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Davidchiuda
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just want to hear some ill stories so just post funnest,best, sickest experience w.e you want, mabye even a couple of bad ones but not to much negativity please :)


I will start.pretty much just today learning side flips, backs,fronts and cork 5's, and 7's(7 wasnt to down so i wouldnt count it and five was because i was attempting 7 and under rotated), with chris turpin, Tanner Hall and Jf Houle at D-Slpash. It was so sick there was only three of us in the weekend camp so we got alot of attention from the coaches Chris turpin was an extremely good coach( same with everyone else but i spent most of the time with him ) and probably taught me more about skiing then i have ever learned in my whole life it was so fun and was a great experience. I was especially stoked because i have never attempted flips on skis before and got most of these tricks almost perfect in two days of camp. :)

Aug 8 2010 10:20PM
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Uncle.Badness
Posts: 2545 - Karma: 55
Probably my first switch 5, which was grabbed blunt, nbd or anything...
Aug 8 2010 10:28PM
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RyCo19
Posts: 365 - Karma: 503
Well my best was the first time I claimed. The feeling was amazing!

No but seriously, congrats, that sounds dope.
Aug 8 2010 10:35PM
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Skittle.
Posts: 2537 - Karma: 718
threads

Aug 8 2010 10:35PM
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Chubz.
Posts: 13918 - Karma: 25,664
The first time i clicked boots into ski bindings i remember that sound like it was yesterday.
Aug 8 2010 10:38PM
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Ducky.
Posts: 5811 - Karma: 1,420
Skiing Whistler backcountry on April 1st of this year. Waist deep pow, 15 footers everywhere, and monster pillows. It was a dreamland(:
Aug 8 2010 10:39PM
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joshua
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Pow days are always sick because I usually only get 1-2 a year. Other than that my first 360, bindsoul, A-frame, and pond skim. Was pretty stoked on all those.
Aug 8 2010 10:44PM
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Felix..TG
Posts: 425 - Karma: 273

yeah I saw you today on the ramp being coached by like 3 of the top freeskiers. Not alot of places can gives you 3 coaches for a day on water ramps. best combo.

Aug 8 2010 10:50PM
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JahJahBinks
Posts: 3567 - Karma: 461
Every single time I click in.
Aug 8 2010 10:52PM
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Melvs
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-Pow days at Alpine Meadows with my closest friends. Just deep pow, no lines, traversing and skiing until your dead and then skiing some more.

-Warm blue bird days working in the AM park with perfect jumps and a solid rail line and there is no one but you and a couple friends for hours at a time.

-Poaching and watching Level 1 jumps this spring, with permission...
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-Ripping with an OG in the game and friends on a few sub-par days, getting shown to natural lips and stashes that even after 5 years skiing at AM none of us my friends really knew of.

-The run after helping push a ski patrol sled out of Munchies because it was so deep they couldn't ride it in the flats. This photo isn't from that day but you get the idea...
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-The Smith shoot that my boy Pete (and me because I'm standing there) got the centerfold in the Powder photo annual, wasn't that great of a jump but how the fuck can that not be one of the best days ever (see below)?

Photo by Greg Martin:
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Life has been good the past few years...
Aug 8 2010 10:52PM
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Skittle.
Posts: 2537 - Karma: 718
clicking into skis for the first time of the season. first time landing a 5. setting coark and stomping it.
Aug 9 2010 12:40AM
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ferrariowner123
Posts: 1623 - Karma: 28
these two days

Its not me, with the helmet cam, but i was right behind him for most of the shots



Credit to GHSTRCN
Aug 9 2010 12:47AM
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DG.3
Posts: 794 - Karma: 288
last day of skiing with my local freeride club in april, did my first backflip off a windlip, spun 3s off some 10-15 footers, and the biggest cliff (35 ft) and deepest turns of my life.
Aug 9 2010 1:02AM
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Get.Kronk
Posts: 2543 - Karma: 226
two years ago at silverton for the first time. my dad secretly got all three of us (me, dad, brother) one heli drop. it was windy so we couldn't go far, but it was sick nonetheless. and also, at the end of that day, at like 5, as the sun was starting to set, our guide took those of us that wanted up to one shoot that had been untouched for an entire week (it had been storming all week) and i got first tracks. on the pontoons i was renting. i fucking went back to my racing days and flew down this thing. it was about a 1000 vertical run and i bombed it, in a foot and a half of light pow, with the sun setting, with the most magnificent mountains in the world around me. (youd agree if youve ever been to silverton.)
Aug 9 2010 1:10AM
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jibbinc.
Posts: 3355 - Karma: 2,497
The perfect k-fed off a DFD
a feeling like no other
Aug 9 2010 1:23AM
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ChocolateMilk.
Posts: 1129 - Karma: 220
Jealous rage.
Aug 9 2010 1:25AM
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Hansel.
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First ever legit pow day (coming from ohio) in Utah this spring. Tit deep pow. Never have been more happy in my life. Or maybe the time I hit McConkeys bowl in PC.
Aug 9 2010 1:26AM
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pikupfulofsnow
Posts: 2077 - Karma: 9,696
having my mom send me up on the ski bus to timberline with 2$ for hot chocolate. all week long i would look forward to going skiing on saturday.
Aug 9 2010 1:32AM
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JahJahBinks
Posts: 3567 - Karma: 461
Yeah dude I had a perfect styly K fed at MHSSC on their C box when all the camp/coaches were seshing it. Felt awesome.
Aug 9 2010 1:38AM
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Ducky.
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That day was soooo good
Aug 9 2010 2:30AM
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Myfirstname.
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Mine would be two seasons ago, driving up to the mountain after a nice storm cycle, on a completely snowpacked interstate, only car on the road. Everything on the drive up looked sooo different.

I got first tracks down my favorite run (which didn't even open this past season god damnit)with friends. It was the deepest, softest, fluffiest snow I've ever skied. True whiteroom.
Aug 9 2010 3:11AM
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_Alex_
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That was my highlight also. Skinning up oboe made me feel scared that the snow was going to be crap, there was a terrible wind crust and whatnot. But the second I got into the tree's it was amazing the snow was perfect and pretty much every turn I was able to get a faceshot (a first considering that I'm 6'7). I hope for another day like that this upcoming season.
Aug 9 2010 3:16AM
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ap-huhn
Posts: 237 - Karma: 49
night shred in niseko. skiing japanese pow at night is simply amazing.
Aug 9 2010 6:57AM
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[BRI]noceros
Posts: 2319 - Karma: 40
after skiing most of my life primarily on the east coast, getting to ski a bluebird powder day at Snowbird was easily my best skiing experience. one of the greatest days of my life
Aug 9 2010 10:05AM
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Davidchiuda
Posts: 89 - Karma: 15
Ya it was so fun :P did you hit the waylter ramps?
Aug 10 2010 1:01PM
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Elmo.
Posts: 4317 - Karma: 662
amen.


also every time i get a sunny spring park day its always soooo fun.... hot laps, soft snow, new tricks, laughs on the chair, friends, its like no other

but yea its hard to pick just one cuz i have so many amazing expieriences with skiing
Aug 10 2010 3:03PM
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little_boo
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yes!


but for one in particular:
- Crystal Mountain hosts the junior big mountain freeskiing championships every year. Two years ago I went with a small group of my team. The first day that we were there was inspection day, and it had DUMPED. Over the head, choking on pow. And it was during the week so nobody was up there- no lift lines, just me and a group of close friends, parents, and coaches shredding all day instead of poking around on a venue. Absolutely incredible, one of the best pow days I can remember to this day.
Aug 10 2010 9:03PM
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TWoods
Posts: 10014 - Karma: 8,386
I'll play:


my favorite day ever was my senior year of high school, last day of state finals for the shitty high school team I raced for in Mammoth. Everyone was hating life because it was puking and windy. I didn't qualify for Slalom, which was what was going on that day, so I was just skiing with friends during a day off school.

The afternoon got more wild and everybody went inside, the mountain belonged to me and my two friends. We took a lap that consisted of a small chute, to some tree skiing, to a straightline into a small windlip hit. Every run we took the wind blew in our tracks from the run before so it was fresh each time.

I landed a cork three kinda on my ass but rode it out. It was the best feeling ever at that point in time. We walked into the award ceremony covered head to toe in snow and out full baggy ski gear, with a bunch of racer dummies in their ball crushing racer suits wining about who won. Everyone was shocked we showed up late because they had all gone in as soon as races were done.

Which is why racers are lame.

Aug 10 2010 9:20PM
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grilledsteezeyo
Posts: 1419 - Karma: 72
ahhhh....i love that
Aug 10 2010 10:14PM
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joly.sp
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first day of last season was really super fun no real reason it was just great crusing arond again
Aug 10 2010 10:15PM
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FoxRiderAR77
Posts: 231 - Karma: 12
Powder day in West Virginia of all places, this was after going to Tahoe for a week and not getting anything. I pretty much skied parts of Snowshoe that I've dreamt of hitting.
Aug 10 2010 10:29PM
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mtbakerteacher
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06/07
Aug 10 2010 10:34PM
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LockyK
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i strongly agree here. especially when it is waist deep on a groomed run.

and i have a few.

- the first time i hit a jump over 40 feet. changed my skiing.

- first 7 i did

- nearly drowning in japanese pow because it was so deep and i couldn't get up

- not really a ski experince, but best snow work experience. working as an instructor with the highest level kids on one of the snowiest week of the season. 3 kids, skiing waist deep pow and 50cm+ fresh every day.
Aug 10 2010 10:44PM
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B_Reid
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dropping a 20ft cliff in knee deep snow on my first day of skiing at RETALLACK!!!!!!!!
Aug 10 2010 10:57PM
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deleted5
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yeah i have a video of me being real happy/funny after landing a trick it's hidden some where in ns
Aug 10 2010 10:59PM
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.cam.
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we got stranded at our house and decided to stay because the highway was closed for too much snow. the next day o got to ski 3 feet of fresh with nobody (practically) on the mountain. made some trails and had a good time with friends
Aug 10 2010 11:09PM
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STAUSS
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probably like.. the first time i went skiing with willem collier.
Aug 10 2010 11:22PM
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Campeador
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Squaw Valley, 05/06

etched into my memory forever
Aug 11 2010 4:32AM
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DHogg
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Easy. Going heli skiing in NZ a day after a snowfall with blue skys. Such a mind blowing experience.

Plus I got to ski this:
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Aug 11 2010 8:17AM
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DHogg
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Easy. Going heli skiing in NZ a day after a snowfall with blue skys. Such a mind blowing experience.

Pictures speak a thousand words...
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Aug 11 2010 8:22AM
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BlackcountryBill
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Stepping up from a 1 to a 9 in one day on a big jump, it used to scare the shit out of me, first time I spun on it I went for a three but ended up in a five. Three runs later I was stomping 9s every time. I learnt rodeo 5s and both 4s off a flat bar that day too, I went home on such a silly high.
Aug 11 2010 8:29AM
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Drail
Posts: 14013 - Karma: 10,010
backflipping my first cliff drop

finally being able to put a grab in my switch 9's (like 8 years after landing my first switch 9)

every in bounds pow day with friends at my local hill. that shit never gets old.
Aug 11 2010 1:00PM
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Felix..TG
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yea I wasnt in the camp but I hit em. Hiting the single whit Armadas.

Aug 11 2010 1:08PM
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Drail
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i worded the first one oddly, didn't I? the first time I backflipped off a cliff

I didn't backflip my first cliff drop... that would be crazy.
Aug 11 2010 1:13PM
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Jibbin_Ur_Face
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On my Birthday a few years back me and a buddy went up to Vail and shreded the back bowls and Blue Sky Basin all day in waist deep pow. We hucked 10+ footers all day long. Greatest day ever.
Aug 11 2010 1:21PM
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Davidchiuda
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Ohh ya I saw you, your really good.:)
Aug 12 2010 2:33PM
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fujarome
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one of the very very rare pow days on the east coast. Definitely wouldn't compare to anything some of you are used to, but it was more than enough for us.

had one of those fantastic moments where you just stop, and it's all beautiful and perfect.
Aug 12 2010 3:02PM
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mariob
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- Going to have to say almost every pow day i have ever skiied on the east coast, and i consider like 6'' a pow day. I mean it just changes everything and everything looks fresh and new, everything seems shredable.


Aug 12 2010 4:40PM
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garrettwiz
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My first blind 3 swap on a sketchy flat down at copper my last hit. got second real stoked. and getting sponsored by Nordica this year :)
Aug 12 2010 4:57PM
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zahava
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I got a first tracks pass for my first day of four at whistler, it had snowed a ton the day before so they hadn't opened the alpine, then it snowed some more overnight. I got of the lift by the main lodge on whistler, looked at the peak chair, and then BOOM!, they were blasting for avalanches. Felt the blast and i knew it was going to be a good day. Skied fresh light untracked pow all day.
Aug 12 2010 5:40PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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Last year when vt got slammed with 4 feet of snow I was at Stowe skiing the glades with m friend. Better than any park day and the most fun I have ever had skiing.
Aug 12 2010 5:53PM
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