I love Gapicski because... - Page 3

Ha! There are tons of those. And I can see them getting old quick (luckily they have their own forum). Though after spending a week reading the old ones I just added to the pile. The problem with resort select threads is of course that every group, skier, whatever, has different budgets, needs, ability levels, interests. Unlike boot threads (which going to, I dunno, a bootfitter would solve) you're mining for some semi-local knowledge about places that is difficult to mine from a trail map and Expedia. If you simply look at "Which is best" you're likely to get a grab bag of opinions that seldom ask "For whom?" Backcountry access and bowls probably aren't high up on a family ski trip list. And sure that guy had a great time but was he skiing Greens, Blues, Blacks? Hell we probably have differing definitions of "night life".

But I digress - the real reason we can't have the SEARCH JONG action is that the search here rather blows. Glad I got 3 threads with no replies from 2002. Very relevant, helpful. Then again I find TGR's to be not much better but that doesn't stop them. I'm glad Epicski folk continue to be helpful, tolerant rather than playing to a crowd of 20 who do little else than sit on that board like many places do. Sucks having to apologize for missing the link from a discussion 5 years ago that shows up on page 8 of the search. (I do think that sticky threads could help keep the noise down though)

That's why I love Epicski - because there's none of that BS and the crowd seems to be all over the place. You can ask a question about skiing with kids for the first time, or get in arguments about traverse manners for weeks on end. It's a fun grab bag.

wow, 

was that a personal attack? (edit- directed to ecimmortal.)

If you took offense to me calling out the 2011 thread, then I apologize. But, you're not the only one who cuts/pastes around here. Stick around for a bit longer than 7 months/111 posts and you'll learn some patterns. Heck, you'll even learn how many of us actually do frequent both boards- negating the need for duplicating threads. Maybe you'll also learn that most of us read more than we post. 

I guess I was trying to make the point that people on TGR don't duplicate threads from Epic. That trend is quite unique to this place. 

But beware of arguments as mods come in and pm people about personal attacks. 

It's like 2007 all over again, except Jer and I are over the lack of a sarcasm meter in most inter-dweebs and admit we'd likely enjoy ripping the same lines. I'd probably even break trail and then give him first drop because he'd do the same for me next lap. Which is assuming he's actually trying to traverse on his Praxii. (which I know he hates.) 

Where the F is HighwayStar? 

I have a story that is akin to good hearted Jer roasting.

I was riding Shirley Chair with a man in his late 30s, Katana's, tastefully dressed, good gear. He pointed out to some damp powder on part of the hill and said:

Mashed Potatoes.
I said:
more, whipped cream I'd say.

he said:
more KY
and smiled.

I thought: Okaaaaaay.........and then an afterthought:  I wonder if this guy is Jer?  He's pretty funny anyhow.

 

I wouldn't know, was all I said.

And the opportunity to turn my life upside down passed like a melting snowflake, (pun intended)

Hey Dav, I almost dropped off the earth, but then I had a daughter and learned how easy it is to completely ignore all those things in life that once got to me. Like epic junk-show arguments.  I blame it on the whiskey that got me through grad school. 

Lots of Pow here in JP, too blizzardy for photos though. And still about half the amount you have lingering in your sky at the moment. Have you dug your path out of your igloo yet? 

I saw your quiver shot and gained a pretty enormous perspective. Props to your selections over the last decade.  

well, it wasn't me...I would have said Astro-Glide

awesome about your daughter. best!

we are in blizzard mode here for sure, post control slides, re-bombing mid day, lots of good windbuff.

there is an igloo story. these guys built a little dome out of logs in a grove on Oly over the summer. knotched post and beam and all, still pretty funky. So now it has a couple feet of snow on it. It's a nice shelter in a storm. But I will feel more comfortable when the snow consolidates and supports itself. Will it become strong? Not exactly an igloo. I'd hate to be sitting in there and have it collapse on my head, in-bounds beacon and all. It's a no win: surive=embarassment / suffocate=drag.  Like a guy I heard talking to the girl in the grocery store. Seems he has a house in Tahoe for skiing, and a house on the Russian River for summer. He was complaining: If it dumps like they say it could he has great skiing in Tahoe, but his summer house on the river floods. He's between a flood and a mountain. Is that like betting wrong in craps? 

but I've forgotten any igloo reference.

when the hill is skiing big and fat, any day now, out come the LP's. Old school only until the S-7's go on sale.  In the KT line today, before opening, I could look in a circle around me and see more rockered and reverse camber than trad skis.

A good ski day:
Hot creamy coffee in a tall glass driving to the hill on silent packed powder. There is fresh snow in the trees.
End of day endorfins, dig out the car and sip what is now ice coffee while the engine warms up.

And ya gotta' love Epic, where ya can kinda' ramble in your mind.

Hey, you're not Jer. you can't pull the wool over my eyes.

It's like when I posted in a thread about long underwear. It was regarding New Zealand smartwool: I agreed. New Zealand really does have the softest sheep.......uh, oh!

I think there's an inverse ratio of anger to snowpack here, perhaps someone can provide a graphic or something.

I'm feeling mellow. We have a lot.

Jer - apparently you've never read bikeforums.net.

Epic seems rational, friendly, and filled with wisdom and intelligence in comparison.

  I always hang out on bike-forums for a few weeks at the start of outdoor cycling season.  And after reading a few posts, I can't remember why.

 i come for the free donuts.

Hayden Panettiere is so hot!

I already used the phrase "hucking my meat" in another post, it seems more appropriate here now.

If she'd only taught Sonny not to gnar the shed  what a difference she could have made. She is definitely Pre Madonna.

Cher looks like something straight out of Madame Tussaud's. 

I wasn't surprised to read that the present "Cher" is a preproduction model of a Terminator Model 101. Plans are to send her back in time to kill Sonny and "herself" and spare us the memories of watching their show on TV.

I hope this also removes the image of her in black assless chaps on a navy ship that is the root of countless sleepless nights. < pretend he's trying to sleep and is screaming instead of laughing

It's funny that I've read the term "assless chaps" in two different threads in two different forums today.

In the other one it was duly noted that assless chaps is redundant - chaps by default are assless.

But that's past history.

This is true, as I am an avid motorcycle rider and have wondered before if there were chaps with asses.  However, people that wear assless chaps ride harleys, which means there still is an ass there.  Also, I think it is appropriate to say assless chaps, especially on the world wide web, where a chap could be an individual from a European country.  Also, saying assless chaps is more fun. 
The more relavant redundancy that I saw as a Californian was hearing the Sierra mountains

So true.



So do I!



Homemade donuts?


I love epic ski because of all the amazing people here.  I just ignore the rest of the stuff.
 

     TGR is just a continual frat party on the interwebz.

Kevin.   Great lst Post.

Post of the year.

(so far)

Who is the Pcad of Epic?

Good question.  And long live Pcad.

So we’re looking for a bombastic, know-it-all last word type that truly believes the site would fail if not for their involvement in each topic.  Hmmm… notwithstanding that Pcad is truly a one of a kind persona, I do consider a few folks here at epic would match up well 

Who?

 

We know already

 

Edited by DonDenver - 1/21/10 at 8:37am

Rio said Montana had the softest........

There's also Pcad's propensity to seize any opportunity to post pictures of himself in spandex. 
And the self-aggrandizing self-loathing.

Anyway...

The other thing I like about bikeforums is Botto's one-word beat-down: "Incorrect."  And how they all sound like a bunch of neurotic, anorexic pre-teens when they compare how much they weigh. 

Beautiful.  

Spot on!

Epic’s few blowhards, internet skiers, techno quiver fanatics, turn PhDs and hotbox crowd have nothing on just the ‘weight weenie’ segment at bf.

As I like to think before I blow my fuse reading some outlandish shyte posted by one of the characters; these forums are a living cartoon…enjoy your subscription and don’t forget to tip the paperboy each year

 

Q. What do you call a guy standing on a corner in Bozeman, MT, with a sheep under each arm ??

A. pimp.