100% man. Would love to get some Frushtime. Has been forever and a day and would be great to make up for some of that.
Sorry I keep ducking in and out on the thread here. Traveling, and crazy...

Good to see your pixels again, dude. Missed you.

My girl is ten and boy is seven. Been putting in the time with them and teaching them how to slide.
Hopefully will pay off but it's been a long...

Any mags to Kirkwood today?
They tweeted 6 was loading at 9:40--something this AM, when buddy at Palisades said those mountains were on pretty minimal ops all day.
Any real folks get up KW way...

Right around the same time (as Hot Dog:TM), Warren Miller had a flick with a guy at Heavenly doing a quad. Not in competition. But an aerials stud, blue fartbag, IIRC.
No reason in the world to...

Banditman, you've been a hell of a resource on this thread. Thunderous applause is due you. Seriously.

After reading all you've said, plus reviews, I've picked up a pair of 115's for my West...

Uh, yeah; about that: Went home to edit the sweet footage of you and Mashed and me on the 1 big day last week -- Oops firsts and all the fun hits/lines we got in the can -- and discovered the can...

In the immortal word (singular) of Scot Schmidt: STEEP!

Bumping.

Yeah, I agree and think it was that the new stuff was light for sure but the sticky spackle from Sunday's bukkake-fest was still hiding down there. Punch-in landings and deep turns got real grabby...

Lotta nice stoke getting posted up. Thanks!


Brannen killing it.
Cool stuff from a lotta peeps too. Much appreciated.

6er you certainly do make it happen, no matter wha..

I wish these cameras showed how steep what you tend to hit, under any and all conditions, is.
Chapeau.

It's like 420, but one higher.
Who can argue with that concept?

And yeah, absolutely; follow-cam involves skiing literally right up onto the back of your buddy's skis, for these lenses to make it...

Zippy's back!! That's the universe's way of saying it might consider getting serious about this season after all..

I got a little film in the can from last Wednesday's mini-pow day.
Hope it's...

Great shot!
Way to keep the stoke set to 'on'..

Sum dem pics is berry nice.


And Kirkwood's grabby volcanic rock takeoffs are the natural habitat of the wild Flung Cat. Place is lousy with 'em.

Some of them dress like me.
But they're...

Beautiful shot, AK. Guess Tahoe's so upscale now even the clouds are groomed corduroy.

Looks like a nice day/nice life. :)

Really stunning camerawork. That's a talented eye, coming up with beautiful shot after shot after shot. Nice gig, guys. :)

In Winter 2011-'12, people spent half a year posting humorlessly about the GSA...and this is the thread you've just noticed TGR jumping the shark on?

All that video proves is that a band that sounds like the god damned Soup Dragons shouldn't ever cover Gary Numan. They should just quietly kill themselves.


Those drills are great. Quick way...

Jus' got my paperwork in order and will see you derelicts in the parking lot with muh grill and my East Bay artisanal sausages in hand.

Oh man; that's the stuff right there.
Yesssss.




Edited to add that Bay Area skiers obviously suck, and are kooks. Wannabes, y'know? Sad. Just sad.

Soooperb.

Another 666 production of the highest quality.

It's a particularly un-aesthetic line.

Once is Too Much?



:)

Clearly not Big Jim's, though.

Cuz it's heavily barrel-distorted. For an example, see the mountain range at 4:54 in the OP link.

Most POV lenses pincushion -- the opposite effect -- to try and get a 'wide angle' on things. ...

Good luck, Jim. If you had to miss a season, this was the one. Come back even stronger.

Sigh. Why do all skiing-over-dirt-and-rock-patches-and-through-bushes-at-high-speeds videos these days have to be 90% POV ?!!

So lazy. I want to see fresh angles in my dirt skiing -- I think...

Thanks for the update and communications, Coop.
Solid. Much obliged.

If your kids were into editing this; fantastic, and kudos to them for working through a project this labor-intensive, and sticking with it.

If you edited this all for them though; I would say...

Wait, was it on fire as it blew across the hill?


Otherwise I'm gonna have to call bs and say that doesn't sound like my Kirkwood.

Ah. It's not sliding along the rails, TahoeJ. The prob is the standard 'circle-geartooth' mount popping free of its velcro anchor due to inertia under sudden deceleration.



Finesse is out of...

Hey great edit Brannen -- eventful day! Where did you say this took place, again?

Also: Must've missed the Bennyday explanation for that crazy crowd in your other video. That was hilarious,...

mmm. What if I already um, 'theoretically' had to epoxy the rails onto the mount to stop the relentless shaking ? :)

The biggest thing there was like some 40-footers maybe (?).:rolleyes2 I...

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Me and a bunch of my Bay Area dentist friends went up to Kirkwood.
We talked about possible maxillofacial realignments via basaltic intervention in...

So, we went up and skied and stuff and like jumped off things and junk.

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Shitty season yes, but man; certain days have just delivered.
Still grinning four days later. :]

Man, that dog is about the most adorable, wriggly little thing I've seen since I was last in the shower.

Great vid -- you look like you found about the best spot on earth that day. Delicious...

If you're going to make edits, I would get off the groomers and into someplace interesting ASAP.
If you want the footage to look dynamic, the terrain has to look (and be) dynamic (in addition to...

#4: Shit or get off the pot.



You're in my line, bub.

That got really going near the end.
Nice huck progression. I liked.

Yes, but we were riding the Wall when I made these observations, thanks.

Not rippingly windy. Not crazy stormy. Not at all wet above mid-mountain, either, during the morning time period when...

Ottime, bear in mind this is amateur hour armchair quarterbacking at its worst, but...

Operationally, when we were up on Wed., the winds were seemingly low key, but they still called off opening...

Just boppin' around Kirkwood in some pow a couple days ago, while other Tahoe spots were getting rain. :biggrin:

Hopefully stokeworthy.
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Waiting for thicker cover so we can start...

A little more experimenting with the angles, color, and follow-cam. Edit of yesterday's not-so-secret stashes:

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Stuff next to and below rocks is still pretty icy. I have fingers...

Working on it...working on it...

Edit is done.
C'mon Vimeo uploader... you're slower than... well, than me, sidestepping up the High T. Grrrrrrr.

That was fantastic.

Drop at 37seconds went on forevvvvver.

Yep; good times and good chatting with you both. That shop area looked like you were opening a bottling plant by the time the sixers stopped arriving. Thanks for getting what u could out of those...

Nice! And clearly steep as shit. ...if it looks steep on POV, it's twice as steep in real life.

Awesome, man. Congrats.
Looks really hard to judge scale out there. :O Hudge features..

Congrats on getting back out there, crazy quick, Schralph.


"Arm's off." "No it isn't."
You're like the Black Knight of the Cali thread.

Yes, you've figured me out. I am insufferable and come in on a high horse in every aspect of my yuppie existence. I do that due to geography, as you say: it dictates all. People who rent an...

Cheese and rice, another letters-crossing-in-the-mail post.. Me=suck.

Sure, slobmonster, that's cool of course. I can't truck with PBR, as I encourage walking-upright human standards of decency....