Glenn

Thats news to me. I don't have my contract anymore, can anyone else verify the dates for this season?

Closed.

After riding this yesterday I take it back.

At least the landing is steep, and if you even sort of land correctly you will ride away.

Baggy grey pants, Light grey hoodie, green helmet, cheap oakley goggles, also I have a beard. I would have looked for you but I didn't read your posts until after I had got back. I'll be up again tonight after 5 when my pass is good. You wouldn't happen to be the kid whose ski I landed on?

It has nothing to do with your opinion on CB. It has everything to do with attacking other members. YOU are the one who is not accepting of other opinions on the board. YOU are the one who would silence those who have negative things (or as the case may be, repeatedly negative things) to say about CB.

Why wasn't the stevenson open? The chairs were on the lift when I got there, but for whatever reason it wasn't open.

... and again I'll put it this way, did you de-tune or slide boxes/rails?

The lower moore park was open, but rhodo wasn't. I have no clue if laurel was or not. It was my first time through lower moore. The snail box shouldn't even be on the snow. The jumps is actually decent, but it's nearly impossible to get enough speed if there are people waiting and you don't want to cut them off. A couple of guys knocked the fence over just enough so they could ollie it and carry speed in from much higher. The hip is too small, but not the end of the world. Didn't hit the battleship, but it looked resonable, all things considered. The flat down was there. It had a small gap. If you hit it with any speed you would land on the down. The park was the nicest/best park I've ridden that CB has produced and only 2 features were really worth hitting. If CB put those features as well as some baby features in their beginner park, then it wouldn't be such a waste of space. Rhodo looked MUCH better, but it wasn't open. The gaps were still pretty big, but nothing looked outrageous or overly dangerous. I still probably won't hit the FDF but everything else looks like fun. The jump next to jibzilla looks like it's shaped the best, but presumabely because of CB liabilities the knuckle is rather ambiguous. At a glance it looks like a step up, but I'm pretty sure it will ride like a step down, with the landing being completely hidden until the last second. Regardless the landing looked plenty steep. Wall ride tranny looks better, but I'm going to say the wall ride is still way to vertical for the way it's setup. I'm not really a fan of wall rides anyways though. The flat rail looks like the best setup jib. Without hitting the features I'm not going to say any of it is good, or even acceptable, but there is hope. IF they ever open that terrain.

Eh, I guess that point is kind of invalid after looking at the trail map. There are no switchbacks if you take the diamond. The slower folks wouldn't be on that diamond in the first place.

I'd make the trip for $10 NF tickets. If that materializes please start a new thread with the info in the title!

Size 13!?!? I wear 9 1/2 so I can't really comment on foot print size but I think most manfacturers try to keep their boot as short as possible. I have a pair of this years salomon maori's and they are the most comfortable boot I've ever stepped into. I can highly recommend them on both comfort and a slightly stiffer boot with more support. They have a quick lace system which utilizes locks at the ankle and the top of the boot, and easily replace boot laces are used, not cables. I didn't really like it at first, just because it was a little different, but I get better, more consistant boot lacings with it. I still have to retighten my boots just like regular laces, and it's only marginally faster than tying my boots. Others with salomon boots have also commented on how comfortable their new boots were compared to previous boots they had owned. I don't know of anywhere that will have size 13 in stock though. Make sure you try them on before purcahsing!

Patroller > Ranger Heard this one on the lift the other day. "Yeah the snow is pretty good. You can kind of just sit back on the skis and just ride. I love thses new skis I got. They are about 2 weeks old. I was on straight skis before these. I still haven't gotten used to keeping my feet apart." You just won't hear that from a patroller. How many switchbacks are there on the traverse at elk, none; how about JF, none. also the distance covered is at least twice as far if not more.

I think you're out of your realm Metz. Unless you slide boxes/rails and/or detune your edges you can't really comment on how "park" skis perform on a groomer. I hit some boxes for 1 day with my freeride board (didn't even detune the edges) and I was having carving issues on it for weeks (when we rode together this year). The edges needed some serious sharpening to get them back into decent shape. Lesson learned. I can't carve worth crap on my park board because the edges have no bite. If I'm going to make nice rounded turns the snow has to be extremely soft, or I can't work my edge in. On the other hand, I some pretty firm snow with my freeride board now that the edges are tunes again. I can't comment on center vs. regular mounted skis.

Got to CB at 7:20 the stevenson and rhodo park were closed. I didn't bring my free ride board, so I just noodled around on the sides of the trails for a couple hours. The snow felt decent, but I had the wrong board. I expected to at least take a couple laps through rhodo. It started to rain about a half hour after I got there but it was only a little sprinkle. It started to come down a little harder on my last run which was around 8:40.

Well, if you want to get nerdy about it... Mass/Surface Area is the ratio you really want to look at. Both the surface area of the skis, as well as surface area and shape for wind resistance. Skill obviously is a factor, but then it gets far beyond "simple physics." Even finding the fluid dynamics of wind resistance is pretty far beyond "simple" You got it cheif, work out the details. I don't know how many Nastar dates are left in the season but I'm sure there should be one that both of you can make it to.

With some luck I'll make it out around 6 tonight, unless it's raining.

I usually see the CAT team waiting in the regular line. Maybe they don't excercise their right, but I can't seem to remember them using the ski school line.

Eh, usually they shut it down between 9-9:15 depending on how organized the ski patrollers/rangers are. With a novice boarder it takes an ungodly amount of time to get from one side of the mountain to the other. An hour is a bit extreme but I wouldn't be surprised if it took over a half hour for some.

Hero is pretty widely accepted as a type of snow. It's anything that is really easy to carve in, and everyone feels like they ski/ride well in it. Hardpack is not hero snow, and neither is "crud". Never thought about that before, but regardless I don't have the tools right now to view their style of video broadcast.

Oh, same goes for skiers.

I've read tons of a his posts, and spent several days on the hill with him. I have a pretty good idea where he is coming from most of the time.

1. I would want McD's to understand my frustration, and by the same stroke I would like CB and ski911 to understand the frustration. 2. McD's does post that their entire menu can be changed at any time both in price and content. They mention that to cover themselves for the RARE case when things like tomatoes are hard to come by (happened earlier this year). CB on the other hand flexes their "openings are subject to change" muscle on a regular basis. It wasn't a problem last year, but for whatever reason, they are willing to close the stevenson and apparently the pipe, rocket, etc at the drop of a hat. You missed his whole point, which can be rephrased in a slightly less entertaining manner to... Which makes more sense: Closing because of a non-existant loss of visibility during a light snow squal OR Closing because only one person is using this trail, and it requires one person to operate the trail (ie a park crew member checking passes, who could either be given the night off, or moved to another area which needed more help or any number of other options)

Agreed on the time element. I think the most important "condition" that could accurately be reported is average wait for a chair. I'd make it out on more sunday afternoons if I knew exactly how bad the crowds were. As long as conditions aren't bulletproof ice, I'll ride pretty much anything, but I'm not going to wait around 15 min for every chair to ride just anything. I don't think CB has the resources for an accurate reading. However getting the heads up at noon on a given day on the number of people in the sullivan gives a pretty good picture about what the rest of the mountain will look like for the rest of the day (if you know the patterns). I think it's kind of intersting that slushy isn't a industry term. Wet granular is a misnomer, as slushy clearly doesn't have enough stability to stay in grains. On the same note, 75+% of the time variable is the snow type. If the mountains are going to "average" the conditions over the mountain perhaps a tertiary condition should be listed as well. ,,, the only people I can convince to go to CB can't ride very well

... a large percentage of the board happens to agree with PapaSteezes opinions, but not his particular style. If you are blowing off what he has to say, Ski911, understandably a ski area can raise close trails whenever they please. Also a restuarant can change prices and menu without notice either. However, if McDonalds decided that on the slow nights during the week their dollar menu wasn't valid, I think I, and lots of my friends would stop going there, and I don't even order off the dollar menu ever time I go. It's one thing to have a special case scenario... a light goes out (which CB doesn't close trails for), there is a major accident to clean up (which CB doesn't close trails for), poor coverage, deteriorating trail conditions on a beginner run. However, CB's move to repeatedly shut down stevenson and the pipe just don't make sense to the consumer.