softbootsurfer

That's a wrap...Mud on the surface , slarving is fun though

Getting off the Sams knob lift at Snowmass today... A nice looking, middle aged women, in SB with a duck stance says "I use to use those angles, when I was a HB racer"

99 Getting Soft out there The View from the top of Big Burn, seems Endless

I don't like to make deep ruts but when I do I quickly head to another run...

Here is a Live site of the local Nest, fun to look at, at least once a week or so over the summer months https://www.crms.org/academics/osprey-camera/?fbclid=IwAR19y8pf_njMhDiq38lHCmy0802SnhxDxVoxl_QDJLkuGds6LUDy4AHK4_E

Excellent cord up here on the Big Burn today...

snowmass again...Ditto on conditions you can see the Knife Edge on Capital and Snowmass again, but some Hot temps so Slarvin Slop was had...

96 Went to Snowmass... some very nice looking lines out there Frozen Chunk and Zip groom however...found some workable though on one of the race course edges for 2 cat width...the Groomer Chewed and then laid it down, instead of just the no chew haul ass technique

Resistance and Consistency plus the Arc of continually being IN the turn…make the cords direction irrelevant IMHO the smaller grooves of the modern Groom however can create Holes and Slick compressed sections that are especially prevalent in Spring with freeze thaw conditions reducing consistency

Well then, Wishing you all the Best !!!

Milkland is closed, in Ohio watching Grandsons, Baseball and Swimming...will get back to Aspen Mt. for the 100 day pin soon...

I remember Annie Doyle having a similar accident at Milkland, at Aspen Valley hospital after X-rays, MRI's the doctor said, we will go in tomorrow afternoon and put in some plates and screws!!! Mike Doyle thought he would send the MRI shots to an Orthopedic specialist in LA that he knew, He told Mike to take her home to Cabo, put her on the couch for six weeks and not to stand on it at All, Well after six weeks she was just fine...perhaps second opinions are a good Idea before they Operate...

“See you next year”

95 Thank You Milkland... even the last day, of this season, some Groom and and some enchanted forest

It always happens that Ol Freeze Thaw shows up Grooming only the sides and hitting the loss of control in the middle... requires a short day or increase in altitude

Wow... that could have been the best two hour session ever there was NoBody there for the first hour 1st two Cloudbreak was Epic

This is a Favorite Surf section, at WesB... I call it Cloudbreak It is a frontside floater, into a backside off the bottom, to another floater off the top...

3/28/23 Perfect Groom, very few people Tracks no Lie JB had his Wings out

91 3/27/23 It is like January Here

1st three runs were one Two Three

and when, you're the only one, who knows how to get there... Then you go back

4" on Groom I followed my tracks Then went off the Deep end

say What ? 4in. on Groom

Howdy, maybe because I am 77 and remember 38 years ago when I started surfin over at Milkland, how the grooming has been getting worse in both quantity and Quality especially over the last 12 to 15 years…by not using the front blades, the tillers, down pressure, combined with the small grooves, we have a very inferior product other than early to mid season temps, that keep the snow dry and easily groomed, it is when the temps get warmer, that they do many runs,when the snow is still soft, then freezes overnight that there is some real inconsistency, Carving on any surface that has inconsistencies and or holes demands caution to prevent injury…like I said, I remember the Bigger Grooves and basically the entire mountain being groomed side to side so when they keep saying “we haven’t changed anything” and denying that the Groom sucks compared to what it was… my opinion from 38 years of watching the equipment is it is not the Drivers, rather the way the manafacturers have reduced the cost by designing the current system to have less drag, less fuel, increased speeds, small grooves requiring fewer cats equals cost saving and that Bonus stock option for the CEO

Stoked Three pow days in a row there's 5 to 6 ft. of depth out there