Central Coast?

tim_ASP

tim_ASP

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Just moved here (San Luis Obispo to be exact) and have no idea whats going with the ski scene around here. Anyone else from central coast area? Where's the best place to ski and which passes should I get (if any), i'll probably only be able to hit up mountains on the weekends.
 
sierra summit is the closest place to ski. you should join cpsc to go on the big trip to steamboat. i am going but i go to cal poly pomona. there are usually about 350 kids who go and it will be the best week of your life. also if you want to compete or go to mammoth join the ski team again my school joins with slo and it is a lot of fun. finally get a june pass $125 and a sick park about 20 min from mammoth. if you would like more info message me and i can give info to contact people for the trip or team.
 
SLO and ski scene don't go together, that's why the area is littered with surf shops haha. I'm in Moro Bay as we speak. I can see the big ass rock from where I am. You need to go north and then go east, then you'll find skiing.... real skiing.
 
Yeah it is like super gnar there (for dh). Sierra Summit is closest. I live in Fresno and I'm there every weekend. June is super cool. It has almost no lift lines and gapers and the great unbound terrain park too. You're in for a long ass drive wherever you go to ski.
 
Yea, I'm part of Ski Club. and hopefully their 4 some trips will satisfy my desire to ski at least alittle bit. But yea, Sierra summit looks tight, and i'll for sure be heading up to June / Tahoe / Mammoth at least twice probs later in the season.

One nice thing about Central coast, Great surfing :D
 
Hey I made you a friend so just pm me when you hit up Sierra Summit and we can ride together. Definitely hit Mammoth, it is amazing and Squaw if you go to Tahoe.
 
wow this guy is always hatin' I think he gets hated on so much by NS because he snowblades that his only option is to retaliate by hatin' on everything.
 
Lets go 45's in the square at noon gentlemen's dual, or I could just give u one free shot then after u miss beat ur sorry snowblading ass.
 
Hey, 7th grader. You have no frame of reference here. So just don't talk.

Cal Poly sucks, every kid there sucks, their frats suck, their bros suck, their sports teams suck. Never have I met so many over-entitled kids who think they are brilliant, when in reality they are oh so mediocre.I got a 1250 on the SATs, so my parents rewarded me with a 5 series BMW, I must be smart right? Also, don't surf, it is crowded enough out there already.

You will struggle to get 15 days in if you are living in SLO and every kid at your school is going to be a gaper, so have fun shredding with them.

Sierra summit, sucks. Enjoy the 4 hour drive and 30 foot jumps with 15 foot landings. If I was given that choice, I wouldn't ski.
 
7th grader? No frame of reference? You don't know me or know shit about me and NOT SHIT FRAT SUCKS, that's why they're frats. Why the fuck would you judge a place by their frats and "kids." There's plenty of down to earth, fun people in slo, they're not all "bros"and gapers. I usually surround myself with mature people who know that their shit stinks too. And if its to crowded to surf, then just go to a different spot. There's surfbreaks in that area other than SLO. Sounds like you've just had some bitter experiences, there's always an option of moving ya know.

Like i said, skiing and slo don't mix, anyone that has any sense of geographics for the state of california know that there's better places to go to school if you're a skier.

Sierra Summit might suck, but some skiing is better than no skiing. It's ok to look at the positive side of things
 
I'd be careful about what you say. Last year they had a 60 foot step down and a 40 footer too. They also built a 20 foot quarterpipe and had over 30 boxes and rails, with about five stalls and jibs, that's pretty good for such a small park. They just built a ton of new features this summer too. Yeah Sierra Summit isn't the greatest, but it's better than some resorts. to the creator. PM me when you go up there and me and my friends can show you around.
 
You lived in SLO for what? 1 combined year? That's no frame of reference. I am including their frats in the judge because a good percentage of cal poly kids are in the greek system and most of the ones who aren't still act like fucking frat bros. At least hipsters haven't hit the central coast hard yet. I don't really know who is worse. At least they are afraid of the sun and beaches. If you surround yourself with cal poly kids I can guarantee they are bros.
You've surfed what, 50, a 100 days in your life? Shut up guy, if you go to cal poly and didn't surf before, don't start when you go there. You bros are bad enough out of the water.
And to that other Fresno person, 60 feet, right... Maybe a tahoe 60 feet, which is about 40 in reality. And it doesn't really matter how big a jump is if it shaped improperly, especially with a 30 foot landing.
 
Please dude, I have committed the last many years of my life to skiing. I might continue to do so, but I have better options right now that I have to follow through with. If that means not skiing for a couple years then so be it.
You really think it's worth it to drive for 8 hours, spend $50 on a lift ticket and pay for gas to shred sierra summit? If their park is worth it to you, then have fun.
 
SLO actually has some really great snowboarders/skiers. I had the privilege of being on the team with them last year and having them sleep on my floor almost every week.
Just cause you live far away from a resort doesn't mean you cant stay involved. They were serious riders. You just need to find a group of people willing to make the 6 hour drive on the weekends. It isn't as bad as you think. June student season pass is only $125. Mammoth is down to $595. Really, it isn't so bad.
And Cal Poly has a lot of really really intelligent people. Kind of why they have one of the best architecture programs, engineering, and agriculture programs in the US.
 
Um not really. I can guarantee, that right now, after not having put skis for 7 months that i can school any kid at cal poly and i'm not even that good.
If they were 'serious riders' they wouldn't be in slo going to cal poly.
Cal poly doesn't have any 'really intelligent people' I know this from experience and I know several professors there that can vouch for their mediocrity.
You can wipe your ass on the application and still get in there.
 
You obivously don't know shit. I went to SLO as an engineer, got a 1310 on my SAT and could have gone to any school I wanted. I chose to go to poly for their great CE program and because a few of my good friends from our very middle class refinery town were going down there. I don't surf, hate the beach (except for drinking and hanging out every once in a while). I skied 30 days on average per year while I was there, all in tahoe. If you're a true skier you will get up any way you can. Appatenly you have never skied with anyone from poly, cause some of the best skiers I know still live there. My chem lab partner was McConkey's godson. All of my friends from poly are extremely cool down to earth people, no matter what their tax bracket. If you're gonna hate on a place just because it is fairly affluent place just give up in life because you're obivously jealous and not willing to work very hard to get were you THINK you should be. Most of the people who have alot of money have worked their asses off to get there. Oh and by the way I drive a 1985 toyota pickup that I paid for when i graduated from high school, d-bag.
 


Yea dude, for sure, I'm hoping to get up there on the odd weekend I can't get out to Tahoe or Bear.

With regards to the other responses, I have found that Poly has been an incredible place to go to school. Everyone i have gotten to know while being here for the past 2 months has been super chill. And the education is amazing. (which is basically the entire reason I cam here)

The skiing situation does suck though, and i'm beginning to regret my decision to move so far away from the mountains. I'm used to being on the mountain and skiing for a 100+ days a year so this is going to be a big change, but whatev, this is a tight place and i'll be out hitchhiking rides and crashing peoples floors all year to do what ya gotta do to ski. :D

Anyone posting in this topic currently at Poly? If so, hit me up on PM.
 
you dont need to, but you should. and NO I didn't go to Cal Poly, stop assuming you know shit. Sounds like you're the one with the good SAT scores and the beamer, and that you think you know me, when in reality, you dont know shit.
 
Let me refute some of your claims there. I am far from brilliant, got about 100 points better on the SATs than you and still got shut down by multiple schools in CA. So I can guarantee you couldn't 'have gone to any school I wanted'. Cal Poly is a Cal State, please just shut the fuck up.
Oh shit McConkey's godson? If he lives in slo he's a gaper.

Wow 30 days? I have skied more than that in a month multiple times. So obviously if skiing actually matters to you, then you wouldn't be going to school on the central coast.
 
Seriously? Skiing matters to alot of people (Including myself) but so does other things in life. Such as school. I came to poly because it is one of the best schools for Computer Science on the west coast (thats not impossible to get into. lol caltech stanford.) Still doesn't change the fact that I love skiing and I will do my best to have both things in my life satisfied.

But seriously though. I don't even know why I'm giving you (snowblades) a half dignified response. It's not like you deserve it or anything
 
would a 4.2, 7 ap tests passed, and a 2300 on my sat 2's please u more? Oh and yeah I got in to UCLA, Berkeley, Davis, Stanford (too expensive), UCSD. The only school in cal that's better than Poly in the engineering realm is Cal tech and I didn't apply because its harder to get into than MIT. And dude don't try to kid anyone, you probably haven't even taken the SAT's yet.
 
I want to know how it is that you ski more than 30 days in a month. Every major resort I know of has days where it closes for weather. So, unless you still went out every day in Dec/Jan for the 31 days, you are an idiot. I worked at a resort/had ski practice every single day from Dec1st to March and I know I still missed around 8 days of the season.
But hey, I mean, I'm a pretty passionate skier. I've worked for a resort every winter since I was 15. But I went to Cal Poly Pomona. I could have gone anywhere in the midwest, few places on the east coast, but I had a hard to find major where the only better school in CA is UCLA which I couldn't afford out of state at. But wow, Id didn't go to Lewis & Clark in Oregon or UV. I went to Cal Poly. But shit, I founded a ski team, lived in Mammoth for a winter. drove an hour and a half to work ski school in which my pay usually didn't cover the gas to get there.
Just because you pick a school located a distance from something doesn't mean you aren't passionate. It is what you do with the situation to make it better that counts.
In regards to you schooling everyone at CP. Go to the regional competition. Watch, then tell me that again.
 
I'll explain this to you slowly.
There are 31 days in March.
Since I would get a split everyday I would ski everyday, if it was shitty I would still take a couple runs, talk shit about the conditions, complain about how cold it is and go back to work.
If you do pick a school away from something that is your life it does mean you aren't passionate. If skiing actually mattered to you, you would move to mountain, work a shit job and ski everyday, just like everyone else who cares about it.
I can still guarantee to you, sight unseen that I could make anyone at cal poly slo look like a lost 7 year old in the park.
 
Hey maybe he's gonna get into the best school he can and for four years work his ass off so he can move near all the resorts into a really nice home with a great job. Maybe that's how much he cares about skiing. Did you ever consider that? No, so shut the f**k up dude. And you're full of shit, take your snowblades somewhere else.
 
We have pretty equivalent shit on everything else, except I didn't have an AP scores (some schools take 2-3 as passing too, I'm sure cal poly is no exception) and no extra curriculars besides skiing and surfing. And I didn't even make into UCSD. I can really only assume you are non-white/asian or a girl (how many girls apply for engineering programs? Like 7, nationwide).
You must be fooling yourself if you think cal poly kids rank even close to any of the kids at those schools. Do you understand why the professors and others look down on you? Nearly all students there can not think for themselves or deviate from traditional, linear thought.
But you can rationalize your choice however you want. Enjoy paying for day passes and dropping 300 bucks every time you want to ski mammoth on the weekend.
 
Who the fuck wants to ski at 25? My body would give up by then. Yea there are so many 'great jobs' in resort towns. Unless your retired or doing something remote/telecommuting or medical, shit ain't going on there. Or you could just live in Denver or SLC, with a good job and a nice house, but either one of those places would make me put a bullet in my head.
 
TBH. The only reason I'm in school right now is because it's what I thought I wanted to do. But once i realized the winter is rolling around, and i'm hearing about Mammoth being dumped with 2 feet. and back home (MN) opening with like 3 boxes on halloween for a halloween jam, and im stuck doing my computer science homework, I realized i really dont want to be on the central coast. So for once, and i hate to admit it because i think snowblades is fucking retarded, he's right that I wish i was working a shitty night job so i can ski all winter like last winter.

BUT. This is the now, and i'll go pay the 200 bucks for 4 days at mammoth, and buy the June pass for Thanksgiving. and pay the rediculout rates at bear and Sierra summit on the odd weekends. And ski everyday christmas break at home, because i love this sport too damn much. lol.

Eh, there's my rant. Oh and anyone at Poly or anywhere slightly near me / anyone at any resort in California, hit me up and we'll take some turns some weekend or holiday.
 
Join the club, do the team. With the team Mammoth tickets are only $49. You would have to go 12 times to make up for the cost of a college pass. Or you can go 10 times and get a June pass. Carpool with 3 others and gas is totally manageable. After 1 trip up, you probably won't have to spend money on housing ever.
Make it through the winter. It is totally do able. Realize you are going to land a great job after. Or you can do what I did. Take winter quarter off. I wouldnt do it your first year, but second... sure. Avoid enrolling in GE's at all costs. This summer, take a full load of GEs or any possible engineering class that is offered. So you can do summer, fall, spring. You can still graduate in the same length as everyone else, just replace winter with summer. You will still get to surf plenty and SLO is still a fun place in the summer.
Seriously though, the degree is worth it.
Who knows, you could always get into designing skis or chairlifts or something of that sort. I'm getting a second degree now so that I can potentially work for quiksilver or 686 or Holden or another amazing company.
So when snowblades is off with his awful mountain job, I'll be working demo days at various resorts, be sent off to Japan and Australia for ASR, have control over something I truely love, and I'll be getting paid for it.
If you like engineering figure out what about it you actually like. I have a friend who wasnt sure if she made the right choice. Her professor asked her what she hated the most, she said traffic. Now she designs traffic intersections. Random but she loves her job.
I have another friend who is now builds event booths. Like the really fancy ones you see at the Xgames and such. He loves his job.
So keep in mind you can do pretty much anything with an engineering degree.
 
If you want to be smart about it, spend less and ski more, then just take off spring semester and take community college classes over the summer. $20 a unit and retardedly easy. Even if you are skiing and working you can still take an online class or two through hancock or cuesta while you live up in the mountains, you can bang out a 3 unit 100 level class in a weekend if you have some motivation.
Ask yourself, do you really want to work with something involving skiing? It definitely takes away some of the novelty and passion. If your job revolves around skiing it will almost assuredly wear down on your passion for the sport.
Don't claim about working demo days, that shit would suck badly. I can pretty much guarantee that you make less an hour when everything is factored in that I did working a shit job and still skiing everyday (they offered you what, 30k a year, with a lot of 70+ hour weeks? The perks aren't worth it, fuck that). Getting up early to set up a demo tent and traveling 4 days a week, to shred maybe an hour a day doesn't sound appealing to me. Plus having to travel to bullshit resorts in bumfuck nowhere to set gapers up on double tip skis would be pretty shitty. I would rather just stay in one spot and ride the best park in the world then have to travel through the midwest and east coast. Also having to be a rep for some shit product that is no different than any other product and bro down with every bro and douche out there goes against my ethos of life, but if you are good at it and want to sell out, then you can make some money, few do it comfortably though and living out of a suitcase isn't most peoples' thing.
Talk to me a year into the job and we will see how you actually like it.
And designing for 'totally like quiksilver, 686 and holden'. Welcome to the pathway to shit town. Look at fucked Quiksilver is right now, I would be surprised if they make it a year before they go down or get bought out and some one cleans house. I have heard they have a billion dollar loan at 12%, that is fine in good times, but i don't see them being able o keep up with the payments for that much longer, at least not with their stagnating sales. Look at how seriously fucked US manufacturing is right now, this isn't going to be a short term thing, why not start working for a newspaper, or railroad or typewriter maker? The prospects are equally as good. But at least your dropping 50 grand for the out of state masters. Snowsports outerwear is only going to constrict in the coming years, it was tough to get a job before. But now and in the future, there are going to be so many people vying for a shrinking number of jobs, that the already low salaries are going to be a joke. But what do I know?
 
apparently a lot. I mean you've convinced me to stay out of the black hole of skiing; full of gapers, kooks, engineers, and long drives to mountains im staying away!
 
You're silly confused. Thinking you and I actually have the same personality? Silly you. I love everything I do which is why I do it.

//end thread.
 
Please end this thread... I just wanted to meet people on the Central Coast, and all of a sudden it's a dramafest. lol.

peace and love fools.
 
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