Hmmm.... As I sit here in lovely Penndel, PA I can't quite figure out why...Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzworthy
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Hmmm.... As I sit here in lovely Penndel, PA I can't quite figure out why...Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzworthy
It's only 2 days...no way is it three!....Angola Indiana (just out of Ohio) to Denver is only 1 day...ok it was a long day but a day.....just set crise for 10 over, no more and only stop for gass and you'll be there in 24 hours or less...
Despite carving my first turns at Squaw down the Palisades at the tneder age of 3 (or maybe it was Bailey's Beach...I forget), I learned to ski at 7 Springs as well...anyone else remember the "Rat Pack" there around 1992-1996? Makes me cring thinking of how hard we used to hit the ice ruts/VW bumps on Goosebumps and Avalanche and Stowe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzworthy
A nationwide cellphone with free nights/weekends(with a headset of course) helps - call everyone you ever knew - helps those hours pass - I haven't used satellite radio yet and don't know how good the coverage thru the wastelands is, but may be a thought.. Radar detector doesn't hurt. Super-8's are always good for free ice.. :wink:
Rat pack! Holy shit, I've heard of/met a few of those guys, I think. Remind me of who they are.
I still hit those icy ass vw sized bumps on Stowe and Goosebumps whenever possible. Good times.
SteelPSUer, guess you're on the road now. [Funny man] "Catch you on the flip side."[fm] Lucky bastard, moving to Utah the day after watching the Stillers spank on T.O. and the Iggles in person.
rat pack at the springs? i'm not sure i know who you mean? i graduated from a pgh area high school in '95 and was up there just about every weekend for a few years.
was the rat pack something like that old guy juan who used to ride around on a monoboard now and then, or that old guy matt who used to always ski the bumps wearing a hat that looked "where's waldo"-esque? this was back in the days when the ski patrol would stop anybody who would leave the snow or had any kind of attitude. we'd have a jump on some days with a short in-run that started up by the condo buildings, ran across that green circle slop and then jumped through the pine trees onto goosebumps. good times. slapper, hard landings- but good times.
me and my buddies had our own nicknames for a bunch of those regular types... also had nicknames for the lifites. somewhere around my apartment i have a t-shirt with a picture of a guy who was always on the stowe lift. his nickname was "teeth covered in pig's twat juice" or "them teeth is so yellow i can't believe it's not buttah".
i remember fondly my last encounter with lars, the year he stopped recording the ski report updates. think i actually have a recording of his last-ever report also. guy is a legend, a goddamn machine. you know he's sweedish? i may have to dig up some old stoke if this kind of seven springs revival continues...
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Originally Posted by acostiga
Juan is still around. He's a funny guy. Full of back seat arm swingin' monoboard bump steeze. Not sure who Matt is. There are a bunch of older bump skiers on Mamba's. I think one of the older ones may be Matt. Not sure though. The rat pack was a bunch of teenaged kids that spent a lot of time in the park and the bumps, I think. I know some formerly WPRC kids, and they said there used to be a big rivalry between the WPRC racers and the rat pack people. It sounded amusing to me.
Refresh my memory, does Dick Barron do the snow report now?
yep, dick baron. not nearly cool as the way lars used to say "wo-dults" or "barespots and limitations does exist" during his reports.
the park didn't exist when i was in high school. we had to torture ourselves on the ice bumps, and get ski safety lectures in the old hut that was next to the little pond where the new willi's building stands.
the racer kids were a primarily a bunch of douchebags. i think it was just last year that i saw a kid at fatheads who used to always be up there, i think he and his buddies called their posse something like "fita". it was funny because he totally remembered me and my roomate- and we laughed about all of the stupid shit we used to do back in the day.
the fondest memories, however, are of those freezing cold friday night fights with the busloads of school groups. so many starter jackets and blaze orange overalls. hot damn.
I was on those buses myself back in the day, and I even remember skiing with none other than LaneMeyer. Mr. Herschel (sp?), our piss drunk 'chaperone' was hysterical.Quote:
Originally Posted by acostiga
My little brother knows Juan, we still ski there together every xmas. I'll be at the springs on some 1995 gear around the holidays.
Lars Skylling snow reports were the best. "Conditions are groomed granular surface on most of our slopes and trails."