Rock_Inhabitant
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14612615:GayWolf420 said:
Is it only groomers at this time of year?
Post Whats on your Skmind
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Is it only groomers at this time of year?
GayWolf420
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14612617:Rock_Inhabitant said:
Oh it still goes. Groomers or slush bumps
partyandBS
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14612615:GayWolf420 said:
i’ll be there monday fo sho!
GayWolf420
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I have an idea. Beer League Freeski/Freeride events for old dudes. Racing has them. My dad raced when he was 40 and won the championship with his team "The Spin Doctors".
nmwninjart
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14612737:GayWolf420 said:
14612749:Dlonetti said:
Right!
They have stuff for the kids but nothing for us Big Kids!
Rparr
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14612770:Slowbro said:
There used to be this company called US Airbag or something that would bring it's airbags around from resort to resort each year. For some reason they would always stop at my crummy ohio hill. This was like 12 years ago though, never seen one open to the public anywhere near me since then. Tons of fun
gussin_it
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14612440:BradFiAusNzCoCa said:
yea unfortunately no australia this year, engineering internship came through and I could not say no to it.
thats a super nice offer though to use you as a reference, I appreciate it!
Only chance to ski now will be at Akamp, which kinda sucks cuz i was looking forward to ski the whole summer.
Always next year though!
GayWolf420
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14612980:muffMan. said:
Whoever the dude was that was skiing around playing live House sets with a giant amp and turntables is my hero. I need to see his livestream footage.
FreakSchoolers
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capeesh belts not sold out immediately lol
BigPurpleSkiSuit
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Bird closing day was super fun, sucks they decided to close with plenty of snow left for at least another few weekends to start running summer ops on June 15th.
Love everyone who runs the mountain, hate everyone who made the decision to kill ski season early.
Love everyone who runs the mountain, hate everyone who made the decision to kill ski season early.
GayWolf420
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14613089:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:
Yeah dude. The worst part is the lifties and patrollers still love it and want it. At least I would. Our closing day was April 1st at work.
Thegenericskier
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Seems like every pro is doing rodeo 7 blunt
SlushSeason
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14613089:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:
Love the lifties and cat drivers and bartenders and most of the patrollers. Absolutely despise the POWDR corp money squeezers and anybody that ever buys a fast pass.
K-Dot.
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The influence that epic planks, specifically the vaporizer (the rockered ski with the Rasta gradient base that Zahner rode), doesn’t really get the acknowledgment it deserves for progressing park ski designs. Obviously the brand name would’ve never stood the test of time and the owner went on to destroy his reputation with Revision, but the ski itself is what many modern park skis today resemble. Noticeably rockered tip and tail, symmetrical or pretty close, around 90 underfoot.
At the time people clowned on the shape and said that the rockered tail would be a nightmare for acls. The coolest shape at the time seemed to be the edollo with a stiff cambered tail and wider platform underfoot, which revision (and plenty of other brands) went on to essentially copy. Surface is also worth mentioning from that era but they never had a pure park ski with extreme rocker, just all mountain/powder skis that people ended up using in the park. The armada alpha was similar too but had a noticeably more conservative rocker profile comparatively.
Vishnu wets, faction studio 1, movement fly 90, armada bdog, Icelantic nomad 95 (and jet skis), misfit skis, Völkl revolt 95/96, sego bighorn, mango 90, etc. Obviously all of these skis came about in different ways and drew inspiration from a variety of sources but they all somewhat resemble the thesis put forward by epic planks well over a decade ago. Rockered, relatively skinny park skis are fun but ~12 years ago the zeitgeist wasn’t ready for them whereas now they seem to be the standard for many park skiers.
Photo for reference, thank god the galaxy print era is behind us.
At the time people clowned on the shape and said that the rockered tail would be a nightmare for acls. The coolest shape at the time seemed to be the edollo with a stiff cambered tail and wider platform underfoot, which revision (and plenty of other brands) went on to essentially copy. Surface is also worth mentioning from that era but they never had a pure park ski with extreme rocker, just all mountain/powder skis that people ended up using in the park. The armada alpha was similar too but had a noticeably more conservative rocker profile comparatively.
Vishnu wets, faction studio 1, movement fly 90, armada bdog, Icelantic nomad 95 (and jet skis), misfit skis, Völkl revolt 95/96, sego bighorn, mango 90, etc. Obviously all of these skis came about in different ways and drew inspiration from a variety of sources but they all somewhat resemble the thesis put forward by epic planks well over a decade ago. Rockered, relatively skinny park skis are fun but ~12 years ago the zeitgeist wasn’t ready for them whereas now they seem to be the standard for many park skiers.
Photo for reference, thank god the galaxy print era is behind us.
GayWolf420
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14613141:SlushSeason said:
Much like Powdr/Alterra/VR, I can see the privately-owned Indy Pass resorts suffering the same fate. My workplace in the winter has changed ownership more than 3 times since their incarnation in 1995 and things don't seem much better. Every departments budget was slashed mid-season alongside hours being cut because the new owners from St. Louis just want it to be a free playground for their kids and families. Squeezing money and mismanagement will be the downfall of the industry.
Whats super funny is half of my work crew this winter including my boss all worked there in seasons-prior and worked their ways up into lower to mid management and hated their lives so much that mowing grass sounded better. Its sad.
**This post was edited on May 29th 2024 at 5:32:22pm
**This post was edited on May 29th 2024 at 5:34:38pm
ReturnToMonkey
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Wait what's this about rockered tails being worse for your acls?
steez_apprentice
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14613088:messisucks said:
probably bc shipping to US is outrageous for some reason.
KungKalmar
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14613216:steez_apprentice said:
You know that park skiing exists outside of the US?
With the amout of belts they have dropped everyone who have wanted one has been able to buy one.
steez_apprentice
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14613228:JalmarKalmar said:
I don't think you get my point here... the shipping is a lot more expensive than it used to be, Harlaut isn't an American-based company and yet it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to ship? People can obviously still get belts but the problem is unless youcan somehow justify spending like 80 bucks on a single belt then it's just ridiculous
KungKalmar
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14613229:steez_apprentice said:
How much is the shipping then?
Euro shipping was cheaper than it used to be. I paid like 25 euros few years ago for shipping from nordic country to other nordic country.
And I was pointing out that Capeesh doesn't need The Us buyers that much.
**This post was edited on May 29th 2024 at 11:33:30pm
Farmville420
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Rewatched "Chargeur" and was reminded that Buldoz might be the most buck crew ever? Some of the most reckless sends I've ever seen
Rock_Inhabitant
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14613866:Farmville420 said:
Yea I think they got a few screws loose, or slightly suicidal like those redbull rampage guys
KungKalmar
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14613875:nCrow said:
Euroope is simply superior(mostly swiss, austria and nordics)
I have huge gang to support this statement:
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**This post was edited on Jun 5th 2024 at 3:04:50am
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SWRTOFFICIAL
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14614252:Dlonetti said:
Real, I love when an event happens on here
SofaKingSick
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14613140:Thegenericskier said:
good cause they're one of the dopest tricks out there. stale or cuban is even better tho
steez_apprentice
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14613230:JalmarKalmar said:
22 USD to ship just a sweatshirt is a little extra. I'm not paying 107 dollars for a single hoodie
ZenyattaKick
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Yeah not sure if this has been discussed before, but like I miss the days of massive features like gap a 10ft jump to land on a box, feel like skiing was way more like huge back in the day.
Rock_Inhabitant
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14614899:ZenyattaKick said:
kinda crazy that me and a lot of people on this site weren’t even born yet during this. I wasn’t even here for the NS haydays
SofaKingSick
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14615222:hi_vis360 said:
so agree. i really miss the random lips and sketchy rails set up high with gaps to them and shit
