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Half hour lift lines, 3-5 minute runs with lots of idiots. Yes, you have to get there early. The cost at Beech/Appalachian/Sugar pales in comparison to out west tho - so there's that. Monday was actually fairly crowded because everyone knew conditions would be good. I had no trouble avoiding getting run over - mostly stayed to the side of the runs where the snow was deepest and softest and just had a blast.
The real barrier to entry is the (time & cost) flights and losing a day of riding due to the time change. Once there everything (with the exception of Switzerland) relatively inexpensive. The snow if definitely more variable than continental US. Another challenge is the overwhelming number of options, even the scale of the lift systems at the second rate "resorts" is kind of mindblowing. On mountain food is infinitely better
If you want to travel for snowboarding to mountain or west states, here's the first thing to do. This spring (best pricing on these passes is usually the spring before), try and make a general gameplan of where you might want to visit next year and commit to an Ikon or Epic pass based on which pass covers more of those locations. Then in the fall plan a couple of trips to resorts where that pass works (I have Ikon because I am at Copper and Mammoth several times a winter for my kid's competitions but Epic has a bunch of great options as well). You'll spend $800 to $1000 depending on what pass you get which is still a lot (and it sucks giving that money to Vail or Alterra) but that cost will be long sunk by next winter so your focus turns to transportation and lodging. Both of those are expensive as well but much more manageable without spending hundreds a day on lift tickets.
That looks epic. Nothing better than a hike with a payoff like that. is that inbounds and patrolled?
Ultra solid recommendations.
Was a bit surprised to see the lot at chair 2 almost full at 8am. Much mellower and normal today.
No! Small group with a friend who
Stovked for you bro bc idgaf what boards anyone is riding as long as their the best board you’ve ever ridden and could take your riding to another lever. There’s too many board to choose from rn for that not to be the case. I’d be surprised if after a little more time with it things click and it gets more responsibleCant beat a mid week pow day. Still amazes me how fast it gets chopped up. A little heavy but still plenty of face shots.
Got to ride my new Amplid for the first time the last few days. Impressed with the board overall. The dampening is great. I understand peoples gripes with it making the boards a little less lively, but it still gets good pop off wind lips and side hits. Im sold.
Don’t think I’ve ever seen discs that adjust in anything other than 3 degree increments.
WTF!? What prompted you to buy that thing?Just got this all mountain twin tip. Rides pretty good.
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This is almost certainly a casa mugrienta joking commentary about Balenciaga making snowboards and I highly doubt someone as gear-researchy as moogsies would cop their snowboard.
Thats a sick party board, and they’re a blast to ride as long as you feel like partying. I loved mine (K2 Cool Bean, same size) but ultimately passed it on bc I wasn’t riding it that much due to age/Amplid.
I can't speak to the very short trend in powder, although I'd expect the width to help the float, and the short probably zips through tight trees better than a midstrength.
Trick is to have two long wings coming off the tail with one pointed and one spoon like. Both should should have a 30 degree rocker. Top of board should be painted like Green Bay Packers and bottom like CAT. .
The idea is that I would be able to ride with my wife, who is slow and sticks to blues/greens and still have fun dicking around. Pretty much exactly what this board is designed to do. I didn't consider the effort to blast through tracked out crap but who knows. It was pretty cheap and someone else may want it if I don't sync with it.
