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Find Handrails - Interactive Handrail Map

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Pman13a
Posts: 3800 - Karma: 452

http://findhandrails.com/

This is a site I am currently developing for the ski/ snowboard community that I need some help with.  It is going to be a user submitted Handrail Map with pictures and descriptions of rails around your cities and home towns.  I know a lot of you hold your rail locations close to your chests, but I believe something like this will benefit the community.  You dont need to give up your banger secret spots if you dont want to, maybe just throw in a couple that might be well known to some and "played out".

Ive got a few people really helping me out with spots, and I've contributed all of the Milwaukee spots with help from my crew.  If i get enough rails in an area, I will put them up regardless of the location (right now i have a lot of Midwest spots).

I realize this site may receive some hate, but take a moment to think what a resource like this could mean to filming, scouting, and getting better at handrails.  If you think you would benefit from this site, I encourage you to help submit some rails in your area, the more the better.  Thanks a ton guys.

http://findhandrails.com/submit.html

Sep 18 2010 6:11PM
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bfilm
Posts: 352 - Karma: 2,222
yup. A lot of spots get busted or called on by people who miss use the location with not cleaning up or some other act like that. Urban etiquette, and its tough to know that everyone who can click on a web page to find a location to have that respectable honor to where others may have...

like i messaged you before, respect on coming up with the idea, but its tough to know everyone would respect it like you would, its not a prefect world.

I would probably tell anyone I know of a location, but may not do the same to some punk as kid on the internet who could ruin spots we all enjoy
Sep 18 2010 10:11PM
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loganimlach
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spot on.
Sep 18 2010 10:29PM
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shocker611
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yeah wasnt plannin on it.. just sayin there are a million
Sep 19 2010 1:16AM
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woollygangster
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+k

this is sick
Sep 19 2010 1:40AM
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kalum.ko
Posts: 585 - Karma: 1,672
Super sick Idea

Sep 19 2010 1:44AM
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doGelyst
Posts: 2492 - Karma: 509
part of the experience is finding them yourself, yeesh.
stupid internet ruining everything,  I'm too lazy to go the the grocery store, I will just have them delivered to me!.
Sep 19 2010 1:48AM
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I.B
Posts: 8137 - Karma: 24,351
threads. this is awsome i'll be for sure putting ALL my hometown urban spots up there.
Sep 19 2010 1:49AM
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lukemeahan.
Posts: 1689 - Karma: 330
thats sick dude
Sep 19 2010 2:08AM
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Downtofilm
Posts: 6896 - Karma: 20,395
best idea
Sep 19 2010 2:57AM
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Pman13a
Posts: 3800 - Karma: 452
submit@findhandrails.com is now working, get your rails in
Sep 20 2010 11:29AM
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juanborlando
Posts: 3598 - Karma: 2,539
go out and find your own handrails, its half the fun anyways.
Sep 20 2010 11:33AM
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iLLbiLLy
Posts: 2865 - Karma: 2,631
I'm writting a droid app right now that will allow you to take a picture of a rail and it stores the gps location and other information... Also had a website in the works so everyones spots can be shared back in forth...
Sep 20 2010 11:45AM
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B-Phelps
Posts: 125 - Karma: 14

Thank you sir.

 + K

Sep 20 2010 12:07PM
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bdanger
Posts: 15 - Karma: 10
come on just find them yourself!
Sep 20 2010 6:01PM
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bdanger
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come on just find them yourself!
Sep 20 2010 6:02PM
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I.B
Posts: 8137 - Karma: 24,351
dub post fail
Sep 20 2010 6:06PM
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Cthulhu
Posts: 528 - Karma: 21
realy good idea, i hope alot of people contibute to this
Sep 20 2010 6:09PM
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jorb.co
Posts: 2581 - Karma: 468
sent a email. more on the way. cool site.
Sep 20 2010 6:38PM
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Julien.
Posts: 686 - Karma: 59
holy terms of service, that thing is thick
Sep 20 2010 6:42PM
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Sitch.
Posts: 841 - Karma: 13
threads.    and great idea!!
Sep 20 2010 6:46PM
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notimportant44
Posts: 64 - Karma: 7
A decent idea but PLEASE don't go through with this. Maybe make it for you and your friends but like stated above making urban spots easily accessible for your average skier could very well lead to your favorite spots getting shut down. Besides searching for and eventually finding rails is half the fun of urban.
Sep 21 2010 12:09AM
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Wood_Wizard
Posts: 805 - Karma: 899
is this going to be like jiblife
Sep 21 2010 12:23AM
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Pman13a
Posts: 3800 - Karma: 452
hopefully not haha
Sep 21 2010 11:57AM
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Rumi.
Posts: 1231 - Karma: 556
sweet
Sep 21 2010 2:14PM
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*Nefarious*
Posts: 1072 - Karma: 4,208
this is not brilliant, it's fucking LAME. as nearly everyone has mentioned, find your own spots and put in the time and effort to make them work.

If anyone ever did this for "backcountry spots" I'd go on a killing spree.

the new generation is fucked in the head. ya'all have no imagination, no creativity. it's sad.
Sep 21 2010 2:35PM
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H8CH
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I don't see the problem with this....  and i don't understand why people are spitting their dummies out over it ...

It doesn't mean you cannot take away from the adventure of finding new spots - all these spots will be well known, and probably 99% of them will have been hit already... so what's wrong with kids wanting to go and try hit them as well?!

Do you see climbers not reveal where their new routes are, so that nobody else can have a go at them? No....  don't be pretentious twats...  Put a rail in a movie, kids are gonna get inspired to try and hit it too...  just what happens...

And if some kid wants to put every man made handrail in america on a website, instead of ever kissing a girl.... ;-) then so be it - live n let live....

Sep 21 2010 2:46PM
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GetPitted
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Sep 21 2010 2:51PM
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dresserski
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im in, i got the boston, plymouth spots. pretty much any of the spots from the east coast section of edias
Sep 21 2010 5:11PM
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nellyyy
Posts: 1676 - Karma: 3,269
if everyone hit/knew about exactly the same urban spots then it would defeat half of the point of urban anyway
Sep 21 2010 6:41PM
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grilledsteezeyo
Posts: 1419 - Karma: 72
sick idea!
Sep 21 2010 6:45PM
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315jibber94
Posts: 880 - Karma: -39
going to bee dopeee. what if you became a millionair cause this sight turned out like the facebook of the handrail community? hahaha
Sep 21 2010 6:45PM
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WVskiing
Posts: 3007 - Karma: 1,949
best idea ever
Sep 21 2010 6:46PM
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Mr.DarthVader
Posts: 1322 - Karma: 556

sweet idea but how are you going t find them all

Sep 21 2010 6:55PM
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Backyard.Skier
Posts: 5397 - Karma: 1,497
hmm good idea.
Sep 21 2010 6:56PM
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Alex_G
Posts: 11902 - Karma: 1,019
ya except were not granola-ass climbers were skiers trynna hit original spots not some shit that was already posted on the interweb
Sep 21 2010 7:41PM
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quixotic
Posts: 6937 - Karma: 2,978
Get on this people, send some emails!
Sep 23 2010 8:13PM
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ColinB
Posts: 1452 - Karma: 2,236
Oh how i wish that Dartmouth College would not fine for using its rails... there are so many banger rails around Hanover.. with a $500 fine for first offense. makes me SO mad.

speaking of which, besides UVM, UNH, and Plymouth, anybody know of good rails around VT and NH?
Sep 23 2010 9:54PM
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jensen
Posts: 2576 - Karma: 1,267
true words.
Sep 23 2010 9:58PM
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i.ski.troll.
Posts: 4692 - Karma: 247
Half the joy of hitting rails is finding them on your own.
Sep 23 2010 10:21PM
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majora
Posts: 860 - Karma: 157
meh, disagree.
Sep 23 2010 10:23PM
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OrangeName
Posts: 675 - Karma: 15

i thought of this same type thing a while ago. obviously didnt happen tho.

this should be pretty sick! im excited to see it develope

Sep 23 2010 10:25PM
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i.ski.troll.
Posts: 4692 - Karma: 247
Are you kidding me? You honestly dont like going out and looking for your own spots that have not been hit?

this idea is horrible unless you are a lazy ass and cant find your own features.
Sep 23 2010 10:27PM
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I.B
Posts: 8137 - Karma: 24,351
this site needs to be easier to submit pics. Is anyone else feeling that? like I want to post them but I don't want to put all that shit into a spreadsheet.
Sep 23 2010 10:52PM
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blong131
Posts: 2193 - Karma: 59
there was a website that already did this, i really wish i could remember the name. it failed miserably for all reasons mentioned above.
Sep 23 2010 10:57PM
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LAME.
Posts: 5795 - Karma: 2,449

The thing is, the reality of this website is that there are some douche bags, and I'd really rather not let them in on our local spots just because people worked so hard to find them and we take pride in them, and if  they come in trash the area and just act stupid it would be a real shame if the city came in and chained up our spot and make it un hittable.

And really, isnt that what the summer and fall are for? scoping out new urban spots? Not sure how well this will work, but its gonna be somewhat helpful!

Sep 23 2010 11:24PM
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LAME.
Posts: 5795 - Karma: 2,449

^this

Sep 23 2010 11:28PM
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Pman13a
Posts: 3800 - Karma: 452
for those of you that are interested in helping out, submit@findhandrails.com

gracias
Sep 25 2010 5:20PM
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RAWLAN
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stoked, my threads for sure
Sep 25 2010 5:38PM
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JStrathern
Posts: 8747 - Karma: 1,536
Good idea, I also think it would be sick if each handrail had a rate of difficulty 1-5. Not that it really matters, but it would be kind of cool if you could search by difficulty I.E. amount of kinks, curves, etc. that would give it its difficulty. A straight/flat rail could have a 1, and a rail such as Gagniers' in Refresh might have a 5.
Sep 25 2010 5:56PM
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jorb.co
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bump for extremely legit sounding website
Oct 16 2010 2:43AM
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