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*** Official Snow Surfing Thread ***
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Thanks! Will check that out and a few of the ones Skully mentioned. I guess I have some demoing to do...Korua Pencil
directional shape similar to the NS Big Gun but with more camber for carving packpowder days.
Its clearly a pretty common misconception that "fishy" boards are meant only for deep pow days. I picked up a Moss performance quad 54 recently. Rode it in spring-like conditions in mammoth last weekend. I had at least 5 people ask me how I liked my "powder board". This board works insane in just about all conditions and I really cant recommend it enough. Amazing carving board. Very different feeling than your standard twin/directional twin. I speak only for myself, but this is as close to a surfers' snowboard that I have found. I've heard great things about the korua boards as well, haven't ridden one myself yet.
I missed all the good early snow at mammoth. Now I'm looking at Utah for my weekend trips going forward. Hopefully things change.
Those days are gone. Some good whiskey bars in SLC now. Still hard to find a beer on the mountain. Last time I was at snowbird there was only one bar on the whole mountain. Not sure if it's changed. But I usually take edibles when I ride and can wait till apres if push comes to shove.
Ever been to a Utah liquor store??? Like going to the DMV. Mormons. Stay away from downtown
Salt Lake City. Anywhere near the Morman Tabernacle.
Salt Lake City. Anywhere near the Morman Tabernacle.
Snowbird/Alta. Alta... Alfs High Rustler... Beyond steep. When you stand at the top and can only see the bottom.
I only went to snowbird once and the conditions were terrible but you could see the potential. Next day we got 18" of fresh at brighton. It was still low tide but a ton of fun.
In the early 90's, senior year in high school, I spent the first week of winter break in Vail with my family, then the second week in Park City. I was very lucky. The second week was spent with one of my friends. His dad had a mansion in Park City. After the first night his dad's 25 year old trophy gf came, so his dad got us a room in a hotel in downtown Park City. We had actually gotten fake ID's the summer before in Time Square, and they were terrible. We would have to go to about 20 liquor stores to find one that would sell to us, the IDs said we were students at NYU and our age. Amazingly, the IDs worked in Park City. At the time you had to be a member to drink in a bar there, but a membership was 10 bucks you could bring in your friends as guests. That was a fun trip. The next summer I went to Orientation at UCSB and the ID worked at SOS, which was a miracle. When I got to campus in the fall the ID did not work again in IV. I always found it funny that this horrible ID worked in Utah but was hit or miss everywhere else, somewhat ironic. I guess the bouncers in Park City were not used to seeing fake IDs at that time, or maybe they just didn't care? Good times.
Snowbird/Alta Interlodge has been closed for 2 days now. The canyon is closed to outsider access and all employees are on lockdown indoors due to Avy Danger. Check out this video...
RIP to a legend!
Thanks for all the rides!!
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Thanks for all the rides!!
Dave McCoy, Founder of Mammoth Mountain and Pioneer of CA Ski Industry, Dead at 104
Dave McCoy, a towering pioneer of the California ski industry, who with vision, hard work and a knack for the mechanical transformed a remote Sierra peak into the storied Mammoth Mountain Ski Area,…
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RIP.RIP to a legend!
Thanks for all the rides!!
Dave McCoy, Founder of Mammoth Mountain and Pioneer of CA Ski Industry, Dead at 104
Dave McCoy, a towering pioneer of the California ski industry, who with vision, hard work and a knack for the mechanical transformed a remote Sierra peak into the storied Mammoth Mountain Ski Area,…
A life well lived. Dave McCoy was a true pioneer. When he started Mammoth people told him it was too remote, too windy....But he persevered and created one of the great mountains in North America.
I actually had quite a bit of fun at Mammoth this weekend. I spent most Friday and Saturday lapping Climax, skiing the area to skier's right, under the Top of the World cliffs. That area is pretty smooth, and there are some fun rocks and gullies. It is firm, but still edgable. It was not as crowded as one would expect, I was using the singles line for the upper gondi and I don't think I waited for longer than 8-10 minutes on Saturday. They had to break out the snake at one point, but was really not that bad. I also hit up chair 23 for some laps and that was pretty empty. I was skiing the area between Scotty's and Monuments. It was pretty rocky and firm, but there were a couple of good lines if you looked for them.
Mammoth REALLY needs snow. That being said, I really had a blast on Climax. I grew up skiing Belleayre, Hunter and Catamount, so I certainly can't complain about this. I really hope this pattern changes soon.
Big Sky was INSANE! road Friday to Sunday with powder every day. We scored on the major dump storm that came thru. such light snow compared to the westcoast. my Korua Pencil killed it. floated like crazy. only con was it's more a skier mountain so it gets pretty damn mogully. didn't get to Challenger as it was still being checked by ski patrol. part of our group did get up there right as another weather system came. visibility was zero and they were scared shitless never being up there before not knowing where the cliffs were. The town is building like crazy now that they're on the Ikon pass. they're dumping some major money into it and building a brand new left further past Six Shooter.