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pics from last year...

12/12/2008 12:36:20 AM

Going to APP for a day trip next Sat. and then after Christmas we're going for a longer 4 day trip. Should we do winterplace, or Sugar/Beech? Winterplace looks much bigger than Sugar and Beech combined...for the same price basically. And since I'm in Charlotte, it's the same distance really.

12/12/2008 10:08:09 AM

UTAH on tuesday. excited!!! http://www.rideutah.com

12/12/2008 4:59:24 PM

you know what's kinda irritating?

having a light base and shit weather all week in whistler, then the sky opening up and fucking dumping on you as you're leaving.

12/12/2008 6:17:57 PM

Just got home from Sugar this weekend and it was great except for the part where I fell on ICE (yes folks there's ice in NC) and my ass officially has a third butt cheek attached to the right one I miss my powda in Winter Park When I fell in that, it was like landing on a fluffy cloud...

But a few beers and Baileys later, I was doing it all over again except I wasn't feeling it until this morning

Dec 26th I'll be heading to the real stuff in either Winter Park, Copper or both

12/14/2008 8:58:15 PM

12in. in Vail, 14 in Beaver Creak.

5-7 in. the rest of the 5-mtn pass
8-11 in. with the intrawest resorts (copper/winter park)

i think you're probably going at just the right time Bobby, it may snow some more right before you get here... Copper's great, i had the WinterPark/Copper pass last year, LOVED IT

http://www.skireport.com/colorado/

12/15/2008 12:51:12 AM

Quote :

"Going to APP for a day trip next Sat. and then after Christmas we're going for a longer 4 day trip. Should we do winterplace, or Sugar/Beech? Winterplace looks much bigger than Sugar and Beech combined...for the same price basically. And since I'm in Charlotte, it's the same distance really."

12/15/2008 10:37:07 AM

winterplace, but it's a bit more crowded.

you may also look at snowshoe.

12/15/2008 10:51:29 AM

make sure winterplace is open to the top if youre going to go there, they havent yet this year though if youre going after christmas you should be good.

12/15/2008 6:45:11 PM

BIG SKY HERE I COME!

22-29

just please warm up a little bit. you are too cold at the moment (-17).

no lifts can run!

12/15/2008 8:37:44 PM

tahoe is puking and will probably continue all week.

yay!

12/15/2008 8:46:18 PM

Flying out to Denver tomorrow!!!!!!!

Copper here I come

12/16/2008 11:15:34 PM

^looks like snow is forecasted the rest of the week (30-70%)

12/16/2008 11:38:32 PM

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"Winterplace looks much bigger than Sugar and Beech combined...for the same price basically. And since I'm in Charlotte, it's the same distance really."

You can get to Sugar and Beech in just over an hour and half. Winterplace is about 3 or so right?

12/17/2008 2:11:49 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/17/canada.gondola.accident/index.html

damn, looks like i missed one of the gondolas shitting itself by about a week

12/17/2008 9:32:14 AM

^^2 hours 35 minutes to Beech from Charlotte according to google, and 2 hours 57 minutes to Winterplace. Not sure how you can get to Beech in an hour and a half....it's 2 hours to Boone AFAIK.

Any word on how Appalachian is nowish? It seems like this thread is full of CO or West Coast vs. East Coast e-peen comparisons. Does anyone go to the shitty ones in NC besides me... Heh.

12/17/2008 1:25:25 PM

personally as far as nc goes, i like sugar...

12/17/2008 5:01:09 PM

^^ there is no west versus east comparison

and appalachian is the shittiest place i've ever skiied, anywhere, hands-down. go to sugar or beech.

12/17/2008 5:04:41 PM

Beaver Creek Saturday

12/17/2008 10:26:55 PM

ah beautiful heavenly fresh powder

three more days of it.

12/18/2008 7:37:48 PM

Vail or Beaver Creek on Sunday

12/20/2008 1:01:46 AM

if you live in colorado, your bragging is invalid.

12/20/2008 2:21:26 AM

haha, ok then.

btw, another 6" in Beaver Creek last 24h

i'll be skiing in NW this March (maybe Whistler, maybe Mt. Baker (If I go snowshoeing)

[Edited on December 20, 2008 at 1:06 PM. Reason : ,]

12/20/2008 1:05:44 PM

i'm going skiing/snowboarding for my first time ever sometime in January. Probably going to go to Wintergreen with a couple of friends. On the website they have a deal where you only pay 45 for lift ticket and equipment rental for Tuesdays through Thursdays. I know i can expect to spend alot of the time on the ground, but what all is included in the equipment rental. What all will I need to bring besides waterproof clothes?

12/21/2008 10:44:48 PM

board, bindings, boots

buy or borrow some snowboarding pants to keep you dry, gloves

12/22/2008 3:21:06 AM

I'll be heading to CO tomorrow 6:30am and land in DEN at 8:30am
Friday for sure we're boarding with the cousins at Winter Park

Anyone see the Dewthingy at Breckenridge yesterday?

12/22/2008 9:29:27 AM

^you'll love winter park, mary jane (it's sister mtn. next door on the resort) is probably one of my favorite mountains in CO, be sure to hit up the MJ side while you're there

12/22/2008 9:15:24 PM

Yeah I am in agreement with you on WP... I have been twice and I love it! And MJ on the other side is pretty awesome... Its like a small vail. And honestly, I wouldn't go to Vail unless I could get a resort and stay there for a week. That mountain is HUGE!!!

12/24/2008 11:54:42 AM

any experienced riders out there? i'm looking to upgrade my bindings, i have Ride EX bindings right now. my toe strap is coming undone.

12/29/2008 4:13:19 PM

Anyone been to Wolf Creek, Purgatory, or Deer Valley out west? Trying to plan a trip for SB, and these are the places I can some discounts.

12/29/2008 8:59:41 PM

Headed to Tahoe for my bachelor party first weekend of March so hopefully the skiing is still pretty good out there then. Back in college it was really good that time of year when we went.

Anyone know of some good websites to check for some good deals on last years ski models? I have done the basic google search but get so many results back with demo skis etc. that I was hoping someone had a specific site they have used in the past to get some good deas on a pair of skis. Mine are about four years old and was hoping to pick some up soon.

12/29/2008 9:39:01 PM

http://www.tramdock.com

12/29/2008 10:34:06 PM

^^^ I haven't skiied those, although I've skiied some other places in the SLC area besides Deer Valley. A friend of mine from Denver likes Purgatory (isn't it called something else now?) and Deer Valley a lot, though.

I've heard that Deer Valley caters to the upper class crowd a lot, though...almost all groomers, and i've heard they get pissy if you're skiing really hard around there. I think they might even have somewhat of a dress code. While I like groomers, and I don't do any inverted helicopters, and I ski in pretty much normal ski attire, that's not really my kind of mountain. I think it might be all ski, no snowboard, too, if any of your friends ride...but I'm not sure about that.

^^ http://www.sierrasnowboard.com

what type and size of skis do you want? I have a set of Nordica Hot Rod Eliminators that I would consider selling. They're 1 season old, but after moving back to NC and being deployed for this whole ski season, I don't have too much use for them.

[Edited on December 30, 2008 at 4:58 AM. Reason : asdfasd]

12/30/2008 4:56:22 AM

the last time i was in Park City, Deer Valley was only ski and was pretty high-class. You need to wear your matching equipment and one-piece to fit in.

If you're already going to be in that area, there are countless other places that are equally stunning

12/30/2008 6:55:26 PM

I'm a huge fan of ski-only mountains.

no offense to good snowboarders, but too many of y'all think you're awesome plowing sideways down every fucking run and scraping off all of the powder.

12/30/2008 9:31:13 PM

a lot of powder on those groomers, eh?

12/30/2008 10:06:36 PM

^^^^, yea I know its high class but I can get free lift tickets there. I'm kinda torn, let me elobortate on my options (4ppl... 3 skiers, 1 boarder)

Option 1: Fly to denver/alburquerque, rent a car drive to pagosa springs and stay in my parents timeshare for free, drive to wolf creek or purgatory(durango) to ski.

Option 2: Fly to SLC, shuttle to deer valley area (no car), stay in a decent hotel, ski for free.

12/31/2008 1:10:11 AM

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"I'm a huge fan of ski-only mountains. no offense to good snowboarders, but too many of y'all think you're awesome plowing sideways down every fucking run and scraping off all of the powder."

i'd agree with you if you are on the east coast. west coast, this is almost a non-issue. in fact even Taos Ski Valley is now open to snowboarders as they finally realized that snowboarders who scrape are not the same people you find on expert terrain.

1-down, 3-to-go

[Edited on December 31, 2008 at 1:55 AM. Reason : .]

12/31/2008 1:54:03 AM

^^ gotcha

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"If you're already going to be in that area, there are countless other places that are equally stunning "

The Canyons


and I'm with BobbyD. Good snowboarders are fine. Snow-scrapers piss me off, and I get really annoyed when people sit down and hang out in the middle of a slope (and if it's a groomer or somewhere that I can get up some speed, I will endeavor to rip by you and cover you with snow if I see you doing it). Move off to the side, out of the way, if you want to sit down (skiiers are guilty of this from time to time and receive the same treatment, but it's more often snowboarders, I guess because it's easier for them to just stop and sit down).

12/31/2008 6:46:12 AM

the rift between snowboarders and skiiers always makes me lol

it seems to be more with the older generation of skiiers, and just the punkasses that snowboard

a great deal of the snowboarders now started off skiing and have a mutual respect, hell a good bit of us still do both pretty much evenly.

the beginner snowboarders are the scrapers and ass draggers, and have no business being on slopes that are powdery and not groomed anyways.

if they are, they're likely just hovering on a heel edge in order to try and get off that slope without sonny bono'ing.

However, the people stopping in the middle of the slope piss me off to no end, no matter what I'm doing, or you're doing.. On skis, you need a break, just stand there and relax... there's no way to just stand there and relax all that comfortably on a snowboard, it's much more comfortable to just sit down... however people need to realize that the edge of the trail in a well visible place is the place to take a break.

Burnin some guy and spraying him with snow is not the way to solve the issue, it's just a way to create more distention among people trying to have fun... dont be an ass, man... (but you can be an ass man)

I haven't been in quite some time, but deer valley irritated the piss out of me.

12/31/2008 8:34:29 AM

In the interest of equal hating, you can add to the list any skiiers snowplowing their way down any slope that doesn't have a green circle on the trail sign.

I once ran over a man who snowplowed his way out in front of me after I went flying off the top of a headwall on a black diamond (it was a Snowshoe black diamond, so really just a blue square, but he still shouldn't have been there).

I don't ski like an asshole, cutting through crowds at Mach 10, but if I'm on a black or a steep blue, I'm going to get after it. If you're on a slope where you have no business being, in WAY over your head, and not paying any attention whatsoever to your surroundings (partially because you are so overtasked with trying not to go down the hill on your face), well, I don't care what the right-of-way rules say--it's pretty much your own damn fault if you ski out in front of someone and get mauled.

12/31/2008 9:01:51 AM

^agreed. I suck at skiing\snowboarding, however I also know to stay on the easier slopes.

12/31/2008 9:05:04 AM

I mean, pushing your abilities is one thing. You'll never get better by staying on the bunny slope. Use some damn judgement, though--if you cannot even make a parallel turn (on skis), you do not need to be on even the tamest of black diamonds.

12/31/2008 9:12:06 AM

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"I don't care what the right-of-way rules say--it's pretty much your own damn fault if you ski out in front of someone and get mauled."

excatly why i despise, despise, despise seeing people ski/snowboard with ipods on.

if you can't hear what's around you, you're going to do something retarded like traverse cross slope into more than a few peoples turn lines that you'd have heard carving up behind you.

plus that's one of the best parts of skiing (out west) is the serenity of the view and only hearing your own carves

12/31/2008 9:16:05 AM

agreed on all counts

12/31/2008 9:16:50 AM

I agree with the above mentioned points. There should be some rule about headphones.

And right of way can sometimes be crap if some asshole is on a blue/black and going 3mph doing a wedge back and forth across the whole damn trail (especially around a blind turn).

I've also argued with friends numerous times about right of way (arguing the other way). I've had some friends crash after clipping my skis. I was the lead skier, they were behind me going a similar speed. They say they crashed into me b/c I made a sharp turn or some shit. Well I can't see my friend behind me and if I'm cruising at a good speed I don't see how this is my fault.

Anyway back OT, my brother's at Mammouth Mtn all week and I'm jealous. That mountain has recorded more than 100 inches of snow in December

I'm trying to get a group together for a Februrary Snowshoe trip, and have another trip coming up to Lake Tahoe in March

12/31/2008 10:15:02 AM

Went to snowshoe for christmas day and came back Saturday. Conditions were decent the first day and a little worse the second because of rain. the 3rd day we didn't ski because it was 70 and a lot of the slopes had closed for lack of snow

12/31/2008 10:44:44 AM

I am pretty much convinced between the new baggage charges for airline flights and the really shitty weather in the east that I'll be doing all my snowboarding out west! I wasn't even nearly as sore... It was nice to board in powder and not fall at all compared to boarding on ice and falling on your ass every ten seconds and waking up the next morning with the biggest ass bruises ever.

I just got back from one of Cololorado's "medium" mountains and I paid a hell of alot less then if I went to shitty ass Sugar and had a hell of a lot better time.
The family was not quite as experienced as I was and they didnt want to pay so much for the tickets. But it sure as hell was cold though. I went to Loveland Pass and when I went to buy a drink and saw that the temp read 8 degrees, I asked for another drink LOL... Hot chocolate and Kahlua make a good drink and the alcohol keeps me a tad bit warmer.

I'll be heading back in March and hopefully trying out breckenridge or Steamboat... or possibly going to my favorite mountain ever: WP

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"Burnin some guy and spraying him with snow is not the way to solve the issue, it's just a way to create more distention among people trying to have fun... dont be an ass, man... "

When I was first learning to board a few skiiers did that crap to me and the second time, I told them to cut that shit out and they pretty much got this glazed over look in their eye and stopped.

12/31/2008 2:45:01 PM

shouldn't have been sitting in the middle of the slope.

(although i wouldn't roost anyone on a bunny slope)

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The thought has crossed my mind that I should try to go skiing in Chile or Argentina this coming summer, since I'll be deployed for pretty much all of this season.

1/1/2009 10:55:09 AM

The airline charges for transporting skis are fucking bullshit. My brother's flight out to CA was $100. Baggage charges for him to take his skis would have been $225. In other words, he rented his skis out there.

I didn't take my skis with me to CO last year, and when I go out west again this year I won't be either. I'm starting to wonder why I even have my own skis. In the future I might just maintain some good boots, and let the skis fall by the wayside.

1/2/2009 10:17:32 AM