2019/2020 Midwest Stoke Thread

[skuff]

@ GSinister... cool zen garden photo!

[axebiker]

Atta boy!

[jdoyle]

Little Switz tonight. Seven inches have fallen since ten am but it’s nowhere to be found. Six bus loads of middle schoolers got here at four and tore it up like it was a scarecrow and they the flying monkeys. We’re still having fun.

[Leshphilling77]

I made so many laps on that damn tow rope in my youth

[skuff]

I made so many laps on that damn tow rope in my youth

Same here! Burned through a few pairs of mittens before I bought those leather glove protectors

Big Deal used to feel like a big deal

[Tom_H]

Same here! Burned through a few pairs of mittens before I bought those leather glove protectors

Just bought a couple pair of rope protectors last week for the kids. They were smoking through a couple pairs of leather choppers during a single season - and they're good about speed matching the rope too.... I can't get my younger one hardly out of the park this year - he spent a straight 4 hours last night on the rope at Wild.....

I really need to remember to take more pictures - help keep Harry alive during his sabattical. I feel like I've just spent the last three weeks slipping race courses, so I never think about it. Thing 1 had his first high school race on Tuesday though, 44th out of about 90ish boys in the varsity race - not too bad for an eighth grader. The extra gate time more than once a week is already cleaning up his course skiing - so I think he'll move up the list over the next 4 races. About the only thing I've got some pics of, but my phone didn't like the lighting, so the vid screenshot is a little blurred.

[Harry]

help keep Harry alive during his sabattical.

Good work.

Lots of good stoke being posted. Much appreciated.


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[Harry]

Any plans for a Midwest mini summit this year? Play hooky and drive up to Lutsen?

This needs some serious discussion.

Last year we did “Mag Takeover @Troll” on the same day as Demo Day. That worked well and I suggest that becomes an annual tradition. I have no idea what day that is this season, nothing is listed on their website.

I also like the idea of a Midwest Summit at Lutsen. Any day(s) work for me, as I am playing hooky for life. Preferably when I am healed up, but if not I will attend anyway. I just like being part of the ski scene.

Who is up for a Lutsen Summit ?



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[mn_teleswede]

I am game. I like the idea of it taking place in March, but being a DUber (Dad Uber) for my daughter’s activities; my availability is all over the place.


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[Harry]

I am game. I like the idea of it taking place in March, but being a DUber (Dad Uber) for my daughter’s activities; my availability is all over the place.


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Current roster for the Lutsen Summit:

1) mn_teleswede
2) Harry
3) skuff

Teleswede gets to set the dates(s) since this was his idea.




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[mtnjam]

Wheres the Mt. LaCrosse, Nordic (Mt. Morris) Mountain, Pine Mountain, MI love in this thread?

[skuff]

Current roster for the Lutsen Summit:

1) mn_teleswede
2) Harry

Teleswede gets to set the dates(s) since this was his idea.




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Add me to the Lutsen List

Wheres the Mt. LaCrosse, Nordic (Mt. Morris) Mountain, Pine Mountain, MI love in this thread?

If I can figure out how to attach photos, I'll get you some Nordic Mountain love

[mtnjam]

Add me to the Lutsen List




If I can figure out how to attach photos, I'll get you some Nordic Mountain love

Thanks! No big deal, I just grew up skiing those places, as a matter of fact, the first place I "downhill" skied was at Nordic, attempted to ride the poma lift that used to go through the trees, but couldn't figure out how. Spent a lot of time at Pine Mountain in my friends' parents' Winnebago camper plugged in to the outlets in the parking lot and listening to my friends Dad complain about all the vagabonds skiing at Pine, then it was on to Mount LaCrosse for study breaks when I was in school there at UW.

[Harry]

Add me to the Lutsen List

1) mn_teleswede
2) Harry
3) skuff

[bushman]

subscribed

[Harry]

bushman reappears after a multi year hiatus !

Next mystery; where is Bio Smear ? Wasn’t he living somewhere up north of Hibbing ?

We already had a Yooper sighting this season, all kinds of disappeared midwest maggots reappearing. Skiing is eternal.

[axebiker]

subscribed

I sent you a friend request on Facebook, Bushy! Get on it!

Harry - I’m a tentative yep.

[Harry]

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

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[m2711c]

happy new year harry!


here's a teambuildin' activity for the winter scouts on yer island...




they can practice their chainsaw safety.

fact.

[naedward81]

This needs some serious discussion.

Last year we did “Mag Takeover @Troll” on the same day as Demo Day. That worked well and I suggest that becomes an annual tradition. I have no idea what day that is this season, nothing is listed on their website.

I also like the idea of a Midwest Summit at Lutsen. Any day(s) work for me, as I am playing hooky for life. Preferably when I am healed up, but if not I will attend anyway. I just like being part of the ski scene.

Who is up for a Lutsen Summit ?



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I might be the surprise guest when the date gets figured out.

If it's a weekday, I can always find a way to attend a pre-construction meeting at Papa Charlie's since I'm doing the drywall in it.

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[jdoyle]

Got out to Crystal Ridge (formerly the Rock, formerly the dump) for an hour before the Packer game. They do a good job with what they have.

Always nice to see a hill that’s getting better. Especially after New Year’s Day at Sundown, that places best days are long past.

[axebiker]

COLD weekend here in MN. I'm fighting a bit of a something, so I opted out of skiing yesterday, and today isn't looking too great either. Selling some skis and gear though, which is good! Watching the greatest movie of all time though - POINT BREAK!!

[jdoyle]

COLD weekend here in MN. I'm fighting a bit of a something, so I opted out of skiing yesterday, and today isn't looking too great either. Selling some skis and gear though, which is good! Watching the greatest movie of all time though - POINT BREAK!!

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[axebiker]

UTAH! Get me TWO!!

[gaijin]

Wild.....

I knew where this was in less than a second of seeing the pic. My head-- "Yup, that's where I grew up and learned to turn."

Never imagined then how much that training would aid to my ability to flow through JP forests 35 years later. Thanks for the nostalgia. Tell your kids my forests and your gates have more in common than they know. It's the same flow. I just don't shin gates anymore. lol. But the looking ahead, reading the line, reacting... all that nervous system training goes a long way.

I emailed Wild for a paper trail map that I could frame and mount on my wall in my office. They were like-- "We don't have paper trail maps anymore. You can download it, though."

I felt old.

I thought it would be a cool project to cover my wall in all of my "home mountains."

Also a funny anecdote-- There was a gorgeous blonde girl from Forest Lake HS that we used to race against. She was always decked out in Descente gear. We called her Descente girl. We all had a crush on her. And even today I have an affinity for the brand. Ha.

Also Reusch gloves. I see pics like this and suddenly get a waft of the smell of Reusch leather.

Does Wild still have the best fries in the known universe?