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Okemo over Mount Snow ---- what? Blue is a lot better this year than the last few years. I still scratch my head at some of the jibs (4 foot wide roller coaster box? whats the point?) and I think that their boxes are stickier than others, but everything is maintained very well now, and there is a lot to be said for riding the 6 pack and lapping that many features. I find it interesting that last year they had a 4 table line, and this year it is 3 step downs in the same spot. I'm not sure which I prefer but thats a great medium sized jump line.

Great post backcountry. Yea I'd never use the base cleaner either, windex at most. I use a razor blade instead of a knife because if you keep the edge against the base the whole way you don't create more gouges like you would with a knife. I've use a mini torch and that is much more forgiving, but if you don't have that just light the end of the ptex (if its the thin kind) with a regular BBQ or cigarette lighter or whatever, and after it is lit it will start dripping. If you have the clear kind you will see all the black carbon when it lands which is bad, you don't want that on the base of your board so put a piece of thing metal or aluminum foil on the board next to the cut and drip it onto that, and bring the ptex closer and closer until it looks like a string between the ptex and the board, no dripping, very little flame or black stuff, just like melting onto the metal. Once you have that, just move slowly off the metal and onto the spot that you want to fix keeping the bead going the whole time, and then go back onto the metal at the end. This way you don't get the carbon at either end of the ptexing.

Yea I would suspect everyone who has one here got them via selling gear at a shop. Instructors get them too. Burton wants the guys selling their gear to be riding their gear, and by making it cheap they try to make the guys happy so they recommend Burton stuff over other product.

More than half my gear is Burton/AK stuff because of proforms. Helmet, goggles, jacket, gloves, backpack, board bag, board, bindings, socks, under layers. Pretty much everything but boots and pants. The board I have from them sucks a lot but thats not to say they don't make some good boards. I think when you check out how many guys who rip in the park ride their bindings, it tells you something. I've broken my share of them, but they do have a great feel. Boards I don't think they're really worth it. Their boots just don't fit me but they are still well constructed. Their outwear, helmets and goggles are great.

It wouldn't stick the way you want. Epoxy is more fickle than people think.

How big is the board? The stance varies by size he could be riding a really small board for his height and thats why its bothering him. T-bolting it will definately weaken the shit out of it if done poorly, and marginally degrade it if done right.

I'd be worried about Plaxico-ing myself when I fell.

Ben really has talent with a camera, he is going to go far.

WTF This event is on the same day as the Blue boardercross? Now I have to decide which of the two I am going to do.

Generally the helmets don't do much to stop a concussion in these situations. I always wear mine and they are useful if you catch and edge or something, but knuckling a jump its just falling off a tall building onto flat, the helmet can't do much of anything. I broke my nose knuckling a jump because my knee basically went through my face a few years back so I literally feel your pain. At least you are losing a month now and your season isn't over, there will be a good amount of time after you get back on the snow to have a good season.

This is way smarter than the first one, I would totally hit a jump like that as opposed just a big bag you are supposed to land and stop in like the first video in this thread. This one you keep your momentum going all the way through and it just breaks your fall a bit.

I think you are signficantly more likely to suffer broken bones and concussions on the bag than without. Remember its not the fall that hurts, its the sudden stop at the end. When you fall hard on an icy deck, all the vertical energy is imparted onto your body, but none of the horizontal is. That is about 50% of the energy since you are hitting the jump with a lot of horizontal speed and some of it gets converted to vertical energy, but certaintly not much more than half. Thats why when you come up short you usually bounce onto the landing and tumble down it, its not like you land on the icy deck and stop. With the bag, the vertical energy is going to be minimized a bit, but now you are stopping your horizontal progress too, so you add a whole new set of energy that your body has to absorb. The acceleration is what causes the forces that break bones and cause concussions. I'll take one predictable direction of acceleration over getting hit from all over. Now if you are aiming for the center of the bag off a really steep jump, that is a different story. But putting a big air bag over the deck of the jump and aiming for the actual snow landing, and hoping the bag will help you if you come up short, is a bad idea. All it is going to do is tangle up your legs as your chest keeps going and cause you to be flipping as you go forward into hte landing, no thanks. Step overs a lot safer, and at least a foam pit entirely contains you.

I'd take the foam pit over an airbag. You just can't put enough pressure in there to keep it hard enough to break your fall in any meaningful way, all it will do is grab your board and give you the "oh shit I caught my nose in powder on the landing" feeling, except without the powder to break your fall when you do eventually hit the hard snow.

Maybe its just me but its pretty obvious why this is an awful idea. When you are jumping most of your momentum is forward, not up and down. The bag is designed to soften the fall for people going downward. Thats why foam pits work for dirt bikes doing back flips, the ramp is much stepper and they aren't really moving forward compared to how high they are going. The only place this would be useful is on top of a quarter pipe.

I use roughly the same width since I can't get it exactly the same (Burton & non-Burton inserts), the same angle, but i'm setback on my freeride board and in the middle on my park board.

Thats because you are talking nonsense, of course you are getting bored. You can only bluster about your skills for so long with none of us caring before it gets old. You won't even back it up, you are wussing out of meeting people at Bear now. We're passing around good information and we have a solid community of people who actually ride together and you come here and are basically sitting on the couch at our party shouting things that nobody cares about. The only reason I answer you is because when I click new posts your shit shows up and its funny to egg you on into unveiling the depths of your stupidity.

Yea and that spreads beyond just the pro's, there are testers and employees as well. You can find a lot of next years gear on the hill if you know what you are looking for. The number of pros rocking Burton bindings seems to be insane.

Your the one who told Doug he has no life for posting a lot here, along with knowing something about World of Warcraft the irony made me laugh

I've heard that, so Jay is on my list for the future. More than anything else this trip showed me that there is great skiing and riding to be had in northern Vermont, and that I have plenty of places left to experience on the east coast, much less out west. Here are the last few pictures I have.

Wednesday $10 at Big Boulder is good for cheapest of all, but you don't get big vert. Belleayre $200 for a season pass is a good deal, as is Sugarbush for $350 but both of those are not local PA mountains.

I think he is gone, 82 posts in 4 days, and now 0 for 2 days.

No, many ski areas out there don't have safety bars because you get more snow so the landing isn't as bad, and the liability laws in Colorado are a lot different than in PA because the ski industry is so important to their economy the government tries to protect them, where as the 7 hills in PA don't do jack shit for the state as a whole. I agree that kids fall off trying to put it down or bring it up, but saying that no bar at all is safer is ridiculous. The real solution is to have an adult put the bar down so I wouldn't be sending kids up that aren't big enough to close the bar alone.

I don't really go to BC, but I would rate most blues at Stowe equal to the blacks at Camelback or Blue Mountain. I would ride under the Gondola and Spruce if you are worried. Gondolier/Perry Merryl/Cliff Trail are all doable if you can handle blacks in PA and that is a lot right there. Also if you ride off the triple the blues are not that bad.

Dan- My Altered Gen is my favourite board by far. It carves really large radius turns compared to most boards, but since it is so stiff it is really smooth at high speeds. That board just wants to blast down the hill at mach 10. It is also super light and poppy which makes it great for pipe and jumps. I like how the base material tunes, it absorbs wax very evenly. I don't know why that is but it really holds wax well. I am almost certain that when I replace it (I've had it for 3 years), I am going to buy another Altered Gen. The only board that even comes close on my radar is one of the high end Arbor boards. I don't have two boards because the stuff is big, I have two boards to keep one of them in good condition. That is the board I then use when I travel because plenty of us from PA are going out to the big mountains out west or up north, and on the icy days here I'm glad to have one board with sharp edges.

Somebody is working really hard for the PASR 2009 Troll Award, relax, voting doesn't open for 10 months you will have plenty of time to impress the judges