Heelside Powder Groomers GO HOME!!


Says sticker I've thought about often.

MO-Town Callout!

I demand a ski off!




And Satisfaction!!!

:D

Those Rad Elf suit oneys are surprisingly popular.

Or is it surprisingly easy to spot.

Benny's SugarMomma?

Further is farther.

Two years ago, Jackson Hole tram line on a legit 24" report; still puking snow.
I roll in around 6:45 and stake my claim in line still debating the likelihood of my firstramdreams.
I immediately...

Nice Faraday suit.

I believe.

At A-Basin a couple of days ago and patrol is up on the East Wall doing control work to get it open (deep day).
Waiting in the Lenawee lift line a guy in his twenty's shouts out:

"Anyone got any...

Riding up a lift today at Snowmass with a couple who ask me where I've been skiing.
Luckily for me I'm currently on an extended trip and respond:
"I just finished up five days at Jackson Hole, and...

Heel-side powder groomers GO HOME!!!

Overheard lift convo:

180*?
Nah, man I'm going for a 360*, I already landed a 270*!

Jaw dropping.

Yes!!!

I'm not traveled well enough; but if there, I'm sure I would be the gaper.

There's a reeeally long span on Silverton's double chair with towers on ridges that is reeeally far above the bottom of the valley.
Really.

I don't go for bar-down too much, but that stretch is...

^^^ WTF?!?

This would've gotten 'em to the top!: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc6dO29FzZ5/?taken-by=stephaniecemo

Dovetails nicely with the comment I overheard in the parking lot at the end of the day:

"OOOOhhh ... taking off the ski boots is almost as good as getting in the pussy!"


Brought to mind a...

^^^ Ouch.

It looked like he didn't even hit a rock.
Probably needed a better pep talk prior to dropping.

Actually laughing out loud!

^^^ Do you know the street value of this mountain?!?

^^ Oy.

He was committed.

I've always been an asshole.

Here's a guy who clearly takes pride in his work.

^^^ Take them to the top, give them a little nudge, and watch them ski switch to the road?

Saw a guy wearing a Teton Gravity Research baseball cap at the grocery store tonight.

I ask him: "Change for a nickel?"
He says: "What?"
Me [/shrug]: "Nothing ... I just saw your hat"

Which...

^^^ agreed.

That is not what I was expecting.

If you don't notice that you're missing 4#'s of pot, you have a pretty nice head stash.

^^^ Many years ago I saw someone kick the toe of the binding out of their ski doing the ol' jump in mount.

Not really sure if these two observations were of gapers in the field or not, but over the past few days in Winter Park I saw a couple of things that made me double take:

Saw a snowboarder suiting...

Literal facepalm ... and the I left the palm there for a bit.

^^^ I'm kind of a snow snob ...




I only ski fresh 'roy.

Absolutely.

In fact I'm sure that I look like gaperdaycentral in my matching kit (which happens to be dead bird).
Over the years I've bought good stuff at dirtbag prices (one-off peer to peer...

"I think we're in over our heads."
Says hockey jersey wearing snowboarder who has just taken a good beater to his hockey jersey wearing snowboarder buddy.

(Overheard while riding on a lift going...

FUCKING TURN!!!

Team Heel-Side Powder Groomers, GO HOME!

^^^ I think he said he broke his helmet.

Damn, it must be frustrating just missing that coveted Darwin Award.

^^^ Fuck, I always feel marginally guilty and say something along the lines of " ... Hope you get in some turns!".

On the the chatty/Trump issue (I know they're separate, but) ... two separate...

10" @ Winter Park.
First lap, untracked & super soft.
Bobbing through the trees and some guy who's standing (static) gladeside left bemoans:

"Hey! That's my line!"



I laugh maniacally as I...

then, i opened the door ...

and towel was on the OUTSIDE!




whoa.

i'ma gonna rip that 'roy!

^^^ yeah, that's no good.

if i saw her on the mountain with form like that, i would be agape.

i saw a guy up at Loveland skiing in a Marmot 8000m suit.

it was cold, and he looked warm.


so maybe not gaper, but still amusing.

Today I saw the old straightline-tuck-snowplow combo.

Pretty awesome.

So at abasin I see a couple on the traverse that goes across the east wall.
The guy was in his skis and carrying another pair of skis.
The other pair of skis belonged to the woman who was WALKING...

Not a quote but:

I'm @Abasin, skiing solo; waiting to board a triple lift.
A guy skis up next to me and pauses for a split second, then proceeds to ski forward to presumably join the group of two...

Didn't hear what he was talking about so I don't have a quote but:

I passed some guy on the lower east wall traverse today at abasin who was blocking the traverse while talking on his cell phone....

^^^ haha!

team-heal-side-powder-groomers-assemble!!!




fucking find the fall-line and make some turns around it.

... or just fucking point it.

who said that?

well, maybe not at the same time (you know, smoking while skiing).

today i overheard some passerbys while waiting for the dirtbag bus to the free lot @ breckenridge:

"Hey Tony, I think I figured it out. When you're walking you want to UNbuckle the boots."