20 years ago today I posted online for the first time at powmag.com

[DaveTV]

crikey the names of the long forgotten on those old pages.... crazy memories.
Check it out - there I am!

Hey I found myself

[ACH]

There was this brief period where it was unbelievably funny. Hell even irul was funny back then, sorta.

Don't sell yourself short. There have been plenty of evenings when I have laughed myself to sleep reading posts where you, B Mills and others were riffing back and forth, probably three double scotches deep at the time.

[Meadow Skipper]

I kind of love it when one of the og mags posts after an absence and a bunch of other rarely-seen ogs drop back in to say hey.

[S_jenks]

Kinda bummed that you haven't skied in 4 years.

4 years into your pilgrimage for success in the business world, and it appears that you've reached some good milestones.

The mountains are always calling. You're stronger than most to have kept your nose to the grind. But I agree with the above- it's time to make a trek back into the forgotten lands. Lord knows you've earned it. Set some PTO aside and find a cold and snowy place to reconnect with what has been missed for so long

May you be blessed with many turns.

[gravitylover]

I kind of love it when one of the og mags posts after an absence and a bunch of other rarely-seen ogs drop back in to say hey.

Ditto

[skifishbum]

I aint made a million dollars in 54 years
I do ski and fish a good bit though
pretty sure I was a few years into becoming a shop rat soli bum
knew woodsy ,trecskow, shared a phorn lift with a big dude on splatulas on a sweet 2' pow day
keep fuckin with his foggy glasses and we shared some safety
bout 5 seasons later got a concierge gig and got paid to fuck off on the intertubes
found this place and a few good friends to share passions with
I gots all the gear you need
and im gonna be pissed ifin we don't git soli shop passes again this season
and hopefully the icemans got a non $20 parking spot
maybe ski ya round

[skiJ]

nope, just one that fell behind when I moved to SLC, remarried & had a kid.

choices --

make 'em ; live with them ;


make More choices : You aren't Done, until you are done and Cold.


I hope you are a Great Dad.

my kids are the sons and daughters of my friends
( some are even parents themselves. . . )


Time marches on :

last week someone asked me If I wanted anything else --

" Just more Time. . . " was my response for the first time...


I Am Glad to be old --

Life hasn't always been Good , But

it has been an amazing adventure...


I miss 'Blue' and I miss my Dad ;

I wish I had been a good husband.

otherwise : No Fkn(A) regrets ( " no fucks given " Thanks, JB ! !! )


Lost Trail. March 20 (2020) : aloHa ! !!!


peace Out. tj

postscript.

three things :

Dad had Alzheimer's --
we sat : did not need to say anything. I would read him to Sleep...
I told him, tomorrow will be my last day for a while -- ;
as we got ready to move him to the dinner table the next day, I could see Dad was gathering himself and I waited ( Mostly by that point, he was down to One and two-word responses )

Dad look at me and said,

" it sure has been a treat. "

I get that forever : it was the last time I saw Dad.


Someone asked Tom Where he got his Nice ski equipment., and Tom said,

"from my friend, tj ... "


Be sixty ; have The thirty year old say You Are his friend. keep That (too) ( hell, YES ! I Will ! )


it is in The Book : love thy neighbor as thyself...

love ain't about romance or physical Stuff : it's about looking out for each other.

Start Small : say 'Thank You' (mean it ) ; hold a door for someone else, and If you have to, thank yourself , Do the small Stuff we are so Busy trying to claim doesn't matter ( it matters )


I still love this place

( Thanks ! To tgr for this community ) skiJ : Since 1962

[liv2ski]

Never ceases to make me laugh that I got here 14 years ago and I missed this place in its heyday.

Shoot, I showed up in 2007 and thought it was non stop hilarity the first couple of years, but most of the funny people are gone now. Here is hoping you get a bunch of skiing in soon Frozen. I am pretty much retired now, so I am looking forward to a big season.

[Woodsy]

You were one of the first online kooks I met in the lift li e

Alta with harpo, then, well good times came thick and fast.

Can't remember what I can talk about and what I cant.

Glad we keep in touch.
Go buy new boots. Need to teach the boy. Trust me, it's the best skiing.

[iceman]

It's kind of disappointing that an image search for "frozenwater nipple" doesn't bring up shit.

[Shredhead]

Glad your better. Enjoy your friends and family everyday.

[The Reverend Floater]

Do we get 20 year pins?

Word to FW and all the OG's still around.

[ill-advised strategy]

We all figured this out from scratch. There was no template for an online community. Plenty of triumphs, plenty of bullshit.

It turns out Aspen Extreme was right: skiing really is the easy part.

I find it cognitively dissonant that the people here and talking shit here have been so important to me over the years, but it’s nearly impossible to explain that to anyone outside the group.

[Norseman]

I don't have any business in this thread of oldsters, cept maybe to suggest that the decline in post quality could potentially correlate with the shift away from the PC for forum posting.

[skifishbum]

yo younen
yur stoke personal level is contagious here and irl
and that's all you need to worry bout

[Buster Highmen]

I don't have any business in this thread of oldsters, cept maybe to suggest that the decline in post quality could potentially correlate with the shift away from the PC for forum posting.

Shift away? huh? How else can one post?

[Norseman]

Shift away? huh? How else can one post?

Mobile app or Tapatalk. You could do it, too, with yer newphangled smartfone!

I wonder what the spread is. I bet most are now on mobile. I don't take the time to sit down at a PC unless I'm processing photos for a TR. Can't view the forum at work, either, so I'm 90% mobile.

Ok, back to reminiscing

[Beaver]

I'll be eligible for my 20 year pin in about 2 months. Fuck me! What happened?

Some serious laughs and coffee sprayed on a few keyboards because of this place. The first maggot I met was Rehabit. I saw a group of 3 or 4 people standing in front of the map at the top of the lift at Red Mountain so I slid up and asked for change for a nickle. I was so fucking surprised to have found the only other maggot on the mountain on my first attempt. Apparently he and I didn't check the board, Whitewater got snow so the plan changed.

I don't post much but I still lurk and laugh.

Last year was the first year since 1970 that I didn't put my skis on. I made up for it by riding my fat bike in the snow 80 days.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Hello

[Snow Dog]

I'll be eligible for my 20 year pin in about 2 months. Fuck me! What happened?

Some serious laughs and coffee sprayed on a few keyboards because of this place. The first maggot I met was Rehabit. I saw a group of 3 or 4 people standing in front of the map at the top of the lift at Red Mountain so I slid up and asked for change for a nickle. I was so fucking surprised to have found the only other maggot on the mountain on my first attempt. Apparently he and I didn't check the board, Whitewater got snow so the plan changed.

I don't post much but I still lurk and laugh.

Last year was the first year since 1970 that I didn't put my skis on. I made up for it by riding my fat bike in the snow 80 days.

I remember that day -- I saw a bunch of mags at the lodge and -- poof -- they were gone. Never got the memo. It was good skiing with you that day.

[MakersTeleMark]

I rubbed a couple out to a beaver post back in the day.

[stuckathuntermtn]

How can you guys stand not skiing? Anything we can do to get you skiing?

[Buster Highmen]

Mobile app or Tapatalk. You could do it, too, with yer newphangled smartfone!

I wonder what the spread is. I bet most are now on mobile. I don't take the time to sit down at a PC unless I'm processing photos for a TR. Can't view the forum at work, either, so I'm 90% mobile.

Ok, back to reminiscing

You kids today. Jeez, you act like you know everything, like how bad the war is, how you should be able to grow your hair, do what makes you feel good, take drugs, like the establishment sucks and you can't trust anyone over 30.

[Buster Highmen]

Last year was the first year since 1970 that I didn't put my skis on. I made up for it by riding my fat bike in the snow 80 days.

That's awful. I hope J is doing well.

[PhishingME]

Wow 20 years. Were you on the old k2 board? I feel like it went from there to PowMag. Could be wrong. Long time.