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Cambrewski
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I want to have a general conversation with the people of Newschoolers about the wonderful sport of freestyle skiing.

I'll start things off.

What mountain do you guys ride at? How's the snow at said mountain?

I ride at Bear Mountain in California. And the snow is shit right now...


Dec 27 2012 5:16PM
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Amadeus.
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Everyone here just hits chads gap all day ever day.
Dec 27 2012 5:18PM
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Cambrewski
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I've never hit Chad's gap...
Your argument is invalid
Dec 27 2012 5:39PM
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Amadeus.
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how did you get let on NS then?
Dec 27 2012 5:40PM
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Cambrewski
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Easy, I simply followed my own feelings...
Dec 27 2012 5:48PM
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Thadius.Castle
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It's ironic. This year I don't really have a home mountain. I've applied to a couple of mountains for Terrain Park Crew job(s?). So hopefully I'll get the job somewhere.
Dec 27 2012 6:05PM
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Cambrewski
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This world needs more SKIER Park Staff...They're always borders where I ride so the jibs are pretty bias towards borders...So good luck to you man!

Dec 27 2012 6:14PM
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UFOsarereal
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I ride at Welch Village in Minnesota. They refuse to build anything but box set-ups, and it's in Minnesota, so it's overall extremely mediocre. It's been snowing this year, though, so my city is decently primed for some urban riding.

The paper I write for is letting me do a ski area review column, so I'll be able to escape Welch and check out other areas in the region. Here's the first article:
http://www.postbulletin.com/news/stories/display.php?id=1518928

peace, have fun out there
Dec 27 2012 6:21PM
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E__
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I ride at Mt. Washington, B.C. and the snow is excellent we have a 492cm base and based on Freeskier's Facebook post a week or so ago we're the second mountain in North America in terms of snow pack for 2012.
Dec 27 2012 6:26PM
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DeRizzo
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Whiteface just got 22"!! I'm going tomorrow.
Dec 27 2012 6:32PM
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Cambrewski
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That's sweet! East coast is getting way more snow than us on the west...
Dec 27 2012 6:40PM
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Chubz.
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peek n peak NY.

Snow was nice, there was probably 8 or 10 inches of freshies earlier today. Had some fun in the woods. Snow's sooo good
Dec 27 2012 6:42PM
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Crispy.
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I ride at Granite Peak in Wisconsin, snow is pretty nice but icy as always. I really wish that the hill faced the opposite was so it was into the sun because unfortunately the takeoffs of all the jumps shadow the landing and the light is flat all the time. Our big jump (45-60 ft) should be getting put up tonight!
Dec 27 2012 6:43PM
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_Garagely_
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I usually ride at Great Divide, Montana. The mountain doesn't get a ton of snow and the base is only at 30" but if you're careful where you ski there's plenty of untracked pow much of the time.
Dec 27 2012 7:26PM
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gusestomp
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fuck skiing.
Dec 27 2012 7:35PM
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Drail
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I went skiing today, got snow all in and around my face. Even saw the sun for a bit.

Good times.
Dec 27 2012 8:10PM
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BigDog
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Apply at Attitash!
Dec 27 2012 8:36PM
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Thadius.Castle
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Not sure how far I am from Attitash, probably 2 hours max, but may I ask why, do they have openings? Also wondering about age limit. Some places are 18+
Dec 27 2012 8:39PM
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BigDog
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I just saw that you had cranmore on your profile so I assumed you were near there. They're really trying this year with the park and could use help i'm sure. And nah, my buddy is like 16 and is part of the crew. Mostly skiers which is nice
Dec 27 2012 8:42PM
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Pudge
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I am one of two skiers on a crew of twelve. But I dress like a boarder
Dec 27 2012 8:49PM
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a_burger
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It snowed a foot today and I went skiing
Dec 27 2012 9:06PM
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joshc97
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I grew up at welch and have a pass but never go... The park is awful
Dec 28 2012 3:46PM
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Stickity
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would you wanna walk around in ski boots fixing features all day? there have been posts before saying skiers ride boards when they have park duties for that reason.

anyways, i fucking love skiing without poles. it's so much more fun imo and i think my styles gotten better
Dec 28 2012 3:55PM
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walrussteeze
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I ski at Taos, NM as well as most of northern NM and southern CO. The terrain here is unmatched . The parks here are decent but Angel fire has a pretty good park. Once the mountain gets fully open i rarely find myself in the park though.

The snow quantity is highly variable. We can get 400"-600" one year then the next get 150", however the snow quality is the best in the world. The driest snow in North America falls in Arizona and New Mexico.
Dec 28 2012 4:02PM
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Cambrewski
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Yeah that makes sense...

And hell yeah no poles! I ditched my pole last season and my style has gotten way better...
Dec 28 2012 4:54PM
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zues
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the following video is of the OP as a child

Dec 28 2012 6:23PM
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NotGhood
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I ride Camp Fortune in Quebec, the snow is decent right now because we've gotten 50cm+ in the last week. Our park is banger as fuck, got 9 hits including a dope 15 foot kicker perfect for whirly birds and helicopters.
Dec 28 2012 6:58PM
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skibeest
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Oh you ride at bear? Skiing in LA county is the tits
And my home mountain is below. We usually have pretty good parks when our parks crew gets their shit together
Dec 28 2012 7:16PM
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Thadius.Castle
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Bear seems sick, but like it's East Coast equivalent, Loon, it seems to be dominated by Snowboard Park Staff.
Dec 28 2012 7:25PM
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oldirtypatstard
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i cross country ski @ wildcat mountain NH, shits hardcore
Dec 28 2012 7:48PM
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Sulli
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I ski at brighton, but im home on break, while they get feet of snow...fuck
Dec 28 2012 7:56PM
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UFOsarereal
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you should see it right now... haha, they put it on a flat corner of the bunny hill and, no joke pushed up a giant mound of snow that you have to climb up just to hit the features.
Dec 28 2012 10:09PM
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coldcuts69
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Shut up and make me some goddam pizza.
Dec 28 2012 10:11PM
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Cambrewski
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Bear is the shit for sure, but there are 100 swagfag technined out snowbaorders for every skier and they're all shit heads...But other than that it's not bad
And it's actually outside of LA County in San Bernardino County...

Dec 28 2012 10:31PM
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Jenkins_
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OMG youre the first person ive seen on NS that rides at mt washington
yessss!
Dec 28 2012 10:32PM
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joshc97
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Hahaha good ol welch never fails to disappoint. Lemme guess, they have just boxes up too?
Dec 29 2012 3:03AM
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pow_pow~
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I am soo stoked, I'm going to whistler for 4 months after not being able to ski for literally 2 years for various reasons. cant wait !
Dec 29 2012 5:07AM
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UFOsarereal
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to their credit, there's a very fun, pretty long tube rail right at the beginning, but otherwise it's all boxes or really narrow boxes. The lips are also way to high.

elsewhere is pretty fun, though.. I just wish they'd put some effort into their park
Dec 29 2012 5:42AM
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