Glenn

Lets hear it for headshop advertising!

If they had fun, they had fun. One day they will stop having fun there and go to a bigger park where there are features requiring better technique. In the meantime... I think last year BB had a hike park with some small featuers that anyone could hit. A big butter box with a ride on lip, and some small boxes and rails. I think you are commited to JF/BB, but I think Bear Creek also has a park with features like the ones you are talking about.

Legit.

Lots of other ski sites would get you this kind of hook up. You just aren't part of the community in those other sites. But it is pretty cool of SK and BLC.

No "You got served" PS jobs?

And now how to make skiing fun for people who have been doing it for more than 2 seasons... Go with friends. Make friends. Try to pick up girls. Pick up girls. Poach the hot tubs. Tell gapers rediculous stories, and make them believe it. Realize you are were/are a gaper too. Notice nature. Ride open to close. Take a day off. Straight line everything you can. Draft ski bladers on the flats. Stroke a ski patrollers ego. Start conversations with lifties.

I ride a snowboard which is wider than the gotma for sure, but I still have a setback stance on my freeride board, and I wish I had a longer board with more setback, so I wouldn't end up back seat so much. Any serious powder skiier I've met on pow boards has them setback (at varying amounts of course). I just don't understand the purchase of a powder specific skis, for better powder skiing, then center mounting them. Even the guys rocking the reverse camber fat skis have them set back. Pretty sure tanner hall has his setback in believe and he even lands switch.

I like that you matte all your PS jobs too. I'm going to have to start doing that. Oh, and nice stoke T*Maki thanks for posting. Some good photo/editing discussion here too.

Wouldn't overexposed areas be really bright? Looks like most of that pic is under exposed.

So rather than just PS it and showing how rad you are, want to help the rest of us out that want better pics?

Actually the cloudy setting is under my white balance settings. I really didn't know what white balance was, here is a quick tutorial about white balance and digital cameras and image editors. I think adjusting the white balance could help alot for colors, and maybe adjusting exposure as needed for brighter pics. Someone else probably has a better idea, but I'm learning this stuff right now and thought I would pass along what I'm picking up. http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm

I think my cannon has a setting for "cloudy" in the color settings. Perhaps changing the exposure too. I'm still learning about my camera, and most of the shots I'm happy with happens in good light.

Center mounting a powder ski? I'm sure it's tons of fun for riding around slushy groomers, but the whole point is to float the ski right? Are you planning to land switch in the powder? Glad you found something you are having fun with though.

SICK POST

Bumps look good.

Thanks for taking pics Nick. I'll try to get a sequence up of the cirque sometime this week. I'd like to like to learn to climb, but I think the next time I hit that chute I'll just sack up and straightline it from the entrance rather than sideslip past the pinch point. To be clear though, getting faced in the right direction round 2 was WAY more terrifying than actually dropping that line. I just keep picturing sliding down that face backwards and catching an edge right as I was about to go over the cliff. And for the inquiring minds, I'm laying in the snow after rag dolling a 1/4 of the way down the main pitch of the cirque. I thought turning was dumb, so I was attempting to straighline tracked out 16 inch powder. At the bottom I spent a while trying to get snow out of my goggles so I could continue.

I was all ready to read through and quietly hate this TR. I don't though, really cool pictures, looks like everyone had a bunch of fun. Made me wish I was there, no lie.

Snowing here. Sounds like 6" at most tonight, but that would be outrageously good with how deep and soft some really cool lands will be tomorrow.

I guess mostly because I'm not the average recreational skier.

I can't watch the videos and the "press" and "archives" section of the official site are broken. It looks like they are running on padded gates with no poles. Am I missing something. Whats the gist of this and how is it more like regular skiing than normal gate bashing? Also, just thought I'd get a jab in and say Ski mag is lame.

I hate back to back posts, but here is a link to a TGR thread my boss posted up. It's from today and he is a nasty skier. I've been on a few of the mellow looking lines in that vid and they are serious business in person. http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116675 Enjoy

I wouldn't call myself a local. I know all the spots the 10 trips a year locals know, but I'm still finding cool new stuff every week. Usually I try to tell my boss about the out of the way spots I think no one will know about, and he starts to tell me where all the good hits in that area are. I haven't even ridden every trail here, and I likely won't unless we keep getting dumped on like today. Needless to say I did a lot of straightlining through bump fields to the shock and horror of many a skier. It's almost like hitting hundreds of mellow offset pillows.

The original poster gave up at post 3. Dog piling on with your half-witted responses isn't thread any less lame. Please stop bumping it.

Really now?

I had a holga I took some cool pics with. Medium format film, so when the pics are on, you can blow them up huge and not lose the quality. Not super practical, but kind of artsy and fun.