I moved to LA from Colorado for work about a month ago. I still want to ski while I'm here even though it is still over 80deg in November. I'm thinking about getting a season pass to either Mountain High or Bear Mountain. Mountain High's pass is $350 until Nov 6th and Bear Mountain's pass is...
Ski racks are so expensive. I really want one but cant afford one right now. I would love to be able to fit 2 more people in my car but cant because I have to fold down most of the back seat area. I saw a plan for a homemade rack system in Skiing mag a while back. Their design consisted of a...
I was watching this documentary about heliskiing on Discovery HD theater and there was a segment that had a powder 8 competition in it. This was the first time I had ever heard of powder 8. Its goes like this: two teams of two skiers go down the mountain in untouched snow and try to make perfect...
iTunes needs to carry more ski movies. The only recent one they have is Enjoy which is only 2 bucks, such a good deal. The rest are from 2005. They have snowboard movies from this year like TITA and Its always snowing somewhere. Normally I would just buy the dvd but i got like 50 bucks in iTunes...
I always thought rocker technology was for powder skis only to help you 'float' across the snow. There are now rockered snowboards for the same reason. Next year there is going to be a rockered park board. I wonder if rockered park skis will follow? The only reason I can think of having this...
About a week ago I was going through the trees and found this fallen tree and decided to grind it. It was sick so I ended up hiking it for a little. I go back to the same tree today and hit it but this time my skis immediately come to a halt and i go tumbling nearly impaling myself on a nearby...
So late last season i landed pretty hard and one of my bindings broke. Luckily they were still under warranty so i brought them to the shop and they sent them back and got new ones finally shipped in. Today I go to the shop with my boots so they can put the new bindings on, but the guy says that...