[good beer]

The Mill St. tankhouse Ale is deadly (on tap at mitzi's for bfast)

brooklyn ale (on tap at the Caddy lounge for evenings)

Amsterdam Natural Blonde (all over the city)

creemore lager - cant drink in copious amounts, but deadly for an after hockey beer...

but inevitably i end up buying a case of Labatt 50....

[MP3 advice]

I run my blackberry (with a 4gb SDmicro card) into my smith helmet via the skullcandy built-in headphones. Play music with the media center, and take calls on the chairlift to pretend like i'm at work, email my assistant, then back to music again. It also has a large pause button on the cord i can hit through my shell if i need to talk to someone. I couldn't tell you how many songs/albums I have on it, but I rode out west for 9 days last year without making hearing the same thing twice.

[Feelings on Music Whilst Riding??]

9/10 times i'll have a soundtrack going. Got a helmet with built-in headphones I linked up to my BB and love it. I do turn it off once i get into the lift line unless there's nobody there but the liftie. I wont have it on if i'm riding a cat or otherwise backcountry so i can communicate with whomever i'm riding with in terms of 'watch out for that cliff' or 'i'm stuck in a treewell' etc.

Still... early ON mornings before the lifts start, stretching on the corduroy listening to Stevie's Innervisions has practically become a religion for me...

[Best Softie Carving Boots (currently being made)?]

ditto and ditto.

i had a set of ion HD's for last few years, but they're beyond dead at this point and am in need of a stiff boot for big mountain riding...

looking at malamutes, driver-x etc... but any recommendations would be awesome.

[Best Carving Resort in Quebec]

I've been to massif twice now, but havent taken my race board - that said it was awesome riding on my 167 canyon and the 172 prior . The runs got a little narrow at points but this was more of a crowding problem than a turning-off-the-run problem. less icy than the tremblant/st annes.