What is the Ideal Amount of Snow?

PeeTex wrote

  none of us are ski gods.  

 

 

PeeTex wrote

I also believe that as much as Harv my not like the discord, he actually likes it when the hits and post numbers run up. It helps with advertisers and lets face it, if there is no flame war going on, particularly in the dry months, there are only a few posts and little activity - look at the history this month. I watch during these droughts and Harv will throw out a post here or there to try to get a discussion started.

PeeTex wrote

I also believe that as much as Harv my not like the discord, he actually likes it when the hits and post numbers run up. It helps with advertisers and lets face it, if there is no flame war going on, particularly in the dry months, there are only a few posts and little activity - look at the history this month. I watch during these droughts and Harv will throw out a post here or there to try to get a discussion started.

MikeK wrote

some other younger guy who generally thinks it's cool to put his entire life on some ridiculous blog and hang out here rather than playing candy saga crush while he waits for it to snow so he can teach people how awesome he is at skiing, and then go home and blog about it.

mattchuck2 wrote

MikeK wrote

some other younger guy who generally thinks it's cool to put his entire life on some ridiculous blog and hang out here rather than playing candy saga crush while he waits for it to snow so he can teach people how awesome he is at skiing, and then go home and blog about it.

Posts like this are exactly why I got rid of Candy Crush and spend a lot of my time here. The entertainment value can't be matched.

And thank you for recognizing how awesome I am at skiing.

PeeTex wrote

Now if anyone would like to post a similar personal video then they will then be elevated to deity.

Harvey wrote

what is the perfect amount of new snow to ski in the East?  You can have any skis/gear you want.

6 inches? Two feet? Four feet? What say you?

ml242 wrote

PeeTex wrote

Now if anyone would like to post a similar personal video then they will then be elevated to deity.

PeeTex, I'm just waiting for you to put me in the heli.... thinking right from the top of Algonquin.  I could walk up there but then there wouldn't be the cool aerial footage.

PowderAssassin wrote

East coast ice....that saying exists for a reason. There's no getting "good" at skiing boiler plate ice. It's just a recipe for leg/knee injury!

MikeK wrote

PA, you should probably just give it a rest.

First off, read the title of this post.  Is that not the most idiotic question you've ever read?  I think my 4 year old niece comes up with more insightful conversation questions than that.

Second, when, ever, on the history of the internet has anyone said... gee sir, I respect your opinion and I'm going to change my mind because you convinced me otherwise.  I've never skied out West, but OF COURSE it is better.  Anyone who debates that merely needs to look at how many people fly from the east coast to the rockies vs. the number of people who fly from the rockies to the Whites?  Greens?  Adirondacks?  Hills in central and southern NY.  It's almost unheard of unless they had some other motive.  I work with people who take ski trips out West every year.  I don't hear of people from Colorado coming to ski Whiteface.  It's just absurd.  So just get over it.  No ones going to agree with you because it's the internet and they'd rather try to discredit you and argue and feel good that they had a little personal victory.

Third, this forum is a joke.  In consists of mainly nearly retired to retired old geezers who have nothing better to do than worry about money, football, their idiotic bucket lists that no one cares about, beer, and oh yeah, skiing.  Take any one of those things away from them and they are crying like infants wanting their binky.  The other small population is people from the Hinterlands, some Coach dude who's a bit of a meat head I think, a kid who thinks skiing outside of a resort is some kind of illegal and insane activity, and some other younger guy who generally thinks it's cool to put his entire life on some ridiculous blog and hang out here rather than playing candy saga crush while he waits for it to snow so he can teach people how awesome he is at skiing, and then go home and blog about it.  There are a couple other that don't fit those are probably OK but there isn't really diversity to speak of.  I'm pretty sure all the sexist, football watching, beer swilling geezers chased off or offended any women that might have joined.

And lastly, here lives the greatest ski forum troll to ever walk the silky threads of the worldwide web.  You got to see a taste of his insane paranoid ranting and absolute hate filled bile he spews.  And he's got friends here, so watch out!

If I were you, I'd shut my computer, have a beer and never come back to this place.  The slight shred of useful information you might find is not worth all the hate mongering that lies within.

If I'd known it was the way it was, I would have never joined.  But I was 'smoked out' by that clever troll.  So clever that he recognized the exact same screen name I used before when we clashed.

I'm going to go on enjoying being 34 and rid of internet ski forums.  I hope that helps clear some stuff up.

Glade Runner wrote

I've gotten pretty good on the ice.  Sharpen you edge once in a while.