how many snowboarders do we have here?

k i know its like 90 degrees out but hey this is the off topic forum right? i got my first issue of transworld for this season the other day and i'm already lookin forward to snow. how many people do we have on here that are avid snowboarders? i am in desperate need of more people to ride with this season as a lot of my friends are away at college in the winter i didnt get out much last winter. Ive been ridin for about 5 years and still haven't made it out west and i'd love to do that this winter too if theres a lot of guys on here maybe we could set somthin up. i got an extra setup i'll prolly be sellin this fall when it gets closer to snowing if anyone is interested in starting.

 

snowboarding is t3h sh@t.. ive also been doing it for about 5 years.. this is my 6th year.. im still not that good but i go about 30 times a season.. and i have yet to make it out west... i wanted to take a trip to shweitzer MT in idaho.. maybe we could do a group thing out there. current set up...Burton custom 154. Ride Lx bindings.

 

the only thing snowboarders do is take up space sitting on their arses on the slope. Skiing is a real sport. j/p. Anyways i'm down for going anytime. 2.5~rs...where do you have a pass to?

 

i rode about 20 times at hyland last season and maybe 10 at afton alps and 2 times at buck hill.. but no season pass.. o0o and once at Spirit MT

 

i live 10 minutes from afton so that where i usually hit up. And the occasional trip to lutsen or spirit.

 

+1

 

yeah i love afton.. its just a little bit to far away compared to hyland.. but you gotta love that place.. if i was closer id get a season pass

 

yeah afton has always been my favorite around here. i used to go to hyland a lot like 2-3 years ago but i'm not really into park ridin anymore and theres not much else there so its usually afton or spirit for me.

 

jus started boarding.. have been about 3 times.. ha ha but I used to rollerblade, skateboard etc.. so I picked it up pretty quickly... but I am still a beginner... ha ha

Goinf out to Colorado this November with my sis and Bro-inlaw whenthey are here for a mth.. so Hope there is snow cause we are planning on snowmobiling in the mountains too woohoo...

 

+1

 

I just bought my stuff last year. I've been skiing for quite a while, but wanted to try boarding. I've only been out like 4 times. It's usually afton. A bunch of my friends make a trip up to lutsen every February which is a blast.
Every year I say I gotta go more often....

 

i think we need to plan something.. i think this would be a great way to get more members active.. it really wouldnt even have to be a trip out west. but maybe a trip for a weekend to spirit or lutsen.. theres also some great places in michigan...but damn its so far away

 

o and here is the current setup:


rome anthem 161


salomon spx5 bindings


salomon fusion f20 boots

i love this setup more than anything ive rode before, the salomon stuff has come a long ways in the last couple years and the bindings are awsome with the biggest toe ramp ever which works great with big feet, and the boots are the most comfortable ive ever tried on, and they got an awesome quick lace pull cord system. and rome boards are t3h win!

 

michigan is only 4 hours to indianhead and bigpowderhorn area, there is 2-3 others right there too. its not any farther then lutsen. i'm hopin lutsen gets dumped on again this year because i didnt make it up there last winter and they had tons of snow.

 

yeah Romes are pretty sweet. But galayans gave me an unbeatable deal on my burton custom.. i got it for 350 and it was originally 500

 

yeah customs are awesome too, to be honest its pretty much the same as a rome anthem. being that 2 of the top designers at burton that created the custom and most of burtons other stuff left the company and started rome.

 

yeah i didnt know that.. thats kinda good to know though...

 

I snowboard but not much

 

This will be my 14th or 15th season of riding this coming winter.



^^^ Here's a shot of me from a few years back rippin' up the backcountry in Montana -- Big Mountain, to be exact. The name of this OB region is known as Canyon Creek to the locals.



^^^ Here's a shot to give you an idea of how f*#$ing steep the avy chute in Canyon Creek from the above photo is.

I only made one trip last year, but it was one of my best days of riding ever. It was at this crazy ass place in Colorado called Silverton Mountain. http://www.silvertonmountain.com/

Basically, it is one rickety, old lift that takes you up to around 12300 feet, and from there, you can hike up to 13487 feet!!! Basically, the idea of the "resort" (the "chalet" is a tent with a keg, lol) is to hike to the goods with a guide. We got 5 runs in during our 7-8 hour day. Talk about a friggin' workout, lol.

Pretty much all of the photos on the Silverton Mountain gallary are the exact same spots that our guide took us -- I scared the crap out of myself several times that day. Part of the "lift ticket" price includes avalanche trancievers and probes. Danger :!:

Basically, I don't ride in MN anymore -- it's too flat, lol.

 

looks amazing.. i wish we had somthing like that in the Tin cities area.. lol

 

Oh yeah, I got really drunk off of 3 beers at Silverton Mountain's base camp. Alcohol has a pretty strong effect when you are at 11000 feet, hehehe.

 

Hell yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. I knew we were in trouble in Silverton when I was intimidated by the sheer steepness of the path that the lift took (it looked burly, lol).

There were a few spots that we rode where there were 55+ degree sections. Basically with something as steep as that, you can stop on your toeside edge, and stand there and touch the ground. :lol: :lol:

 

haha thatd be sweet. theres a couple of steep slopes at afton.. but i cant even imagine that

 

Yeah, basically riding in the mountains is completely different from here. Everything is SOOOOOO much larger and burlier, it's hard to comprehend until you experience it first hand.

The steepest slope at Afton would probably be an average blue square run out west, but for 2000+ vertical feet, not 350. :lol:

 

yeah and my legs get tired on aftons Black Diamonds.. i honestly cant imagine

 

i wonder where the hmong people are in this one??? oh dang... we're tropical people? wtf are we doing in miinesota then? lol... i've gone snowboaring once, and it screwed me up! hahaha not for the faint of heart! i don't know why but after that one 3 hour session, my neck was stiffer than a pastor's wood after leaving a strip club. ouch! pain i've never endured before!

 

My set up. Straight from the rossi race team. These biotches fly.

 

Afton sux after going there alot. All the runs are to fast. I guess its the best place around the cities though. Best black diamond is sally's valley...can get some good g's. But its over in about 4 seconds. There is a lip where you can pull some serious tricks...however i believe i am starting to get to old for that shiznit.

 

hey tom thats the kind of snow i need this winter, ive been out to michigan and stuff and 7-8 inches of fresh powder one morning was the best ive ever rode on, if we could get some interest in an mnsubaru out west trip i'd be interested for sure if i could get out of work and stuff. we could even talk to some other local clubs for more people if we needed to. if not out west we should at least do a lutsen or michigan weekend, maybe even a couple through the winter. its good to know there is some boarders (and a tinky-winky the skiier) on here, mnbodyman with the silver wagon snowboards too i'm pretty sure, he'll find this thread sooner or later.

 

I have been skiing since i was 10 or so, and boarding since i was about 14. I took it up after skiing became kinda boring here in the midwest. I have been out west many times, but have only boarded Big Sky and Bridger Bowl in Montana. Since I have returned to MN for skiing and boarding.....I find I spend much more time drinking in the chalets talking about what its like out West than actually skiing or boarding. Its just so boring here!!!!! Granted the Ice does keep you on your toes here though- Matt

 

Freakin' newbs!

I have been riding for 17 years! Hell, they didn't even let boards on any ski hills when I started... I competed for one year, as an amateur, back in '91. I was 6th overall in the midwest! 8)

Anyway, I lived in CO for a season, lived in Leadville and worked (for all of 2 months) at Copper Mountain as a lift op. We had Vail season passes that cost $400 if you bought before Halloween (and had a CO license)! We went through 63 kegs between Halloween and New Years in our little 3 bedroom apartment. ...now that is living!

I don't ride too much anymore, too old and too busy! I still have no hair on my left leg just above my ankle from my boots...it is a strange looking bald patch. :shock:

I try to get back out to CO once a season for vacation, but work limited that to 1 day at Winter Park last year... Maybe more this year?

Anyway, back to your regular scheduled program...

 

wow we got a snowboarding pioneer on the board, i'm not such a newb afterall i said 5 years but then i was thinkin about it and this will be my 7th season, and then i started thinkin more and i really suck for having 7 years experience, haha. you know what would be really cool is if we could set somthin up with some nasioc and clubwrx guys out in colorado or utah, i know there is tons of snowboarders on both those forums in those areas, especially salt lake city, park city utah anyone???

 

I have an origional brushie burton board...The one with the fishbone on it. I cant even say how old it is.... befor that a sims switchblade... 87 or 88. I haven't been out skiing or boarding in a while, but I would like to get out this year again.

 

I also enjoy riding, I've only been doing it for about 3 years and I'm not good, but I have fun. I used to ski quite a bit when I was younger and just decided to buy a board after I graduated college. I usually go to Afton also because its close, I haven't been out west but really want to go. I'd be down to ride out at Afton this winter sometime.

Current setup
Board: Ride theory '03-04 159
Bindings: Burton Cartel 04
Boots: Burton Hail

 

I still have my Burton Craig Kelly Slopestyle (171cm) board! I bought it in '90, I believe, and I rode that while I competed... how many people are riding 171s in the halfpipe now? 8) I was 8th overall in the halfpipe (3rd in slopestyle, I think)!

Also, I don't think Brushie had a pro model until the early 90's, buit I could be remembering wrong...


...Just looked it up, first Brushie model was '93...

 

Back then, halfpipes were about the size a country road ditch, lol.

You got me beat by 2 stinking years, Chin. I guess I'm a n00b, also. :lol:

 

i am surprised by the amount of boarder/skiers in this club.

 

well it is minnesota.. other then snomobiling or hockey... maybe drifting in the snow.. people need to find somthing to do outside

 

Are you kidding?! You obviously never rode the pipes at Trollhaugen, Hyland, or Wild Mtn! Back then they were 8-10' high with a foot of vert. I remember one year at Trollhaugen that the walls were about 12' high. No, they are not superpipes, but things have definitely become easier to ride (no vert, big transitions, and Pipe Dragons). 8)

No, you are not really a noob, but many people on here were still in their diapers when I started riding.

 

+1 I am so old I don't get out boarding anymore

 

too bad all of us noobs will be riding well into your rocking chair days

 

...and who said I will have any "rocking chair days"? Although, many of you may be riding long after I am "gone"... :lol:

 

I used to work at a ski lift in VA.

I can get down a hill on a board, slowly, and mostly sideways with the board.

That's about good enough for me. It kills my ankles.

 

been ridin' for 10 years, here's half of my new setup for this year.

 

is that new for this year? got any specs? i cant find any 06 stuff yet