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The Stoked Thread

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snwbrdmilf
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With permission, I have taken this idea from another cult. I think it would be great here.

This is a thread to post what you are totally stoked on. Share with us your happiness.  :)
Sep 10 2007 11:08AM
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iggyskier
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Local tahoe kid (20) got killed today in a inbounds slide at squaw.....

be safe out there.
Dec 25 2008 8:34PM
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SkierX
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Ouch, way to kill the stoked thread.
Dec 25 2008 8:42PM
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iggyskier
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Yeah, it definitely is a downer.

But I would rather kill some stoke than have someone die because they weren't wearing their beacon, inbounds or out.
Dec 25 2008 8:46PM
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wrenegade
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Lack of snow is taking it's toll up here. 2nd person died after hitting rocks in almost as many days here at Whis.
Dec 25 2008 11:29PM
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Ryno
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Nature doesnt take holidays :P


Adam, you aight man? Head ons are kinda dangerous...
Dec 26 2008 8:43AM
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Rogge
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No longer going to Florida with the family. Going to Dew Tour instead. Egg Nog makes people say crazy things. It made my parents say, "You know, we think you should go to Dew Tour. It's a great opportunity. Just cancel your flight to Florida and use it for something else..."

Maybe that's a subtle way of saying they never wanted me to go in the first place but FUCK! at least I got a free plane ticket out of it too!

See you at Mount Snow!
Dec 26 2008 9:39AM
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snwbrdmilf
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Stoked on getting a half day of shredboarding in. Rode the chairlift with some DOPE older skiers...man they had great senses of humor. Gotta love that.
Dec 26 2008 12:31PM
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Bangor
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stoked that the big tit exhaust incident only set me back $20 to bolt the pipe back in to place! whenever I walk out of an auto repair shop having spent less than $100 I'm a hella-happy camper!
Dec 26 2008 1:45PM
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papasteeze
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werd!!!
Dec 26 2008 4:54PM
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thegreyarea
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Yeah. Thankfully, it was only at 15 mph.
Dec 26 2008 8:29PM
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pmills
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i know we've got a lot bigger problems on our hands, so i'm not sure if this is stoke for american intelligence, but stoke for something


Dec 26 2008 9:07PM
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Literature
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Christmas was 10". Yesterday was 12". Today is 6", and still dumping hard as of 6:30.

Powder hounds are out today. Arooooooooooo!
Dec 27 2008 9:44AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Just had a dream where a bunch of hot girls lathered themselves up with soap and clustered around me to get me clean. I have a new goal in life.
Dec 27 2008 12:24PM
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pmills
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i think that means you need to apply for an axe body wash commercial
Dec 27 2008 12:28PM
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freezed
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haha that guy is crazy
Dec 27 2008 3:12PM
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pmills
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 i worked with kids over the summer who thought tag/axe were viable substitutes for showers, i have an idea of how bad that must've been
Dec 27 2008 5:49PM
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crazyfuck
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Holy.
Fucking.
Shit.
Great week!

monday, Les got my christmas gift in the mail- a "Am I gonna have to choke a bitch?" t-shirt- and all were stoked!
tuesday, nothing happened... but then, nothing bad happened. stoked!
wednesday... oh, wednesday. things started out primo when i got my gift from Lesley, as seen on the left...

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that's Lele and Lesley right there... yes, i have two pipes named after poopface. that's not marijuana, for those of you wondering... nope. so, Lesley decided to trump my t-shirt by giving me a beautiful pipe with a HUGE bowl, a tokin skull-and-crossbones padded pouch, a pack of incense, and a Pink Floyd Darkside of the Moon burner. i was fucking floored. seriously, best gift i've received in a looooong time. love ya, Les! (the pipe on the right is one i picked up last summer... my friend suggested i name it after my favorite stripper when i moved out to Vegas. only problem is i can't have an unnamed piece and wasn't going to be in Vegas for a couple months, so i went with the next-best-thing... the name of the baddest bitch i know)

i also ended up with a box of meats and cheeses from my parents and a pair of Oakley JP Auclair Signature Edition Crowbars. christmas had cometh early like whoa. after all the goods arrived, i ran up to LVSSR for my first day on snow. got one resort run before i was booted for using a pass i picked up from some Asian tourists on their way out the parking lot, so i ended up hiking around for a couple hours until dark. stoked!

thursday, skied stupid-dry and light knee-deep all fucking day. second day of my season and one of the deepest, best days i've had in a long time. my body's still bitching at me :) went to the Flamingo afterwards and got fucking obliterated with our favorite waitress.

friday was meh, but i didn't wake up dead, so i can't complain.

so, much thanks to Lesley for basically making my christmas!! i mean, i can't argue with some food, goggs, and a couple days of skiing, but you seriously had me speechless (which doesn't happen often).

oh yeah, and i got another gift in the form of a trip to Tahoe in February... i had originally asked for Hellbents, but decided Sunday that i'd rather meet y'all (Lesley) than have HBs on the right-now.
Dec 27 2008 7:34PM
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Literature
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Scratch the 6". Try waist deep. Dear god it was beautiful.
Dec 27 2008 9:13PM
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SkierX
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Photo stoke from last Monday at Killington...

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Dec 27 2008 11:59PM
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snwbrdmilf
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^ Nice!
Dec 28 2008 12:51AM
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coolhandluke
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imma tree
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Dec 28 2008 1:34AM
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starlightlou
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bought a new fucking car today... holy shit! :)

subaru outback xt

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Dec 28 2008 2:13AM
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starlightlou
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haha it's not a fucking forester... AND it's a turbo... so gimme a break, i love it. :P
Dec 28 2008 2:29AM
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starlightlou
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and unlike most, you really enjoy your job.
Dec 28 2008 3:22AM
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almostaskier
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drooooooooooool.
Dec 28 2008 10:47AM
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snwbrdmilf
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Hell yea on the Suby Linds!
Dec 28 2008 11:07AM
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thegreyarea
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We're renting out the Jay house in 2 days and the fridge has to be empty. None of my roommates are coming up, which means I've got a pile of food and 30 beers to finish on my own. This is definitely up there w/the time I was told I had to finish off 2 kegs of magic hat by 8 am the next day.
Dec 28 2008 7:25PM
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lorida
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^ God speed.


So today at work, I'm putting some last minute catering on a private jet, when Paul Martin came aboard...that's all actually...shit.
Dec 28 2008 11:04PM
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St.Steezy
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I FUCKING BLAZED WITH MY DAD!!

Yes!
Dec 28 2008 11:37PM
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coolhandluke
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got to ski fairly deep snow four days in a row on hellbents, wrenegades, and billygoats.  then i go real job for a couple days, and then a special lady is flying up from sacramento.  life is good.



this is a milk jug full of anfo ducttaped to a hand charge
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this is me shitting my pants after not bowling it very far
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Dec 29 2008 12:41AM
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Holte
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whoah, a full milk jug of anfo?! How big is that blast radius?
Dec 29 2008 5:21AM
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coolhandluke
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http://www.avalanche.org/~education/
Dec 29 2008 9:53AM
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coolhandluke
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fairly big.  i felt the shock wave big time on this one.  even an hour later i could still feel the ringing in my teeth.

i was supposed to place that charge halfway down a slope via "bowling" it and had a rope tied to it so it wouldn't go too far.  except i learned that "bowling" meant lower underhand arc throw, rather than a true bowl.  the latter ended up with the dang thing only 20 feet below me.  and i wallowed in the deep snow up next to a tree.  was still within 50 feet for sure when it went off. 

there's a reason i was on the less dangerous inbounds control runs without much exposure over rocks/cliffs/etc.  just high 30s slopes with windloading over a ridge that would merely slide you into a stash of trees where you'd die from the trauma off the forest-washing-machine.

think on the blasters' license test you're supposed to say 100 feet minimum to a charge detonating. 
Dec 29 2008 10:03AM
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Literature
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Yeah buddy... that's sick.
Dec 29 2008 10:13AM
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Craigskis
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Good summary! Haha you answered all the questions I had from the first post and blast photo, cool story. I didn't know ski patrol enhances there bombs!

Good learning experience for you, I can picture you throwing it, going "Oh Shit" and running for the tree through waist deep powder
Dec 29 2008 12:05PM
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wrenegade
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Deepest pow of the year today at Whis. Not that that is saying much, but still. Ripped it with Billy, and got to try the Billy Goats back to back with my Wrenegades. It was a good day. Shower and nap time now.
Dec 29 2008 7:40PM
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Skipig25
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^ that sounds sick.

bruins and celts are killin' it right now. stoked on that
Dec 29 2008 8:56PM
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coolhandluke
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i will fill this entire page with pictures.

dark and cold
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assembly table:
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first light:
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fearless leader.  "fearless" = im a newbie and he had a broken hand.
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Dec 29 2008 9:33PM
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coolhandluke
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scroll really fast:

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Dec 29 2008 9:39PM
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Bangor
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i probably would have shit myself by the 3rd frame of that sequence, haha
Dec 29 2008 9:50PM
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Literature
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Got to hit the jumps on our jump hill today, and it always feels good.
Dec 29 2008 10:14PM
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Ryno
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i wanted an xbox for Xmas but all i got was a bass and an amp :P

haha

sick though man...what games?
Dec 30 2008 12:14AM
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Literature
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Made muffins, it's snowing, I'm skiing tomorrow, sleeping in my own bed tonight, giving an awesome (and very cute) friend a ride to her job on the mountain for the forseeable future, reading a terrific book (The Best American Essays, 2008, Adam Gopnik editor), and wrote a bit this evening.

Everything is right in my world. Stoked.
Dec 30 2008 2:09AM
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coolhandluke
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someone who speaks cantonese call china and thank the chinamen for inventing gunpowder for me.  im going to go blow up more snow.  avy conditions are unreal in the pnw right now.
Dec 30 2008 7:17AM
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acc
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suprise dump at jay.  sicccck
Dec 30 2008 2:31PM
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MacMahoooon
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Stoked things lined up for a trip to Jay with Harvey this weekend, we haven't skied there together since highschool

Now hopefully it keeps dumping and we'll be good to go!
Dec 30 2008 2:49PM
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almostaskier
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Stoked on the snow stoke.
Dec 30 2008 3:27PM
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coolhandluke
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i blew up a tree this morning
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Dec 30 2008 4:09PM
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Aenigma
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The skiing today was freakin' sweet!  Bridger reported 3" of new overnight, but I was able to get boot-deep on the on3p's up high, so it was probably more like 3" at mid-mountain and 12"+ up high.  We went out to "familiarize" ourselves with the new terrain a bit more, and between three of us pretty much conquered all the lines on the north side.  Me and the guy I usually ski with got some cheers for a fun couloir you have to straightline a ways into, and then another friend put down one of the biggest lines I have ever seen done in person--it won't be repeated anytime soon!

The only unstoke was the huge number of people skiing the massive, exposed peak south of the boundary despite high avalanche danger.  The trigger zone is about 1000 yards wide (but has slid bigger across several peaks) and it always runs top to bottom across the whole mountain.  The weak layer is 2-4' down and we had a pretty big wind event last night, so I spent all my time on the lift waiting to see people die over there...luckily it didn't happen, but it probably will if this keeps up.
Dec 30 2008 7:42PM
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cobra_commander
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Skied with Alex again today, had a great day again, got to ski his great scotts for a run. Good snow all day too.
Dec 30 2008 8:25PM
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