WRXRacer111

Silver Creek wasn't bad, not the best it's been, but what do you expect with the screwy weather? Saturday was pretty soft in the afternoon and it got really hard by night time, felt a little bit like a skating rink. Plus it was choppy since the slushy afternoon had pushed a lot of snow around which then froze in some "interesting" arrangements. Sunday afternoon/evening it felt essentially like sugar on top of glass. Light fluffy stuff on top of ice. Couldn't really dig much of an edge in it. Monday it was hard, but there was just enough of a hint of softness that you could force the edge to bite and lay it over. I heard they got bombed with snow later in the week though... LOL

LOL, well you know... if you have 2 brand new boards and you need to get both of them broken in... *cough* *splutter* I can be of assistance! My brother Jeff and I (Chris) will be at the Inn at Snowshoe, probably spend most of our time at the Creek. He has a black helmet, and will be on a white Hot Blast. I think I'll be in a blue-n-white helmet (hopeful christmas gift!) on my red/black Sims Burner split-tail. Should not be too hard to spot us as we will be two of the few riding hardboots, and undoubtedly the only two south asian hardbooters. If you're on an FRS radio, give us a shout on channel 7-11.

Anyone else going up for new year's? I'll be getting up there friday night, riding saturday/sunday/monday/tuesday. Probably be at Silver Creek most of the time.

I think my brother is heading up there today, white Hot Blast 168, black helmet. Okay, he's a carver, it won't be that hard to spot him!

Let us know how it is! I haven't been up there yet, I'll definitely be there for Dec 28th-New Years weekend... Maybe pondering going up next weekend for some riding. Gf wants to make the changeover from skis so I think she will be start on soft boots so it doesn't break her on her first weekend out. Hard boots... maybe later for her if she enjoys having her feet strapped to a board!

I've been too busy with work to get up to Snowshoe since the 7th of January... my brother has been up there since thursday, I'm sure I'll hear all about it since he was boarding while I was still at work, heh.

Just got back from 'shoe... Warm weather, a little rainy at points. Kinda chopped up and a little lumpy, but it was reasonably soft throughout the weekend which was good for my nephews. Got to play around on my new-to-me Burton Coil 173. First thing I can say about the board is that I absolutely HATE the Burton Race whatever bindings that came on it... adjustments are a pain in the neck and I despise the "3D" mounting system. The bindings themselves are nowhere near as stiff as the Sims or Snowpro bindings I've used before. The board itself is fun, I'm relearning how to ride on it! I can lay out toeside EC's pretty comfortably, having a hard time getting low on my heelside without chattering the tail loose. I can lean it over fairly hard staying in a crouched racecarve, but I haven't figure out how to stretch out on a heelside carve and hang onto it. Any ECers have any suggestions? Today makes I think 6 days on my season pass... I'm not sure how much more I'll be riding, between the weather and car-racing season coming up in a hurry.

well... I was up there saturday-sunday-monday. Saturday was decent, a little crowded and a bit lumpy. We went out in the afternoon and once it softened up a bit, you could crank some turns pretty well. I did however find a way to mix flat-light and the trough from a just-removed race course... which resulted in me getting chucked completely blind, and coming down on my helmet and shoulder first. Oww. Sunday was warm, a little rainy and more crowded. Slaloming people was fairly entertaining, albeit a bit hairy at times. Monday... it was so warm and all of us were pretty beat, so we just headed home that morning. I'll be back up there this weekend riding saturday and sunday teaching my nephews. Hopefully there will still be snow, but the Mid-atlantic is getting pretty beat up with all this warm weather and rain. The flowers around my house are starting to bloom!

Doh, sorry I didn't get back to you earlier... with christmas and such it's been a little too hectic to do any boarding. I *think* I'll be up at Snowshoe this weekend. I should be there saturday/sunday/part of monday. If you're on an FRS radio, we'll be on channel 7-11, give WRXRacer a holler and someone will answer back. Hit Silvercreek and you'll probably see me, chrome/orange helmet, red/black Sims Burner. My brother will be on an all-white Hot Blast. Keep your eye out for deep trenches :) The Burner's split-tail leaves a little rooster tail of snow as it transitions edge to edge, so if you spot any trenches with a little ridge of snow right in the middle of where the board would ride in transition... those are mine :) I'll definitely be up at Snowshoe on Jan 5-7, riding saturday and sunday of that weekend.

Hey, you're a carver from Richmond? Me too... I didn't know there were any more of us. Let me know if you want to go riding sometime. It's hard to find ANY carvers in the area, heh.

Dah! I was there this past weekend, didn't see any platers. A 177 Axis might be my next board too, so I really would've liked to see one in action. I rode at Silver Creek all weekend. IMO it's leaps and bounds better than Snowshoe for carving. The slopes are much wider, it's usually less crowded, and there's nowhere near as much lengthy off-cambers to confine you to riding a big board on one edge to avoid launching off into the trees. The snow was a little hard saturday morning but my Burner was pretty happy on it around lunch time. It likes it hard, what can I say... No lift lines, very little traffic to deal with. There wasn't much terrain open, but what they had was well-covered. Shoe looked much more crowded, I had plenty of space to let the board run. Sunday it was a little messy with the soft top stuff on top of what felt like rock. DrCR, if you're going up for New Years you should try to bump into my brother Jeff. I'm not sure if I'll be up there, but he'll most likely be at Silver Creek on a 168 Hot Blast. (the older solid white one) He is a pretty solid rider.

Anyone else gonna be up there that weekend? I just booked a place up there, should be on the slopes at Silver Creek giving my Sims Burner a workout...

Snowshoe's usually too narrow for me to have any fun on my raceboard, I'm looking into something a little less ballistic for tighter trails. I'm new to this forum but I've been riding plates for around 10 years, most commonly up at Silver Creek. You may want to googlesearch ReMax realty, I believe they have an office across the street from The Inn at Snowshoe, and if I remember correctly their rental prices are a little bit cheaper than those available directly through Snowshoe. They manage a number of rental properties at both Snowshoe and Silver Creek.