Johnny Law

SKI Magazine !!! Fuck son stop the presses I actually get that shitty piece of papyrus because along with Cat Fancy (which actually is a better mag than Ski) my sister gets them for free and thinks its funny to sign me up for random magazines. 90% of that magazine is advertisements parading around as an actual article. Its 4000 ways to find the best hotel or which valet service can find you the best coke. All you need to know about Ski Magazine is they think Deer Valley is the best place to ski in the NA. Deer fucking we serve our delicious hamburgers on monogrammed china while some South American takes your boots off Valley. Shit DV isn't even the best hill in a 20mile radius let alone all of NA.

Elks' snow can't be vastly superior to blue by definition, PA snow is hardpack shit, if you want to endlessly separate shit by just how shitty it is be my guest but it isn't like Blue is hardpack and they are riding 20" of 3% at elk. Elk is pretty much 10 trails straight down the fall line with no real effort required. Lackawanna, Seneca, TunkhannockMonongahela whatever the fuck its called are all the same. Stand at top, point skis down hill, don't fall over, rinse and repeat. As for the knob I see alot of I've never been there but I'll draw conclusions anyways because I'm clairvoyant. Whatever floats your boat Ms. Cleo Come on this has been a quiet summer, I even tried to get an apple vs android e-thug throw down going and that didn't take off. If shitting on various people's home hill is wrong I don't want to be right. LULZ

lulz Elk doesn't develop because they have no $$$ which is mostly because they are in the middle of nowhere. Not every place has to be whistler regardless it is a way overrated hill. Its kinda flat and the trail design and layout is pretty standard shit. Nobody even remembered elk existed and then bam ski magazine starts adding them to the asinine EC list and now its hot shit. Blue Knob is by far is the best hill in PA, but even Little Gap Blue is a better hill than elk.

SOLVISTA FTW!!!!

I know the record for PA was 186 in 1978 somewhere out by the Altoona. There is some debate because Blue Knob apparently got 220" but it was in 1890 so for some reason they don't count it. The PA weather book is old so it doesn't have the last couple years but it says 95/96 was the most for Scranton with 99" and Allentown with 72". It has snowed in every month in PA mostly in the Allegheny plateau and northern mountains where it can hit 20 in July and August occasionally. The earliest snowfall was in late August somewhere near wilksbarre with some big snows in late September early October. The general problem with PA is when the pattern is cold there is no moisture and when the pattern is wet the temps suck. Additionally when we do get snow it tends not to stick around very long. Storm chasing is the most fun because its all random and crazy but you know 9 times out of 10 the riding next day will make up for it. Also I like the super sketchy driving....you know its bad when you stop seeing truckers on the major highways.

Sick Bird ! Harden the fuck up there is nothing going on here, its the same ten people talking about nothing. The last posts were about who has twitter and a blues festival. Clearly all this mind blowing, life changing information isn't getting shared because of a few random posts. SICK BIRD

Thanks dude for all the hard work, the email about unsubscribing last year was pretty funny.

Wow I am shocked at WFR only for pro patrollers, to be 100% clear the dude's got a broken leg lets fix it stuff is actually probably better in WFR but EMT-B teaches you more about how the body works and more about equipment. Most patrolling is more ambulance based than say true guide types. Vail resorts and Copper are definitely 100 EMT-B. I wonder how far you can get on WFR only, most patrol houses are tiered. Volly's at rung 1, paid newbs and part timers at rung 2 and professional's at rung 3. The 3 level is where you want to be if you want to throw bombs and do cool shit all the rest are on bamboo and ropes. Regardless you are doing something great for the snowsports community, seriously its the lord's work.

I'm not busting your balls at all, I'm just telling you what I know. I have no less than a dozen friends who are or were patroller's. No offense to you, my cousin is WFR certified and its great but isn't the same as EMT-B and those are some serious hills. Wait are you trying to be a volunteer ? If so my fuckup I thought you were trying to get paid, in that case I'm a retard.

Most ski patrol's do not except WFR, essentially its a EMT-B type training they are looking for....Though who knows at some of the the smaller hills....god damn is that scary. WFR is great and essentially if you spend time in the woods.

BC didn't have a bump run when I skied there, I don't like bumps because it makes my knees hurt and I suck at it. I took one run with AS on main st last year and was on my ass within 45 seconds...bumps are the mtns way of telling me to go find some pow.

Lulz Stowe doesn't have a village it has the same thing Killy does just further away. Unless you count the barry money hotel monstrosity. Pre AIG Stowe was alot like Ascutney, living off an image and history, Stowe itself was even more quiet than now. Killy in the Otten and ASC glory days was the best party in the state. The barn got seriously rowdy and I've never seen a place with so many skiers. Times have changed and Killy is a shell of it former self but it still is the place to party and ski on the EC outside of the reggae party at the loaf. Killington is a ski town bottom line, it generally makes more money than Stowe, nearly all of which is related to skiing. Even Rutvegas is highly dependent on the resort. For 41 consecutive years they put skiing first and were first to open and last to close, the were the first to use the ticket wicket, they were probably the U.S. leaders in expansion and trail cutting for near 30 years, millions and millions of people got into snow sports at Killington. Stowe and about 100 other hills are in part what they are now because of Killington. Killington has its share of problems and probably will for some time but don't discount its importance to EC snowsports, Sugarbush, Stowe, and shit even Jay pretty much copied their model 20 years after the fact. Blue would be lucky to have BC's staff and groomers. The hill itself is shitty but everything else is top notch.

Your mother fucking killing it straight up

I'm compensating for my language at home, daughter is in the repeat stage so I've really cleaned it up. The second sentence is the cold hard truth, better get a decent job and get your duckets in order. Poor people will crap out first and the price will come down as long as the non OECD countries don't suck up the excess capacity. There certainly is rampant speculation at play in the market but that's adding 50 cents to maybe a buck, they will cash out in maybe 6 months when the higher price hurts their positions more generally but its $3+ until somebody figures out how we're all moving around without sweet sweet crude.

While I realize its alot more fun to be an idiot and think that somehow exxon or chevron is fucking you over, Oil is a fungible world market. What we used to call the big seven aren't even big anymore, Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon, Chevron, BP, etc. are tiny compared to Saudi Aramco and Gasprom. Exxon is no more able to determine the price at the pump than I am able to shit rainbow sprinkles. Gas is expensive because its pretty fucking important and kinda tough to get out of the ground, sprinkle in some speculation and your easily at 4$ a gallon. At the most basic level a team of people has to study for years sometimes to find recoverable reserves, millions of dollars of equipment and personnel are then brought it and they drill a hole 20,000 feet into the ground where they then use the earth's natural pressure to pump that shit to holding vessles. It is then pumped to another vessel which then ships it thousands of miles to a terminal facility where it is again delivered to a refinery. The product is then refined, delivered to a distribution center and then trucked to the gas station where some schmuck either makes a 1/4 of cent a gallon or uses it as a loss leader. All that shit and your bitching about 4$ a gallon.......get a fucking clue dumb fucks your aren't going to be able to use endless amounts of energy for the rest of your lives its simply not possible. Lets not even talk about EIA estimates or Land Export Model or how 300 million dumb fucks can't get it through their head that you are not entitled to endless amounts of thermal energy.

The better question is why the fuck did they put their tent there ?

Pioneer Peak

You want to ski deep pow go to UT end of story, no where outside of maybe interior BC is even close.

Brighton is sick as shit, use your dome and find the goods.

Only one day at highlands but will be back next year for sure forgot about the greatness of that place.

Highlands bowl today was awesome....only two runs....I'm getting old

Blah blah blah too much talk the mantra is shit its for wankers that cant sku you have the mechanics you can carve a two by four it aint the ski its the skier

Got to try the bridge which is shit no metal too soft. Mantra is about the same too narrow. Next years goat is amazing like always, stiff crazy stable and easy to turn. Graphic is a simpler black and gold pattern that I really like though graphics are like a persons choice in music.

They aren't much stiffer but enough that you notice I'm at beaver/vail right now hanging out and testing next years boards. Will hit aspen friday then abasin sat then dia to reno. Got to test rossi,nordica, head and blizzard. Dynastar and volkl tomorow.

Got 11 inches two days ago yesterday was sunny and beautiful got to test 195 super 7 from rossi sick sick ski