Minnesotans?!

[PNWbrit]

the sailing out there was is a little weak.

The sailing is awesome here. And a lack of MN like flatness,

[Grape_Ape]

What about Highland Hills? That place is the raddest of the rad. True story: They have professional ski jumps there for Olympic training. So one year a kid goes off the jump on a toboggan. Except the jump was closed, and they had strung a wire across it at the top, which he removed, and at the bottom, which he could not remove because he was going 100 miles an hour. Kid got decapitated. That's how rad Highland Hills is.

I feel bad for laughing.

[digitaldeath]

In Minnesota we got the somali pirate captain from "captain phillips"

i saw him a few weeks ago rolling a new mustang, rolling hard

[digger]

The sailing is awesome here. And a lack of MN like flatness,

I'll give you that. Tahoe too. I was thinking more about the Rockies and other mid continent regions.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Pot, meet kettle.

I'm not some stuck up Edina bitch.

[Hugh Conway]

I'll give you that. Tahoe too. I was thinking more about the Rockies and other mid continent regions.

just point to the relatively small population of hipster douches and truly shitacular yuppies

[digitaldeath]

You're right point Hugh, but Tahoe and such are full of Bay Area bitches and posers.

The hipster and yuppie population is exploding in minneapolis. Biker rights and whatnot

[digitaldeath]

cap'n fillips roll a blunt to fire up in his stang?

I didn't smell anything good if that's what you mean. He was mashing pretty hard down a residential. No doubt, stuntin for his mateys.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Btw, dd, you know it's spelled "poseurs," right?
Get a brain, moran!

[yeahman]

I grew up on a lake in MN; water skiing was common. My folks still live there, and tell me they rarely see water skiers these days; 'personal watercraft' have taken over.

Yep...personal watercraft and people tubing behind ski boats on all sorts of weird inflated contraptions, that's all it is now. I spend a week every summer at my folks' lake cabin, and water skiers are few and far between. Strange how it's become a lost art. Or maybe not, because if you go at it pretty hard on a slalom ski and take a few wipeouts, it's brutal and the next day you feel like you got hit by a truck. Makes snow skiing look like a pussy sport.

[Flyoverland Captive]

^^^ You never forget your first slalom-wipeout enema.

[digger]

Growing up Dawn Patrol for me was taking a few runs through the slalom course first thing in the morning. The sensation of carving a slalom ski and the sun shining through the wall of water you throw up are what I equate snow skiing to. We were also slaloming on trick skis long before wake boards came around. Just say no to inflatables.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Yep...personal watercraft and people tubing behind ski boats on all sorts of weird inflated contraptions, that's all it is now. I spend a week every summer at my folks' lake cabin, and water skiers are few and far between. Strange how it's become a lost art. Or maybe not, because if you go at it pretty hard on a slalom ski and take a few wipeouts, it's brutal and the next day you feel like you got hit by a truck. Makes snow skiing look like a pussy sport.

Aren't you in Missoula? Beers?

[uglymoney]

There is still plenty of waterskiing going on in Minnesota. Teh sport is far from dead and tons of good waterskier live right in the cities. When I lived in Champlin we'd ski the river right in town and it was great.

Not in Minnesota anymore because I fled the traffic for Iowa but after spending coming back from Colorado and spending a couple of weeks off the water I couldn't wait to get back in the midwest to ski. It's nice to have a ten twelve people I can call and ski with any given morning. Backwards and front sets back to back this past Wednesday. A dawn patrol of sorts.

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[1000-oaks]

I got the hell out of MN as fast as I could, CA might have nearly as many socialists bankrupting the state but at least it's warm AND has snowy mountains.