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How about Erik = Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy

FU's a cute little kitty. Photos...

There can be only one AK

As noted on this site AK used to tie with UT for second place for fatalities until the days of the modern powerful snomobile. source

Quite often the stupid slopes are the ones you want to ski, and the safe slopes are ...especially in CO

FUCK THE MOUNTIES

I grew up skiing at the mounty lodges. I took the basic climbing course and dropped out of the intermediate climbing course as a teen. I think the group does a number of good things, but the vast majority of interactions I and other climbers have with mounty groups make them look like a bunch of clueless and anoying idiots who deserve lots of abuse.

In CO you have cold temps and lots of wind. Also early in the season there will be long periods without snow. All this leads to typically unstable snowpack until spring when the snowpack becomes equatemp. Boot packing a slope mixes the layers and thus makes the slope more stable alowing a deeper base to build up. There is a good chance that skiers would continually trigger avys on slopes in CO, so a base would never build up and a lot of skiers might get seriously fucked up. There's an article in on of last years issues of Couloir. The subject is a semi-bc ski bowl that's part of Aspen Highlands.

As far as I'm concerned Colorado is an area we should sacrifice to the gumby's. Sure the skiing can be great, but the state has gone out of it's way to build up its image as the skiing meca in the US. I say fine let the gumbys have it. I want you all to note how TLG is getting paid to boot pack the slopes at Silverton. Nobody boot packs slopes in the Cascades, BC, the Wasatch, or the Tetons. The truth is unless you boot pack a slope in places like Colorado the slope will keep sliding and sliding with skiers on it and never build up a base. Backcountry skiing in CO is pretty sketchy till spring. Colorado seems nice on a superficial level, but in reality it lacks substance. TLG, I've skied at Teluride and all over CO and I don't deny it's cool, but I'd take skiing in the rest of North America over CO any day. Ice climbing and rock climbing are different stories

FUCK YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF WHITE COLLAR SHIT If your ideas come to pass I hope a tree falls on your house and kills your dog because you couldn't afford the $10,000 labor cost it will take to cut down a tree with crosscut saws

I've heard some good things about that place, but BC is closer.

I sure hope not.

Also, given our current pres GW and our past president Clinton, what you actually do has nothing to do with the image you maintain.

I've just read a story on MSN about how Shelton hates him. It would seem to me that Shelton has not come forward with specifics. Without specifics I tend to think there's a good chance it's like one of these spray war type things we have here on CC.com. Let's here some specific charges.

I really don't know much about the guy. Trask, Why is he a liar and a cheat?

Too bad you have to pay to ski at Crystal.

sfine with me that you want to ski the flats. sucka. i like the steep anyhow. I've skied a lot of steep slopes with long barely downhill runouts. I remember waiting 15 or 20 minutes for my buddy on his snowboard a few times.

What about Prince Charles getting blow jobs from the hired help. Or something like that.

Well boarding is where it is at E-rock. I've been all kinds, tele, alpine, and randonee, nothing compares to ripping down some face on a snowboard. I've snowboarded a bit. It is pretty fun, but you do have both of your feet tied to one board. That's not to much fun when you've gotta do a lot of flat skiing. Sure you can buy a split board or snowshoes, but then you've gotta take the board off and fuck with it or cary the extra weight of snowshoes. I'll stick to skis thank you.

Why don't you go skiing Rudy.

as for the "posers" you'll find ripping up the great terrain crystal has to offer, they probably can't stand the likes of you either. geez; i'm going skiing ... God I hope so. I would hate myself if the likes of the crystal clientele liked me. Bad new Scott, I like Crystal and I like you Baker can be good too, but it's a long drive.

Good snowboarders Sideslippin punk-ass, over their heads snowboarders suck.

Coz they can. I've never seen a bondage skier lay out some sexy, artisitic curves when the going gets good though... More's the loss for them. Actually, I occasionally do tele like turns on rolling stuff when it isn't worth lockin heels down. Matt, racing takes constant coaching. I ski good enough to keep up with quite a few burned out racers though.

Well said Tele_nut It's funny how all the tele skiers I know, some of whom are pretty good, start parallel turnin when things get tough. As for tele sking being artistic, well I just laid down some art in my toilet. Come on over before I flush it down the drain.

Telemark, Chinese for...Man with skis sticking up ass.