sibhusky

It's about time they tried to extend their season. You notice that it's a 50 year record for number of days, but only a 20 year record getting into April. Gee, was that round about the time that Sam Newman took over? It took new management to get back to having longer seasons, I guess.

Movie from riding the chair today. Don't know what's with the pink, it happens sometimes and not others.... Started uploading at 7:45 PM MT tonight, it was still uploading when I went to dinner...... Movie From Chair

It's what is called an inversion when the cold air (and the accompanying clouds/fog) slides down into the valley and the warmer air is at higher elevations. Usually it'll be totally clear on the mountain on those days, but occasionally it's more like a "parfait" where you descend into clouds, out of them, then back into them again. It's nice because the people from out of town who stay in town think it's a miserable day up on the mountain and they decide not to ski, while we're up there soaking up the rays.

It depends on the amount of flats you are on. I don't know enough about snowboarding, but you know those cat tracks you all hate? Wax helps. Now, given the PA winter conditions, red wax is probably as good as "universal" most of the time.

I just about never hike. Let me know the year, month, picture/url and I'll tell you more.

Pictures of Big Mountain in Whitefish, Montana. I've added some more pictures to this year's tab, the last three dates. You want empty slopes? Here they are.

I use Dr. D's stuff, usually the red or the green hydro, occasionally the "universal", but only if the weather is just plain all over the place. Only time I ever wished for another wax was Sunday, temps were REALLY REALLY low (not as bad as today, but hovering around zero by 1 PM) and on my first run I went into the shade on a flat section. Major mistake. Had to shuffle my way out of it. All was fine an hour later, but Swix CH4 is better once you get into the sib-zero range. I just hate using it, it feels like it'll never come off, won't even scrape unless you reheat it. I thought I'd trashed my skis at the beginning of this season, the stuff is like painting on enamel or something. (This is the Swix CH4). But, it glides where no one has glided before, to paraphrase an old TV show.

The interesting thing about this is that at Camelback it was the "rangers" ("yellow jackets") who used to do the ticketing NOT Ski Patrol. To me, mixing a job that should be a positive thing (Ski Patrol) with the state trooper thing ("ranger") is all wrong. Also, it sounds like Blue is now worse than CB for ticket yanking? Or are there just more of you on this board who ski at Blue? All this happens because you ski at crowded areas. Maybe if they start limiting ticket sales (first come, first serve) they can afford to provide a more free and easy environment. Drive up to Elk. I used to really love bombing their cruisers.

Brings back memories. Reinforces the joy of moving to a better mountain.

Just wax with warm weather wax (red or yellow) and LEAVE IT ON. Make sure there is wax left on the metal edges, sides and base, to help ward off rust. Store in a DRY location (not the garage) and prop up on something to prevent the bottom edge coming in contact with cement (which can release moisture from the ground below) or, of course, any flooding.

No. Basically, you want to open up the pores with heat and use the clean wax to grab the dirt and pull it out. You scrape when it's warm so that the pores are still open.

Well, he's got this one year old daughter and a bad ankle. Time to rest and pay attention to her and his health.

Wow, they must really be hurting. I guess this is an effort to at least rake in food and beverage sales, but it would drive me crazy to be a passholder and all these foreigners get to come in and ski for "free".

http://www.explorewhitefish.com/whitefish_...gallery.php#top Pick the icon with the word "sKI" in it, second one down, right column.

Definitely demo. If nothing else, it saves you lugging your useless skinny skis out there. Last time I went to Aspen, I demoed a different pair every day.

From the descriptions, I can't tell if the lodging is at the top or the bottom of the hill, only that possibly there is a bar and from that you ski down to a lodge....I think. You need to ask type of lodging, where the lodging is in relation to the slope, where the bar is in relation to the slope, etc. I think almost all PA ski areas have night skiing and boarding, so that doesn't really narrow things down. It might help to ask if it was a big area or small area, but lots of newbies have nothing to base that on, they stick to one area and have no memory of the overall size. I'm thinking, though, that there are (or used to be) some honeymoon hotel type places that have a "ski area" of sorts that are part of the hotel grounds, which we might be totally overlooking.

Tanglwood?

Reading down the AZ topic to the company spokesman (this post) it seems like there more be more history and information surrounding the resort/poster interaction AND the suspension is temporary.

So, the sale is over by now and of course my wax is running low. Are the discounts working again? I'd go look on Epic, but they're down with a database move.

There's a ton of those guys here, laying trenches for the unwary.

I guess not bad, especially for protection against the aggressive ice in the Poconos. But, I've got to put in a plug for Dr. D again, www.racewax.com. Way more economical than SWIX for one thing, AND I've always found it easy to use. I just use either the red or green hydrocarbon, and sometimes (spring only) the universal hydrocarbon. I'll never go back to other waxes. I've got some Toko red here that's just aging and every time I decide to use it instead of the racewax.com stuff I feel the results aren't as good.

What color and type of wax was this? I've accidentally used CH 4 a couple of times due to forgetting about the PRIOR time and the stuff is like ironing on plastic!!! Provides a great protective finish, but it's HELL to get off. I ended up re-warming it and scraping and repeated that a few times. The scraper was useless otherwise. Then I pretty much logged up my brass brush with the stuff after that because the scraping achieved so little. Like I said, provided great initial protection for the season, but I'm not sure if it's worth it. Racewax green or red is all I use now. The green's good enough for almost every cold day if I need cold wax and comes off wax easier than that Swix CH4 stuff.

Sounds like he'll be fine, tho. http://othersports.virginmedia.com/minorsp...ws.php?id=25598

This happened yesterday, I am still trying to find the results. But, get a load of the "pro" course: http://www.skiwhitefish.com/events/whiteout_map_pro_09.pdf Last year (not sure if the course was the same or not) they had someone finish in one hour, 37 minutes. Basically, all the red trails are climbs, the blacks are downhill. And the trails they've picked to descend are on my list of "never in this lifetime".

Links to a couple of controllable panoramic shots on inversion days. These are shot using a remote controlled toy helicopter, equipped with a camera: http://www.gravityshots.com/index.cfm?fuse...360&id=5399 http://www.gravityshots.com/index.cfm?fuse...360&id=5398