SB groomer

Are your boots still up for sale? Shipping to Utah 84310?? I will buy them.

Thanks for the responce. That is a good question about why I am still using and wanting another trinching antique. I guess it is what I have always used and can body skim with the best of most good hard booters. I have gone to fat,rockered skis (new age) and high raise bindings on my choo choo track carving skis, so why not on a carving board???? Good question! Money maybe? Something new I have not tried. I almost always try before I buy and I do not know anyone with a new age carving machine. This reminds me also, where did the Trenchin Convention go to this season? I have rode with them in the past here at Snowbasin. This group is a real HOOT! Yetti, incharge of lift tickets was asking about this group the other day. So I will know in a couple days if I am purchasing a PJ that was the first responce to my ad. It is somewhat affordable and it will get me back putting deep ruts in the runs here a Snowbasin that so many people complain about falling into (ha ha). Thanks again, and I may be interested in your friends board if this falls threw. By the way, thank you all for all the great info. that is on this site.

Thanks for the info.. Sounds like the owner of this board thinks he has a rare antique. Not quite so. Anyway I will give him a call. I have another person that has contacted me about another 7.1 that I am probably going to purchase. Thanks again. SB Groomer

It's been a good (not great) snow year here at Snowbasin Utah. The Dew Tour was a big hit and now the crouds a gone and it is time again to lay some deep trenches again. The problem is that my old Burton is about done and I am looking for a replacement. My dream is to find what I have had since th early 90's, a Burton Pj 7.1 asym. regular foot with the old 5 hole bail binders. Mine has the black rose on the top sheet and the black and white groovy bottom. If anyone is willing to sell and ship it to Utah 84310 I will be in dept to them. Thank for your time. markj67@gmail.com.

es, I am in a snowcat 6 nights a week here at the Basin. I do mainly detail work and try not to roll with the pack. Try to keep the runs flat seeing they kept the terrible Sunvalley idea of putting the snow guns in the middle of the runs! Still no grooming off the JP side. No snow. There is a multimillion system up there but it costs $ to keep the public happy so that's out. Carving on the groomers is still worthy! I use both an old PJ for body sliding and some wonderfully powerful Fisher 9+ skies for laying train track rails. Hope for snow because this is getting old. I want to break out the Volkl Katana's with Duke binders for the backcountry soon!!

When it's fresh and deep here in Utah I still break out the 1984 Winterstick. But how it is now (Jan. 12, 2010) it's hard and slim snow and I have been trenching on my PJ asym now that I have had the bail binding welded. Anyone with these 5 hole old binders in the back of their garage I would be interested in purchasing them before I break another bail. Thanks. markj67(at)gmail(dot)com.:)

The snowpack is slim here now but the groomers are covered with mainly man made snow (ice for us westcoasters). But the carving is great. The best run for carving is Wildcat Bowl but has not been groomed this year due to the lack of snow and no snowmaking in the area. I have been widening Coyote Bowl over in the Strawberry area and is ready for huge trenching!! The John Paul chair has no groomed runs off of it except for the cat access rd.. The Tram has not been open to the public yet. This makes it hard to get to No Name peak but makes for some great lonely sking there if you are willing to hike. This is my playground area when snowing and the backcountry access is wonderful and is why I moved here from Alta 12 years ago. The Dew Tour is coming here soon and has been using 80% of our snowmaking and the paying public has been suffering Ogden has many places to stay the night. My wife and I have a very quaint, warm log cabin in the back yard. 2 min. to the small Wolf Creek ski area (formally Nordic Valley), 15 min. to Powder Mt., 25 min. to Snowbasin. It is $60 week days, $75 weekends including breakfast. 801-745-3774

At this point a buddy has loaned me a couple of boots to try. I am not sure if I need a 26.5, if so maybe these Raichle's you have may be too big. Thank's for the reply and I will keep your mail if I need to try to purchase your boots. Thank's SB Groomer

When we have snow the Basin is some of the best carving groomers in the state. We are very slim on snow right now but come back in March and give us a try. Try Bear Springs run off the Becker chair is one of my favorite because it is not ever crouded. The Olympic downhills off the John Paul chair are steep, wide and usually well groomed. Later in the season of corse. My wife and I have a nice B&B small log cabin in the backyard for rent now and then in Nordic Valley near Powder Mt. and Snowbasin. Gmail me some day for a tour of the Basin.:)

I have been told that my first upgrade should be newer boots than my three buckle, berry colored Burton Shadows that I have punched out the toe box on. I am 170lbs., 45 years old, trenching well on a Burton PJ asym., with a 9.5 to 10 EEE (6th toe) foot. I would love to try some of the newer, narrower boards but it is not in the budget this year!?? I hope to get carving when I find someone with a heel bail replacement for my ancient Burton purple plastic double rail binders. Looking to spend about $150.00 or more on the right pair of boots. Is there a good boot with a large toe box?? The snow is looking bleek out here (Utah) right now so please send the snow gods this way. Thanks to all. SB groomer.

I an a total new B to this. I have been reading for months after finding this wonderful site and respect all I have learned from all of you carvers! I am 45 years young, spent 17 years at Alta, Utah as a ski bum with my Winterstick in the backcountry when they decided to kick us boarders off the lifts. For the past 12 years I moved up to Snowbasin, Utah because of the wonderful access to the backcountry. I have been a snow cat operator (groomer) at the Basin for the past 11 years. We lay down some of the best corduroy (roy) in the state (of corse when all is going well, temps, equip, manpower, etc.). Well, I am hooked on carving!! I found a pair of berry colored burton shadows at the DI (mormon goodwill) for $7.00 and a burton PJ asym with purple bail binders at the paun shop for $40.00, put on by wrist guards and helmet and tryed and was humbled. Luckily met a couple of east coaster carvers out on vacation and they changed my life! This is not the place for my story so I have broken my heel bail and would love to find another. Plese help.