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Thats pretty impressive. Does anyone else have a pure snow pipe? Thats gonna take a lot of the white stuff, but if any mountian has the power to put it down, I'd give the benefit of the doubt to Sno.

about the X-games. Nothing good, nothing bad, you would expect some kind of talk right after the only mainstream competiton for freestyle boarding/skiing. I'm guilty of not really watching a whole lot of it, but I did watch most of sunday's daytime coverage. Here are my thoughts on it. I understand that they have to dumb it down a bit for the ordinary audience, but wow, those announcers were killing me. If I had to hear them say "scare case", "stair-ilizer" or "kangaroo flip" one more time I was serously coming through the tv at these guys. I did like the set up for slopestyle though. It looked like a good course, some very nice jumps, the rails could have been better, but they weren't terrible. I watched the Skier-X races too. I thought that course was awesome and there were a lot of great races, very exciting competition to watch. I also really liked how Daron Rhalves (who I only know of because of the racers here, and subsequently rooted for because of this) entered. He was smoking everyone through the first couple heats, unfortunately he took a nasty spill in the finals. The one event that was a first and I hope a last that I saw was the snowboard best trick. They did it like a tournament, with each rider facing the other head to head. 2 hits each, best score advances. The problem here was that the jump just wasn't big enough. They couldn't throw flips, only spins. It also got pretty stale, since you were only competing against one guy at a time, there were certain situations where it was actually advantagous to hold back and just beat the other guy by landing something small. This was pretty lame to watch (especially when someone would do the same trick 4 or 5 times in a row). They also did this one live, the guys got back up to the top of the jump somewhat quickly, but they took their time (and rightfully so) which didn't make for great TV. They have to do something better next year so they don't have one hit every 5 + minutes. As for pipe, maybe someone has more input than me, I wasn't around to see the finals, and I'm not really a big pipe fan anyway.

You know, since I saw that picture of of eveyrone at the table, I've been thinking of a way to get a shot of somone sliding it, and someone eating. Maybe throw a picinic basket/blanket in there somewhere.

The woods on Lightning are always a good time.

I really don't know if I would be able to get that close to a mountain and not ride.

I never really understood why Frost never got lights. Every other mountain in the area has them. Even Elk, which doesn't subsribe to any of the pocono norms has a few.

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I wear polar max and I love it. Super comfortable and works like a charm. I love Under Armour and I've got a ton, but only the free stuff I got from playing basketball.

Yesss!!! Seeing snow from top to bottom definately made me happy, but this just put it to a whole new level. Just say when and I'll pry myself away from this place for a PASR day at Sno

I saw that pic and the footage on the news. They didn't show any footage of the wreck though.

I love the ones that just say "obstacle" on lollypops next to a rail, especially when you can see the rail from a lot farther away than the sign.

Exactly where I"m at right now. When I first started riding I progressed through each part of the mountain and never even thought twice about jumps or rails. At this stage in the game I have done every black/double black in the area over and over and over again. Within the realm of progression on trails I'm done right about now. There isn't a trail in this area where I feel I have to progress more on. That being said, I am beginning to move to the park. Its a place where I am definately not the best I can be, and I can still progress as a snowboarder. To stick to ripping down trails would be a disservice to myself at this point. If I'm not progressing I might as well just buy a ticket for snowtubing. Sure there are people who have not mastered the rest of the mountain, but thats their choice. Its pretty hard to compare a free style champion with a gold medalist racer. I know though that myself and a large number of people have, and are moving forward as mentioned above.

It sure seems that way. I was trying to keep people away though and send them to boulder. We can't be having a lot of people going to Sno, it would be unnatural.

Woah, I don't like this attitude thats starting to develop, remember how awesome Frost and Boulder are?

Doug and TGR round 2...........

definately a sweet edit. loved the ending.

Only a little more than halfway for me. Sweet edit though

Just pointing out this word before this thread gets shut down. Continue gentlemen

Are the waffles really that good?

Next up, a flock of bactrians and a few dromedaries. Could someone warn us of the day the release the Asps though, I don't think I want to be there for that one.

So clutch......

Did the patroller grabbing you happen in the lodge or on the snow? The story suggests on the slope, but last time I checked there weren't a whole lot of cameras on mainline.

I have a wig left over from halloween......

My $0.02 on this issue. Why not throw some more rails in there? I was looking at some of the pics of the park from CB's website and it looks empty. This would solve a lot of issues. First of all more features, especially side by sides, creates less traffic on them. If half the people hit the left rail, and half hit the right, then you've got half as much rutting to deal with. This would also make more people happy. I understand that LG is the "Progression Park", but having 3 or 4 ride on rails isn't progressing anyone anywhere. All the jibhonks here would love a huge battleship or an urban set up, but I understand why you wouldn't put it in there. Why not go for something just a little bigger then? A good example of this is the Freedom Park at Boulder. I don't want to start a comparison thing here, but even just one box like they have in that park would go a long way. A long flat box, maybe 1-2 feet off the ground, with a little gap to it. This would allow a simple medium for people to start learning gap on moves before they graduate to Rhodo, and will keep the more advanced riders happy as well. I don't think anyone on here would be opposed to a nice smooth box to get tech on. Well theres my 2/100 of a dollar. Who knows if it will change anything, and it really doesn't affect me all that much because I don't go to CB a whole lot anymore (too expensive for a day ticket), but it kills me to see a mountain with more than enough capital having a bad little park "because eventually we'll have a big one!"

Thats really creepy TP4 Back to the clear cutting though. When I was up there for opening day there weren't any trees between the trails, but there were enough rocks, stumps and pipes to keep me out of there. Are they planning on opening that area up for skiing/riding this season? If they do they're gonna need a ton of snow to get above all that stuff.