What IS this Community?!?

[Woodsy]

In looking at the most viewed posts I plucked these Gems out of a poisen filled diatribe of he said she said.
They capture what I enjoy about this place:

The rusted one:

Over the first couple years of powmag I was in the top 10 for number of posts. Went to the first summit and have hosted and skied with maggots everywhere. First class people. From a pastrami sammich in NYC with Pinner to heli-skiing with Odin to WA backcountry with Buster or dinner in a countryside VA bar with Ice and Big E, it's always been more about the personalities than the skiing for me. Brett is an abrasive personality. Dissenting personalities are fine. Abrasiveness, however, chaffs the fabric of a community built humor, familiarity, and a love of skiing.

Brett can, however, be the ultimate dichotomy. At times he left me laughing so hard I almost wet myself. Some of his stoke was really cool. Why can't these aspects of his personality reign supreme?

Dex has always been, for better or worse, extremely opinionated. Dex has long been one of my favorite personalities on this board.

But Beaver is also one of my favorite posters. It seemed, Dex, he was voicing frustration and is a reasonable person to do it. Dex, you don't get told off by longstanding members often, especially by someone as even-keeled as Beaver. Whatever hasn't been let go, should be.

Sure there have been people run off the boards. There have also been many people embraced. SheRa was nearly run off. I remember trying to get her, through personal emails, to come to the initial summit at SLC. She almost committed, but the backlash kept her away. That said, she found her own path. She is undoubtedly a better skier and mountaineer than I. What an emergence as a skier AND online personality. Those who really want to be here, are here.

All in all, this place is awesome. I hope MD9, a great dood who has a place to stay anytime he wants if he happens through whatever berg I am living in, returns sometime -- even infrequently -- the board was better with him around. Glad to see his kin still posting though!

Anyway, gotta make some phone calls. Meeting Squirrel99, Rehabit, Greenmachine, Buster, etc... to hike for some turns tomorrow. Without this board, I wouldn't know any of these guys. THAT, is what this place is all about.

iceyhotman retorts

Awesome post, Rusty. For those who don't know, Rusty didn't just attend the first summit, he organized it.

Bottom line is, those who are more positive than negative (I'm right on the line) end up being loved (see Splat and Yossarian). Rusty has been upbeat from day one (actually he was on powmag before I was), and he deserves all the love we can give him.

Some longtime posters seem to have gotten very bitter lately. I hope they will join us in making this place what it can be, a "band of brothers" (and sisters, too, of course). With funny shit and the occasional freakout not only allowed but encouraged.

Keep ya chins up, ya buncha stupid fuckwads.
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it's cathartic, really.

Last weekend I hung & safely watched ski videos with Buzz Fri then went to a concert on Sat with Xover.
Sunday after hiking I did a workout I copied from this board.

Ya do the hokey pokey & ya turn yourself around
That’s what its all about!
:ballgrab:

[iceman]

This is a community of angry bukkake whelks, get used to it.

[PlayHarder]

Haven't met a maggot that I haven't liked (too bad we didn't hook up when you were here, Woodsy).

Went to the screenings of Yearbook & Soul Purpose last night, good maggot turnout made the evening even better. Absorb the good, ignore the drama.

[Woodsy]

This is a community of angry bukkake whelks, get used to it.

nah there are Yankee fans too

[Lynx]

Ya do the hokey pokey & ya turn yourself around
That’s what its all about!
:ballgrab:

for some reason i imagine you dancing around wearing a giant afro.

....what?

[Buster Highmen]

It's water in all it's forms: hot gaseous fartola, liquid incoherency and crystalline biting hexadendrites.

It's the ships of morphemes and deteriorata that sail across these twisted gulfs, far wider than space or time or political rifts.

It's that stinky bootliner, skankier than anything ever found in a high school gym locker room.

It's the dribblings of rhythm, cadence, and chaos that end up festering here in this stoopid little parking lot off the information highway.

[PacRimRider1]

wowo that is faking beautiful

[Odin]

It is the thing inside not outside and upwards.

Dang, gotta go pick up my girlfriend. More on this later.

[Stu Gotz]

It's the dribblings of rhythm, cadence, and chaos that end up festering here in this stoopid little parking lot off the information highway.

Lloyd Dobler: I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n' Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?

(Long Pause)

Joe: By choice, man!

[Buzzworthy]

I have met many a person here that I have now made longtime friends with from this and other ski sports boards. It is simply amazing, this place.

I take pride in organizing the "leftovers" ( i.e. the Utah Mini Summit) from Rusty and thank him for pioneering the way. These so called leftovers are now a tradition and it looks like this year will be another great Mini Summit in Utah.

Thank you all for the great experiences.



Edit: And the maggot who posted above me: why he is getting me back on skis, now that is a MAGGOT!!!!

[Woodsy]

for some reason i imagine you dancing around wearing a giant afro.

....what?

ooooh you're kinky
I imagine you with your new girfriends & your camera equipment,
ok your turn.....

[Blurred]

Whoa, I don't know whether to be happy, be sad, or look at phUnks avatar and start whacking off like a monkey at the zoo.....

[Woodsy]

start whacking off like a monkey at the zoo.....

lets see what Lynx posts next.....

[Telekóptero]

bwahahahaha!

[EPSkis]

It's quite simple, really:

This Community is http://skiingismylife.com/media/fm.gif .

Any other questions?

[Lynx]

i wasnt trying to be kinky!!!

but you know. . . im gonna have to charge a hefty admission to that photoshoot.

[MacDaddy]

In looking at the most viewed posts I plucked these Gems out of a poisen filled diatribe of he said she said.
They capture what I enjoy about this place:

The rusted one:



iceyhotman retorts



Last weekend I hung & safely watched ski videos with Buzz Fri then went to a concert on Sat with Xover.
Sunday after hiking I did a workout I copied from this board.

Ya do the hokey pokey & ya turn yourself around
That’s what its all about!
:ballgrab:

a super timely post!!!!

Thanks to the Woodsy

perhaps away to release
perhaps away to express
perhaps away to appreciate


ciao

[horizon]

Before logging in to tgr today, I remembered this conversation.

And I thought that this forum is like meat to me:
- I could (easily?) live without it but prefer not to;
- there are pieces that are really delicious and others you chew your way through, and at times it goes off and smells really bad;
- in some cases, I'd rather not think about the way things worked to get to the end result.

Enough pseudodeepthinking, I'm off to have a steak.