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Just for fun... no money. Predict the date of the first significant snow storm for the East Coast. "Significant Snow Storm" is defined as 12 inches or more of snow on top of the picnic table at the base of any resort on the East Coast. I'll start with December 9th..... :snowball fight:

I wish I lived closer to Sunday River or any place in the Northern NE area... but I might as well hop a plane to SLC instead of venturing 9 hrs by car North to those areas. I was hoping to make som turns in Southern VT while visiting family in Williamstown, MA.

Unfortunately, the NE weather has not been agreeable with my plan to work off some turkey and mashpoes with some turns. Let's hope for skiing by Xmas. 8-[

I would check out one of the NATO courses to get the basics. The great thing about tele now is that it is no longer a requirement to drop the knee to the ground and smell of major B.O. Unlike some of the throw-backs you see at MRG, you now ski in stiff four buckle boots and apline skis. You...

I'm of a somewhat different point of view. I'm thinking gasoline is going to spike to $6.00/gallon in a currency collapse. An Audi A3 TDi with good snow tires would be a good option on the east coast. The Audi A3 TDI looks like a great car and will probably give you 25-30 mpg. I had a 2004...

Oh, and wearing a beacon "underneath your base layer" might be a little excessive, to say nothing of scratchy! Agreed.... I got a little excited. :oops:

Slides occur more often than reported out West. Utah has as many as 10,000 releases per season. I was standing on top of a ridge in Teton Pass about 6 years ago when I heard a muffled thump and felt my legs go out from under me. The crust underneath me dropped straight down and I was about...

I get somewhere around 22-24mpgs on HWY and 15 around town. My Suburban (a common ski car out here) gets 12 mpg on HWY. Plus for hill climbing power, nothing beats a deisel. \:D/

That's the way I'm going. I have a 2005 2500HD Duramax with Crew Cab and long bed with 42,000 miles on it and I am going to put an A.R.E. MX cap on it. It will replace my '03 Suburban 2500 that just turned 100K and is going up for sale. The cap also has screened tilt out side and back windows...

I'll go first.... while setting the bar high. \:D/ http://www.earthroamer.com/

"Has skiing just become as dangerous as the streets of Kabul. Coming up on the 10 o'clock news." :bs: or "Obama makes ski helmets a manditory public option and will give all profits from helmet sales to ACORN. Get the full story at 10 o'clock tonight on Fox News." :rotfl:

I remember the old? Volkl Snow Ranger. That was considered the radical powder ski of the times (1990's). Now, anything under 100mm is considered a fence slat. I watched a great ski film-doc called Steep a few weeks ago and noted that some of the skiers featured in the film where skiing on...

I am putting a cap on my truck I'm wondering if anyone has any experience car camping in East Coast resort parking lots. I get the impression that they don't permit it, but..... :-k

I tend to ski Alpine as much as tele these days. My tele skiing is really limited to deeper snow condition where you really get the full experience of the lower body position and steep angulated turn that tele gives you. It's a very cool way to ski, and for all you young single guys out there...

I'll take the compliments as they come on this board \:D/ ... Anyone who wants to learn to make a tele-turn in one day shoud see Dickie Hll at MRG. Then after a fews years, go see Jimmy Ludlow at Alta to learn to ski the really steep and deep stuff. These guys know how to teach. Also, it's...

I agree with this statement. However, the thing that brought my skiing to a new level of both confidence and ability was learning telemark 7 years ago. I know of a ski coach in JH who required all of his racers to learn and run gates on telemark to sharpen balance and edge control. I tried it...

Actually, I have bump skied in the past 20 years, I just don't look for them. I attended steep & deep telemark clincs at Atla and JH in the past and part of the training is learning to use your center of balance and suspension in a tele stance. The bumps are a great place to test that and we...

I ventured into three ski shops over the past rainy weekend to kick some tires and noticed that the "ski wall" at each shop was less than 50% of what it had in prior years. Clearly, the shops are ordering less skis. I was looking for a new fat ski to take out West this year (demos are getting...

I can't speak for the crowd, but my bumps days ended 20 years ago. I'd rather ski deep steep terrain and stay out of the icy troughs. In my hay days, long past, I was cruising down bump runs in my blue Scott Superhots and Molnar Green skis. Oh yah, and starting off with a daffy stand at the...

Does anyone have any entertaining Hunter Mountain experiences? I have not skied there in 20 years, but even back then, it was quite a cultural experience. YO!