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Are you telling me Madd snowboards is still around?

Yep. This is the video of that rider: http://vimeo.com/36979569 enjoy! :)

My condolences, mate. She's quite an intriguing dog! Finger licking was one of her trademark whenever I stop by the shop.

GMOers? whats that? i instantly thgt gomer poyle

Aw, man. Wish I could go.

Not sure if it's a bug, but at the very bottom where it says bomberonline of the entire page -- the URL is at http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulletin/www.bomberonline.com and that's incorrect. Could that be fixed asap, please?

My GOD! Those are bloody marvelous! All those seeing anime with that kind of interface is now a reality! I'm gonna take a look into this, no doubt. Oh my god, it's full of stars.

I hope I don't sound like a prick, but uh, I just leave mine upright and leave it as is. When fall/winter comes, i take 'em off by using copper brittle when I sharpen the edge and put on wax. That goes for my skis, too.

Don't know. A friend of mine who's a tellie (telemark skier) told me that run is totally insanely super fast that he chickened out halfway through (he's extremely fast teleskier). Me, I don't have the cajones to do that, tho I'd disagree about the cajones and replace that "I'm too smart to even risk that." However, if you do check it out, lemme know what's the run like? Believe it or not, I rarely go to the Beav at all for I mostly stick to Vail all the way and use skis. So I wouldn't know much. As for hardbooting at Vail, I would pick Golden Peak area (no, not the park but the run next to it -- it's called Ruder's Run) as well as my most favorite run in that area -- Whipper Snapper. Whipper Snapper is strong right turn type of pitch, but super fast and BE CAREFUL with the catwalk as you do want to be launched out gunning your board, dude.

Seriously? Bird of Prey at the Beav (Beaver Creek).

Lemme see if I get 'em. Ok, here you go:

Yeah, some guy in Vail Cat Crew posted photos of Mt Hutt with the insane amount of snow whilst doing snowmaking. it's awesome.

It is for I have adopted it, myself because I know the very pain associated with that!

YES! It's NOT fun when your thumb hook up on the snow high speed. This is one of several reasons why I kinda quit EC stylin' but sparsely do I do so. Otherwise, I have a much strong preference towards racing stance just to play it safe with my thumb and other appendage of my upper body, man.

Did somebody say Tinkler? I thought he has been long gone aeons ago.

Bryan, ages ago, I was reading a particular book about retaining my former eyesights back (it worked once)... it suggested bilberry for they do possess critical properties that the eyeballs would utilize to the maximum. Don't recall what it is at the moment.

Would love to go, but being a poor engineering student at the present time isn't allowing me to do race training compared to the yesteryears of my racing days with Team Copper training. However, I certainly hope by the time I get around to make the dollars roll in, I'd be able to return to racing, but in Masters category.

You have no idea how much my wife would be green with envy with your amount of days of being on the snow. However, I, on the other hand, once rode over 200 days in one year way back in 1999 when we got insane amount of snow (it was the year Mt Baker broke all records) in the PNW (Pacific North West). It isn't all "that," because the next following year, I was so burnt out that I didn't ride much that year. However, I certainly appreciate any amount of days to ride/ski... because this year, I've only ski like maybe uhm... 5 days? -shrugs- But hey, you did ALOT considering your workload (family and all that cuz my wife could definitely relate), so alongside my wife, I'm green with envy too. :)

Dayum. I cannot see the attachment at the present time (Fin or Michelle? says contact administrator)... however I feel yer frustration. My right ankle's been busted once and it's never able to recover the flexibility I used to have. Nevertheless, I ain't taking walking for granted.

Well, in the eyes of the ski resorts, it doesn't make any difference as long as visitation is up and bunch of ski tickets are sold. That's the main bottom line. And not to mention that Generation X,Y,Z are primarily the parents as well as some of the 80's child are parents (I'm one of 'em) and during the snowmaking and grooming conference, Professor Bender (retired) of CMC made a speech with his finding/research on the demograph that we -WILL- experience a slowdown due to bunch of retiring/dying baby boomers. And then when the 90s become the vast majority of parents, then there will be a boom, assuming there will be still vying interests in skiing/snowboarding hence ski resorts frantically trying to market themselves one way or another. As far as the economy goes, we're still long ways from making "in the black" budget wise.

Oh! -wince- you have NO idea how paranoid I get at times when I'm skiing. The thought of feeling/"hearing" my bone pop while skiing from the knee area's actually making me -censored- shrivelled up inwards. -shudder- However, I do ski conservatively (carving only, at reasonable speed, not hauling damn ass).

Oh, TRUST me, it's ALOT of fun especially by the fact I use UPZ boots exclusively for skiing (I haven't swapped my boots back to hardbooting since I knocked the wind out of me with uh... bluebird, and shredderjen. :) And that was ages ago. The last time I whipped out softboots was good number of years ago when the snow was DEEP powder and hadda pull my long gun out (Lib Tech Litigator). Nevertheless, since I graduated to fat skis of lib tech NAS, I look forward to use it for deep powder. :) Carving, I still carve the s--t out of my lib tech skis. :) Well said!

Hello, Jack... that may be true, and I do not know if it correlates to World Cup racing (since they're pretty much the first stamp for the next generation batches of skis), but I reckon a ski racer friend of mine and I were conversing on how the FIS is now dictating straight skis would be eligible and Shaped Skis are out. I just hope it only limits to the racers, not the general public. I admit I went onwards to skis, because it's far more practical when it comes to working environment at the ski resorts as opposed to the board. I sincerely hope the NSAA will do something to address this issue for years to come. We shall see.

Oh wow, didn't know about your eye, Bryan. Just got into this thread just now since I'm in the middle of the break before quiz review at noon. Speedy recovery for your eyeball, mate!