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No poles popularity - East Coast vs. West Coast
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What do you guys think? Is riding with no poles more popular on the East Coast than the West Coast. I recently got out to Oregon (riding Mt. Bachelor for a week) and I saw more no poles riders than anywhere I've ever seen. So serious question, is no poles more popular on the West Coast than the East Coast? Am I just crazy? This IS NOT a debate about no poles, nor is it a debate about EC vs. WC, its just a serious question about your own observations when riding. It seems like the West Coast crew was more heavily influenced by Idea than the East coasters.
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We got a few out west, but only while hitting jumps and stuff, and goofing off around the mountain.
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i went to the east for a week over christmas and i notcied way more kids with no poles then here in Colorado
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Its certainly more of a west coast thing, and more specifically a predominantly PNW thing. Oregon and Washington has more no pole action than most people can not shake a pole at.
Hood, Bachelor, Snoqualmie, Stevens, Baker, all with its fair share of no poles, and has its roots of no pole for quite some time
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I think it varies also from where in the east and west coast you are talking about.\
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yea i ski at hood and batchelor...sometimes without poles but only when i'm just messing around it looks kind of goofy on film and in pictures unless your really good at it
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pretty sure the MIDWEST is going to claim this one... see we dont have powder or snything fun to do except little groomers and park so we never have poles or need them.
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i saw two girls in the lift line with no poles yesterday, but before then i probably havent seen anybody with no poles all year.
i'm west coast...sort of
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pretty sure 99% of ns have only skied in their west or east homes so it's kind of hard for a discussion like this to really go off.
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the PNW is home to the two "pioneers" of no poling and the two most successful ones at that, pollard and mahre. I would think that would make a difference, but i would probably no pole if i were out east because it seems like much less serious skiing.
Now with Idea, you go to Mt.Baker and see a dozen kids on reverse camber and no poles on huge pow days. last year in whistler it was only random people when they were fucking around or learning lame double grabs
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ehh...maybe not. west coast kids give their opinion, east coast's give theres. then compare i guess. but there would still be holes and all the midwest and colorado kids are left out...
my brother rides no poles although mainly the people i see riding no poles are in the 13-14 range and prbly think its some cool fad.
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Garrett Russell is really holding it down for west coast no pole shredding.
It seems like there is a lot of no poles at northstar.
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so many kids are riding without poles in tahoe. but it's kind of faddish here right now. i don't think it will stick.
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Schweitzer kids use poles but I went to Big Sky and the majority of kids were without poles
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Lol,, huge dis on east coast skiing
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soo many kids at stevens pass in Washington rock no poles. would def say its more of a west coast thing
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yeah Pollard and Mahre definitely influence the PNW a lot. There are tons of kids at hood who ride no poles. A lot of people will just leave their poles at the top of the park and take a run without them and pick them up the next run or something.
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i see more do it every day i go out, it seems like. myself included alot of the time
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The NW is filled with them little bastards. They run the place up/over here. It's horrible
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i think is just the mountains not the hole coast. I rock no poles some times in the park but like 75% of the time in pow
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i see maybe one no poler a day, sometimes go days without seeing any
east coast that is
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no dis. i'm just saying cruising around skiing park doesn't require poles. Skiing steep exposed lines with death around you does.
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yeah i have noticed that like half the people with hellbents have no polls. especially if they have a one peice with hellbents, then its 100% no polls.
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def a PNW thing, but it really depends on the conditions. If its a super nice, blue sky day you'll see alot more no poles. If its a mad sick pow day chances are you'll see mainly poles or if your charging some lines you've got some poles. Seriously, if you rocking it down a line of moguls its much easier with poles, atleast I find..
But on another note, one of the differences between westcoast skiers and eastcoast skiers is... our pickiness of conditions to ski. Cough.. especially us PNWers'. We are all guilty of this., c'mon. If its blizzarding out and conditions are "shitty" we'll sit inside and complain. And wait till the conditions become perfect again. We've grown up with pow and it doesn't even matter to us. Yet, when an eastcoaster comes out there are so stoked on life and the amount of snow they'll ski anything. Atleast thats what I've observed.. We are also little bitches about ice out here too...
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This man speaks the truth.
I also find myself rocking no poles in the afternoon more than the morning. Not sure what correlation there is with that one...
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thats what i do
nopoles is so much more fun in the park
but i love my poles everywhere else
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eh, i notice that too for sure, but at the same time it depends on the person. I am from the west and ski every day that there's a lift running and I can make it up to the mountain.
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Pretty sure that the quality of "all - mountain" type skiing has very little to do with how many people use poles.
No poles skiers are way more common in SLC area and MT than in Summit County, even though the all mountain skiing is way better in MT and UT than CO.
I think it has to do with what the respected locals do at any given resort. It also might have to do with the contest scene.
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naw dude i ride bachelor sometimes and thats like a place where lots use no poles its weird. here at hood there is like 2 or 3 who use no poles. bachelor just has its own thing. no poles is tight though
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its all about the bamboo uni-pole, lets you high jump to fuck if you rn't guna make a jump
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Mang idk what you Mt. hood dawgs are talking about. Maybe im just not checkin other dudes outs, but i hardly ever see peeps without poles. Just 5 year old girls learning to ski. Ill check it out Thursday when i go up.
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Lots of people ride no poles at shasta now, at leaste park type skiers. In tahoe there were a lot of kids not using poles either. I hurt my thumb, so I havent been riding with poles, and don't really mind. I don't like spinning big off of big jumps without poles, but I'm getting old anyways. Ive gotten used to not using them, and it almost feels clunky to carry them around now. If there were any more powder days to worry about, I would try to use them, but its just spring conditions and its a party anyways, so whatever.
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way too many people roll without poles out west... shits getting ridic
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What a screwed up thing to say. When it is "blizzarding", that means it is dumping, and that means get your ass out the door and get some turns. Pure and simple.
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probably half the skiers at MSLM are poleless
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pcs got a few no pollers.
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i think its a more of a non colorado or utah thing to go with poles b/c you can ski pow and they have some sick jumps
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^ i mean more of those states go with poles
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my mountains got a few of no polers, maybe 5 or so local people, myself included occasionally. oh and i'm east coast.
when i went out to colorado last year, i didn't see anyone rocking no poles. although this was before idea came out, which seemed to have a big impact...
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yeah, it may not have started here but it deff is pretty popular
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I notice that also happening here fairly frequently. Big Boulder Park. It helps to drop the poles to learn grabs. Then pick them back up to perfect it.
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either way.. i hope the trend dies as fast as skiblades.
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hahah yeah, we're retarded
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I have never been to the west for skiing and I hardly ever go to different mountains than my home mountain, where I've seen one other kid ride without poles, and I do just because one of my poles broke a while ago and I'm too cheap to get another pair. I usually just borrow rentals, but soemtimes there aren't any left. Also I've seen at most 3 people riding without poles at other hills I've been to in the East, but I really don't pay that much attention to whether someone has them or not.
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seems like there's been a bit of a no pole revolution at stowe this year to me, not sure how indicative of the rest of the east coast that is
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brighton UT has a ton of good no polers.... alot of them kill it with no poles outside of the park.... i even saw a no pole guy on tele's on a pow day
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not really... Im real wierd. When the weather is gnarly and windy and intense I get even more fired up to ski.
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I see >5 everyday at Baker.
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yeah, TONS of kids at brighton with hellbents and no poles.
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