Whatever Happened To The Denizens Of Epicski?

[Dexter Rutecki]

haha oh man...I had kinda for gotten about that. You're all dumb as rocks and trayslidin' dumbass, what a pair.

Than later Newschoolerz tried it over here but nobody cared and they got bored.

Yeah, our war with the snowboarders was actually right around the best point for the board, IMO. The days of Spicoli and MPK, phunk and those guys. I guess it was still good a few years later, too, but for me it didn't get a whole lot better than that.

The newschoolerz thing definitely sucked. I never really looked, but I felt like it may have been a little more entertaining on their board. I don't think most of them were ever smart enough to figure out what was actually going on (even some of the snowboarders realized we were over here).

Almost scary to think about how long we've been doing this...

[riser4]

Dennis from Epicurious? Who's that?

[EWG]

They seem to pop up here every once in a while. I never posted but would occasionally lurk for entertainment. My favorite was a thread titled something like "50 degrees, extreme lines" and was mostly a collection of 35-40deg inbounds runs. At one point, someone suggested Grandfathers on Little Wasatch in Telluride but it got rejected because someone else read it was only sustained 48deg. Grandfathers:

Yeah. Not extreme at all.

[Danno]

Paging Greg to the white courtesy phone.

[mcski]

Paging Greg to the white courtesy phone.

skiLulz.com

[riser4]

It's all in good fun until there's a restraining order.

[SumJongGuy]

It's all in good fun until there's a restraining order.

They got cease and desist orders from the Scuffield lawyers over that Sunshine Valley vs Ski Patrols fiasco a couple years ago. Heard TGR also got them over it.

[Benny Profane]

I experience an Epic like site all about road biking, and, dear lord, the dork factor is off the charts at times. Right now there's a thread that's reached 8 pages consisting of people telling me how tough they are because they're actually out riding a bicycle in weather like this. My irony meter detects nothing. It's creepy.
Place is good for equipment recs, though.

[Dexter Rutecki]

They got cease and desist orders from the Scuffield lawyers over that Sunshine Valley vs Ski Patrols fiasco a couple years ago. Heard TGR also got them over it.

Umm, what?

Don't want to dox anyone, but way back when there was some kind of interesting legal case that came out of online skiing message board interactions (I think it was a listserv thing).

[iceman]

Well we just don't really want to say the guy's name, that's for sure.

[Dexter Rutecki]

Don't know it, so that's easy for me.

But I thought the female involved posts/posted here. Or at least over at Epic.

[iceman]

We may be talking about different things, not sure but whatever, it's in the past.

[riser4]

Umm, what?

Don't want to dox anyone, but way back when there was some kind of interesting legal case that came out of online skiing message board interactions (I think it was a listserv thing).

That's what I'm talking about.

[riser4]

Well we just don't really want to say the guy's name, that's for sure.

Way worse than saying beetlejizz's name x3.

[riser4]

We may be talking about different things, not sure but whatever, it's in the past.

This here thread is all about the past, pilgrim.

[irul&ublo]

Well we just don't really want to say the guy's name, that's for sure.

Unc** C***

[liv2ski]

The Epicskiers weren't all bad, just heavily gapercentric and, as a group, pretty uptight.

I skied with quite a few people from there back in the day. Trisha and DannoT stand out as very nice people and very good skiers I enjoyed skiing with. But ya, it is/was a different feel than this place for sure, hence why I post here with a rare appearance there.

[riser4]

Unc** C***

T**B*****s

[Art Shirk]

T**B*****s

I remember old TitBitches

[Marshall Tucker]

Uncle tom's cabin?

[Dexter Rutecki]

Unc** C***

No shit? Well I guess that's not surprising.

[DaveTV]

Their DNA can still be found on the interwebz

http://www.therusty.com/2005_ESA_Weekend.htm

"Our philosophical observation of the day was "where does edge change happen? (with respect to where the feet are relative to the upper body). When the feet are underneath the body, the edge change is effective. When the feet are ahead of the body, the edge change sucks. We proceeded to watch other skiers going by us on the trail. Every last one of the mediocre skiers was changing edges with the feet in front of the body. Ok, we've seen a ton of comments about how deadly being in the back seat was. But looking at it from the feet being forward perspective instead of the weight being back combined with WHEN the edge change occurred was really frightening, especially when viewing from the side."

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[old goat]

Yeah. Not extreme at all.

The Epic response to that would be--it's not skiing

Their DNA can still be found on the interwebz

http://www.therusty.com/2005_ESA_Weekend.htm

"Our philosophical observation of the day was "where does edge change happen? (with respect to where the feet are relative to the upper body). When the feet are underneath the body, the edge change is effective. When the feet are ahead of the body, the edge change sucks. We proceeded to watch other skiers going by us on the trail. Every last one of the mediocre skiers was changing edges with the feet in front of the body. Ok, we've seen a ton of comments about how deadly being in the back seat was. But looking at it from the feet being forward perspective instead of the weight being back combined with WHEN the edge change occurred was really frightening, especially when viewing from the side."

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Holy shit

[dookeyXXX]

The TGRz is only good for cat stoke and home made pizza info.

Oh, and gift ideas from KQ.

I dunno, I like to think my movie reviews in the Netflix, Amazon Prime, Redbox, and Ongoing Movies In Theaters threads are legit...

I like the Padded Room IPA stoke, too.

[TahoeJ]

The Epic response to that would be--it's not skiing

I remember PowDork once posted footage of skiing Terminal Cancer (I think) and the thread devolved into whether it was actual skiing or not. And for such a tight couloir, he skied it pretty fluidly for the most part. lol... guessing that was one of his last posts there. That's about the time I jumped ship.