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  2. PowMow

    in Utah

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    The wife and I finally got to go riding today at PowMow. First time this season. We were both riding Coiler Contras, hers from last year mine from this year. Great first day, not a lot of people compared to all other days I have viewed the web cams. Blue skies no wind and real (not fake) snow. The entire mountain was open, and what a great time we had. The Contra is like riding a magic carpet!  Looking forward to more fun days there.

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  13. No-Wait Lift Tickets?

    in The Lodge

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    Here in Utah Snowbird is offering a Fast Track pass for $69.00 on top of the price of a regular pass, you can also add it onto a season pass daily, so people can snake to the front of lines ahead of everyone else. Glad I don't ride there. As far as I know they are the only resort so far to offer this in Utah. Pretty lame in my opinion though. It's bad enough that Powder Mountain is offering and accepting Indy passes to clog up the mountain even more. But what can you do, Progess I guess.

  19. New Board Porn 2021-2022

    in Carving Central

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    Unfortunately no. I gave it to a skater friend name of Arnie Hoag who like me had the 'sticking fever. Passing on the stoke to get more people into surfing snow. Back then there were very few people even interested in it. When we would get to the road at the bottom of Cardiff Bowl at Alta people would look at us like we were aliens. 

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    New Board Porn 2021-2022

    in Carving Central

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    I met Chris Gochnour the summer of 1975 at a 1/4 pipe in S.L.C. He worked for Winterstick making skateboard decks called Streetstick. He gave me a one page brochure about Wintersticks, I was immediately hooked on trying to learn how to surf snow if I could just get my hands on one of those boards. I had tried learning how to surf in California while awaiting my discharge papers after returning from Vietnam. I started calling the company weekly then 2/3 times a week to see if they had started production. Eventually I would go to the shop and just generally make myself a HUGE pain in the ass, I HAD to have one of those boards! 

    Then in Jan. of 1976 Joel Bingham of Bingham Cyclery became an official Winterstick dealer in Utah. He had a 15 minute video of Dimitrije riding a Swallowtail. We just about wore that video out watching it so many times. Then in mid Feb. I got a phone call from Joel to come by the shop. It seems that Dimitrije had personally driven up from S.L.C to deliver board number 13, the first board to be sold to a customer, all of the other 12 had been sent out to prospective dealers. He told Joel to " sell this board to that a.....e that won't leave us alone and get him off our backs"!

     There is more to the story about just learning to ride 'sticks but it would take up too much space here. Also the board Regis Roland bought while we were at Les Arcs was my red Swallowtail that Renee Sessions sold to him, she was V.P. of Winterstick. 

    So here I am now 46 years later this Feb. still surfing snow and just as stoked now as when I was harassing Winterstick to just sell me a damn board!

     Thanks for reading

    mick thueson

    Sorry for the thread hijack

     

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  24. Best place to live and ride?

    in Carving Central

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    I wouldn't recommend Utah. 10 or 20 or more years ago it was awesome here. But after the Winter Olympics in 2002 the word was out. Now everywhere at all of the resorts it's packed. And Epic and Ikon passes have made it even worse. Just my 2 cents with being a local here since 1974, moved here after returning from Vietnam. And began surfing "The Greatest Snow on Earth" in 1976.

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