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I'll be wearing exactly whats in the picture below this post. Red jacket, gray pants, white helmet, black and white goggles. My board is kinda brown/gray. I'm not sure what my timing will be but I'm going to scope out the elevator and some other east mountain stuff since I haven't been to JF at all this year, then at some point head to BB and ride park.

Thats why we need it back. I'm not sure how much snow will be on it after the warmth lately but i'll be at JFBB on Saturday. Unfortunately I'm going up with a bunch of people and while I will get away from them, it prob won't be until 11 or so.

haha When I was there the 3 jumps in a row had his/hers ramps, and Id say 10-15 on the small side and 20-25 on the big side.

Graphite loki poles from back in the day, maybe 10 years old. You are right they are bendy but I haven't even figured out what to do with poles yet so it works for me. If I had to buy poles I would have gotten scott aluminum ones but these were free.

I tried to do some trig off a topo map but its not detailed enough to do the math. Seriously looking at it from river shot you think its a cliff the first few times, it took me a while to figure out what Jordan was talking about when he mentioned it a few years back. I hit it a few times last season at the height of the natural base and it was bad news even then, i have huge tears in my pants from the thorn bushes, but it was the steepest thing I've ever ridden. I rode everything at Stowe, Mount Snow, Tremblant, Stratton, everything else in the poconos, hunter, windham, belleayre. I can't think of anything east coast that is as steep - though maybe Whiteface or Killington or Jay has something I don't know, but from my history of places that is the steepest I've seen. It amazes me that it once was a trail because I can't imagine it holding snow without the bushes. While they make it unskiable, they also are making it skiable at the same time.

The jumps at bear are great right now. You get a lot more hits in one run at Bear than at Boulder, and pretty much the same number as Blue even though its half as tall. I could see a little more step down on all of the jumps just so that at the first sign of spring thaw they don't be come unhittable immediately. Put an extra foot of height on them now and when it melts a bit and gets stickier we will still be clearing them.

One of my only pics of the park. The park was well shaped but it snowed so much when I was there it was pretty much unrideable. Mount Snow has a bigger/better park but Stowe was good enough for me, and even at that I did 1 run a day max in it, there is so much real terrain to ride there its not even a consideration. If I go up for a 4 day trip, I'm probably going to hit the park on the last day only. Check out vrbo.com too for deals, I was prob going to stay at the Stowe Motel which is about $99 per room but I wasn't sure if you knew anywhere better than that.

GSS where are you guys staying this time around? I have a 7+ season pass so I don't care about the ticket rates, but the hotel is the big expense.

i'll be there the week before for my spring break, march 30 to april 2

Its the closest thing to 45 degrees I've ever seen if its not. I really can't think of anything steeper that I've seen for a sustained pitch like that anywhere in VT, NY or PA. The bushes actually ended up ripping my pants the last time I did it in a bunch of places, pretty much ruined the pants. I don't think they should clear cut it, but I think encouraging it to basically be a glade of bushes, and ultimately a glade of trees would be the ideal solution. Cut maybe 4 or 5 lines through it, don't put it on the map, and let the islands of bush grow thicker and thicker in between the lines so it gets more defined.

Count me in, I dont' know if they want to put it on the map or not, but when Peak took over it was poachable and now its pretty much not.

Great info, all around. I'm interested in Holiday valley, sounds sweet with the lake effect + trees.

Tecnica and dalbello fit my foot really well but other people prefer salomon and what not. My advice, go to the store, buy the boots that feel the best no matter what they cost from your budget and work backwards from what you have left and buy the skis and bindings. You will trash the skis eventually but a good pair of boots is going to last a really long time. A bad pair of boots will make life miserable.

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Yea just simply from a "how it shows up in a youtube video" white/gold jibs suck because there is no contrast. Call up the school of visual arts or something and just tell a bunch of graphitti artists (read real artists, not the jackasses tagging their name onto everything with white paint) that you have free big canvas and go Mount Snow style.

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It rides bigger because the trails are spaced out a lot, but there really aren't that many trails if you count them. The downside of the spacing is that the snowmaking is less efficient, if you have to pump everything farther you have more leaks and more friction and more time spent fighting gravity. Combined with the more expensive NJ power and the warmer weather and the lower elevation, and big snow suckers like Sojourn and Horizon, MC overall has less snow per trail because it is too expensive to do it any other way. They do have a very efficient lift layout, you really only need 5 lifts to be open 100%, but in general I find the base to be thin. You hit the nail on the head with the park, it is "large" in the sense that they have a lot on the map designated as park, but it isn't packed. Look at Sidwinder at Blue and how many features they have on 1 trail of equal length, and you go to Mountain Creek and instead of having 10x the features since they have 2 peaks of park, they have the same number. The upside is I always felt MC had better progression than most places, if I wanted to teach someone, I would take them to MC. I also think the place is pretty flat aside from just Sojourn, there really isn't that much hard terrain. Granite has some but South is broken up by that big flat section in the middle where the old peak was and the bottom of the sojourn lift is now, and Bear has a huge runout.

Yea it is pretty tight at Mount Snow as well, pretty much you get what they have on the map and thats about it. Glad you had a good day at Okemo, I've never been there though I've hit Mount Snow and Stratton a lot and I think they are similiar.

and the dew tour, and blue mountain, those things are the new "random vehicle we put a rail on" fad

How quaint

Wind wont effect my normal riding much but it makes jumps sketchy if it comes from the wrong direction. Nothing like hitting a jump, going up, and stopping mid air and falling onto the deck.

I'm so pissed, I have class canceled tomorrow and I can ski but the wind is going to make hitting jumps less than fun. I'm still going but not exactly the conditions I had hoped for.

Yea, from the side it looks like this \_______________________

This is an anti-promotion for me, I was planning on going thursday after class for the college discount, but not if it will be crowded with noobs. And thanks for the heads up dw2430. I guess Blue or Bear for me then.

I don't even do that for my park board. I'll obsess over my good bases but if you are going to take it over a rail whats the point of filling scratches at all?