method9455
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Some pictures from January 4th
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Made it out yesterday about middday. The whole airport experience sucked, slept about 45 minutes Sunday into Monday. We arrived 3 hours before the flight (for a domestic flight and using the first class lines for security and check in), and got to the gate with about 20 minutes to spare. Our whole flight was standby from the night before, I guess the upside is that we didn't have to sleep on the floor in the airport like so many other people.
Got into Denver around 9:45, the roads were dry up to Winter Park so it was a quick ride and got to our condo at 12. We unpacked our ski gear, grabbed a shuttle, and got our season passes. On the snow by 1. Bluebird day, sunny as it gets, and around 35 degrees so really warm. We rode until close, not sure how many runs we did or really where we went. We just got on the first lift and kept trying different runs until the lifts started closing. It was awesome. We talked to locals on pretty much every lift and asked where to go next so it worked out well. Snow conditions were very good - true packed powder not what PA resorts call packed powder. They got a few inches of snow the night before so I hit some trees near the end of the day and found some.
Overall it was awesome, even only 3 hours was great. We were exhausted and fell asleep around 7 last night. The views are what got us the most, and the mountain is taller than I thought which is what I worried about the most, I think the trail map just makes it look short. A lot of the locals were complaining there isn't much snow yet, but coverage everywhere we were yesterday was good.
As for the shuttle, we're lucky it literally stops outside our door, so its a 50 foot walk. It comes every 15 minutes so you do have to time it a little but its not unreasonable. I also got the phone number for the car service that brought us here from the airport so if I need a cab I can get one.
Today we're going to get groceries right now and then hit the mountain from like 11 to close. It didn't snow last night so we're not missing out on morning tracks and its a lot colder today.
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Had an earlier thread planning this trip, now it's time to start a massive running TR for no reason other than narcismism. Well, maybe it will inspire someone or people will like the pictures.
Original plan - drive my Subaru to Winter Park and stay for a month.
New plan - use frequent flyer miles to fly out there and use shuttle bus. Advantage - save 4 days of driving and wear & tear on the car.
So far the new plan is sucking. Right now Newark has a security breach with someone getting through security and hiding in the terminal I need to go through, 5+ hours of delays, and there is no word on when our flight will leave. Should have gone with the driving. Grrrr.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/03/new.jersey.airport.breach/index.html
I was hoping to ski tomorrow but that probably won't happen now because there is no way in hell my flight is getting off at 6am as planned. Definitely not sleeping tonight.
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That looks real nice
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JF has college deals now too, not just BB, but it is only 1 day of the week. If you can grab some $10 off coupons from Lukoil or a ski shop you can get the same deal at JFBB you get at Blue everyday, though Blue is pretty good too at $10 off.
I like Belleayre but it is a hike, college discounts everyday even on weekends.
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I wish I knew the voucher was waiting for me at the top, as I would have cut down on the obscenities a bit. Well, maybe not too much, it made me feel warmer.
Here is a picture of the lift I was stuck on. It would actually have been cool if I were trapped above the jump line but I wasn't even close.
Admins: Any reason why I can't upload pictures into my gallery? I had to sign up to photobucket to get this to work.
Oh yeah, the superpipe is on the other side of the lift outside of view. It isn't open yet. They haven't even started up the Zaug. The pros will be arriving soon to practice here for the X-Games.
That jumpline is TTC6 approved
I wish I knew the voucher was waiting for me at the top, as I would have cut down on the obscenities a bit. Well, maybe not too much, it made me feel warmer.
Here is a picture of the lift I was stuck on. It would actually have been cool if I were trapped above the jump line but I wasn't even close.
Admins: Any reason why I can't upload pictures into my gallery? I had to sign up to photobucket to get this to work.
Oh yeah, the superpipe is on the other side of the lift outside of view. It isn't open yet. They haven't even started up the Zaug. The pros will be arriving soon to practice here for the X-Games.
That jumpline is TTC6 approved
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the open trails were bolts. you probably wouldnt be able to tell the difference between the open trails now and the same ones in a month. as for the non open ones, one of them looked like it needed a lot more snow/work. but all of the diamonds that are closed look like they will be open in a week or so.
i DEFINITELY recommend going to elk within the next week if your looking for some steezie early season shreddin
Yea I'm thinking Elk is a good place to escape the holiday crowds that are going to crush Blue, Camelback, and Mountain Creek. I've already hit JFBB twice this year so I want to go elsewhere.
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thanks for all the great suggustions, this is one of the forums where you get more legitimate replys the bs ones.
It would be a week day trip.
Your good pretty much anywhere then. I still say go to Hunter if you want a single day trip and Mount Snow if you want 2 days.
Skiernet.com is a decent resource for getting an idea of whats available out there too.
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NO DRUG IS BETTER THAN ENDORPHINS
So true.
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went with my dad, we got to elk a little past 8, no wind and not too cold, i think it was like 28? idk.
we got first chair and warmed up on delaware and susquehanna. the snow was nice for PA, hard hard cord. visibility sucked, the top third of the mountain was blanketed by fog which made things sketchy. i was a little hesitant at first but settled in quickly cause the conditions were very predictable, no cookies or ice chunks or unevenness anywhere.
then we blasted over to the other side and lapped the same 3 or 4 trails for most the morning before returning to susquehanna and slalom and getting in some hot laps before our morning passes expired.
not once did we wait in a lift line. the fog was a bit of a buzz kill, but there was no one there, snow was great, and it was an awesome first day back!
Sounds like a good day, I've never been to a hill on Christmas day but I bet its nice and empty. Did it seem like they had a lot of snow on the open trails and did it seem like any of the other trails were opening soon?
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Thanks for the TR from the 21st...sounds like a rad day. Hopefully, there will be more set up this weekend and the rain doesnt kill the stoke.
I think we'll be OK, it's actually supposed to be ice and then fog and rain. So the ice will be the saving grace and hopefully seal things up a bit before hand. Fog is actually the real killer of snow, a cold rain won't do much damage (but a warm rain is a snowpack apocalypse) I don't know why, but it sucks to watch a pile of snow when it is foggy.
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Isn't that satellite map you uploaded from iTracks backwards?
It's top down view with north up. Thats the way you see it on google maps/google earth which i assume is where they got the data from.
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Hey Rob, nice TR!
What was set up in the ONE park? Was it the usual 3 jump line with a few boxes up top and bottom? Heading up this weekend and was curious...Thanks
Not to hijack but check out the bottom of this post for a list
http://www.paskiandride.com/forums/topic/14802-jf-12212009/page__view__findpost__p__248513
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C1er's getting it done this week
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I LOL'd..both at my comment and your picture...Floyds is an intermediate trail....cause it's groomed daily..
Considering the only trails at Blue are easy as shit you should shut the fuck up. What trail at Blue is more than intermediate?
Edit - and your lack of knowledge is showing through, Floyds is the most likely to be covered in moguls of any JF trail.
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I thought at first the liftie was going to kill them for not paying for the lift tickets. Maybe that would have been better than this crap.
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Nice TR, wish we had crossed paths this week, I want to catch you one weekday later in the year when I'm up at JF.
Saw two newbies try to poach Lehigh yesterday and got stuck, I tried yelling "LEAN BACK" but they couldn't hear me over the guns. It looked a little wet and they had workers walking down it adjusting guns so I didn't poach and get in their way, but it looked fun.
Did you make it over to Challenge? It was empty yesterday because everyone was on the east mt lift and the connection to the top of Challenge was closed. I personally think Tbolt and Challenge are as much fun as River Shot because the top part of east mt is pretty flat and the trees aren't ready up there so you get basically 2 steep parts and thats it. Challenge and Tbolt are good the whole way. And without floyds open river shot gets skied off pretty quick.
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recently i went on a mini buckmans shopping spree. got some new tuning stuff etc..
i didnt see the wax i've gotten in the past, which is purple all temp swix stuff.
the guy who helped me though showed me some other swix stuff and told me that "this is the same thing, just they made a new package"
tonight i finished off the remainder of my old wax. after some interweb snooping i realized that the stuff he sold me wasnt hot iron wax. it was rub on then polish stuff. ughghhh.
sort of annoyingggg. anyways does anyone know if they discontinued the alll season stuff, or did fuckmans just not have it?
and other than that, what resonably priced all temp or something similar waxes do you recommend?
Swix definitely still makes some variation of all-temp iron on wax. If you are going all-temp anyway, just go with a value brand at the store. I find that waxing more often is more noticable than the difference between all-temp waxes. If you start getting into matching temperature wax to the weather and additives for squeezing out every last ounce of speed, then worry about brand. I have some nice stuff for racing and it is noticeably faster than generic wax, but it is so much more expensive that I use it sparingly.
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I'll be there lapping Paradise..
Slow and deliberate turns
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Flickr set which I prefer over the PASR pic setup right now
Snowmaking on the west side
River views
Entrance to elevator glade, it is pretty serious, we all know how pictures flatten out trails from the top
Showing how overcast it was at 4pm on east mtn
Blowing hard on floyd's with regular air/water guns
I've been wondering how the snow is getting on elevator, right now is it only blow over from the fan guns on rivershot? It's good right now (could use a little more snow), but later in the season I would love to see a fan gun directed at it once in a while to keep it nice. If it freezes over it is screwed because you can't groom it. It's probably steep enough to slide too, though with skiers running over it so much it will probably be ok. Definitely the most challenging trail in PA even though it is short. It is only slightly steeper than some groomed trails at Blue or Camelback, but cut out the grooming and add in some boulders and unevenness and you can't just point it straight and slow down at the bottom like you can on most steep trails.
Although I hope bad snowboarders don't find it and start side slipping down it, that would be absolutely awful.
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I was there with my little brother. Challenge was definitely the place to be. The glades are so much fun, excellent work there.
We also took that unfortunate voyage down under the lift on the east side. Our boards were not pleased.
I thought I saw you on the east side from the lift eyeing up the elevator, but was only guessing from seeing your avatar. Guess it was you after all.
Yea that was me. The first time I looked down the top I was disoriented, it looks completely different than it did before. Two skiers went down it before me the first time and basically stopped right above that little 2' cliff and basically stood there trying to figure out how to get out for a while so I was just standing there for a while. I checked out the pictures in the other thread and it looks like I was taking it a little more to skiers right than everyone else, you drop that little cliff by going right and have a bit too much speed to control with that little snow so next time I'm going to try left.
I should have posted last night to see if any PASRs were going up.
If my board could have been any more trashed it would have been, but it was actually my last day ever on the board I was riding so I didn't even look. I did get a thorn bush stuck on my jacket going through the glades, I don't mind on my pants but that sucked because my jacket is in good shape.
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+1 for missing the other mountains forums, but I think the consensus was just treat general as general + other mountains and post TRs here. We all like stoke from out west, no offense to Doug's lunch thread but I care a lot more about what Aspen looks like right now than what people had for lunch at work.
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I do drip more than crayon. I'm too impatient and I have big 12" long 2" diameter cylinders of wax I got free back when I worked in a shop, its like wax for life. Maybe when I have to pay for it I'll be more stingy but for now I think its better to get lots in.
I wax at the start and end of every season, and then every 5 or 6 days on the snow. I would recommend a stone grind or at least a belt grind from a shop at the start of the year. A belt grind is $5 and tell them not to wax, pick it up the day they do it and hand wax yourself. It gets all the oxidation off the bottom of your board to start the year.
After I scrape I use a cork block with a felt pad. To be honest I don't think it does a damn thing. It is quick and gets rid of finger prints though so I do it anyway.
Also I think a good point (Justo I think made) is the iron on edge scratching. I absolutely hate that, it is like nails on a chalk board for me so make sure there is enough wax near hte edge that it floats well, another reason I don't like the crayon method. I usually drip a bead a half inch in from each edge and then just splatter a bit in the middle, the 2-3" from the edge in are all that matter on a board anyway.
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Stowe 1/4
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Root owning it on the TRs this year. Oh man I love Stowe, those pictures are great.