Johnny Law
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Not going to happen, no money if blowing now.
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Which one were they on ? 912's? Its pretty simple if you go big skip the bs and get 18's or ninjas everything else is filler. You can get 18's for $150, put them on all of your skis and jesus will reward you.Problems I saw were with Sollys just straight blowing up on landings. Perhaps they're a very good binding for regular skiing, but once people started doing the bigger jumps and spins was where I saw the problems. I do have to give them a little credit and say that the people breaking them, with the exception of Justo, were going real big and blowing out toes and heels.
No pics just videos, the bindings don't have all the plastic make them look nice parts on them yet. This binding is almost all metal, kinda heavy but nothing like the Reactor's.I couldn't find any pictures. I thought the Line binding was onto something if they weren't so stinking heavy. Lots of park skiers blew thiers up too. -
Solly bindings weren't shit it was just that they had a manual toe cup adjustment. Looks and others always automatically maintained the toe cup with the exception of excessive boot wear. On the wings of the toe pieces there was a little set screw that would loosen up as binding was worked, the toe cup would adjust as if your boot all of the sudden became two sizes bigger, no forward pressure means the binding won't work and your ski is coming off. Loctite fixes that problem right up. To be honest I think this was 90% of the problems people had with solly binders, the 914 and 916 is a burly burly as compard to the new z10 which is crap, pure crap. How do you think they made the binding so light, a butt load of plastic. The new looks aren't that great either, the hole pattern is kinda tight and rips out of the lighter skis which lack the glass/metal layers found in other skis, and the heal piece has too many stress points on those little tiny wings. I would take a pair of ninja 916's or 914's over the new looks or sollys any day.
Now to the real problem, with the exception of the Duke/Jester markers are only good for expensive paper weights, door stops and a weapon, hence the old I'll beat you with a bag full of markers.
Anyone check these yet, very very cool. Hopefully better than the tyrolia heal release.
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It's incredibly frustrating that there isn't some formal process that can be done to protect high risks activity producers. It's what the back of tickets are supposed to do...
The alternatives for those of us who don't lawyer up at all opportunities are much more dangerous. I'd rather break myself at a resort where there is emergency staff readily available.
I think the same people who complain about the prospect of park passes are the ones who end up suing the resorts as well.
The main problem with that is that in many states in the US (I don't know anything about CAN legal system) you can't sign away your right to sue regarding negligence. Which makes perfect sense right, imagine you sign a waiver and then park is filled with shrapnel and land mines, under a system in which you could sign away negligence you couldn't sue regardless of what the mountain did. It is an extereme scenario but I think you get the point. Colorado has a pretty good system in which lawsuits are very very tough to bring.
With class actions, even in the best case in which the class is decertified, discovery is short and you win on summary judgment or its dismissed, the costs can still be in millions. Resorts will decide that its too much to risk and simply remove the parks.
Even if you have never even looked at a park it has definitely revitalized skiing and snowsports in general, next time you are at your local mountain check out the younger generation and what they are in to. Unfourtunently, this is more of a legal issue than a snowsports issue and unless the industry as a whole gets together and plunks down for a war chest this could get nasty.
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I knew eventually someone was going to do this, by the way RCR runs Fernie, Lake Loiuse, Kimberly and Nakiska.
http://www.snowboard-mag.com/node/28059
Article if your lazy
Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Focuses on Terrain Park Safety with an Industry-Leading Initiative
Calgary, AB
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i heard magic is opening, but without snowmaking. they ran into some legal troubles with their pond, or so its been said.
F***** I heard that too, I love Magic but they need snowmaking, this does not bode well for them.
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For me I take a few trips a year, and one of those trips is about 15 people who are all relatively beginner/intermediate aside from 3 of us. We could go to Kmart or anywhere really, we just need a motel or house to party at and some greens/blues for them and a few blacks for us, but I'm making it a point to bring all those people to Mount Snow because of their managament. I might travel to Jay or Stowe for better snow for myself, but the big friends trips they're getting my money. ANd thats 15 people x 4 days = 60 lift tickets * $50 = $3000, so yea, their attitude does equal money in the bank for them. Consider pre ASC sale, we where going to Killington this year after a good year at Mount Snow just for a change, but POWDR turned me off and so we're going back to Snow.
Totally agree about Powdr....have you ever tried Magic, it has pretty good terrain for S VT. Rumor is though that they aren't opening this year, I thought after last year they were doing relativley well.
Anyone ever get to Ascutney? I've seen Mt. Ascutney from Mt. Washington and from what I hear it is pretty steep with all the granite and hang gliding going on. From studing the trail map and Google Earth it looks like you could use the lifts to yo yo the terrain off of Ascutney North though knowing VT you would probably need a DR power mower
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That's cool I guess, Stowe has snow too and unlike Mt. Snow it has some vert
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old news for the most part......welcome to living with Powdr, some of this may be motivated by the village but it is going to be hard to get used to the fact that they will always be money first.
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It was sooo nice to get back on snow, and there wasn't a ton of people though I had to leave at noon. Snow is here and hopefully they will open more before I have to come back to PA.
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I've never skied Corbets and don't plan on it...mainly due to the exposure..If you mess up at the entrance..you'll ragdoll among grand piano sized boulders..I like skiing too much to risk a back-breaking injury. Corbetts is apparently easiest when the base depth is deep..because the drop-in is less...
Corbet's isn't that gnar all the time, depending on snow you can almost side step into it, reguarly the drop is like 10 to 20 depending on how you want to take it but with deep snow that isn't all that difficult just have to avoid the rocks.
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What's the park like at Jackson Hole? I'm sure I'll be plenty occupied by the regular terrain, but Im interested in catching some air every once in a while.
Mountain Creek in NJ sounds perfect for you, seriously though JH is better though Steamboat isn't just for families. Steamboat has really nice trees and Christmas Tree Bowl and the chutes are decent. Though not really in the same league as JH.
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Yeah we're all PASR maggots..alot steezier than the barking bears over at epicski..
I don't get that at all, I mean what the f&*k is barking bear ? They really should change there names to something more apt like Pink Flamingos or Angry Butterflies.
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I haven't been to Windham but I really liked Belleayre. Hunter bumps up and has some steepness to it but IMHO it is designed kind of stupid. The whole mountain is on top of itself and it leads to the a very crowded feeling when there aren't that many people. Belleayre has bumps and a decent park and has a much better layout and if I remember right midstation unloading on at least one lift. Belleayre is generally open a little later (maybe a week or two) though watch out for the burgers in the caf, only time in my life I have ever eaten something and gotten sick.
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99.999% of those people are not paying $45. The vail resorts 5 mountain pass included A Basin. The majority of people who live in the front range who ski buy the pass because its only $400, which is a sick deal for 10 days at vail and bc, and unlimited at breck, key, and a-basin.
anyway, thats why the basin is so crowded early season. about a bajillion people have the 5 mountain pass and only one run at one ski area is open.
anyway, i just recently pulled the trigger on the loveland pass. Hopefully i will be going up there on friday provided they open. I think i would rather wait 10 minutes at loveland than 2 hours at A-Basin
I thought alot of people didn't get there 5 mountain pass yet. Though I am probably 100% wrong and my friends are just lazy.
Dude I will be at Loveland this weekend if they open, if you see someone with a PASR sticker say hi.
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A Basin opened today and you got all this for 45$
Truly EPIC!!
A Basin rocks but ^^ sucks I think I would wait for Loveland
First ski area to open in the nation for two years running
Arapahoe Basin, Colorado
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Stay away from Mammoth lift #23. Esp on a windy day.
Or the summit double at Soli, on one particular day they had to keep stopping the lift as empty chairs were crashing into the lift towers.
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Anyone want to bum it for a few years
If it ever is what they say it will be, bums we be a plenty myself included. Did the provence throw money down for an airport? I thought in the never ending Jumbo conversation it was established that a larger airport was going in but I could be totally wrong. Anyone know?
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Rumors have had this happening for years but it has finally happened, Revelstoke would over cat, heli and lift skiing all from one village and North America's longest vert. at 6000ft. I'm sure some of this is condo sales bs (real estate is going crazy in Reve right now) but I saw the plans and the construction and this place has the potential to be huge, like larger than Whistler huge. I skied with Powder Cats several times and they have fantastic terrain. You get in the cat at the dinky Powder Springs ski area, climb several thousand feet, and then do 2,000 laps up high while looking across the river at the CMH Monoshees' terrain. Last run is 5,000 vert back down to the area however the problems I see are these:
Reve is 4 hours away from any large airport (calgary) and has a lot of closed roads between it and Calgary. On the way from Calgary to Reve you have to go past Norquay, Sunshine, Lake Louise, Kicking horse, and the turn off for panorama, Nakiska, jasper, Castle and Fernie. Too many other places that are working at less then full compasity, that are way closer, with better roads.Current large construction delays include from castle mnt to lake louise, then coming into golden, and then to pass from golden to reve was all delayed this summer badly. Still if this all works out this could be crazy cool, and unlike Jumbo it's already approved.
http://www.discoverrevelstoke.com/
Here are some pics
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Well, what pisses me off is some smart ass kid who thinks only gapers want the bar down. Call me an old lady, but I think after 35 years of skiing, 915 days, and over 14 million vertical feet, I am no gaper. I want the bar down to rest my legs so I can ski bell to bell, so SORRY but when I tell you I'm pulling down the bar get your damn head out of the way!
First off I'm not some smart ass kid, I am too old and injured to often to be a kid, though it would be nice to be that flexible again. Its great that you get out that much, my post was not meant to be 100% serious, more that I don't enjoy persons that slam the bar don't without looking two seconds after loading. If you look to see what is going on and let everyone know I'm cool with that. My apologies to you personally if I have some how offended you, my post was not intended to be 100% serious and was more about the Strattoning of a lot of mountains that had more of a soul.
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Noooooooooo. Those doubles were straight character all the way. I'm pissed they're takin' out all the scary lifts at resorts. The old Whistler peak chair used to be terrifying, but in a good way.
This makes Millicent soooo much more attractive for the noobies to ride, when it has some of the best lift accessed terrain at Brighton. Just gets tracked out quicker. I'm not gonna complain when I'm doing faster laps, but I'll complain now from my computer.
100% agreed...only gapers use saftey bars, really wtf is so hard about not falling of the god damn lift and don't say kids because even industry numbers say 95% of the people that fall off a lift have the bar down. No everytime I ride there gapers are going to crack me in the head with the bar lord knows that riding 2 seconds out of the lift house with the bar up results in 100% mutilation.
My apologies in advance the whole bar thing kinda pisses me off.
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The report says it would also have six lifts.....but don't worry they have already started selling condos for all those people that want to live next to a warehouse
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Let's see, for me that means anything goes all winter in terms of temperature, but above normal precipitation in early winter. Since we get most of our snow here in December and January, it means we'll either open early or open late due to rain. I think that pretty much covers all possibilities......
hahah you know I never looked at it that way but your totally right.
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I remember watching those videos. The UVM crew charged hard. I think they all moved out there last season, but how many of them actually stayed for this season to?
As far as a big trip. It's hard to organize something like that. I'd be all for it, but getting a set week in is hard between people in school and peoples jobs.
It's funny that you say the EC'ers just explode when they get out there because a local i talked to in one of the Shops in teton village said the same thing.
I don't know how many stayed but I still think people visit places like Jackson and then just move there. I know one is still in Teton village.
I think our motivation is just totally different, you feel like I have to give 200% because this is going to end soon and I don't want to go home without having done some stuff. I remember when I moved out to UT I had to keep telling myself to slow down or I was going to kill myself in a week.
I don't know about the specifics of a trip I was just saying maybe a get together would be cool, the Knob would be awsome if it was the right day.
WTFX wrong with my skis!
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All this stuff is easy to fix, just sack up and stop being jong's.
This faq will show you how to fix 90 percent of the fixable problems. Delam=Epoxy and clamps Base Repair=retards can figure this out, though you had trouble with the camera and autofocus.
http://www.telemarktips.com/BaseRepair.html