sibhusky

I will work Mon, Tues, and Wed, which will be one downhill and two mens' SG's. Unfortunately can't take pictures when you're gatekeeping.

Slideshow of parts of women's SG I wish I could figure out how to make this flip pictures faster. Anyone who can help, let me know. Remember to hit F11 first. Then click on the Play button.

Here is a course map:

I gotta wonder if any of you know what an oxymoron is, with these answers. Examples: military intelligence, jumbo shrimp, dark light, etc.

Don't know if they've fixed this or not, but they used to have a ladies room with kid-height toilets. Add to that a door that was practically touching (okay, maybe six inches) the toilets. Now put a woman in ski boots there, trying to lower herself without leaning forward and hitting her head on the door. There are also some at my new mountain like this. I'm no good at the limbo either.

Starting tomorrow.

Well they get a lot of air going over Russ's Street and since it's Corkscrew, it squiggles. This is the section where Bill Johnson was injured years ago.

I've added to that link with some more pictures of Hellroaring Basin and a trip down Gray's Golf Course into the trees. First image is of Hellroaring Basin as seen from the top of Ptarmigan Bowl. Then we take a trip down Slingshot before we take the Gray's Golf Course descent, which has the REALLY FAT snowghosts on it and ends up in a lot of trees. http://www.siberianrescue.com/other/Feb2006 New pictures start with Image 12.

I thought you'd all be interested in the preparations going on for the NorAms starting tomorrow. There will be two Super G's for the men, two for the ladies, and two downhills for each as well. Due to the fact that downhills involve training runs, our mountain will be partially closed for the next 8 days minimum. Extensive prepartion is necessary to run speed events at this level as the racers typically reach speeds of 70 or so MPH. Race prep netting started going up weeks ago, and due to the constant powder dumps, they've had to work extra hard to harden the course. At these speeds, we don't want ruts and moguls. The race course gets to be like standing on a marble floor that is slanted. Enjoy, and as always, hit your F11 key before starting. NorAm Prep

But is Jere a female or a male? And what should I tell the guy about him/her as an instructor?

Sounds like a familiar last name? Team dad or team mom?

On another board they are asking about the names of some good instructors at CB. I told the guy to come here, but with the carrying on, I am not surprised he didn't pose his question on this board. Does anyone have any input on a good ski instructor for an adult?

I think both of them are trolls. Maybe even the same troll.

It does sound like a good opportunity to shave points because I am expecting that they won't ski their hardest. But we just had an interesting weekend here. The first day, the best (by a wide margin) skier finished back in the 20-somethingth place. So, the race penalty went up. That made us unhappy. But the next day she finished 1st and so I thought since Siblet finished higher that her points would be better. Wrong. Whereas when a top five girl's points are taken out of the penalty calculation it influences the penalty by no more than 20%, when she finishes where she is supposed to, it influences the RACE points by 100%. So, even though Siblet finished 3 places higher the second day and the penalty was lower the second day, she finished further back from the winner in terms of seconds than the day before. End result was that she got worse points on the second day. So, assuming the Ski Team guys ski the way they should be, it may or not be helpful to have them there.

Siblet would rather ski and so would I. Not everyone wants to be someone's groupie, begging for an autograph or whatever.

I find it hard to believe that anything involving some material is going to do all the things they claim. And if it does, it'd cut off your circulation. Now, if they have some kind of rigid things running through it, maybe. But it sounds like close to $100 for a pair of tights to me.

Yes. Wait until the end of season sales or the August sales. Then buy some OTHER jacket. The Spyder products we have are not as waterproof or warm as any other piece of ski apparel we've owned. So, it would last you forever, since you'd never use it. My best ski outfit for most conditions is a detachable one piece made of all conditions Goretext by Schoffel or something like that. I paid $150 for it at a pre-season (read leftovers) sale two years back.

I pulled out the directions for my watch, purchased last season:

piqued, not peaked

I don't usually pay much attention to snowboards, but there was a gorgeous one leaning against a rack here this week. The brand was Arbor and I think it said it was an A frame or something (didn't want to peer too closely, guy might have thought I had ideas of taking it). Anyway, it looked like one of those vintage wooden speed boats, with highly varnished different woods in it -- stripes of different woods running lengthwise. I don't know if the wood was real or not, but the board was beautiful. What's the story on that board, just curious. Looked it up: http://www.backcountry.com/store/ARB0006/l...&swatch=ARB0006

Papa's been reading up on things. You might want to mention that USSA and FIS have Super G and Downhill events.

I put some Febreeze in mine over the summer (had lots of time to sink in and dry) and they seem to be a lot better -- at least I haven't smelled them lately and it used to be you could smell them at 50 feet.

Well, here's more pictures. First ones are the first time I could see ANYTHING other than white today. I could have taken pictures, but you would have thought they were BLANK. These first ones are as the clouds are finally lifting at 4:10 in the afternoon. http://www.siberianrescue.com/other/Feb2006 Imagine how bad it was before that.

There is a super pipe, but I had posted pictures of it before. It is NOT OPEN. It was supposed to open a couple of weeks ago, but they are waiting on some piece of equipment to arrive from Germany. No one seems to be poaching any runs in it, either. Latest info: "1.25.06 brothers and sisters... just want to give everyone an update on what's happening with the new superpipe. everyone's excited -- no one more so than we, the fishbowl crew. we're so ready to schralp that thing we're drooling all over ourselves. the minute the average temps drop below 24 degrees F, we've got staff and equipment poised and ready to drop over 100 million gallons of snow on the sucker. if that sounds like a lot, well, it is. but that's the real number. so, peace be with you out there, pray for low temps if you're so inclined. somebody call a doctor, because right now we're all being patient, but soon we'll all be sick." We are getting TONS of snow here, frankly I could use a break from it as the roads are a nightmare and I can't see a thing most of the day. But the temperatures are not that low....if they were I wouldn't be getting so darn wet!

Speaking from personal experience, it's probably the ski area didn't pass the info to the divisional webmaster.