This just in:

**teambigdave** · 01-19-2006, 02:47 PM

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).

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

**trainnvain** · 01-19-2006, 02:48 PM

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

**stump832** · 01-19-2006, 03:05 PM

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).

Highway Star might be the most annoying alias EVER.

**creaker** · 01-19-2006, 03:11 PM

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.

**ski_adk** · 01-19-2006, 03:16 PM

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

**DaveTV** · 01-19-2006, 05:24 PM

You bad...

**schuss** · 01-19-2006, 05:25 PM

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.

**Bluebird** · 01-19-2006, 05:27 PM

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

**SkiJunky05** · 01-19-2006, 05:28 PM

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.

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,

SkiJunky05

**biggins** · 01-19-2006, 05:30 PM

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.'

**Lloyd Braun** · 01-19-2006, 05:35 PM

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).

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

**72Twenty** · 01-19-2006, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Highway Star

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

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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).

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

**biggins** · 01-19-2006, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by Highway Star

I like balls across my face.

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**biggins** · 01-19-2006, 05:49 PM

You're quoting yourself.

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

**72Twenty** · 01-19-2006, 05:53 PM

Highwaystar in grade school

"Hey there, though guy...."

**stump832** · 01-19-2006, 05:58 PM

Not sure if you all caught this, but we all just witnessed the extremely rare alias self-quote and self-FM. Quite the gem. I'll cherish this day forever.

**pointedem** · 01-19-2006, 06:03 PM

Quote:
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.

i could care less how core I think i am, or for that matter how core you think I am, BUT

skiing 2200' vert of waist deep blower is MUCH more fun then "coring" it out on east coast ice/ bumps/ whatever else you guys ski over that way.

I served my ice coast time-

**Godwin-Austin** · 01-19-2006, 06:06 PM

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.

Sprite

if Sprite is turning negative we are all royally f'ed.

Well, today, I played some frisbee on a green field on the side of the conneticut river - which happens to be at flood stage.

**trainnvain** · 01-19-2006, 06:06 PM

Not sure if you all caught this, but we all just witnessed the extremely rare alias self-quote and self-FM. Quite the gem. I'll remember this day forever.

I'm swelling with emotion. Amazing. Scary. Compelling. Beautiful. Internet nature in all it's glory. Wow oh wow.

**vtdownhiller** · 01-19-2006, 06:50 PM

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.

Sprite

Your kid racing at Queeche?.....Oh and by the way you guys should just stay home the skiing sucks here..

**DaveTV** · 01-19-2006, 07:13 PM

First they beat us in Football
Now this - phuckers...

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GRAND AND BATTLEMENT MESAS-
GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAIN VALLEYS-
WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SKYWAY...ASPEN...VAIL...SNOWMASS...
CRESTED BUTTE...TAYLOR PARK...MARBLE
320 PM MST THU JAN 19 2006

...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MST FRIDAY...

A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MST FRIDAY.

PERIODS OF SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT.
STORM TOTALS OF 8 TO 16 INCHES OF SNOW CAN BE EXPECTED BY FRIDAY
MORNING. ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS OF UP TO 2 FEET ARE POSSIBLE.
LATE TONIGHT...GUSTY NORTH WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH WILL CREATE AREAS
OF BLOWING SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES.

IF YOU ARE PLANNING TRAVEL THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING ALONG I-70 OVER
VAIL PASS OR HIGHWAYS 50...65...133 OR 135...BE PREPARED FOR
HAZARDOUS WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS. ROADS WILL BE ICY AND
SNOWPACKED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR ANOTHER MEDIA
SOURCE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WINTER STORM. YOU CAN
ALSO GET UPDATES FROM THE GRAND JUNCTION WEATHER SERVICE WEB PAGE
AT: WEATHER.GOV/GJT.

$$

**funkendrenchman** · 01-19-2006, 07:26 PM

As a former east coaster, I don't know how you guys put up with it winter after winter. The weather drove me crazy and forced me out west forever.

**Godwin-Austin** · 01-19-2006, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by DaveTV

First they beat us in Football
Now this - phuckers...

.

GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAIN VALLEYS-
WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS-
.

A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MST FRIDAY.

PERIODS OF SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT.
STORM TOTALS OF 8 TO 16 INCHES OF SNOW CAN BE EXPECTED BY FRIDAY
MORNING. ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS OF UP TO 2 FEET ARE POSSIBLE.

dude, that is just really mean.