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hendriab

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There is no debate.

Midwest skiers are the best breed of skiers. Watching edits from Breck, Stone, Mammoth, ect, and seeing these guys concentrating on landing tricks on perfect features with perfect run ins and perfect landings makes me sick. Try coming to the midwest, were rails are made of rust and tetinus, run ins are about as wide as my wrist, and the landings look like the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. If its jumps you want, try hucking your soon-to-be corpse off of the bucking-bronco lips, its probably feels the same as rolling your car. Better get your speed perfect though, because your chances of hitting the five foot landing are about as good as getting killed by a vending machine. Oh, you just want to cruise some groomers today? Better lace up your ice skates and put rear view mirrors on your poles, that way you can navigate the moderatly steep ice rink that you payed 60 dollars to ski while avoiding kamakazi red necks in camo (not the Saga kind...) or five year olds with tunnel vision.

Seriously, if the skiers in the midwest pooled some funds and got out west, where seeminly every rail is knee high and the landings are longer than most ski hills out here, the comp scene would get grimey really quick. Doubling? I would be doing quads no sweat, how can you not. Is it ever even overcast out there?

Outwest is now ariels. Get at me.
 
In my experience of like 4 days in Aspen, I confirm that the jumps and rails and just everything is so much better out there. And it really does put you at ease, I skied better out there than I ever have. Granted this is an east coast point of view, but our skiing is still terrible in comparison. Plus, my home mountain is Loon, which supposedly has one of the best east coast parks. It doesn't touch anything out west. It can't we, don't have real snow half the time. But to say you would be easily beating any of those kids with their resources is bullshit. The conditions don't do much if you suck at skiing, those kids still put in a shit ton, of effort, they just see results quicker. Get at me.
 
You gotta realize tho, a lot of the skiers that are skiing those perfect parks come from places in the midwest or east coast. They moved there because they were over skiing the shitty parks. And thats what makes those skiers better. Because they have a backround riding not so good parks.
 
cause our hills dont really get free style, hills dont put money into the park they leave things there because they just dont care. we gotta do everything the hard way.
 
thats not what he is talking about, im pretty sure east coasters get new rails and have good park crews.

our rails at the youngest here are about 2 years old and our park crews are all lazy as fuck.
 
thats not what he is talking about, im pretty sure east coasters get new rails and have good park crews.

our rails at the youngest here are about 2 years old and our park crews are all lazy as fuck.
 
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webb shut the fuck up yes our hill compares in no way to breck but we got around 20 new features this year and our park crew works their asses of with what they have no one can make a park like brecks with out the funding and a hill with 300 vertical dosent have 3 mill to build a park
 
There actually is some truth to this post though. In terms of fun, after skiing for years at tiny midwest hills, I feel like I have learned to appreciate any kind of skiing, and getting the chance to hit a good park set-up or ski some "deep" snow is just the funniest thing ever, mabeye something that lots westerners take for granted? Idk
 
. EC has a great vibe though. I have never skied Midwest but CO and UT are alot better than the EC but lack the same vibe. Westerners maybe do take their snow for granted. IDK.
 
Where do people from out east get the impression that west coast riders don't appreciate what they're riding? It seems to be a really common thought process and makes no sense at all to me.
 
Haha our "park crew" are the laziest guys ever. They make these ridiculous features with shitty 18 inch wide jumps on and call it a day. They set it up sloppily in the first place, and never fix it. A real park crew (i.e. Afton, HYLAND EVEN, and Elm) are actually out there fixing stuff. I understand this is Buck's fault for not hiring people to do this. But they could at least fix stuff before and after they're open. It doesn't take funding to get a fucking shovel and make a lip onto a box (yes, they have been known to make no lip whatsoever onto things)

/rant
 
ya thats what im talking about, hyland actually waxes there rails every know and then and get rid of rust, buck park crew builds a jump and just forgets about it for a month.
 
who gives a fuck we are all skiing if you dont like watching edits from colorado and so on dont fucking watch them.....its like it hurts when i stick my finger in my eyeball......if it hurts then stop putting your fucking finger in your eyeball.......
 
When you've skied the worst, the best come's easy. East Coast is probably just as mediocre as the Midwest (besides Carintha and 7 Springs, etc...)
 
I know i've said this before but buck hill SUCKS. ive never had such a terrible time skiing as when i went there for a day. their snow quality is awful, even for the midwest, and their features (jumps AND rails) are absolute trash
 
well when you think about the majority of east coast places are about as big as most mid west stuff, except for granite lutsen etc...
 
this is why I live out west.

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you all suck /thread
 
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