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    Need some tips/Suggestions

    Hey everyone, to start im 15, live in maine and myself and a few friends are wondering if any of you "extreme" skiers out there could give us some tips on what we should do if we want to be able to ski "extreme" like all you. We are still in highschool so we cant quite go to europe yet or anything but we ski every weekend at least, we can all ski anything and everything in our area and we are very good skiers, but we've never really done anything off a resort or just baisic back country. My most extreme so far was Tuckermans ravine Mt washington (NH). Thanks for any input. Lates

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    Buy some Pocket Rockets.

    Pick a new handle... something like. Walker AKA Hugeairdog

    Oh, and start spelling "extreme," "X-treme"
    Last edited by funkendrenchman; 10-24-2003 at 01:19 PM.

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    Originally posted by funkendrenchman
    Buy some Pocket Rockets.


    I'm awfully disapppointed in you funken.

    shouldnt that have been

    Buy some Pocket Rockets, JONG!
    "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
    Ben Franklin

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    "go that way really fast. if something gets in your way, turn."
    -charles demar

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    X-treme is a state of mind.

    By a 40oz of vodka climb tucks and pound the sucker back. Whatever you ski then will be x-treme ! ¸

    Get some, JONG !
    Give me a beat to pump to fatty.

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    don't piss outdoors while facing southwest on a windy day.

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    Originally posted by acostiga
    "go that way really fast. if something gets in your way, turn."
    -charles demar
    Ahem...

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    Yo... you want to be X-treme go here:
    http://www.extremeironing.com/

    Then when you are done go here:
    http://www.epicski.com/cgi-bin/ultim...?ubb=forum;f=9

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    Originally posted by descender
    Yo... you want to be X-treme go here:
    http://www.extremeironing.com/
    LoL! Nice site..

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    Keep skiing your resorts every weekend. Assuming that you are having no problems with the marked trails, it's time to start exploring. Head into the trees and ski everything except the marked runs. If you ski off the groomed in all kinds of conditions, you'll be that much closer to being an extremo mountain dude. Also, you'll likely discover that your crappy local ski area has a lot more to it than you realize. You should also hit the park some of the time. Maybe do the trees on Sat and the park on Sun. Being a good skier means being able to have fun anywhere in any conditions.

    That's my advice, and if you ask anyone who hasn't skiied with me, they'll tell you I'm definitely an extreme skier

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    Go to Sugarloaf as often as you can no matter what the weather may be. If you can rip that mountain all season long, you can rip anything. Check out the gulley skier's right of King Pine and get someone to show you the shit off the back. In my experience, Sugarloaf skiers are, on average, far far better than the average skier anywhere I have been (other than Whitewater where they are all bezerk stoned canadian mountain men). When you are done fot the day, go to the Bag, get a Gucci burger and try to get in the waitress's pants.

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    Race

    Walker,
    Look into joining a racing program. Racing gates will teach you precision turning, thinking ahead, finding the line and kicking your speed up until it scares you. These skills come in handy when headed out into trees, chutes, and anyplace where being in the wrong by as little as 2 inches can result in a lot of pain.
    As far as I know, all of the big names raced at least for a little while before heading into the wild white yonder.
    Good runs when you get them.

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    Thanks for the advice, i really apprecaite what some of you have to say.

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    Wear a helmet, carry water, be nice to your mom.

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    Buy a saucer.

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    phUnk?

    If no, go check out www.skiingismylife.com, and do what he does. All of it. Let him be your guide to inner radness and high levels of extremeness.
    OOOOOOOHHHH, I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!

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    These are basic essentials for being extremo:

    First of all, do you have XXXXL pants in black with a chinstrap? I hope so, because you ain't gonna git recognized without 'em.

    Second, make sure you huck yourself off a 40 foot cliff and then make a post on the powder board with the title something like "Yo, Whatz your biggest clifff huck?"

    Third, get a white hand towel and put it in your back pocket of your XXXXL pants. This will make you look DOPE!

    Fourth: Since you are in Maine, hit up sugarloaf and straightline gondy line from top to bottom early season.

    Fifth, definitely change your screen name to something more "x-treme-eristic"

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    Damn you gonzo! Let him find the sugarloaf stashes on his own...(or I'll give you a tour sometime).

    -Zack(Sugarloaf bum)

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    ...you mean burger and poontang stashes?

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    I mean mexican food stashes

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    Originally posted by CantDog
    I mean mexican food stashes
    you live up there? how long you beeeeen?

    i went to colby - got 40 - 50 days a season for 4 years. fucking love that place.

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    Yep, go to Colby too. I'm at Dartmouth this year but I'll return next year. Loaf fackin kicks ass. Jan Plan=ski every day. Definately get full use of the season pass, I tabulated last years pass to something like 2 cents for every run I made.

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