sibhusky

ski999, you've stopped when I was stopped to give an interview. I think you thought she was cute as I recall....

Well, as I recall, it's all bumped up. No grooming. If skidude races long enough, he'll end up there and you can see for yourselves.

I've given interviews many times at CB and never felt it to be an imposition. If some jerk kills himself at CB because he was on something he shouldn't have been on and CB loses some suit, the ticket prices go up. The only time I was unhappy was when I told them it was "icy" and they changed it to "frozen granular".

Above from some website about skiing. So, it doesn't mean 60-some degrees is impossible. I would imagine that the trail overall is not 66 degrees, but that some portion of it may be.

It's steeper than 45 degrees. Now I don't know "grade" from "slope", but I do know I stayed off the thing.

Siblet had her PA Cup SL's there on a parallel trail. That was an eye opener. The place is like a volcano core or something. It just pokes straight up. Really small, but a lot of angle on their trails.

I wouldn't judge a place as having the "most vert" based on their advertising. What counts is how much vert you can do in a single run. Right now, you can't do their trail with the most vertical as the trails just aren't open. We are having a heat wave here and my skis are in extreme need of some hospital care after being at this place. ROCK CITY!!!

View down the bowl below the Shedhorn lift. Across the way is the private Yellowstone Club. View of the Challenger lift. I came down this and it looks a lot steeper when you are on it than it does from below, let me tell you. This is looking pretty much straight up the way I came down. Looking toward the Lone Peak bowl area:

Views from the tram. I did NOT ski down from here as the signs said that they guaranteed you would damage your skis on the rocks and I was already pretty damaged from the "groomed" trails. Also you weren't allowed to take your skis off in those sections as it "made it worse":

View from top of the Swift Current chair across to the other peak: Views of the bowl below Lone Peak: Views looking up to the trails serviced by the Ramcharger chair: View of Lone Peak. A tram runs up to the peak.

These are from my trip to Red Lodge a week or so back. Red Lodge is NOT a destination ski area, it's more of a locals' place. They have mostly manmade snow there. Just like my trip there last spring, most of the place was not open. What was open was only half groomed, the rest was bumped up and had rocks in it. The view off the main side of the mountain is mostly of the prairies. Off the back side there are mountains, but the back side was closed so I didn't get over there.

Actually, the steepest trail in PA is at Denton -- Avalanche at 66 degrees.

That's why I always called it Suicide Alley....

I am probably the only skier in the whole state locking my skis out here. But, after years of skiing back East, I know that it only takes a minute to have piece of mind.

Did she ski or did she like the town?

The course was really long (2.1 Km) and lots of people along it, so there could have been, but I wasn't looking.

If I wasn't in a hotel room I'd pull out my dictionary and convert 6'2" to cm's, but I am sure at the WC level there isn't any "shaving the rules" going on....

She's 5'3". You know how long the minimum length ski is for a FIS downhill? 205cm's!!!

Never I hope. She didn't do the downhill here and has no plans to add that to her repetoire. In SL and GS you usually don't die. Downhill you can die.

I don't have any pictures, because I was too worried to deal with that, but Siblet had her first FIS SG today and survived. She lowered her FIS points from 990 to 208, not a fantastic day, but better than last year's USSA race. Now that she has her confidence she plans to really go for it tomorrow. She looked solid and I will try to get some pics tomorrow. I hate speed events....

Sounds good, but you ask the guy did you make the gate, if he doesn't know, you head down. Later if he decides you MISSED it, you tell them HE TOLD YOU HE DIDN"T KNOW at the time. He can't change his mind later. He either saw it or he didn't. The rules say if they aren't sure, you get the benefit of the doubt. It's written on the gatekeeping card.

If the gatekeeper didn't see you miss it, why did you hike, he should have either cleared you (in which case you go down) or told you to hike (in which case you hike). If they are unsure, they are supposed to give you the benefit of the doubt, which means they should have told you to go down.

Let's see, you have adult friends here, high speed quads, and a top notch race program, plus no crowds. Seems like you should be moving HERE, not to Elk!!!

Yeah, well the store where I work spent too much money replacing or repairing stuff they sent via UPS, so if it's fragile, they now use FedEx. BUT the local FedEx delivery guy doesn't have the stones to drive to my house and leaves things in town and I have to call around trying to find out where he left it. He never asked me if this is okay. Unless the sender gives me the tracking number so I can find it, I might never get things. UPS delivers to the door. So, I send out via Fed Ex and have things come in via UPS.

At least they're "free". I don't suppose FedEx'ing was an option?