KingCrimson Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 How many hardbooters do you think there are in the world that ride 5+ days a season on hardboots? If you say 42, God help me I will find you and give you an orthopedic modification with a baseball bat. More realistically, I'll cry myself to sleep, but whatever. Also, among kids, do you think more race or freecarve (or in my case..try to carve....) This thread was inspired by a crazy old deaf man with an orange FP that went "Huh? Oh hey! Wow! Too bad there's not more of us" then walked off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photodad2001 Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 I switched because I missed people asking me what that thing was in the lift line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCrimson Posted December 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 I think you completely missed the question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photodad2001 Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 I think you completely missed the question. If you're looking for numbers, in the state of Ohio I saw 3 last season, including myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCrimson Posted December 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Beautiful. Now a guess at the world? Fewer than 5,000? 1,000? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptran11 Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 How many hardbooters do you think there are in the world that ride 5+ days a season on hardboots?If you say 42, God help me I will find you and give you an orthopedic modification with a baseball bat. More realistically, I'll cry myself to sleep, but whatever. Also, among kids, do you think more race or freecarve (or in my case..try to carve....) I used to live in southern calirfornia and go up to mt. high and big bear alot and didn't see alot of hardbooter there. It just hard to get up there with the LA traffic if you're a skier, softie or hardbooter. I also used to live in northern california but the drive is 5+ hours in traffic and snow. I don't think I ever saw any hardbooter there but that was a couple years ago. In colorado I've met a couple hardbooters that are willing to meet up. The problem could be your location and theres not much that can be done except to hollar for any one out in the bomber forums that are in southern california. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpenn Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 If you're looking for numbers, in the state of Ohio I saw 3 last season, including myself. I think there are at least that many in CT, though they don't come out much at Sundown (Tuesday and Thursday race nights bring out one or two hb'ers). JP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Ace* Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 :lol: Probably because Sundown < Mohawk<MOHAWK...< p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCrimson Posted December 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Still think everyone is missing my question. Also, there's lots of hardbooters down here, and being able to scrape the wax in bare feet on the front lawn enjoying the sun and then driving 2 and a half hours and being at a resort is fantastic. How many hardbooters do you think there are in the world that ride 5+ days a season on hardboots? I'm more specifically curious what people's opinions are than as opposed to knowing the real number. Photodad obviously has a very low estimate of hardbooters in his state, but I was more curious about based on that observance, how many hardbooters he thinks there are in the world. Same would go for you Ptran. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex1230 Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotbeans Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Is this like guessing the number of gumballs in the jar? My guess is 1,486. Prize for who is closest suggestion: td3's w/ intecs.! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 at least 2 in Rhode Island....probably more considering Jeff Carron lives on the other side of the state from me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCrimson Posted December 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 42 Damnit. The Tony Soprano quotes didn't scare you away. Tony Sporano? Haha, the Dolphins really turned it around this season. Lions on the other hand.. Denver sure does suck when the reffing is fair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 I think 42 is about right for the inland northwest, spread over 5-6 ski areas. world wide I'm sure Europe triples north america, Japan has it's own stepin system so there must be a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCrimson Posted December 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Man, if you had a closet filled with that same style stepin and ski poles and some weird snowboards, you'd be a pig in ****.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Japan has it's own stepin system so there must be a few. I would say that Japan has a higher Hardboot to Softboot ratio than the USA, easy 10-15% of the boarders that I saw when I was there were on alpine setups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 you might be able to get some idea by checking out the member list. you can sort by recent activity. obviously this is just ballpark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokkis Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 We have 246 registered hardbooter on our forum (we have kicked out more than double ammount away due inactivity during last years), total number filling calculation rules here should be double of that. And cause we have ~5milion people living in Finland, that means every 10,000th person is hardbooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Man, if you had a closet filled with that same style stepin and ski poles and some weird snowboards, you'd be a pig in ****.. OINK-OINK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy Kleh Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 How many jobbers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Three. One to screw it in and two to hold up his pants. But seriously, if hardbooters are 2% of the snowboarding population, then just find out how many snowboarders there are in the world and do the math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCrimson Posted December 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Boardski- :lol: Forgot about that picture of yours! TT- I'll do that, but the thing is in hardbooting 10 times, I've run into 3 hardbooters that didn't even know what BOL was. A 4th owns a pair of TD2s but never registered here. Then again, those guys more than likely don't go very often. Gecko- That's what I was thinking. Also, there's several "innocent" hardbooters you see in Hard Attack. Pokkis- I don't have a hard time believing that at all. At any given day on Mammoth, there are 40,000 people skiing or snowboarding, and very rarely are there more than a few (think 2) hardbooters unless something was planned. It's a good thing we have ride forums. Cindy- how accurate do you think that number is? I don't know if just because Scott puts it on the Almanac, and Jack mentioned it in an article that's gotta be 5 years old now means it has any ground. What's your opinion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy Kleh Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 You have a point King C. Location does have a large impact on the number of HBs. At Winter Park (my home mtn) I see very few, MAYBE one a day, sometimes none. At Copper, it's more common. Europe and Japan lots of them and places like Echo Mtn and Mountain High, none. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastskiguy Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Is this like guessing the number of gumballs in the jar? My guess is 1,486. Prize for who is closest suggestion: td3's w/ intecs.! I'm gonna go up a little and guess 50,000. But isn't this like asking how many grains of sand in the world? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCrimson Posted December 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Just curious what you guys think. I was gonna say 10,000 worldwide with double digit day seasons. Completely baseless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotbeans Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 sorry...been real busy counting powder turns:biggthumpWhat was the Question? Beautiful pic. And thanks, from all of us who are praying the RAIN stops.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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