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D.C., building a booter today, Tuesday 2/9

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reediculouS
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If anyone wants to help build a small jump today in DC, a buddy and I are going to dick around with it.  Any suggestions on location would be appreciated.  My thought is on the grassy hill next to the Rock Creek Parkway at Calvert.
Feb 9 2010 11:12AM
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Nooschoolers
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no
Feb 9 2010 11:26AM
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TWoods
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hahah, so illll

post pics later.
Feb 9 2010 11:40AM
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Twinjibber77
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Pics or it didn't happen
Feb 9 2010 11:41AM
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Aaaron.
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we are getting hammered with snow. but my skis were stolen last weekend.
Feb 9 2010 11:43AM
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TimmyK
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Anyone remember the post bout the exorcist rail, down in g-town, or be sick to get some vid with background of the lincoln memorial or capital building.
Feb 9 2010 11:48AM
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Nooschoolers
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post in regionals
Feb 9 2010 11:49AM
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heFF
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YESS!!! that is so sick
Feb 9 2010 12:10PM
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atomic1824
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pics!
Feb 9 2010 12:15PM
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skiierman
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best part is that all the snow is killing off the homeless!
Feb 9 2010 12:29PM
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reediculouS
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Rescheduled for tommorrow morning.  How technical is the g-twon rail?

Anybody have shovels we can borrow?
Feb 9 2010 8:08PM
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.SimonB.
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building as big of a booter as possible outside DC in germantown. ive got a nice meadow with a natural knuckle
Feb 9 2010 8:12PM
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Sulli
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god DC can you give new England like 6 inches im tired of seeing the ground
Feb 9 2010 8:26PM
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sol.
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this.

an additional note: apparently my cousins who live right outside of DC had last Wednesday, last Friday, and all of this week off.     Jealous rage fills my soul
Feb 9 2010 9:00PM
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kdyce
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ya my cousins used to attend school in Gaithersburg (outside DC) and they used to have the day off of scholl if there was only a few inches on the ground. They would even send kids home early at the prospect of more than 3 inches.
Feb 9 2010 9:49PM
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Peter.
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hahah YES

i know the TC Crew was down there a few days ago, hopefully they got some bangers
Feb 9 2010 9:51PM
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PeterWojnar
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My threads. I want to see how this turns out.
Feb 9 2010 9:52PM
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1337
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meathead films has moved its headquarters to DC because burlington was just not putting out for them. It has been what, a month since we last got snow in northern NE?
Feb 9 2010 9:56PM
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speightphoto
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ive been off all week. half day last friday, no school this week, no school monday.
cannot complain
Feb 9 2010 10:53PM
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reediculouS
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heading down to the mall now, email me if you want to meet up and scope out some urban...we'll take pics of what we find
Feb 10 2010 4:44PM
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ski_DC
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exorcist rail is one of the most burly rails i have ever seen. really steep, real fast. There is a column that is very very close to the rail, you would have to switch up around it to clean it, which would be close to impossible. I'd kill to be back home now, maine has shit for snow now. So much virgin urban in DC too, its unreal
Feb 10 2010 5:00PM
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reediculouS
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ok ski_dc and the rest of ya. here they are, the product of 4hrs and a lot of walking.  the booter didnt materialize because of lack of shovels, they're about as easy to find right now as a cheap rose on valentine's day.  hope you all like, possibly more to come, we scoped a lot of stuff tonight

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Feb 11 2010 12:37AM
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Noss.
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so sick, nice pics
Feb 11 2010 12:39AM
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El_Barto.
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first pic is so dope
Feb 11 2010 12:40AM
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jerad
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Those are sick pictures man!
Feb 11 2010 12:41AM
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Funnel
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SO SICK! Nice work man. What an epic claim that makes for.
Feb 11 2010 12:42AM
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1337
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very very nice dude, backgrounds are epic
Feb 11 2010 12:46AM
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assface
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sicknasty
Feb 11 2010 12:54AM
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grambo
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You should submit the pics on TGR I bet they will put em on the website in a blog post or something.
Feb 11 2010 4:24AM
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FridayFrothys
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Looks super fun, backgrounds are sick!!
Feb 11 2010 5:43AM
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*TURBONERD*
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lol
Feb 11 2010 7:02AM
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VT_scratch
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Ya I'm lookin forward to these
Feb 11 2010 7:21AM
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parkskier
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Umm....you realize they are like 10 posts up, right?

Anyways, sweet pics.  Definitely digging the one with the Capitol.
Feb 11 2010 7:41AM
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Twinjibber77
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If you had a better camera those would be so HAWTTTTT, still sick as hell. Props.
Feb 11 2010 8:19AM
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Aaaron.
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he doesn't need a better camera, he needs light.
if you could get 2 strobes and an onboard flash and bump that iso down, those would be ILL
Feb 11 2010 8:39AM
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hanksy
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aaaron, who uses an onboard flash anymore? take that flash and use it as a ringlight

this is hank btw
Feb 11 2010 9:31AM
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mike_e
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Fuck yeah. I live half an hour outside of dc and my friends and i would love to hit some handrails in dc but we've been too busy hitting all the spots around here.
Feb 11 2010 9:38AM
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Aaaron.
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gtfo.
2 vivitar 285s + a nice onboard flash would light that trick up so nice
Feb 11 2010 10:59AM
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.SimonB.
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i popped at least 4 virgin rails' cherries this past week in the greater DC area
Feb 11 2010 11:20AM
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Mr.Huck
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Epic win!!!!!
Feb 11 2010 11:20AM
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DirtyMick
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YES.

Well done. Full of win.

The landmarks in the background make the shots.
Feb 11 2010 11:42AM
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PeterNorth
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i bet dc is so dope with snow, soooo many hand rails
Feb 11 2010 11:47AM
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reediculouS
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A better setup would have been helpful.  We were shooting with my Cannon SD880-IS point and shoot.  The 1600 ISO made them really grainy but I couldn't bump it down and use the flash for a couple reasons.  It was snowing fairly hard and the flash was picking up every single flake; second, with the flash, the camera only takes a shot every second or so in continuous dive mode.  Tragic, cause it really would have brightened up the foreground.

The issue with the memorial pics was backlighting.  We were shooting from under a bridge into a bright-ish sky.

Thanks for the comments
Feb 11 2010 12:07PM
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Aaaron.
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when i read that my mind skipped over "rails" and i was like DO WORK SIMON.

but seriously, this time next week i'll be on the watchlifes. there will still be snow, so i say we go out to break them in alittle bit.
Feb 11 2010 12:36PM
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reediculouS
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I'll join you Aaaron. let me know when you've got your gear and want to start beating it up a bit
Feb 11 2010 2:29PM
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MoistAbode
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my threads for later
Feb 11 2010 2:58PM
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skithedirt
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.
Feb 11 2010 3:22PM
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VT_scratch
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efff yall.


mobile NS is lacking pictures as of now haha
Feb 11 2010 3:40PM
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ReetsAdeets
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Somebody jib the White House
Feb 11 2010 3:44PM
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brakes
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this
Feb 11 2010 5:52PM
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Zvarenza_724
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 Obama would come out and ski with you    haha
Feb 11 2010 7:13PM
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