Hey Kennedy,

You ever ride an Alpine board?? We have several regulars that are on them at Tline and every time I see one it makes me mad!! Those guys lay themselves nearly parallel to the hill. It makes me jealous. I've seen several people reach down and touch the snow when they are in the middle of a big turn, but these guys are practically hugging the snow when they carve to the frontside and they are almost laid down when the carve to the backside. And the TRENCH that they leave behind.... That looks like fun!!

I have never ridden an alpine board but yeah those guys are awesome. I'd like to try it but I don't know anywhere that rents the gear and it's a huge investment to buy into it. I think it would take me quite a while to get used to the stance angles. The past few seasons I've been experimenting with ducking my stance out a little bit. Going to a carving board is the complete opposite of that.

It's about time that some one acknowledges this fact! That's why we have two boards instead on just one. My only real concern with your arguement is the inclusion of the "GW" issue and calling me a dirty name, although I guess my Suburau Outback is considered a SUV for fuel consumption regulations.

now calm down kwill that's why God gave poles to us but not them...... i do find being called an arrogant republican skier offensive. i'll admit I much prefer aloof to arrogant <sigh> .

That's true Jimmy, you have always been the shrinking violet of the message boards.

My fault.



Sure.

Next season it is. Bring great heaps of patience, I'm slow.

Sounds like you guys are on to something. We should get together and put the boarders on skis and skiers on boards. I'd love to learn to ski.

I think it would be fun as all get out. I'd actually like to check out telemark. I don't know if you need to be able to ski first or if it even matters. My friend in CO is an awesome snowboarder, I mean seriously excellent. She skied when she was younger and now she is learning to tele too. I kind of envy that lifestyle. I often think that the thing that prevents us from crossing styles is maybe more time than anything else.

Our season is so short and the opportunities to go ride are becoming so much more limited that I just want to enjoy my time doing what I'm good at. She has an amazing advantage in that she lives about 15 minutes from Keystone and works at the resort. If she wants to go to work early and get a few turns in before her shift she can. How much better would you be if you could grab lunchtime turns every day if you wanted to? Her family also have snowmobiles and a bunch of other toys so they really live that outdoor lifestyle I can only dream about.

I'm going to mark my calendar for the start of next season to remind me to maybe set something up where we trade off for a morning and ride a few miles in the other persons boots then maybe in the afternoon get back on our own gear. I think it would give a great perspective of each others sports.

kennedy,
How about monoskiing. I think they rent them at Alta. Two feet in ski boots on a single large ski, bindings mounted parallel.
When my daughter left Utah she was awesome at skiing, snowboarding and monoskiing.
The Colonel

In addition to tripping together with a snowboarder to a legendary western ski hill this weekend, I helped pull a snowboarder across a flat traverse as well. There was just this one jerk snowboarder that completely cut me off on the onloading ramp, now who could that have been???....