Roll Call for Friday 12/19. Who's headed to JFBB for fresh pow?

[TT C6]

I wasn't planning to leave till Saturday, but a few of us are thinking about heading up tomorrow for the fresh pow?

Who is heading to JFBB tomorrow?

 

As usual, I'm down with carpooling/splitting rooms or just meeting up there.

Let me know

[ectobar]

Don't think I'll be getting up tomorrow, but sometime this weekend for sure.

[bigdaddyk]

7.5 hours

[poop]

why do people like snowboarding when its snowing? tomorrow is going to be better regardless

[TT C6]

why do people like snowboarding when its snowing? tomorrow is going to be better regardless

 

I'd generally have to agree with you, but the best day I ever had at JFBB was when it snowed all day.

 

Isn't the only way to get ungroomed "powder" at JFBB is to ride during a storm because they are just going to groom overnight whatever falls today?

Edited December 19, 2008 by TT C6

[toast21602]

why do people like snowboarding when its snowing? tomorrow is going to be better regardless

 

skied in about 18 inches of snow, while it was snowing out in Jackson last year, and 6+ inches while it was snowing 3 other days. i would have never stayed in because it was snowing. Isnt snow the whole reason we are all out there every day?

[Robert2]

why do people like snowboarding when its snowing? tomorrow is going to be better regardless

 

As a daily rider I can assure you that the only soft snow you will ever find in the Poconoes is going

to be during a good dumping snowstorm.

We have nicknames for the surface at JFBB like Poconoe hardpack and boiler plate and groomed cord

because we rarely get much soft snow here any deeper than 6 inches in a storm.

Once or twice a winter we get something nuts like a foot or 2 but thats not all that often.

Todays storm JUST changed over, no more fluffy flakes, now its freezing rain so

we are not going to see much than this 6 inches depth here in Jim Thorpe....25 minutes down 903 from BB. This does not mean BB and JF are getting rain now, they are on top of the mountain.

 

As far as figuring how often we do get a big snowfall goes......

my bus ride will not take me if they think the roads are too bad and they canceled my trips

no more than 4 times in the last 2 years. That's not a lot of snowstorms.

 

 

Since we do not get great fluff snow from the sky we have to rely on grooming to give us a rideable

surface on a daily basis. Groomed cord is all I need to have good speed and control on a snowboard

but a lot of people think soft snow is the only good ride cuz they never learned how to ride

blue ice. Learn to ride blue ice and no surface will send you home complaining about conditions.

 

We have a name for fluffy deep snow. We call it Super Hero Snow.

Because you can pop off a headwall , fly like superman, and crash into a 3 foot snowdrift face first

and get up , shake it off, and ride away with no broken bones.

Same thing for grinding rails, tripping, falling , crashing....... in 3 feet of snow you just don't get

hurt but those same falls would have you fly out in a medovac when its boiler plate solid ice.

 

So yes, most park riders who don't get out that often will always have much better times playing in fresh heavy snowfall and less chance of injuries.

At the end of the season the surface gets slushy and that's not bad to fall on either in March

but most riders in March are really just the hard core riders that have been going all winter so

they know how to ride all surfaces by then.

 

I'd suggest that anyone making travel plans to forget snowfall and just come up and ride

wearing as much armor you can muster. If you need soft snow to attract you to play then

maybe wearing armor will fix that need for soft snow and you will get to ride without getting

hurt by the hardpack.

I always wear roller blade knee pads, wrist guards, and a snowboarding helmet regardless

of conditions.

[TT C6]

I always wear roller blade knee pads, wrist guards, and a snowboarding helmet regardless

of conditions.

Glad I'm not the only "nerd" who values my health and mobility. You can't argue with the above logic. If you try, you're just arguing for the sake of arguing.

[Glenn]

R2 if you don't get the basic difference in ride feel between hard pack and powder than you are missing out. It's so much more than just ease of turns and less injuries. It's the difference between being massaged by the slope and and getting in a brawl with it. I'll ride anything, but there is no way powder takes a back seat to ice just because I can't negotiate it without injury.

[Dan-]

To me riding during the storm is the best time to ride. I love it.

[poop]

im a fan of right after the storm, like the nights it dumps a foot while the resort is closed. then getting one of the first chairs up in the morning .

[Glenn]

im a fan of right after the storm, like the nights it dumps a foot while the resort is closed. then getting one of the first chairs up in the morning .

 

Why settle for one good day when you can have two in a row? The second day you will be far more ready to ride powder than those that waited since you got some practice the day before.

[Robert2]

R2 if you don't get the basic difference in ride feel between hard pack and powder than you are missing out. It's so much more than just ease of turns and less injuries. It's the difference between being massaged by the slope and and getting in a brawl with it. I'll ride anything, but there is no way powder takes a back seat to ice just because I can't negotiate it without injury.

Yes... of course.... we all want to play in powder....

all I was saying was that we do not have the luxury of powder every day so

I am resolved to the fact that hard ice groomed hardpack is the mainstay

staple of Poconoe skiing.... so learn to ride it and enjoy every ride instead of

missing out on snow time because the weather wasn't perfect bringing soft

snow to the hill.

 

 

I've never considered boiler plate riding to be anything like "getting into a brawl with it".

Its just another type of riding to learn to love.

Since I don't jump or grind rails I'm not putting myself in harms way , I'm just riding very fast.

Thats my adrenaline rush. Speed.

[method9455]

im a fan of right after the storm, like the nights it dumps a foot while the resort is closed. then getting one of the first chairs up in the morning .

 

That is true but when its snowing during the day its going to get all tracked out anyway, better to be one of those doing the tracking.