icelanticskier
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maine, the way life should be as is the state motto and the past 2 days were no exception.
so wonderful to live in a place where within 2 hours you can access so much diverse snow sliding and have 5 great states with so many diiferent weather tracks to choose from. the past two days were tricky, let me tell ya.
one storm, two days and as tour de france comentator phil liggett would say "two great mountain stages in as many days!"
strange storm, "i got 4 inches and ma neighbor butch got 14 inches"
maine's a simple state, a one syllable state, the only one. the tooth brush was invented there cuz if any other state had invented it, it would've been called the "teeth brush", i made that up but, you can use it. if yer car is broken down in maine it's "some tired". if your goin to rumford, as a mainer yer goin, "up there too rumford" if ya got a single wide the life goal is to get that doublewide. ask a maine skier how the skiing is on a firm icy day, they don't say it's firm or icy, it's "wicked fast". wy favorite maine quote to date is from the founder of saddleback ski area. an avid year round fishing enthusiast. his quote being ski conditions related, i love this, ready, "if there ain't fish under it, it ain't ice" or something like that.
having lived in maine as a 100+ day a year skier from 1993-2000 with some winter long stints in utah in and after with a few sleep in the yota eating out of a cardboard box traveling for months all over on the cheap example, may 95, maine to bc, all over the west and back skiing 25 out of 30 with traveling for 750 bucks, 94-95 was a good'n out west.
being a maine skier i took great pride in mastering "challenging" conditions and sucking the morrow out of those precious powdah dumps that sometimes only hit maine, christ as a maine skier i didn't even know there was skiing in vermont and didn't much care, if it was white it was rippable and if it was blue i was not worthy but i tried like hell to make it ski great and look great skiing it, i'm not a leo btw.
maine skiers are a hardy folk with a "proud" and appreciative aura. skied w/a bunch of my mainer friends, (yes a few folks do like me out there) rippin skiers too. you gotta be rippin when you spend more time workin on yer turns than skiing the non thinking quiet conditions.
skiing in maine was supah fun this week and oh so very quiet, snowed like hell on monday at the open resort with leftovers tuesday and a solitary skin on a not open midweek resort with twice the snow just a pissing distance away with perfect powdah not chowdah short swing love. love when resorts don't open during the week.
shawnee peak 16 inches
lost valley 18-20 inches
one last fact. did you know that the last crank phone service in the country to be disconected was in bryant pond maine in either 83' or 86'. crazy huh.
maine,the way life can be
rog
so wonderful to live in a place where within 2 hours you can access so much diverse snow sliding and have 5 great states with so many diiferent weather tracks to choose from. the past two days were tricky, let me tell ya.
one storm, two days and as tour de france comentator phil liggett would say "two great mountain stages in as many days!"
strange storm, "i got 4 inches and ma neighbor butch got 14 inches"
maine's a simple state, a one syllable state, the only one. the tooth brush was invented there cuz if any other state had invented it, it would've been called the "teeth brush", i made that up but, you can use it. if yer car is broken down in maine it's "some tired". if your goin to rumford, as a mainer yer goin, "up there too rumford" if ya got a single wide the life goal is to get that doublewide. ask a maine skier how the skiing is on a firm icy day, they don't say it's firm or icy, it's "wicked fast". wy favorite maine quote to date is from the founder of saddleback ski area. an avid year round fishing enthusiast. his quote being ski conditions related, i love this, ready, "if there ain't fish under it, it ain't ice" or something like that.
having lived in maine as a 100+ day a year skier from 1993-2000 with some winter long stints in utah in and after with a few sleep in the yota eating out of a cardboard box traveling for months all over on the cheap example, may 95, maine to bc, all over the west and back skiing 25 out of 30 with traveling for 750 bucks, 94-95 was a good'n out west.
being a maine skier i took great pride in mastering "challenging" conditions and sucking the morrow out of those precious powdah dumps that sometimes only hit maine, christ as a maine skier i didn't even know there was skiing in vermont and didn't much care, if it was white it was rippable and if it was blue i was not worthy but i tried like hell to make it ski great and look great skiing it, i'm not a leo btw.
maine skiers are a hardy folk with a "proud" and appreciative aura. skied w/a bunch of my mainer friends, (yes a few folks do like me out there) rippin skiers too. you gotta be rippin when you spend more time workin on yer turns than skiing the non thinking quiet conditions.
skiing in maine was supah fun this week and oh so very quiet, snowed like hell on monday at the open resort with leftovers tuesday and a solitary skin on a not open midweek resort with twice the snow just a pissing distance away with perfect powdah not chowdah short swing love. love when resorts don't open during the week.
shawnee peak 16 inches
lost valley 18-20 inches
one last fact. did you know that the last crank phone service in the country to be disconected was in bryant pond maine in either 83' or 86'. crazy huh.
maine,the way life can be
rog
