Stuntcok

It could be early for them to have set up much. Like most parks, it gets bigger toward spring.

The lookers right side has the main park and pipe although I think they build a beginer's park somewhere else as well.

I want to get FT big skis but I can't as there is no supply.

The price is the same, only the shipping differs. Plus, I think I can get us 100USD off. I also can get the 164 174 and the big 195. A group purchase will save us shippin costs as well.

That is a separate seminar and costs extra

Yes, I can get 183s for you immediately. If anyone else wants, I think we could save shipping by ordering a bunch together.

The problem is that there is still a shortage of 179s. I think I can get 183s, though.

Argentina and particularly Las LEnas, has the most amazing lift service terrain in possibly the world. THe problem is that they have VERY slow snow control and the down days can go on for ever, especially for the famous Marte lift, which is only open a few days in a season. I was lucky and got there after a record storm and only had to spend 6 days waiting around (drinkng great wine and partying with Brazillian girls, though, so it wasn't like a down day in Valdez). Chile has the biggest SA ski area in the 3 resorts around Valle Nevado. The lifts in VN go to the top so snow control is much

Kent McBride. He was one of the Guides on my Greenland trip.

I do the Whistler terrain park camps every June and this year I plan on hitting Chile again as well. I made a promise to a guide at Exxum that I would let him teach me ski moutaineering, which would be in May in the Tetons. I am a bit scared about that one though as I can't even make it up the wall at that artificial rock climb in Hakuba and it is only 12 feet high...

Maiko has something for the more advanced as well in a good park and pipe. I don't know if they have set up the big features yet but they put in some serious rails by spring. They have a tendancy to build step-up jumps, as opposed to the more common step downs, which is a nice change as well as more forgiving.

I hit 28 this weekend, I think. Still 42 more for my season target but I have 2 big summer trips lined up. My big risk for the summer will be weather induced down days with summer hemisphere skiing being mainly above the alpine. I should be able to break my post-the-start-of-my-working-life record of 60, at least.

I want to set the record straight. The VAST majority of avis occur on slopes between 0 and 90 degrees.

THe Armada ARV is a lot like a PR only stiffer and better built. It is probably better for someone your size looking for a mid fat twin.

Yesterday's "how to" on google was "how to poach an egg"

While I am ambidextrous, the right is just too damn proficient and I prefer the clumsy feel of the left. Makes it feel like someone else is doing it.

Skiing pow isn't any more physically demanding if you have big sticks like FTs Pontoons. I skied my ARGs all weekend in the pow and the hardest part was skating them back to the liftline (the prototype models had VERY slow bases, the commercial ones should be much better than mine). I can't see why skiing would be more fun in the spring if you like boarding in the winter. At least you won't be postholing everywhere in the corn. I tried boarding once and realised it put my wrists in too much jeapordy thus risking my sex life.

Kuma and I got clipped and we were cool about it. Patrol even complimented us on our line.

I love mashing poached eggs on toast. mmmmmm

Actually, half the poachers were local, including the snowboarder in the full-face who was on the patrol radar (I noticed him as well).

Patrol are their own enemy in Japan. A blanket ban on sidecountry skiing encourages poaching by people who are conditioned to think that the state of safety conditions is not influencing patrol's decision to close an area. If areas were open or closed based on an assesment of current conditions then closures would be respected FAR more, like they are in the rest of the world.

That Billy chose a riskier profession than is the average does not make his loss any less tragic. Indeed, the risks he took were in part to entertain and inspire us as skiers and his risks were taken in part for our gain (he did not get paid well for it, that is for sure). He and other althletes like him let us know what is possible by doing what was previously thought impossible. I met Billy on a trip together in Valdez. From the ride up from Anchorage to the down days amongst the Tundra Wookies, Billy's enthusiasm radiated from him. Down days passed quicker with his antics, whether

I think most probes and shovels have shelf lives longer than a week. If so, you can use them next week if you dont' this week.

Terrain park weekend?

I don't see any reason to appologise for the jacket either. Not until FT appologises for his purple getup he wears this year at least.