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i though snowshoe was like 5 hours from maryland - do u know the drive time?

i'll have a pink bandanna over my face, my board is a ride kink with black/silver striped top. the names kevin.

So sick, you are doing a really good job on that park man. I'm coming up saturday, I'd be competing but sunday I have work. I can't WAIT to see it. I haven't been to shawnee in 4 years, but I used to go there all the time back when I skied.

I'm stoked too. I'm kind of stoked on this shitty as winter. Maybe becuase I'm an optomist, but look how crappy its been. 1) Its never crappy 2years in a row so this year, a lot of mountains got more serious and will have even more stuff for next year and add in some good snow. 2) Mountains might budget more for snowmaking next year in response early in the year. The mountains that made snow early (camelback/shawnee) did better than those that didn't (mountain creek). We were holding on by a thread at mountain creek until saturday, saturday's storm killed us. They actually went from a 18 jibs and 5 jumps down to just 2 jumps and 8 rails. And creek was pushing the envelope this year, lots of rails, now we're up to 8 park trails, but no god damn snow. So far only 5 park trails are open and only 4 have shit on them and none of the ones that have shit on them are full. (plus the superpipe) i mean if we had snow we could definately have 11 jumps, a superpipe, and who knows how many jibs, just based on past years. Probably around 11 jumps ranging from 8-40 feet and 30 rails ranging from 8 foot flat bar/20 foot flat boxes, up to the 40 foot handrail and the 46 foot battleship box, the log features, the new kink boxes. Pretty much aworld class park. And the pipe is sick as hell. And you can see all the rails sitting on the side of the trails, and just NO FUCKING SNOW. Its sad, but if we get a cold snap I can't wait to see it setup. I can't wait for the PA mountains to catch up and imagine having 4 or 5 parks like this in the region? Imagine if blue/bear creek/shawnee/camelback and mountain creek all had quality parks? I can't wait to see that.

Hey, So i'm either going to University of Maryland or University of Delaware - I know the snowboarding is going to suck going from a quick drive to Mountain Creek to like a 1-2 hour drive for even the smallest of mountains, but what are my options? I'm about 85% sure it will be UMD but there is a 15% chance UDel if the scholarship comes through, so Wisp may or may not be in the cards. What is the southern most mountain in PA with a park worth a damn? Liberty/Roundtop/Bear Creek/Blue? But I can't figure out which would be closest and how far they are from UMD. I say this becuase I want to take a trip to one or two of them and see which I should be getting a season pass from next fall but I don't want to waste my time and money going to a place that is really far from UMD and I can't figure out which is closest.

the Twin and GTwin will be interesting, the CO2 maybe, otherwise a lot of the same. The Ride stuff for next year (specifically bindings) look good, a lot tamer on the graphics too. Some of the burton clothing is hideous, that white jacket with colors just spashed on it sucks. I've been through the whole catalog but haven't seen anything in person becuase I missed the Stratton shop day. I'm mostly stoked becuase my shop is picking up 32,Battaleon and Capita more than anything else. K2's stuff has been consistantly sick for the last few years. I'm so torn between a WWW a Darkstar and a Willie as my next park board, even over a Rome or an Arbor board. Not to mention I'd love a day on the Recon riser. I hear they're making the cinches lighter for next year which is a good start, but the Ride Alpha bindings are so sick I'm going to have to pick up a pair. Lighter than the Tomcats? A binding lighter htan the C60 but actually worth riding? It looks sweet.

well i taught like 6 or 7 girls how to snowboard last year (we're talking 17/18 not 11/12 i realized that sounded wierd afterwards) and they all offered up their donation to mountain creek's tree in like march, but they just took them off on the car ride up and threw them, not take them off on the lift itself. that would be impressive but nearly impossible

we all knew it was a popularity contest already, its the fakest competition in snowboarding. the olympics will be the same way becuase they're designed by TV and officials not snowboarders. Look at the good competitions, the Artic Challenge, Nixon Jibfest etc - all rider driven, all sick and creative and have a lot of progression. Not the same canned shit over and over.

yea i refused to hit it after about 12 last year, the only time it was ever any good was during a comp, those days it was so much fun. otherwise too many people who can't ride ruined it. hopefully sugar will open soon. i'll be at creek tomorrow, pink bandanna, black/silver striped board (for part of the day) and a clear/blue board (pipe riding), checkerboard goggles and anon hoodie, tan pants, black helmet. the names kevin if you see me call me out

man last year was the first year i aired out and it was so exciting. my style is so shitty in it cuz i feel like i'm just surviving but i was riding a Ride Kink in the pipe, now that I have a stiff board it should be fun as hell. I'll be up there tomorrow (wednesday), probably doing vernon park (first left with the two jumps) to super pipe all night (too bad the bridge isn't open). Black helmet, black hoodie, tan pants, blue altered genetics, checkerboard goggles and a pink bandanna - the names Kevin.

epoxy, a 6" wide vise grip, ptex, a file, and a base grinder.

thats a super sick video man, just fade out the music and the video on the last one to make it end right and send that shit to mountain creek they will post it on their website.

"though I think BC is well on the way to actually getting it done." i don't think BC has the weather, they get screwed over more than any other place becuase they are so far south. A super pipe takes a huge amount of snow, take a look at some of mountain creek's pictures. The amount of snow in a super pipe can cover probably a third of bear creek in full base, at mountain creek they ahve the dirt embankments about 15 feet high, and then they basically fill the valley inbetween with snow until its solid, then push it up the walls to make it about 22 feet above ground level with a 3 foot base in the middle, and you have a 19 foot wall. The amount of snow is absoluetly insane. as for the park pass, its a great idea. it did everything it was intended to do at mountain creek and makes their park so much safer. the crowds are usually pretty thin - so long as the easier stuff isn't park pass protected. those areas get crowded but the big stuff is practically untouched.

Look at all the park rats out there, if the park was good enough it would draw people. u'll have competition from xanadu but apparently they think people will pay to ski in the summer. Although i think xanadu is going to be a bust, its a bunny hill in the summer - it will be terrible. A park in the summer will draw die hards though.

first time i did an ollie box - about 32 foot long, first try - whole thing clean. i was so scared of having to ollie onto it and so stoked afterwards. that was the biggest adrenaline rush for me. that and getting my first air in mountain creek's pipe. looking down 20 feet to the ground is scary to a kid afraid of heights. i've done better stuff since but never as much adrenaline.

hows it going to be this sunday? i'm either going to camelback or shawnee this sunday and I want to give each park a fair shot in its prime to compare and i'll probably only go once this year so i want to see it when its not half done. if you told me it will be better the week after i might do camelback this weekend shawnee the next but i'd really rather do shawnee this weekend

last season - the flat-down box, remember the tiny ass gap? i went on a warm day and the ramp was melting fast, i had hit it the same way about 5 times and then i just came up short, maybe iwas tired, maybe the ramp was small, i dunno. At least I work at a shop now so getting it fixed was no big deal

i'm going up to shawnee on sunday to check it out for the first time in a few years, i'll compare it to mountain creek's. i dunno creek has done a lot with very little snow this year and get props for originality. sure the PA mountains started catching up on boxes here jumps there, but the wood features are mad fun this year. just straight up fun snowboarding the way it should be.

i personally don't have a leg bag but i can see their use. when i ride park i keep my gear to an ultimate minimum, i only carry my cell phone/car keys/tool/ipod - usually leave the wallet in the car and thats it. i really hate having stuff in my pockets because i usually wear underarmor and then a shell with nothing in between and youc an feel the crap in your pockets and when you move around it hits you, i'd prefer the leg bag to hold becuase it doesn't bother me down there and if you fall hard, the last thing to hit the ground is there so can't break the cell phone/ipod (would have to get a longer cord i guess) - but i dunno i don't have one. if they didn't look so gay i'd get one.

lower swing weight, they weight about the same but the skis have all the mass in the boot/binding while the snowboard has a massive amount out in the nose/tail, plus you have more stability coming in on skis so you can get more leverage on your spin

thank u creek for high boxes! actually that one was my bad for trying to take one straight on 50-50 while being llazy, i came up about 2mm short.

how is the reconstruction going?

No there are lips, the lips are like streestyle setups though. Meaning you have to ollie. The ramps end about 6" to 2 feet below the height of the rail, and the rail buts up pretty much to the end of the ramp and you have to come in from the side at an angle, so your kicked up but you can't go straight on except for the 40 foot flat box. Remember this is the park pass park, not the intro one. Speaking of nailing the end, last year i took a hip shot hardcore, split 2 boards on the end of rails, caught my nose under the rail and did a front flip twice, and took a lot of hard falls on this kind of setup. so yea its hard, but it definately makes you a better rider. i wish some ofthe gaps were lower. actually the flat-down box and the down box used to have like 2" gaps so you could ride on but the melting has hurt it

is that because trying to get up on those rails on skis is so hard? i've never watched skiers do street stuff - but thats the intended setup, interesting perspective though. if i were to ski i'd be going for jumps anyway and creek only has that 1 right now so kinda lame

Back from canada so now I'm hitting up creek 3x a week. Today (monday) was my first day doing that. Bought my park pass and headed down the Vernon park. Start off on great norther, choice of the downslope grandprix handrail from last season, and the down box. Both have streetstyle gaps to them (yes even the box has a 2' ollie gap) its pretty nasty. Then you go down, there is the setup for hte jump where it always is, but no jump yet, but they're blowing snow so i expect it soon. drop in, take the left onto indian you have a choice between the grandprix 4 step from last year and the grandprix 2 step from last year, then a nice jump. Its a stepdown, i'd say the lip is shoulder high, no exageration 25 foot gap. its what other mountains call a 40 footer. Good steep landing - no one is touching it. Then after that the run is empty, blowing a lot of snow and have a table jump about half done. The only other rail is the flat-down box where the 40 used to be. Then you drain out into the big open area and the 45' battleship box and a 32 flat handrail are side by side on this nice raised platform. If you go down to the right towards khyber, there is the C box where the slant was. Independance is closed. THen a 20 flat bar with a streetstyle setup. Then there is a tree bonk where the cbox was last year, its like a small table top jump but with a 2' diameter tree stump to tap and spin over. Backside 180 gap - extra steez. Then there is a quarter pipe on the side of the run, with a big log coping to do fun crap on, its about 15 feet long and its setup on the side of the trail so you can go up and rock to fakie/handplant crap like that, or you can boardslide it. Then the 40 foot by 2 foot box is really the only thing with a small gap, about a foot off the lip but you can definatley get worked by it. then a spine setup you rollinto a quarter pipe, log coping, quarter pipe on the backside, followed by the 40 foot downslope handrail. the flat section where the jump is, and then you meet back up with the other side. The halfpipe is almost done, should be cutting by wednesday, a sick amount of snow it in. they had to turn all the snow over after the rain to get rid of hte ice, but it will be done in time for the grand prix. Hardcore blowing on Half Moon (intro stuff) and Sugar Jib park (plenty of snow - no features). Nothing on indepencance yet (long way away). South peak, 2 jumps and 2 easy rails but i didn't see it today. i'll check it next time i'm up there unless I'm still adicted to the log features on kyber, they're absoluetly so much fun. I had more fun on that quarter pipe today than really anything I've hit in a while. no way to really hurt yourself, and so many things you can do. btw the mountain is making snow hardcore, so much everywehre. lots of fun ungroomed rollers to pop off of but probably not for long. some spots were sticky but luckily not in the park. the landing of the big jump on indian was pretty much untouched so might be a good time to learn some stuff.