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method9455

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  1. Yea, I'm off friday and if they're 6 inches of snow I'm still driving 60+ miles to get to a ski mountain. You just have to pick a mountain close to highways and its easy so its either JFBB, Camelback, or Hunter. Definetly not Mountain Creek or Blue - a bitch with those back roads and snow.
  2. Few parents do - it requires more decisions and more %%. Twins come as flat skis so you have to pick a binding. If you go with a regular ski the binding is a system and they don't have to make a decision, and the sticker price includes binding. About 1/3 - 1/4 of our inventory is twin tip (park & back country type non park twin tips) but we almost never sell them as gifts or for beginners. Actually we have entirely too many womens twin tip all mountain and park so I was pushing that to teenage girls just for the cool factor, but twin tips are still a harder sell.
  3. Hey, I'm going back to school next week and I have no Friday classes for the semester - but everyone I ride with does. I plan on going to JFBB, Blue, Bear Creek, or Mountain Creek depending on where I can find people to meet up with. I'll ride alone but I don't like doing the park alone in case I get hurt I'd rather not lay there without anyone knowing for a while because we had a kid from our school die that way - not a bad injury but he was in the woods and no one found him until it was too late. So if anyone has a consistent schedule/favorite mountain or whatever, I'm free every friday after this week. Park or regular riding, and in the park I'll ride with everyone from never done it to biggest jumps/rails I don't care, I just want to get out and ride.
  4. I would have to say the people with no skills at riding but spend all day in the park are most likely going to be snowboarders because they are usually skateboarders or people who are trying to be cool. So they can't really ride but want to do stuff in the park. Rarely do you see people who are bad skiers but trying the park. Freeskiing hasn't blown up into the mainstream media like snowboarding has. Plus - to get twin tips you usually have to buy your gear instead of renting it so that usually sets out the serious skiers from the non serious. Anyone can rent a snowboard for the season and go into the park and unless you know boards well it would be indistinguishable from a really expensive board. I ride around on a (sticker price) $800 board that has a top sheet that is basically just solid blue, and the base is solid black - just like all the rental boards from my shop that cost a small fraction of it. If you compare the rental skis we have to twin tip free style skis - they are obviously different. not to say the guy wasn't an asshole, just saying most people on twin tips don't fall into the suck at riding/ok at park category
  5. Yea I'm looking forward to it, and when I go to camelback I always bring my tuned up board because I don't spend much time in the park, and if I am I'm doing jumps so I use my good board for that anyway. Sometimes when I'm at Creek I have the jib board because 90% of their stuff tears up your base and then I can't ride pipe without going down to the basearea or the car and switching boards. But I'd rather keep one expensive board in good condition and then buy cheap boards to beat up on rails because they will get destroyed anyway. The good board is 3 seasons old and looks less damaged than the board I took out for 2 days of rail riding.
  6. Well weight and the board type have a lot to do with it. I can get 4-5 feet out of the Superpipe at Creek on one board and can't reach the lip on another. The one I can get out on is the hard carving/stiff board i have with a stone grind and a sharp edge tune and wax. The other is a noodely jib board with no edges and no wax and it can't even get up the wall. But also lighter weight kids have a lot of trouble getting out of the pipe. Thats one of the reasons women don't get as high out of the pipe as men do on the higher levels. Side note - its apparently almost official Mountain Creek won't be opening the superpipe this year.
  7. Good luck with that. Do you know when you'll find out for sure? If its bad and they say no more skiing just switch to snowboarding - a lot less work for your knees. My girlfriend and my other friend have torn their meniscus and they ride with a brace and have no problems on steeps/jumps/rails anything - snowboarding is way safer for lower body injuries.
  8. I really like C rails but I'm not great at C boxes. I dunno why that is but I always catch my edge on cboxes.
  9. I'll give Blue props for trying. I haven't seen this implemented anywhere else. They clearly have reasons not to go with park passes, whatever their logic may be, but they also recognized a problem. You can't tell me that an equal number of people are still coming through. Sure many are still coming - but at least some people are being turned away by it. Thats an improvement over doing nothing. Maybe this will wake them up to the park pass idea - it works perfectly everywhere else I've seen it. And Jsong did you see the video posted on here of a little girl getting hit in the head by a skier going over a jump. In that situation he couldn't have seen her no matter what - so what we're saying is that its nearly impossible to hit jumps and be sure you are safe. So far the only feasible idea I've heard is (i believe it was TP4?) putting a mirror so you can see around the lip like at a golf course. However no one knows if that will work, and it isn't going to be implemented anytime soon so, for now we're kind of screwed. My approach is to be as careful as I can be, if I see anyone who may be in the landing I skip it. You can't account for people who have been sitting there a long time and you didn't see go down before you - on bad crowd days I just skip the jumps entirely. But you will never ever be sure. Also before you go with the spotter root - we've already pointed out why that won't work, mainly your spotter needs to be at the jump before you, but once you pass them how do they get in front for the next jump? They are starting from a stand still and you are flying through the air. The solution requires getting rid of a lot of people that don't belong in the park - and I think it starts with a ranger clipping tickets for blocking landings. If they'll give everyone shit for stepping off a trail by 1 foot, start giving people shit for going into a park and causing havoc.
  10. Hate to be the grammar nazi, but they're all coporations - and big ones. The difference is public versus private ownership, as Jordan above said, private ownership is generally however much money we make, thats good. Public ownership is about percentages and growth. For example my dad's company used to make a product that turned a profit year after year for 15 years, but since being bought by a public company they cut that product out. This made 0 since to me since they were making money on it, but the percentage of profit was too low for it to still be made. So my dad's division was forced to make less money at a higher profit so the overall company's profit margin looked higher and stock price went up. Another factor out west is the forest service and the bears. Not all the mountains own land they just have rights and the government has a set open/close date each year. I have a feeling PEAK will stay open as long as possible this year, because they spent the money early and will want to advertise their long season, especially to sell more passes for next year. In order to pump out that much snow early they are going to be heavily reliant on the capital from season passes.
  11. Well what makes your draw drop at Blue? Nothing in there is CRAZY. So the S and C boxes are hard - they're like 3 feet off the ground there is no danger in them compared to something else. So the swingset box is high - its ride on and super wide. So there is a bus - its like a 3 foot wide 20 foot long box with no landing. I don't see anything in there that makes my jaw drop. Big Boulder has bigger jumps - thats draw dropping. You want to talk jaw dropping the only things this year that look legit crazy are gapping to the down rail on the big staircase at Bear Creek and the big jumps at Big Boulder are intense. I don't think anything other than those two are jaw dropping at all. This is jaw dropping.
  12. The only way to fix a pipe is to push all the snow in the middle and start over once it is open. papa is right that those are going to melt out big time as soon as we get some warm weather. There is also almost no hope that the pipe will have less air in it deeper inside. I thought they built that pipe way too fast. If you look at Mountain Creek they fill the ditch with snow, then run it over with cats for a solid week or more, push it around, run it over, push it around, run it over. What they are doing is removing the air from the snow so it is denser, and also letting it get more compact. Then they push it up on the walls and shape the pipe with cats, and then they cut it with the Zaugg. My feeling here is that it is not the Zaugg or the guy running it that is the problem - but rushing to get the pipe open. At least 3 or 4 days should have been devoted to letting it sit and running it over, but if you noticed we saw snowmaking guns and then grooming almost immediately. I reserve judgement on the pipe till I ride it, but that doesn't bode well. Also papa they can't cut it as often as we'd like, it won't last. Creek cut about twice a week last year and they started exposing dirt by the end of the year, and their pipe opened about this week. Out west if the thing is 100% snow you can cut much further without hitting dirt and your fine. Or you can do like Mount Snow and cut everyday but close it for a week midseason to rebuild it, because there isn't enough depth on the face. Worse than not cutting it now, would be to have it too thin late season after the snowmaking weather is gone, and have dirt spots appear prematurely and ruin the whole thing. It is better to do fewer cuttings not and when the conditions are prime in the spring it will be great.
  13. I'll admit I didn't think of the boots thing. Thats a good point and I could see how its useful, my snowboard boots have vibram soles and the only time I ever thought it useful was hiking pipe and park, but that would be advantage of snowboarding. As for the gear - obviously you have to compensate the guys somehow. Pro forms/season passes and tickets plus salary are key I have zero objection to that.
  14. That looks real nice.
  15. No I'm saying its NOT the park crews fault and I fell bad for them and thats the reason why a lot of people left. Actually its not even the snow makers fault - Mountain Creek just has shitty weather. I'd blame whoever designed the snowmaking system, it needs to pump faster for a given amount of time. They don't get many windows so during that time they need to make more snow.
  16. Yea the dimension look ok to me, but I'll judge it when I ride it.
  17. I didn't get a chance to catch anything but I'll see it later. I have to say the Chevy Grand Prix has a better vibe to me. Still most of the same riders (at least on an olympic year) but less hype more substance. You have to appreciate the X Games giving snowboarding and now skiing too a lot of exposure, but they way they do it is really bad. Its definitely run by people who think they are in tune, as opposed to those who are actually in tune. Put Dingo in as your announcer and it would be twice as good.
  18. Sitting at home reading this shit instead of getting to snowboard now that it has actually gotten cold. .... EPIC FUCK I NEED TO GET OUT AGAIN argh My 35 day season has taken a turn for the worse, I'm stuck at 10 and I can only do 2-3 days a week max between now and the end of the season, can I make it?
  19. --> QUOTE(Matt B @ Jan 28 2007, 08:40 PM) 130996[/snapback] so your saying the bus is 30 feet high without snow? dude look at the pics... theres like 5 feet thats not burried if your lucky hahahahah and theres no landing have fun falling off that shit hahahaha Yea want to talk about scary check out the daddy rail at mountain creek. Its only a double barrel, about 12 feet high, with a 3 foot overhang on each end so if you come up an inch short your getting your leg taken out and then falling 12 feet for your trouble. Thats the only rail I've seen at any mountain I've been to that I won't hit. Its a little higher than the swingset box, except 2 inches wide and a 6 foot gap onto it, oh yea and they don't make it on a spine like that, its the flat deck of a jump so if you fall you case it. I've still only seen 1 person even try it in person. In comparison the bus has a gap that doesn't look bad at all, is 3 feet wide, and if you fall off the side its like a 3 foot fall.
  20. Well at the top of the steps should be a sign that says "Terrain Park - free style terrain. Freestyle users only" Or something like that. Then there is no possible way to avoid the sign, and when people are like WHAT THE FUCK ARE THE STAIRS FOR - you can answer - so that you don't come in. or there should just be a sign "park pass required" and don't issue the park passes. then people will be confused and go away.
  21. Ha thats great. Or we could just do it on foot, no one can control a sled like a barefoot guy. Fuck that, barefoot is for pussies, I'm walking on my hands with no gloves and if they don't hire me ITS DISCRIMINATION!
  22. What kind of footbeds do you have? Usually you get shinbang when the boot is too loose and your foot is moving. If you get a high arch footbed it will suck your foot up tighter while still giving you room in the toebox to balance on rails. The trim to fit ones with a plastic arch are only like $30 and they're pretty good. Zapz are better and they're like $60.
  23. I agree, the most fun I had last year was getting four or five feet out of Mountain Creek's super pipe, it was a bigger rush than a huge jump.
  24. Yea I call bullshit on that story.
  25. Why would you want to do that? I can see zero advantages aside from just proving a point that it CAN be done, which of course it CAN be done. But WHY?
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