This just in:

Winter in Vermont sucks. That is all, goddammit.

Isn't January kayak season?

Stowe better get their shit together for presidents weekend

I take it the ice storm landed down there as well.
I was kinda puzzled today how it could be raining, yet freeze the instant it hit - anything, including my glasses.

My flight for Jackson leaves Saturday, so this weekend should be good in VT.

It's 50 here Pat. We got ice last night, but today was a fucking monsoon. Seeing the late day rainbow was like a nail in the coffin.

Expecting 60 degree high in Baltimore Friday - hon.

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Originally Posted by creaker

Winter in Vermont sucks. That is all, goddammit.

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show your commitment....move west!

We got baby-bottoms smooth ice last night, then piles of water on top of that here in Ontario. There's a very slight valley between here and the main road, we're talking a grade you can barely even see. Car got stuck there. Couldn't go up to the main road, couldn't get back to the house. Didn't have my skates, had to walk.

Fun stuff.

I've got the no snow on the EC blues.

30 days in this season and none close to home. I hoped to get some this weekend, but looks like it's not worth the trip.

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

Quit complaining, or quit skiing.

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Don't you get it? Shut the fuck up.

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

Quit complaining, or quit skiing.

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Quit posting or quit living.

Have fun on your Powder Pluses this weekend.

Transplanted east coaster here. Don't know why, but i feel compelled to post in EC threads.

Get out here. Soon. Make it happen.

It's getting difficult to stay positive here...It's looking like my kid's first ski race they've been training hard for might be cancelled due to conditions (or lack thereof). Yeah, this officially sucks ass.
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Sprite

I used to feel that way too when I was first learning how to ski. It's a tad bit harder to psych yourself up when it's 45 degrees and POURING RAIN!!!
Now let us bitch and take your happy go lucky ass somewhere else:cussing:

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

Look. I grew up skiing a 850 foot hill with consistantly abhorant grooming -softball sized death cookies, and ridges between groomer swaths. Relentless sheet ice. Night skiing about 50 days year. Jumping to icy landings all the time. Guess what? It was fun most of the time.

You pussys should stop your fucking complaining, you're giving east coast skiers a bad name.

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I grew up there too, except our hill was ony 750'.
just about as soon as i was able i hit the road for SLC. Landed in Bozeman about 10 yrs ago.
but you are right, HS, I cant really say i have more fun now than i did then.

i'm not core then cause skiing around here sucks ass right now. No new "machine made bumps" at 45 degrees and rain.


i am still skiing this weekend and it WILL NOT make me better :cussing:

Awwww fuck. Looks like I gotta turn my wings into Commander Core. I'm not looking forward to skiing 5 intermediate trails in the rain. I guess I'm just not cut out for this gig.

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Originally Posted by Mcwop

Expecting 60 degree high in Baltimore Friday - hon.

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Yeah, you shoulds find yerself a girl in Dundalk there, hon.

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Originally Posted by snowsprite

It's getting difficult to stay positive here...It's looking like my kid's first ski race they've been training hard for might be cancelled due to conditions (or lack thereof). Yeah, this officially sucks ass.
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Sprite

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I'M CALLN YOUR KID OUT!!!!!!!!!!

That's it man! Meet him at the K2 on Saturday morning. He'll school your ass...on one ski!

(are you really going to Europe??)

Sprite <--jealous

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

You don't get it. This forum evidently doesn't get it.

It's the east coast. We get rain, it gets icy, conditions suck sometimes. You can either complain and stay home, or you can grab your sharp skis and go out and entertain yourself, and make yourself a better skier in the process. There's more to skiing than powder. That's part of why I ski Killington - when conditions suck everywhere, they are probably going to suck less at Killington. There will be a good park this weekend. There will be good bump skiing, probably on fresh machine made snow. There will be nicely groomed out hardpack, without that many people on it. And of course there will be ultra sketch ice knar to test your mettle.

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I think you misunderstood me. I like all conditions. I don't mind the weather. I expect this in January in New England. You just come across as smug, even self-righteous. It's just grating to me I guess.
On a side note: I like commute work at least a day a week on snow. Now I can't because my skis don't glide well on dirt. I must not be "core" enough.
Good for you. You a super skier. That's fine. Just don't consider it reason to condescend in the manner you do. Just my two cents.

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

There's more to skiing than powder.

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I beg to differ...

I think the referee is needed for an official call on this one.

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

Indeed.

Free advice for TGRF: If you only have fun skiing powder on primo terrain, you should seriously reconsider how "core" you think are.............because you aren't.

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I am not core. I am spoiled little pussy that only likes to ski powder. I can't believe I even call myself a skier. I guess it's time to move back to PA to ski 580 vertical feet of ice for two months a year. At least I'll be core again!

In all seriousness, I see both sides of this issue:

My condolences to the East Coast on your lousy winter. :frown: When conditions suck that bad, it's OK to bitch and moan a bit to get it off your chest.

Highway Star has a point, though. It is the East Coast, and EC skiing involves rain and ice. If it's killing you that bad, and skiing powder is that important to you, you should move. To Colorado. Or Tahoe.

I was just trying to say you have a tone like have a chip on your shoulder. Not doubting your ability or anything. Whatever, this is silly.
And Ktown ain't a bad place. It's just all the dipshits there:the_finge.

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

I give everybody shit because everybody gives me shit. I love to fight on the internet, and love to provoke people.

I in general (outside TGRF) don't like people who ski Stowe or Jay (or the west) and think they are better or more core or whatever than people who ski other places. They are still mountains with trees and snow, just like everywhere else. Just because you ski there doesn't mean you rip, in fact, I've found that more often than not it just means you have an overinflated ego. I know people who ski (snowboard) primarly in westen massachusetts and will take to school 99%+ of the people at stowe/jay, and most of the people on this board. Yes, I'm fucking dead serious. Just because I like to ski killington, doesn't mean I suck, and I take personal offense when the mountain is dismissed as 3rd rate by people who have rarely skied there.

I understand that this forum is about powder skiing and backcountry, wooohoo. That's not all there is to skiing, and if you shut your mind to other aspects of skiing, you're only cheating yourself. I hear newschool, mogul skiing and racing/carving dissed on this board all the time, and it's fucking rediculous. If you only want to ski trees and pow all the time on the east coast, you're probably going to have a shitty ski season, or miss half of it.

If I want to spew about my race stock binding collection, I sure as hell will. I have 7 pairs....4 sollys and 3 looks. It took me a long time to figure out these bindings kick ass, I've been skiing them, and 13 or 14 dins, ever sense....way before TGRF, killington, or whatever. Many people ski dins in the 12 to 16 range, it's not uncommon at all, and for me to say that I do is not dickwaving. I'm on a personal crusade to help educate people against the complete dogshit that many manufacturers and the ski industry are pushing as "expert" level gear. There should be more than 2-3 viable binding choices on the market, and $800 skis should NOT contain foam and plastic. 170's should not be sold to 200lb adult males. And there SERIOUSLY needs to be a stiff, low lift, 15 or 16 DIN touring binding.

If I come off as smug or self-rightous or arrogant, well, it's because this is the internet and you haven't seen me ski. I've been doing this a long time, and I do, in fact know what I'm doing. So, if I post pictures or video it's "stoke", but if I talk about what I'm doing it's bragging or dickwaving? Well, fuck that. I know how I stack up as a skier and ski tech, and proving it to a bunch of people on the internet is pretty low on my prioritites list (aside from the entertainment value).

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why do you visit here then? you ruin my lurking dammit:mad:

Dude, I'm just messin' with ya. They're all good places.

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

I know how I stack up as a skier and ski tech, and proving it to a bunch of people on the internet is pretty low on my prioritites list (aside from the entertainment value).

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Highway Star might be the most annoying alias EVER.

HS- If you truly don't think this weather situation well and truly sucks royal ass you are some kind of core dude. My, hill, Sbush, is mostly closed today becasue of all the shit that's hit it this week. That sucks. I'm fucking tired of skiing ice. I spent a few days skiing frozen bumps and I'm tired of that. I've skied a lot in the rain, and while I enjoy the soft snow, that sucks and I'm tired of that. I understand, dumbass, that this is winter and January thaws/freezes are as part of the landscape as aholes like you clogging that shithole KMart, but it is not supposed to last the entire month, and that sucks.

This has been am month that thankfully only comes around every 10 years or so. Enjoy getting blasted in the puss by snowguns this weekend. I'd hate to see your goggles freeze over and cause you to ski into the Waffle Hut or anything.

There is hope for Monday folks...cross your fingers, toes, any other body part that snow indeed returns to the Ice Coast.

You bad...

http://www.mysticunicorn.com/graphics/Vertical_Drop.jpg

Seriously though, I have no problem with a wide variety of conditions to ski in (ice, melty, crappy, rocky etc.), but it looks like fucking april right now. The grass is GREEN not brown. I saw a rainbow the other day too, a goddamn rainbow. Rainbows do not belong in NH in January. I can deal with a lot of shit, but this is just ridiculous. I'm almost ready to rip out the damn bicycle. Then again, maybe I'm just a sally.

Can we please end this. The weather sucks. end of story! I don't care how hard core you may or may not be.

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

If I want to spew about my race stock binding collection, I sure as hell will. I have 7 pairs....4 sollys and 3 looks. It took me a long time to figure out these bindings kick ass, I've been skiing them, and 13 or 14 dins, ever sense....way before TGRF, killington, or whatever.

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Dude! small world. We've met. I was that guy hiking up behind you and Moses to that peak we ripped with din at 38, back before whatever.

Look me up if you head to Stowe. I'd love to catch up on old times.

Peace and love,

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SkiJunky05

I want to take a steamy shit on Highway Star's chest, then rub it into his face with my ass- known widely as the 'Cleveland Steamroller.'

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

I give everybody shit because everybody gives me shit. I love to fight on the internet, and love to provoke people.

I in general (outside TGRF) don't like people who ski Stowe or Jay (or the west) and think they are better or more core or whatever than people who ski other places. They are still mountains with trees and snow, just like everywhere else. Just because you ski there doesn't mean you rip, in fact, I've found that more often than not it just means you have an overinflated ego. I know people who ski (snowboard) primarly in westen massachusetts and will take to school 99%+ of the people at stowe/jay, and most of the people on this board. Yes, I'm fucking dead serious. Just because I like to ski killington, doesn't mean I suck, and I take personal offense when the mountain is dismissed as 3rd rate by people who have rarely skied there.

I understand that this forum is about powder skiing and backcountry, wooohoo. That's not all there is to skiing, and if you shut your mind to other aspects of skiing, you're only cheating yourself. I hear newschool, mogul skiing and racing/carving dissed on this board all the time, and it's fucking rediculous. If you only want to ski trees and pow all the time on the east coast, you're probably going to have a shitty ski season, or miss half of it.

If I want to spew about my race stock binding collection, I sure as hell will. I have 7 pairs....4 sollys and 3 looks. It took me a long time to figure out these bindings kick ass, I've been skiing them, and 13 or 14 dins, ever sense....way before TGRF, killington, or whatever. Many people ski dins in the 12 to 16 range, it's not uncommon at all, and for me to say that I do is not dickwaving. I'm on a personal crusade to help educate people against the complete dogshit that many manufacturers and the ski industry are pushing as "expert" level gear. There should be more than 2-3 viable binding choices on the market, and $800 skis should NOT contain foam and plastic. 170's should not be sold to 200lb adult males. And there SERIOUSLY needs to be a stiff, low lift, 15 or 16 DIN touring binding.

If I come off as smug or self-rightous or arrogant, well, it's because this is the internet and you haven't seen me ski. I've been doing this a long time, and I do, in fact know what I'm doing. So, if I post pictures or video it's "stoke", but if I talk about what I'm doing it's bragging or dickwaving? Well, fuck that. I know how I stack up as a skier and ski tech, and proving it to a bunch of people on the internet is pretty low on my prioritites list (aside from the entertainment value).

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why don't you post some pics.....

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

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.....I know how I stack up as a skier and ski tech, and proving it to a bunch of people on the internet is pretty low on my prioritites list (aside from the entertainment value).

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That is how I interpreted all that. ^^^^

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Originally Posted by Highway Star

I like balls across my face.

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You're quoting yourself.

You suck so much. You're the EC Squawman.:nonono2:

Highwaystar in grade school

"Hey there, though guy...."

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