1xsculler

Awesome carving!

I have discovered that I actually can link up perfect pencil lines IF the terrain and grooming is near perfect. Now onward and upward to try to do the same on slightly steeper slopes where I must control my speed by getting my knees/hips closer to the snow and bending my board to turn tighter.

TGR, Continum Restaurant and hotel. We dined there two evenings...very good and quite reasonable. My grandsons, 11 and 14, of course idolize Kai Jones and they invited him over to our table as if they knew him which they do a little. Crazy (k)Carl signed the back of the 14 year old’s ski jacket after his probable winning run at the bottom of the Couloir. It’s a pretty magical place especially if you’re into huge free riding or skiing and if it’s snowing every day. To watch those guys and gals launch off of the lip of Corbet’s and then hit the huge jumps they have built in the middle of the run is a spectacle. It will be aired at 1:00pm, MST on Red Bull TV. Sometime over the weekend the 25 invited competitors get together and decide who the 2021 King and Queen of Corbet’s will be.

A kid in the lift line tapped his buddy on the arm and pointed to my board. I said that I was trying out for the Olympics. He looked at me and said, ok, what about the ski boots on a board? I said go to YouTube, alpine carving.

I don’t recommend you go to my YouTube channel unless you want to be bored (onexsculler) but Pat Donnelly wanted vids of my pencil lines.

I’ll have to figure out how to reduce the file size. If you have an iPhone I can text them to you.

Kings and Queens and crazy sons’abitches of Corbet’s was amazing to watch at Jackson Thursday! Visibility was sketchy but they pulled it off. Unbelievably good skiers and boarders.

Whole new day today...rented some pow skis and am lovin the steep and the deep with the fam! My son-in-law hired a mt guide so no line waiting for the five of us Waffels and a Baileys latte at to top of the Tram! I am a slow learner but I do eventually figure it out! finishing up last the 45 minutes linking up pencil lines on a new board, hot lapping Eagle’s Rest. What a day! One for the record books for me for sure! The problem is that i am never going to learn to become a hip dragger riding a hill like this and let’s face it being a hipdragger is what separates the men from the boys in this sport. I won’t consider myself to be a legitimate carver until I can get my knees/hips within one foot of the snow but then that’s just my Problem. I will still enjoy linking up pencil lines on moderate slopes until I get there.

It is an awesome and challenging mountain. If you can board and/or ski this mountain well you can do it just about anywhere. I’ve been super lucky to have had a great 1st half of this season and I am looking forward to an equally great second half.

Totally stupid for me to even hint at complaining. We are having a great time even with the very challenging terrain with awesome new snow covering, for me, leg breaking bumps underneath. I WILL break a leg if I try to keep following this bunch and I am tired out. I am 30 years older than the next oldest and they are both hard charging excellent athletes. My hope is that the 11 year old tires out too and comes down to join me on Eagles Rest. I’m going to do a few hot laps of pencil lines under the Eagles Rest chair (no lift line, lines are herendous everywhere else) on one of my carving boards, and on my son-in-laws Orca 153 with my F2/UPZ setup and call it a day after I finish my double boozy hot chocolate. DO NOT JUDGE ME! Lol Ok, my guess is that anyone, even me, on this site can linkup endless pencil lines on Eagles Rest run with almost any board. It’s twice as steep as Crystal’s beginner run and half as steep as the next run up at Crystal. My challenge is to linkem up on the next run up at Crystal and to learn to do a little free riding on a short, wide directional board so I can, maybe, ride with my son-in-law.

Not only do I take it all back, I deleted the bitching, as any time with my family is golden. I’m extremely fortunate that they invite me on these trips and I will never turn an invite down.

It’s encouraging for me to see that most, not all, of these nearly perfect tracks are made on very well groomed, and relatively gentle, slopes where slarving and/or heading back up the hill to dissipate speed is not necessary. I still love perfect pencil lines no matter where they’re made.

So, is Milk considered to have some of the best terrain and grooming for carving? I’ve never been there.

Thanks, Fin, for the two gorgeous coffee table magazines (books) on carving. They will provide me with many informative and memorable moments. I quit carving in 2005 (I could do it but was not good enough to tip the board up on edge on challenging terrain) and then went back to my ski buddies until 2015 when I had to stand around on bunny runs to get my grandkids into mountain life on skis and/or snowboards. Being bored I went back to carving and am hopelessly hooked again. I had totally forgotten carving even still existed when these magazines were printed (2011). I’m very happy to have them as I still think hardboot alpine carving is the coolest thing you can do on snow. Thanks again.

You either bury the effing edge, bend the effing board with your knees no more that 1 foot off the snow or you don’t! In other words you’re either carving or you’re not! There’s no in between! I’m working hard but not in that nirvana yet except occasionally! I am, however, VERY, VERY determined! I actually am feeling little nubbins of gorilla balls developing but the most important thing I need to do to get to the next level (hip dragging being the goal) is grow’m! Rockin and finally really lovin my 174 Coiler AMT Classic. Leaving on a four day trip to Jackson with some grandkids on Monday. Best carving day yet and super grooming helped a lot! ,

Do you have it now? Are you happy with it? Approximately how many attendees were at MCC? Did it look like all skill levels were having a good time? Did you meet my buddy, Tony Blackwell?

RH probably = the initials of who Bruce built the board for.

I’d like to see some vids from, maybe a GoPro, with good audio of intermediate clinics. That may be asking too much, however. Of the people at MCC how many are 10s like the ones in Sean’s great pics and how many are 5s through 8s striving to become 9s or 10s?

I’d like to see pics of the guys and gals striving to be hipdraggers too , for perspective! Not everybody can do that, cool as it is and love it as much as I do!

Great pics!

I couldn’t agree more! I had my best carving day ever last Friday hot lapping with a friend who is a little better than I am and it made all the difference in the world. Whereas many of you are 9s or 10s out of 10, I think he is about a 7 and I am about a 5. He is at MCC this week hoping he can advance a level to an 8 or 8+ and I expect he will. I am waiting for him to return to ride more days with him at Crystal hoping I can advance to a level 7. These are all just my silly made up numbers but that’s how I see it. I ride 99% of my time by myself but a tiny bit of riding with someone better than yourself makes for a whole new ballgame!

That really ticks me off as I shipped it USPS Priority (3-day) on Tuesday and they said you’d have it by Friday so I figured the very latest by Saturday. So sorry!

Cool board!

Hope you have your SC. That really is awesome. I remember a couple of my ski buddies and I always got our preseason stoke ignited by going to the Wilson High School auditorium, Tacoma, WA, where Warren would show his annual 16mm movie on skiing and he would narrate it personally, circa 1959.

It’s going to be a 165ish with a 20cm waist. I’m going to let the builder surprise me with the remaining specs...what do I know? I expect round two to follow as I am a hopeless freakin’ board addict...I just can’t help myself.