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Anybody been? Is a day or evening pass worth the $70-$90 that they're charging? Lots of jumps? Do you have to hike for everything? I saw them setting up in Glacier Bowl last Saturday. It looked like they were gonna have some decent jumps and a nice quarter pipe.

I think the Ski Equipment Thread should be split into two separate threads: (1) One thread for discussion of ski equipment; and (2) a buy/sell/trade thread. As it's currently configured, most of the actual discussion of ski equipment is lost among all the buy/sell/trade posts.

I just put a $200 retainer down on some 195cm Praxis Powder skis: 131-136-121, reverse sidecut and rockered. Praxis, an indy ski maker out of Tahoe, is selling these skis (also in 175cm and 185cm) for a super-cheap $400 if you put down the first $200 now. These skis have been reviewed very...

http://www.easysnowboards.com/thebigeasy/camps/ Any thoughts? I'm not going to do any of the camps, but the evening sessions sound cool.

24" of ultralight, dry Alta-in-the-Chugach sweetness. I inhaled enough snow on every run to stay totally hydrated. At one point, I caught a ski on an under-snow tree branch that twisted me around causing me to drop off of a twelve-footer backwards and upsidedown. I landed on my back, rolled...

Has anybody used Oregon Scientific's ATC2K helmet cam? Reviews? I'm looking for something basic and cheap for big mountain and tree skiing. A helmet cam that'll post decent Youtube video will do. The ATC2K is only $80 (plus another ~$60 for a 2gig card). Advice on any other helmet cams is...

Regardless of what you currently own, if you could have any three skis, what would they be? (1) Karma (185 cm) for park, ice and bumps (2) Prophet 100 (186 cm) for backcountry, pow, technical lines, and general all-mountain skiing. (3) ProRider XXL (194 cm) for hard charging and big hucks...

February was no January or December.

(1) Performance: Too hot in the spring ? Goggles fog? Visability in the park? (2) Image? I don't think anything if someone's sporting one, but I don't know if others think a full-face helmet makes its wearer look like a Morrison wannabe. (#1 is obviously more important than #2, but I am...

The local shop did a demo day on Saturday. Unfortunately, the snow was total shit. Everything had melted and then re-froze several times, so the only skiable terrain was groomed, and even that was boilerplate. So take these reviews with a HUGE grain of salt. Rossi B-Squads (B4s): I tried the...

http://www.biglines.com/articles_readmore.php?article=1&read=3348 I know where my 2008 ski vacation will be.

http://www.alyeskaresort.com/page.asp?intNodeID=11316 Alyeska is simply going off this year.

At least, it's not what I think of a park. No offense to my rail-riding brethern. Some rail tricks are very cool and I have no problem with their presense in the park. I'm just not really into rails myself. I am into jumps and the pipe though. Too bad my local ski resorts think that a dozen...

I'm just curious to see how often people here actually ski. Let's define a "day" as one in which you skied for at least a few hours. Also, what do you do for a living? Me? About 20 days/state government job.

I'm not really complaining because I've been getting face shots every day I've skied Aly since Christmas, but is the resort ever going to build a halfpipe? It just seems kinda strange to me that they haven't already.

On what kind of jumps do people learn this trick? Booter into powder? Big-ass hardpack table top? I tried it once on a smaller hardpack jump and ate shit in such a way that I couldn't even begin to describe what went wrong.

Since people were cool enough to respond to my "Seths v. Prophets" thread, I thought I'd report back. I went with the Prophets because (a) I liked what I had read about them; (b) they are a little stiffer than the Seths; and (c) I just had a good feeling about them. I love my Prophets. I've...

Having killed my trusty yet ancient X-Screams this weekend, I'm looking to get new skis. I ski about 75% big mountain (deep powder, chutes, trees, etc.) and maybe 25% park (jumps and pipe but no rails) at Alyeska with an occasional backcountry romp. Of course, in the spring, those percentages...