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I sent this email to the email addy on the roundtop website: From: mike_ <flick.made@gmail.com> Reply-To: mike_ <flick.made@gmail.com> To: skiroundtop@skiroundtop.com Date: May 1, 2005 2:51 PM Subject: Question About Rail Jam Hello, I've heard speculation that there is a rail jam planned at your mountain in the near future. I am curious if this is true, and if so, what are the details of the event. Thanks for your time. This is from an email I received after I questioned about the rail jam at roundtop: From: Roundtop <skiroundtop@skiroundtop.com> To: mike_ <flick.made@gmail.com> Date: May 2, 2005 10:18 AM Subject: RE: Question About Rail Jam Hi Mike, Nothing in the near future. We will probably have our first one of the season in October at the Swap. Have a great summer, Chris

all i have to say is...who cancels anything BEFORE it rains? i checked the webcam and there is hardly any snow in the halfpipe or on the mountain. sounds like they're lying to cover their a$$.

nobody wants your crap, sir.

I don' think they have a dragontail rail. I was there last weekend and they haven't had one all season; not really sure why they would put one out now. I'm going tomorrow night, I'll let you know.

Yeah seriously dude...that box is REALLY sticky. I disastered to boardslide last Saturday night and as soon as I touched the box my board stopped and it slammed me into the ground. I didn't have time to get my hands down and I broke the fall with my face heh.

Weekends are pretty busy during the daylight hours, but whenever I'm there at night crowds aren't a problem. As for president's day weekend, screw going anywhere...just stay home and wax up.

Did you expect those rails to be ride on? They just need better lips, I think the park set up is rockin'. I think the rail your refferring to is the flat-down rail (KINK RAIL), which I think is easy to hit, you just have to stop and check it out. I ride regular so I'm jumping off my heal edge and I don't have trouble with it.

Shawnee's park has: a long, flat box on a sweet slope with a nice gap to it, a rainbow rail, a rainbow box, flat rail, flat-down-flat rail, flat-down box, c box, and a mail box. All rails are gap-to (except for the rainbow ones) and some of the gaps are pretty nice, like on the flat box, flat-down-flat rail and flat rail. There are supposed to be more rails out soon, I'm sure as soon as the weather gets better. There's a battle ship rail and a larger flat-down-flat rail laying on the side of the one trail. As for hits they have one table as of now but I've heard there's plans for more when it gets colder. Its awesome how many rails are out in that park, and the set-up is real nice. Perfect for hiking or taking runs.

I recently set up my new board (k2/www/152) as 15, and - 15. I have my feet equally set so riding switch feels the same as riding regular. This works out nicely for this board cuz its twin tipped (no distinctive nose/tail). I don't know the distance between my bindings and I really should figure it out because its much farther apart than my stance last year.

Yeah my last board definetly didn't need wax when I bought it, but this one is sticky on the bottom. I strapped into it in my living room and I can't get it to slide at all. So I'm gonna wax the mo. Thanks for the tips.

I just got a new board (k2/www) and it needs to be waxed. I've never had to wax a board before cuz I've been having shops repair the base after each season and they do a nice job. I got some iron on wax and I was wondering if anybody has done an iron-on waxing with a snowboard, and if they have, got any tips on how to not screw it up? Thanks all.

yeah the mountain is getting so bare, and there is tons of debris laying all over the place. stuff like pine needles, rocks, gravel, and not to mention dirt all over the base area. the base of my snowboard is turning black and its getting so messed up everyday that i ride. definetly bring crappy skis/board if you ride there from now on.

Was anyone at CB on Saturday night (2/29/03)? I was talking to a board crew guy who was raking the Rodo park and he said some guy flew off the landing of the last hit in Laurel and he collided with a snowmobile and got medivaced to Lehigh. They said he flew off the landing because it was so rutted out (like it always is). Did anyone else catch that story?