. Failing that just get a quick belt sharpen & wax and take it for a stone grind and hot wax later, its better than nothing and that only takes 2 minutes.

Mountain Creek did this for a few years, it was gnarly. A 15 foot long 3" wide rail, about 8 - 10 foot off the ground. Not only that but it had like a 3' overhand on either end so if you where short, it would take out your ankles. About 4' gap on. I never even thought about doing it, I saw a few kids hit it. It was called the Poop Daddy, maybe google a picture of it. I'm at work so I'm not about to search poop daddy in google images for obvious reasons. I didn't mean putting the swingset in a jump so you would land on it, I just meant use the end so there would be less consequence of falling off, it would be like 2' above the ground the whole way, kind of fun for those not hitting the jump because it would be easy & safe- which it is not now. What would people be doing with it if there was no consequence to it? I bet a lot more. I was trying to push out and gap to the 2nd down on the down - flat - down box, and its pretty do able to get down there I was just unable to land it. Thats about the closest to a jump landing on a down rail i want to get.

Seriously. Beginner skiers/snowboarders both push the snow around, both scrape it off, both present a danger in the park, and both ruin it for the advanced guys. Thats why you get used to riding within 6' of the edge of the trail after 1, all the snow is pushed over there.

Thats awesome

Yep, sorry to say but thats the truth its not a binding defect or a chairlift defect. Most chairlifts will hit your binding, just not low enough to cause damage. I make sure mine is lowered, make sure all the people I'm teaching & with know, and when I sell bindings with locking backs (Burtons) I tell them. They should have signs though, if they have signs to tell you to keep your ski tips up, a sign that says lower your highback would be warranted. I guess its not the mountain's problem but it would be helpful. I have definately seen signs at a mountain before - I think it was Belleayre.

NJ snowboarder gets killed in terrain park Pro skier killed during filming for Warren Miller movie + What we heard about in the Blue forum. Bad bad week, fuck. My heart goes out to all. I still say the drive up is more dangerous than the skiing, I wonder how many accidents on the way to the mountains there are that don't get mentioned. But still, I've always known this sport is deadly, but normally it is stories like "3 college kids went out of bounds without beacons after a 5' storm with 40 mph winds and where killed in avalanche", not people doing relatively normal things, you like to think it won't happen to you, but it can. I'm not saying that it will, but it just sucks to think that it can.

ha that is EXACTLY what I meant. What if they buried the swingest IN a table so it was like 2' above the ground the whole way? It might be enticing for noobs if you take away the fall, kind of followed the shape of the table. Then we would all be hitting the jump so it wouldn't be taking room from us, but those that wanted to hit it could. Kind of like how the bus is on the side of a table.

Definately good advice. Try finding a bump you can hit from the side, and carve a long heelside turn into it so that you leave the ground going perpendicular to downhill, then you basically spin only 270 and land going straight down the hill. A full 360 off a bump is hard, but a 180 isn't enough to teach you anything.

When we went for ski club Arrowhead, Tomahawk, Lower Delaware were our favorites. Hit the Bushkill park. I guess Renegade has a short head wall. I forget the name of the two short blacks at the bottom, take Lookout down and hit them. Honestly just start at the Delaware side and do each trail as you go across, it won't take long, the mountain is more fun than many would have you believe.

I've been doing a trip up every january with a big group for a while, its pretty cheap. I might go back again this year, their park is f'amazing.

Shiftys are my favorite trick this year, fun to see a few on film.