There is no debate.
Midwest skiers are the best breed of skiers. Watching edits from Breck, Stone, Mammoth, ect, and seeing these guys concentrating on landing tricks on perfect features with perfect run ins and perfect landings makes me sick. Try coming to the midwest, were rails are made of rust and tetinus, run ins are about as wide as my wrist, and the landings look like the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. If its jumps you want, try hucking your soon-to-be corpse off of the bucking-bronco lips, its probably feels the same as rolling your car. Better get your speed perfect though, because your chances of hitting the five foot landing are about as good as getting killed by a vending machine. Oh, you just want to cruise some groomers today? Better lace up your ice skates and put rear view mirrors on your poles, that way you can navigate the moderatly steep ice rink that you payed 60 dollars to ski while avoiding kamakazi red necks in camo (not the Saga kind...) or five year olds with tunnel vision.
Seriously, if the skiers in the midwest pooled some funds and got out west, where seeminly every rail is knee high and the landings are longer than most ski hills out here, the comp scene would get grimey really quick. Doubling? I would be doing quads no sweat, how can you not. Is it ever even overcast out there?
Outwest is now ariels. Get at me.
