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Jibbed out... Whats your park/ride balance?

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Smilemon
Posts: 421 - Karma: 43
I've been hittin rails in my front yard for the last 9 days with no breaks. I just feel cramped up hiking the same stuff over and over again, but my friends are mostly all park freaks. I'm new to the park and still love to feel the wind in my hair on the black diamonds. I was just wondering how you guys spend your time on the mountain, is it all park, or do you go and shred it up on the runs pretty often too?
Feb 11 2009 4:21PM
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unchyll
Posts: 4554 - Karma: 96
My favorite part of skiing is just screwing around on groomers, butters, log jibs, tree taps, gaps, all those lil nig nags
Feb 11 2009 4:23PM
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MoistAbode
Posts: 1132 - Karma: 37
definately my fav. part, but its best when you do this on your way TO the park
Feb 11 2009 4:27PM
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Travapple.
Posts: 6787 - Karma: 88
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Feb 11 2009 4:30PM
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Aaaron.
Posts: 11817 - Karma: 903
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Feb 11 2009 4:31PM
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CBROOKS
Posts: 4979 - Karma: 10,708
Im not going to lie... I could hike a flat rail or a flat down or a down all day if I had the energy
Feb 11 2009 4:32PM
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Malcolm
Posts: 15951 - Karma: 9,451
yeah me too. i just get so fucking tired
Feb 11 2009 4:34PM
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.Asain-Skiier
Posts: 3708 - Karma: 977
park and fooling around being a hood rat
Feb 11 2009 4:37PM
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Smilemon
Posts: 421 - Karma: 43
God that sounds nice, best of both worlds in one run. Some of the places I've been in colorado are like that, but nothing here in squarebanks
Feb 11 2009 4:38PM
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oldskewl
Posts: 457 - Karma: 10
when its pow I ski Pow. Skied it the past several days - took today off cuz 'm wiped out from hitting the pow hard. I'll be back in the park tomorrow (unless I hit the BC)
Feb 11 2009 4:45PM
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Ryno
Posts: 31125 - Karma: 336
around 10% in park, 90% outta the park.

People seem to forget how much fun shit is located OUTSIDE of the park :P
Feb 11 2009 4:48PM
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ginty
Posts: 1073 - Karma: 163
then of course my mtn its a bout 100 ft from the lift to the park b/c the park has its own lift haha, so theres usually 1-2 runs a day out of the park...going to get lunch, beginning of day / end of day
Feb 11 2009 4:48PM
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skithesprings
Posts: 9086 - Karma: 1,349
i love pow, however, i dont get any, so i just ride the park, a lot....
Feb 11 2009 4:50PM
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mizzike
Posts: 1386 - Karma: 251
Sometimes i just go out on my race skis and haul ass all day. Its super fun to make fast huge turns down the hill
Feb 11 2009 4:55PM
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jibgilmon
Posts: 662 - Karma: 43
I put on my full tilts and rossi bandits and cruise the moguls...

jk, i know its over....

I normally take a warm up run just cruisin a groomer or a steep run, then i mess around on the way to the park and stay there jst about all day
Feb 11 2009 4:59PM
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baethoven
Posts: 4953 - Karma: 332
when im at my home mountain Wilmot (acutally its literaly a trash heap in Wisconsin) i only ski park cause the groomed runs are like 20 seconds long, but when i go out west i spend most of my time skiing trees, bowls, groomers ect.. and only spend like an hour or two in the park.
Feb 11 2009 5:00PM
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blindside
Posts: 5619 - Karma: 1,199
I ride park.

I love jibbing around on stuff, but I do that in the park when I feel like it...no pow here....i love pow though...
Feb 11 2009 5:04PM
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jibgilmon
Posts: 662 - Karma: 43
whoa dude y dont u go in the regional forums at all? i work at wilmot lol... im the kid with the all white suit and the 155cm skis lol
Feb 11 2009 5:33PM
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baethoven
Posts: 4953 - Karma: 332
long hair?
Feb 11 2009 5:51PM
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jfletcher
Posts: 1208 - Karma: 188
the best part about skiing is doing hoodrat stuff with my friends
Feb 11 2009 5:52PM
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cfox
Posts: 2286 - Karma: 38
Feb 11 2009 5:59PM
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Where-am-I
Posts: 1635 - Karma: 281
yeah, that and the deep stuff is what its all about, everyonce and a while i'll make  lap through the park, but i couldn't stand to hike it all day
Feb 11 2009 6:10PM
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i.ski.troll.
Posts: 4692 - Karma: 247
100% park. i only dont ski park if im trying to get to the park.
Feb 11 2009 6:11PM
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jibgilmon
Posts: 662 - Karma: 43
hell ya its the metal head wit really long hair
Feb 11 2009 6:17PM
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Drail
Posts: 14012 - Karma: 10,010
30% backcountry
60% in bounds (off piste - trees, steeps, and cliffs)
10% park

this year though my touring set up has been acting up on me. First my Marker Duke's broke, then my JJ's delamed. Combine that with a severe lack of snowfall in the region and I'd say currently my season has consisted of 40% park so far. Tomorrow morning I am picking my JJ's up from the shop and finally going out for a skin (it's been almost a month since my last tour)... so that 40% will drop over the next couple weeks.
Feb 11 2009 6:20PM
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Yung_Gnarley
Posts: 9092 - Karma: 3,022
i ski park on any day the weather is nice and the lift line on A51 is not ridiculous. If i'm not skiing park, I ski greens and sometimes a blue. It's not that i can't ski a double-black. I just don't want to exert that much energy. I'm a lazy ass g.
Feb 11 2009 6:33PM
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Drail
Posts: 14012 - Karma: 10,010
being lazy is not something you should be proud of.
Feb 11 2009 6:38PM
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blindside
Posts: 5619 - Karma: 1,199
you have the opportunity to ride Keystone, get your ass in the fucking park or go hike some bowls right now or I will burn down your house you ungrateful FUCK!!
Feb 11 2009 7:45PM
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Crack.
Posts: 6020 - Karma: 84
not gonna lie i'm about 98% park....bristol doesn't offer much
Feb 11 2009 7:47PM
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PhaedeD
Posts: 11498 - Karma: 327
a 90 foot back country booter is idealy where i would like to spend all my time
Feb 11 2009 7:48PM
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WhoWantIt
Posts: 395 - Karma: 26
I like to mix it up a little bit. I ski Squaw so I'm super lucky to ski at a mountain where the park isn't the only sick option. On pow days I won't go near the park. On cloudy days where the snow is good I probably won't hit the park either. But on sunny days I like to take a few warm up runs and then make my way over to the park and stay there most of the day. If you are lucky enough to ski at a resort where there is more than just park you should take advantage of it.
Feb 11 2009 7:57PM
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s.bishop
Posts: 665 - Karma: 26
this on the way to the park like already said, or rippin some woods and/or blacks on the way to the park, depends on the day, at smuggs, the park is at the very bottom so most runs come out to it.
Feb 11 2009 8:04PM
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EvanMeyer
Posts: 3822 - Karma: 3,447
riding switch like a mad man and going through some trees on my way to the park
Feb 11 2009 8:12PM
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SV420
Posts: 242 - Karma: 10
I only ride park before and after Squaw is open.
Feb 11 2009 8:15PM
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TaylorSwift
Posts: 71 - Karma: 10
just standing around and looking glamorous is fab
Feb 11 2009 8:16PM
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Krook3d
Posts: 240 - Karma: 21
GTFO
Feb 11 2009 8:16PM
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joey.
Posts: 2087 - Karma: 3,337
95% park i wish i could ski pow
Feb 11 2009 8:17PM
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Brows.
Posts: 1497 - Karma: 13
ny...
Feb 11 2009 8:17PM
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Squid.
Posts: 1904 - Karma: 23
I could hike a fun rail/ box all day. I'm in pretty good shape from football season, so I just bang reps out like its my job. If I start to sweat, I unzip my jacket, kill some groomer, then zip up again and go back to the park.
Feb 11 2009 8:20PM
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stonedTEX
Posts: 256 - Karma: 31
I call Bullshit I am the laziest MoFo I know and I get bored as shit if I have to be on blues all day, I mean you can only straight line and carve huge GS turns on a 30-20 pitch so long before you need something more.
That said me
30% groomers with the fam
30% in the seeps
30% chasing the pow wherever that might be
10% in the park I want to up that to 30% but hey I just started hitting jumps this year
Feb 11 2009 8:22PM
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sirskizalot
Posts: 4370 - Karma: 161
90%park, maby a little more
Feb 11 2009 8:23PM
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stonedTEX
Posts: 256 - Karma: 31
What happened to the dukes?  I have been thinking of getting a pair with all the sales out there right now.
Feb 11 2009 8:26PM
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Ickis
Posts: 376 - Karma: 119
Jay Peak is my home so like:
60% off-piste
30% whatever else i feel like that day
5% outer/out-of bounds
5% park because it's so shitty

anywhere else it's like 50/50 park and normal runs
Feb 11 2009 8:36PM
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BootySpunk.
Posts: 8148 - Karma: 84
In Indiana:
70% Park
30% Screwing around on groomers
Feb 11 2009 8:53PM
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Jamestown
Posts: 4002 - Karma: 51
so your skiing goal is 120%?
omg, teach me!
Feb 11 2009 9:04PM
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Broha-X-Press
Posts: 758 - Karma: 59
or fooling around sith oodrats in the park?  haha jk
Feb 11 2009 9:07PM
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Smilemon
Posts: 421 - Karma: 43
I def miss the speeds I used to get on race skis. My twins are pretty slow, I can't even catch my telemarker dad... I have to get out there on my board if I really want to hall.
Feb 11 2009 11:18PM
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MatRich
Posts: 4789 - Karma: 1,813
I usualy hike a rail until im at the point where im shaking because im so hungry tired... other than that im laping the park. if im on the hill then it means that the park is closed and im hot doggin it with some homies.
Feb 11 2009 11:30PM
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jblaski
Posts: 5566 - Karma: 1,078
Well, I ride in WI, so 45 second groomers aren't that fun, and powder isn't realistic. So that being said, 95% of my riding is in the park. Plus, I'm the park supervisor so I'm required to be in the park :)  

But (I'm a boarder) I take pride in being able to ride any run switch (remember: WI) and I am solid in the moguls, which most of these lame ass park rats would be pissing themselves if they accidentally found themselves in. 
Feb 11 2009 11:32PM
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Chickendodo
Posts: 1426 - Karma: 33
99% Park.  1% bunny trails because of stupid snowboarders and their goddamn flatland.
Feb 11 2009 11:33PM
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