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Originally posted by Redeye OMG, I totally forgot about Moguls...Although I used to love moguls I cant much anymore with my knees, but there is nothing better than going down "International" at Vail busting through an unplowed mogul field for 20 minutes while the green trail people cut across

hush now, that's me! i don't like moguls, they slow me down.

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Originally posted by daffodil skiing is amazing, i went to steamboat the past two years. my friend has a condo there and we always have so much fun. i probably won't get to ski this year, which makes me sad i've never cared much for powder, i'm all about speed so i like the race down the groomers.

I'm a speedster as well Freshly waxed 195's and only 145lbs of skier gets you going faaaaaasssssstt!

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Originally posted by daffodil hush now, that's me! i don't like moguls, they slow me down.

are you the girl I hit in the face with my ski at vail when I was going over a mogul and some girl was coming across git-along gang???



I like speed as well, but nothing like speed and catching some air

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Originally posted by Redeye There is a place in PA where you start at the top of the mountain. Its called Jack Frost, not a bad place for the Poconos, but def. can't hold a candle to Vail...Nothing beats skiing out west. When I was on the slalom team at my college they took us to Crested Butte for a weekend and They had just had 1 of those monster snow storms that weekend. The powder was chin high

Sounds cool.

First time I had really skiied since March of 1985 (I went once in michigan in like 1991 but I don;t count that as real) was in January of 1998....went out to visit a college friend at his parents over break in Denver. We went to Winter Park on the first monday of school for the kiddies.....we got 9 inches of fresh powder overnight and another 3 during the day. They didn;t even take the cats out to groom the mountain. God it was a great time. That one day of skiing was better/more fun than I have had in years.

On the skiing note....if anyone is a GS skiier and is interested I have a pair of K2 Patriot g5's (2000 year) that have only been used 3 times that I am willing to sell for less than I paid for them. They are 174cm, have Solomon bindings....are super nice but way too agressive for me. I am nowhere near that skilled a skiier (the sales kid sold me them saying they were intermediate/advanced level skis...they are adv/expert skis, though I can handle myself on ice with them lol)

MrS

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Originally posted by Redeye There is a place in PA where you start at the top of the mountain. Its called Jack Frost, not a bad place for the Poconos, but def. can't hold a candle to Vail...Nothing beats skiing out west. When I was on the slalom team at my college they took us to Crested Butte for a weekend and They had just had 1 of those monster snow storms that weekend. The powder was chin high

We should have a TA meetup at Seven Springs. LOL.

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Originally posted by Trancer-X I'm a speedster as well Freshly waxed 195's and only 145lbs of skier gets you going faaaaaasssssstt!

regular old school skis or parabolics???

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Originally posted by Trancer-X We should have a TA meetup at Seven Springs. LOL.

hahahahaha, I havent been there in probably 20 years

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Originally posted by Redeye are you the girl I hit in the face with my ski at vail when I was going over a mogul and some girl was coming across git-along gang??? I like speed as well, but nothing like speed and catching some air

hahhaha! i'm not in the git-along gang! i'm the one that all the green skiers crash into on the shared trails. they just have an affinity for me. right as i'm sweeping past them at super fast speeds, they turn into me for no good reason. so annoying.

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Originally posted by Redeye regular old school skis or parabolics???

Old school baby, old school!

but if I was to start going more frequently I'd buy some parabolics.

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Originally posted by Trancer-X We should have a TA meetup at Seven Springs. LOL.

oh c'mon, we should do ski liberty!

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Originally posted by Redeye are you the girl I hit in the face with my ski at vail when I was going over a mogul and some girl was coming across git-along gang??? I like speed as well, but nothing like speed and catching some air

That reminds me of somehting I have been wondering...and you might know the answer to it.

Back when I was a tiny bastard in a red snowsuit who skiied with reckless abandon at Vail, there was a set of 3 large pine trees off to the left side of the bunny hill at vail that had abotu 4 feet between the trunks that I used to blaze through when I would go down that hill (till they put the Slow Ski Zone in effect in 1985...got stopped by a Ski Patrol dude for going too fast while "threading the needle" as I called it in 85 lol)....Are those trees still there?

God...I hear vail is all crazy now though. They had not even built their first quad lift the last time I was there.

MrS

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Originally posted by daffodil hahhaha! i'm not in the git-along gang! i'm the one that all the green skiers crash into on the shared trails. they just have an affinity for me. right as i'm sweeping past them at super fast speeds, they turn into me for no good reason. so annoying.

yeah, gotta love the "wedge" people who lose control and accidentally turn down a black instead of a green hahaha

I remember watching a few people just lose the wedge and you see them flying down a hill with their arms out like birds hoping that that will actually slow them down then seeing them give up and it and drop like a blouder only to roll another 2,000 feet in a ball of powder

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Originally posted by Trancer-X Old school baby, old school! but if I was to start going more frequently I'd buy some parabolics.

I will sell you mine cheap.

Lol.

lemme post some pics (they are kinda crap quality but they show em well)



MrS

ive only skied once in my life. it was at ski liberty. I dont know how to stop on skis so i just fall down at the end lol

i love going really fast too but i dont know how to turn at all so i would fly off into the trees .. luckily i didnt die lmao


wow that mustve been about 3 or 4 years ago.. im not a big skier. altho like i said once i get on the straightaway i go as fast as i can. it was so much fun

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Originally posted by daffodil oh c'mon, we should do ski liberty!

I have a close friend who lives in Deep Creek...

WISP anyone? LOL. Seriously though, it's cheap and it's a free place to crash.

I was there a few weeks ago, the tubing hill was already open.

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Originally posted by MrSquirrel That reminds me of somehting I have been wondering...and you might know the answer to it. Back when I was a tiny bastard in a red snowsuit who skiied with reckless abandon at Vail, there was a set of 3 large pine trees off to the left side of the bunny hill at vail that had abotu 4 feet between the trunks that I used to blaze through when I would go down that hill (till they put the Slow Ski Zone in effect in 1985...got stopped by a Ski Patrol dude for going too fast while "threading the needle" as I called it in 85 lol)....Are those trees still there? God...I hear vail is all crazy now though. They had not even built their first quad lift the last time I was there. MrS

those trees are still there, I was lucky enough to hane a friend who was on vail's ski patrol so we pretty much got away with anything. The quad lifts are really nice with not only a ski rest, but also the wind bubble when the weather is bad up top

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Originally posted by Redeye yeah, gotta love the "wedge" people who lose control and accidentally turn down a black instead of a green hahaha I remember watching a few people just lose the wedge and you see them flying down a hill with their arms out like birds hoping that that will actually slow them down then seeing them give up and it and drop like a blouder only to roll another 2,000 feet in a ball of powder

LOL that was me!!!! course i never went down a black diamond but i did as much damage on the bunny slope and the green slopes

lol

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Originally posted by Redeye those trees are still there, I was lucky enough to hane a friend who was on vail's ski patrol so we pretty much got away with anything. The quad lifts are really nice with not only a ski rest, but also the wind bubble when the weather is bad up top

So you know about threading the needle?

God I really miss doing that lol.

MrS

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Originally posted by Mebot ive only skied once in my life. it was at ski liberty. I dont know how to stop on skis so i just fall down at the end lol i love going really fast too but i dont know how to turn at all so i would fly off into the trees .. luckily i didnt die lmao wow that mustve been about 3 or 4 years ago.. im not a big skier. altho like i said once i get on the straightaway i go as fast as i can. it was so much fun

I have friends that you would enjoy skiing with. One of them HAS TO crash in to someone else in order to stop, he knows no other way.

It makes for some serious belly-aching laughter!

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Originally posted by Mebot LOL that was me!!!! course i never went down a black diamond but i did as much damage on the bunny slope and the green slopes lol

yeah, everyone learned the wedge at some point. When I was at Vail I was actually taught to slalom by only skiing with 1 ski. Makes you learn the balance a lot faster than relying on a wedge that basically makes you look like a retard going down a hill and ruining the snow for everyone else

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Originally posted by Trancer-X I have friends that you would enjoy skiing with. One of them HAS TO crash in to someone else in order to stop, he knows no other way. It makes for some serious belly-aching laughter!

hehe yep... if im going down might as well take as many people as i can in a blaze of glory!

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Originally posted by MrSquirrel So you know about threading the needle? God I really miss doing that lol. MrS

the back bowls are all about threading the needle unless you want to remove your nuts from a tree trunk

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Originally posted by Redeye yeah, everyone learned the wedge at some point. When I was at Vail I was actually taught to slalom by only skiing with 1 ski. Makes you learn the balance a lot faster than relying on a wedge that basically makes you look like a retard going down a hill and ruining the snow for everyone else

pardon my stupidity.. whats a wedge?

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Originally posted by Mebot pardon my stupidity.. whats a wedge?

also called a "plow" where you point the fronts of your skiis inward as to not go so fast down a hill. You see everyone doing it on the bunny slopes

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Originally posted by Trancer-X I have friends that you would enjoy skiing with. One of them HAS TO crash in to someone else in order to stop, he knows no other way. It makes for some serious belly-aching laughter!

I am laughing pretty hard now after reading that.


One thing I learned very very well the last few times I went skiing. I was probably capable of skiing on the single blacks at Vail when I was 7 (I was a little too chicken to try them though...espcially when the blues were so much fun )...but after not having skied in so long and not having been super technically skilled as a little guy, you pretty much need to relearn to ski when you are now a 5'10" tall 250 pound adult who is more than a little out of shape.

Thus why I really need to get into shape before I go skiing again....my knees are currently too weka to deal with the stress. SIgh....old fartiness again.

MrS

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