big mario

A most Merry Christmas, the love of my honi:1luvu: the solstice, a gorgeous day on the front range, the family on its way, two ducks with Osker Blues Imperial Stout cans up they butts and a prime rib on the smoker, beer in the fridge, and more snow in the mountains, great friends.... the holidays can't get any happier To you and yours, the same and a perfect groom!! mario LCICD

I heard a few things, but it's probably just gossip. but what do I know mario

Another 18 to 48 on top of that already shakey snowpack in the next day or so.... scary stuff mario

SMOOVE P

To all of those who couldn't make it today due to injury (hows the back Don?) wimpyness or whatever unexcused absence you can muster, just let me say this: You just missed one of the most stunningly spectacular carving days in the history of the LCI!!! The snow was sublimely grippy carvalicous. The drive-bys from all of the fancy resorts kept driving by and kept the slopes both cloudveil and arcterx free. The racers are off racing. There were very few NFL jackets, blaze orange camo jumpsuits, rear entry boots, and people skiing in jeans. Empty. All day. Sunny with light wind, no lift lines, no gapers. Bracing temps in the single digits. In a word, Heaven. I hope I can walk tomorrow. mario LCICD

Of course I'm serious, it is only 5 below with a wind chill of 29 below. Can you say warming trend? It's like the fricken banabelt up on the divide today! The Crashers for christ have started their annual migration, I saw my first kc cheifs jacket yesterday!

me too mario

I should be home by 4:30 or so, if that doesn't work let me know. I think the '78 with the 14m would be nice. mario

I'm in for saturday mario

Ace, I got antsy and have a bid on a hot right now, I would be very interested if it could handle a rider of my stature, and if I get out bid on the hot mario

CA, I'm not a lighter rider, despite my claims of being a petite flower, I tip the scales @ #250, built for power speed and beauty. I think I might be a bit much for your coiler, but thanks for the offer. Ink, Sounds like a plan,getting ready to head up for a tanker day, sorry you cannot make it. mario

I love my tanker, I also have an axxes, I cannot be as aggresive on the axxes on softer groom as I can on the tanker, it wants to dive and pitch you if you are not careful. Love the fact that I can ride without slop and crushing my feet in HB's. mario

Had the same thought,that I just needed the recievers I was, in fact, mistaken mario

Big picture,I am scared. Plain and simple. I did not like the idea of the bank bailouts, which was supposed to unfreeze the creditmarkets, and get more money back out on the street. This has not happened. While in our office the other day, I looked at our long term schedule, and there are not a lot of new jobs on there. We can contract, as we have done in the past, with project managers like myself leaving our laptops at home, and putting our toolbelts back on. We are doing more of our work in house, which means more of our subs sit at home, but I wonder how long it will be until myself or any of my coworkers are sitting at home watching cartoons wondering wtf happend. Think about how many jobs would be lost if any more of our heavy industries go down, let alone the deepening threat to national security, as well as all of those people getting unemployment, and the shrinking of the tax base at the same time. Less and less money is spent, more jobs lost, and the cycle deepens. Thats the downside of the American Beauty rose, there has never been a human face put on it, just another check mark on the loss side of the ledger. The second part of the bridge loan/no bailout argument that I find disturbing is the attack on unions and labor, Where it is fine for Wall street to recieve all it wants, where no questions are asked about salaries and executive compensation, yet you continually hear about UAW workers pulling down 70 bucks an hour, and it is all their fault for the mess we are in. Apparently the media has never heard of burdened labor. Under the current misinformation being perpetuated on the news, I would be making 62 bucks an hour, and not the current 26.59 I make. That would certainly give me the chance to buy a lot more boards and spend a lot more time on the slopes. Why is it so wrong for someone whom works with their hands to make over 50K a year? I spent some time in college, I have an AA, on my way to a BA when I decided that academia was not for me, and followed my passion. Should all of us that build/ fix/ produce/keep things running become servents of the wealthy and exist on the meager crumbs that may fall our way? Am I sounding like I am talking about class warfare? You bet your A$$ I am, and it is being advanced those whom are to lazy to do a little bit of fact checking, finding it easier to swallow the sensationalized tripe that is forced upon us every day. Capital cannot exist without labor. Rant off I rant, therefore I am Dennis Miller( I don't even like him anymore) mario Ps. I am not a big fan of the bailout, but the alternative.... pps. think about the motives of those who chose to fillibuster, and look at which companies are located in their respective states, can you say vested interest?

upper 170's to mid 180's, 13-14 meter 'bout twofitty(unsure economic times, near suger mama's partial employment ect)

I know that it would make a much better story to say that I broke the board over the douches head, but I had the oppurtunity to get out of the way, so I took it. For the most part, I am fairly easy going, but I do have a wicked temper with a very high boiling point. Had there actually been a collision, the damages might have been much greater than a broken board. I was hit from behind once and I totally came unglued on the guy, and that was a gentle tap compared to what this was shaping up to be. Avoiding the hit was the best option I had, so I took it. I guess I am becoming a bit more pragmatic in my advancing age, though I really would have liked to have had the oppurtunity to chat with the idiot, it just never presented itself mario

My cro mag bone structure once again kept me from getting jacked up. I still have the vamp, tanker, the ax and the f2. Aarron, between my self and the hoover we still have enough stuff for you to ride, so come on out, the snow is most excellent. I would have liked to have had a chat with the jacka$$, but he was long gone by the time I cleared the adrenaline, got the ice and snow out of my goggles and babied my now crippled ride down the hill. I rode the ax for another hour our so afterwards. It was still a good day on the hill, and I am planning on many many more:biggthump

......Or that Jbird is no more!! I had a bittersweeet day on the hill today. Whilst heavily partaking in the return of the grippy carvaliciousness that the Rockies are famous for, I killed one of my Boards:( I was halfway down one of my favorite runs at lovey, transitioning from heel to toe when I looked uphill. Less than 40 yards above me and closing fast was a ski jibber in full twin tip tuck( hunched over, hands at the kneessaggypantsbeltline, poles pointing staight out) heading straight for me. After a millisecond of wiley e coyote confusion and panic, with full on exclamation points and questionmarks floating above my head, I took evasive action. I dove towards the nose of my board in an attempt to pull off a super heelside that would whisk me away from the path of the oncoming clueless steeze missle and to safety. Instead I got a less than artfully executed front flip complete with head bonk, and a hard landing on the tail of my board and my butt. The steeze missle blazed passed me less than ten feet away, oblivious to the carnage he had just initiated. As I sat on my a$$ taking inventory an checking body parts, I looked down at my feet and my newly wrinkled topsheet and severly decamberd board, thankful that I was okay and still had two more sticks in the car, but bummed that I just destroyed a board I was really enjoying. Beware the B-liners mario

OH SNAP!! mario

I don't know about darker, but most definately freakier:biggthump:p mario

you have finally crossed over.... welcome mario

And its going to be windy!!! mario

Just about the whole mountain is open, and the ski teams should be gone. Should be good mario

too bad I have to work:( mario

Or that was some deep!!! I found that out the hard way when I overshot reload and sloooowwwly came to a halt on my tanker, snow was up to my hip, wiggiling was not going to get me moving again, so the board had to come off. Undid my back foot and stepped off, thinking I could skate myself out of the mess I had gotten myself into. Ha! thwarted again!, I kept going until I was sitting on the board. Somehow I got the leash and my front foot out, got out of the crater I was in, and managed to paddleout while lying on the board. I expect to see most of the mountain open by next weekend if ski patrol and the groomers can catch up. Too bad so little of the mountain is open at this point, 'cause most of this latest dump was bumped up in no time. mario