Johnny Law

The PX series blows hard in comparison....word is that rossi made new heal molds....fucking a super sweet. Though that totally ruins my retirement plans of slowly releasing my hoard of turntables on TGR's gear swap...

You make it sound like we all participate in some kind of death sport..lulz Snow sports are a pretty safe sport for the most part, shit look at any hill in this area and most of the people are complete idiots yet 99% of them go home in one piece. Regardless of the inherent danger in the sport the amount of instruction you have only really plays a part in your chance of injury at the beginning of the process. I'd bet the percentage injured is pretty close between noobs and the ultra talented, the noobs don't know what their doing and the ultra talented are really pushing the envelope.

That's a gnar little hill...I think they have the worlds only triple diamond !!!!!

Your probably talking about a p10 or 12 which is similar but not exactly the same. This "new" binding was a FKS 155 or P18 and they are the worlds greatest binding unless your a kid or suck. Retention was excellent as they had tons of elasticity so if things got a little fucked you could still pull it back together but they always came off if you leg was going to snap. They stopped making them because of wear on the molds and the higher cost of production as compared to their current piece of shit. They haven't built new molds and as far as anyone knows aren't going to so if you want any buy them now because it doesn't look like they can continue to make new pairs.

Jay was fun on Saturday though alot of work. Almost totally an upslope event, 15-20" up real high and almost nothing in the valleys. It was nice to get back out again.

My fault...hopefully your on the money with this one. NWS getting into the act..reach arounds and 12:1 ratio ummmmm diamond dust THUS FRIDAY NIGHT...RASN AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS WILL CHANGE TO SNOW...WITH SNOWFALL RATIO BETWEEN 10:1 AND 12:1. COLD AIR ALOFT WILL BE SLOW TO MIX TO LOWER ELEVATIONS...SO RANGE OF SNOW ACCUMULATION WILL BE VERY ELEVATION DRIVEN. MOST VALLEY LOCATIONS REMAINING IN THE ALL RAIN OR RAIN MIXED WITH SNOW CATEGORY WITH LITTLE TO NO ACCUMULATION FRIDAY NIGHT.

Thanks for the heads up Hurricane Schwartz Its in the EC Roll Call thread on TGR, its one of the VT TV weatherman. 30 is probably pushing it as 27" would be a hell of alot of upslope but its certainly possible. LH on FIS is a cool dude and is the best EC weather guy I've ever seen, check him out if you want to know the real deal. Jealous, the views are going to be amazing. Get some and let us know if the mice get your TP.

Powder mag tried the same thing for a month once and it only sorta worked out. Though come to think of it their standards are pretty high.

Definitely even if they don't spin the lifts 30 with rocks skis would be worth the effort in skinning up. Honestly though the best part of this possible storm is that we would finally have some snow on the ground.

"EURO model says it drops 2"+ of QPF as snow across the northern Greens, northern Whites, and NE Adirondacks. Its showing 30" of snow at Mansfield and Jay Peak. It even has BTV receiving 1" of rainfall on Friday/Friday night before changing to snow with another 1" of QPF falling as wind-whipped wet snow on Saturday " Not my words but holy shit that would be nice EDIT: Fucking Canadians.....Canadian model shows far less accumulations.....hmmm

Big time possibilities for Sat/Sun in the Greens, Whites and Daks...its about time. Get some...

I forgot about Monarch & Mirkwood...excellent suggestion....god damn it now I really want to go to CO and do a little tour of the state.

Good snow, cheap, low crowds but pretty flat when compared to its neighbors. When it really dumps it is so flat that you have a tough time keeping forward momentum. They tend to get a little more snow than others so its not all that surprising that their open.....plus they don't really have anything super steep and boney that needs time to fill in. If your in the area definitely spend a day there, hopefully it snows and you'll have an epic day meadow skipping. That said I wouldn't want to be there for multiple days as there isn't enough interesting terrain. Do a little CO tour, fly into Denver and hit up WP as its one of the closest to Denver, drive a few hours to Vail and ski, ride down 24 towards Salida and hit up Crested Butte, then go further south to Wolf Creek which would put you in perfect position to hit up Telluride which is a 1000 times more impressive than Wolf Creek, last leg would be a loop up to A$$pen . Some of those drives would be a little long (4 or 5 hours) but you would get to see alot of very cool state and get alot of different skiing in.

Everything is shitty right now, positive NAO and AO shitty PNA. Looks like this trend will break in 10 days or so, honestly though anything over 3 or 4 days is 90% bs.

Jay

I would go with something like a Metron, big power shovel for different kinds of snow and massive side cut for easy turn initiation and all that shit. Atomic skis are well made and the lower level metron's were pretty forgiving. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001IWHY76 All noobs need something that turns easy and is durable, the metron did this very well.

Where you going ? I'm going next year and can't decide between Niseko and Hakuba, Niseko gets more snow but Hakuba has better terrain.....

Well then maybe Jay is back in the mix, 30 mins and they can drink somewhere in CA.

Fix the heal fix the problem... Now seriously tele is cool and a great way to get up the hill but there's a reason only 1 dude has passed that French SAR test on them. No matter how good you may be you will never be able to have the power and precision of similarly skilled locked heal skier. The boots are more comfortable and the pivot point is more natural than AT bindings but that's about it. Your sacrificing alot of down hill capability for what is now a pretty modest uphill gain and really at the end of the day going down is the primary reason you were going up in the first place. Dynafits are lighter and arguably more durable and all of the at bindings have pretty acceptable pivot functions. AT truly is the best of both worlds. There is stuff to explore in pa but really only because your bored, look for power line cuts and petro pipelines. Power lines normally have some small scale brush involved because there only trying to keep plants off the towers. Petro pipelines are pretty much just grass, nearly perfect for skiing. Buckeye operates nearly all the lines in PA so check out their map page and look for something crossing over a good sized hill. http://www.buckeye.com/Default.aspx?tabid=113 Cambria is close to you (assuming your in state college) look for where it crosses Bear Gap....

I can't believe this but I agree with you, Stratton, Okemo, Snow suck fat monkey balls. Go to Stowe end of story.

Nothing secret, its supposed to snow up there this week and they blew some snow a few weeks back when they had the patrol refresher, plan is to blow as much snow as they can in the next few days and see what accumulation they can get. Apart from Killy and maybe a few whales on Snow all the mtns in Vt are pretty much snow less. Jay can see alot of snowfall when others don't but I'd still figure they are looking at the 21st weekend if not later.

I wish just a good friend who lives in Randolph who works with alot of mtn opperations peeps. Good news Mt. Snow will be open the 13th with mother natures cooperation of course.

Word is 48-72 hours of 28 degrees and their open, its supposed to rain thursday but its going to be real close.

Don't know about killy but the vast majority of snow they blew melted with last weekends rain. Someone over at kzone or whatever would have a better idea. Snow's the one who said the 21st not me, though I would also tend to believe they will open earlier if possible. The loaf isn't opening until the 20th and its far colder there than Willimington , VT so who knows how snow making's gone. Cams seem to indicate they haven't started blowing yet...http://www.mountsnow.com/livecamshot.php

I have it on good authority that the beast will open on the 14th with the exception of Sunday River this will be the only hill open next weekend as Snow, Stratton, Smuggs and Stowe plan a 21st opening. Belleayre is kind of a shitty mtn but it would be nice to get back out on snow.