I was joking about the firing part haha

I'm very excited for this season. Hope it snows tons. This is what I got:

Night Season pass to Cypress
Atomic Hatchet 159
Rome Arsenal bindings
32 Focus Boa boots
bern baker helmet to help save my few braincells

maybe getting new gloves since mine have rips and smell like feet.

i have been looking for the bern baker in flat white... waiting for it to come in still damit!

Hmm... don't they have the Baker in Pacific Boarder? Well, I got mine online with audio for $80. It's gray though.

oh lol

vangrvrs sig ftw

hmm wat are the benefits of an edge card? sorry for sounding newblike

thread is sticky :)

The edge card is a discount card that is electronically connected to your credit card, it allows you to get discounted passes for whistler blackcomb anytime out of the year.

They can also give you HUGELY discounted pre purchased tickets for the season as well as the standard discounted passes there after.

If memory serves me correctly, you can get a 1 day [pre purchased ticket] edge card, or a 5 day [pre purchased ticket] edge card.

Hi guys, look what I found.
http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/dea...2day/index.htm

I myself haven't rode in Whistler :( But anyway, is this a good deal?

Thanks for the info, going to try tonight. Hopefully I wont f up my board.

hey my boots are a lil bit bigger ive got a lil space i thought id grow into them :P is it bad? thnx in advance

Where's all the snow? Hardly any on cypress.

lol i know eh i dont even wanna check anymore i might just jynx it, last time i checked it was 4cm 2 weeks ago

oh well im hitting up whistler soon

9cms now

Wow, I don’t usually post in topics like this, but my hat is off to you Vangruver. 20 years in, that’s kick ass. I think I rode for about 11 before my knees just couldn’t hack it anymore. Doing cliff drops with a duck foot stance, not recommended.

Again, my hats off to you. So many times Ill stop and watch the new videos out, and be amazed at how technical snowboarding is now, how much it has moved forward. Me and a friend were laughing the other day that “Wow, dude, we are old school now.”

Remember Palmer getting tossed out of Japan? Remember Palmers first “boneless”?

Remember when Terje was just some kid that didn’t speak proper English?

Remember When Craig Kelly Ruled?

Remember Dan Donolly, and the fights over judging the first competitions?

Remember Cutting up your free ride board to make a twin tip?

Remember Skybacks?

Remember Neon?

Remember Movies like “upping the ante” or the old “Kemper” Videos? “Board Test!”

I could go on and on. Memories bring a tear to my eye. Keep it up man, one day Ill get a pair and get back up a mountain. Until then, have a great time, and Ill be sitting here staring at my Crystal Ocean and World Industry boards on the wall…..

This posting reminds me of a self note I made to myself a few years back

whats wrong with duck stance!?
i love it! lol

and whistler was pretty good! except mid mountain is a lil rocky on blackcomb side.. whistler side has better runs

Nothing is wrong with duck stances, its just when you do an extreme duck stance is where the problems and knee pains come into play.

your legs are designed to work together, and when you do an extreme duck stance your inner portion of your knees get stretched too much than they can handle.

It's good for small jumps, and jibbing, but when you throw down HUGE drops or launch yourself off of gnarley tables, THAT's where the problems come into when you get older.

The problem with duck is its really hard on the knees when doing larger hit, cliffs that kind of thing. It tends to push your knees out. For me it caused alot of tendon/muscle damage aparently. I really wanst etream duck, but enough that it caused some issues. Keep in mind I skated for a lt of the time, and probally wasnt to kind on my body for many years.


HA "bonked everything in your path". Love it.

Remeber when I think it was "snowboarder" Magazine had the set of skis that they would clip together to make a board and ride mountians that didnt allow snowboarding? Classic stuff.

Jamie Lynn, wow, havent heard that name in ages. Dont I rember him riding with no gloves at all times of the year? And yes, I had a Noah board. Dude was such a slash dog, but I loved his Pro Models, really nice shapes and flex patterns.

And Im afraid to be the one to tell you this, but those jester hats, they were never cool. HA!

Yup, its pretty cool to be able to say I was around for the real begining of all that. Maybe all this remembering might get my ass up a mountain....

Ill be the old guy doing flat land tricks into the chair line and listening to Face to Face on a walkman.

anyone feeling the heat from the lack of snow?

i'm sure that there are some of y'all that are going stir crazy.

hell i'm still riding bikes in this warm weather!

yeah pretty damn bad

oh well im hitting up whistler on the 20th

keep this in mind though.

Its' always the beginning of the year that gets people stir crazy.

I've no worries, because it WILL happen regardless.

Okay, got a new setup this year, however.. didn't finish mounting my new 07/08 Buron Vapour yet. So I'll be riding on my previous board; K2 Nemesis on Ride LX bindings and a pair of Lamar boots. I forget the style of the Lamar but they aren't quite shabby for being 3 years old.

Now for the gear:
Brand spanking new Oakley Custom Crowbars
DC Shell
Special Blend Pants
And new Burton Yeti gloves to keep my hands hotttt

talked to a co worker that went to whistler on wednesday and he said not much snow up there as well. They had the blowers going.

yes i am going crazy for snow...you guys are optimistic, but man nearly mid december and 0cm on grouse? wtf?

cant wait for boarding after finals! Anyone know how the snow is at big white? i have never been there, and how are their trails? I'm still newb so i usually run green or blue i forgot which one lol, its like intermediate level?.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourteenday/cabc0308

its suppose to start snowing next friday, and temperatures will dip below zero degrees.