Snowboarding

Post by **andyman** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:48 pm

I got to go snowboarding for the first time yesterday (saturday) at Snow World in the netherlands. It was a real fun time.

I didn't think it would be as hard as it was, but after a few runs I could go all the way down in a general straight line and then just fall to stop. That was on the 200m slope.

Eventually I went down the whole thing and would have to fall about 5 times to slow down, until I figured out how to turn the right way. Then I'd just slalom down the hill.

Didn't get injured as bad as I thought I would be, but I definitly fucked up my left shoulder real bad. Right when I was getting off the lift, there is a 3 foot fast slope just to get people away from the lift. Well my board clipped someone elses and flipped me into a MIDAIR cartwheel and ended up dropping about 6 feet in the air and all the wieght landed on my left shoulder. I heard something pops, and it hurts like hell, but it cold have been worse...since my left foot was completely backwards too. Props to the extreme ankle protection of the boots. Almost broke all 4 fingers in my left hand in a fall, but was able to moce them in time.

Anyways, respect to anyone who can snowboard real good, because it definitly takes some skill and such.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:54 pm

used to snowboard...

had a nice vision grinch board.. owned hard.. still have my boots around here somewhere..

good times, good times..

Post by **saturn** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:56 pm

lol, take some decent lessons first before you go crashing yourself. Next time you're on a steep slope or icy glacier and you'll break your neck.

Post by **saturn** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:58 pm

View from a glacier at 3200 meters

Same place, looking down

Carving the thick snow

Post by **andyman** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:03 pm

saturn wrote:lol, take some decent lessons first before you go crashing yourself. Next time you're on a steep slope or icy glacier and you'll break your neck.

nah... right before we left i'd go down the hill and crash only one or twice.

Can't wait to do it again

nice pictures saturn...how long did it take to go down the hill?

Post by **saturn** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:07 pm

Depends.....the first photo was on a glacier and I had to slide down carefully to get on an off-piste track of 10 kilometers. That took about 20 minutes to board.

Normally I'm within minutes down the slope, but mostly I have to wait for the others. It's wise to go at least with 2 people so you can take care of eachother in case of an accident.

sys0p · Post by **sys0p** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:47 pm

I just got back from Meribel yesterday, it was pretty good. Awesome mountains, but the nightlife is shit.

Post by **reefsurfer** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:53 pm

Tested it a few times... suck at it hard, dont like having my feet tied down.
And i hate the cold... i like warm water more :icon25:

Post by **bitWISE** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:10 pm

I love boarding but this winter sucked in Ohio. I need to take a vacation after graduation to someplace like Colorado.

Post by **andyman** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:11 pm

I hope they got indoor places like this one in tampa/that area....that would rock

Post by **dr0p** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:57 pm

I'm originally from Colorado, and my family has a condo in Vail (Lionshead to be exact) so I was boarding and skiing all break. I've been skiing for 16 years and riding for 4.... I'm of the opinion that they have their strengths, namely: skiing for bumps and the park except the pipe, and riding for powder and the pipe (which i blow at).

One thing about snowboarding is that after riding powder for the first time last year, I refuse to ski on powder. Ever. The difference is night and day.

The glacier pics are great... is that the one in Canada? Forget the name.

edit: nice racoon tan!!! i get so much shit for having a racoon tan when i come back to school from winter break, but i wear it as a badge of honor!

Post by **saturn** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:24 pm

riding fresh powder is the best thing after sex

the glacier pics are taken in Val Thorens, France.

Many people here in the hospital have racoon tans, it isn't really special anymore heh

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:40 pm

i *heart* Saturn

Post by **Underpants?** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:58 pm

looks pretty crusty but still virgin freshies is virgin freshies. mad respeck, sat. they tell me that I'm spoiled with the copper mountain (co.) champaign powder, but I don't know anything else... going again on weds, maybe I'll snap off a couple from the ridge of union bowl.

Post by **Dekard** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:06 pm

andyman wrote:I hope they got indoor places like this one in tampa/that area....that would rock

Nope, there are no indoor skiing areas in the US, although one is planned in the midwest.

Post by **Ryoki** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:10 pm

saturn wrote:riding fresh powder is the best thing after sex

:icon14:

Quite heavy though

Post by **Fender** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:11 pm

Dekard wrote:
andyman wrote:I hope they got indoor places like this one in tampa/that area....that would rock
Nope, there are no indoor skiing areas in the US, although one is planned in the midwest.

Wrong.
http://www.goski.com/experts/snowdomes/usa.htm

edit:
hmmm... maybe it never opened

!
No real site for the place. The domain name is unused.

Post by **Dekard** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:43 pm

heh, wrong.. looks like that one never was built....

Post by **Dekard** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:44 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/03/18/sn ... index.html

There are no snow domes in North America, but at least one is being planned, amid legal battles over land development. According to Elizabeth Parlett, spokeswoman for the Mills Corporation, construction on Xanadu in New Jersey should begin by the end of March with a projected opening date of Spring 2007.

sys0p · Post by **sys0p** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:03 pm

saturn wrote:riding fresh powder is the best thing after sex

the glacier pics are taken in Val Thorens, France.

Many people here in the hospital have racoon tans, it isn't really special anymore heh

I was in VT for most of last thursday.. It took so long to board there from Meribel. I think over an hour if you include lift rides. I prefered it to meribel

Post by **andyman** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:18 pm

Dekard wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/03/18/snow.domes/index.html

There are no snow domes in North America, but at least one is being planned, amid legal battles over land development. According to Elizabeth Parlett, spokeswoman for the Mills Corporation, construction on Xanadu in New Jersey should begin by the end of March with a projected opening date of Spring 2007.

wait....xanadu.....that is a kick ass song by Rush! sweeet

Post by **Underpants?** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:23 pm

yeah with a name like that, it's gonna have some pretty sweet jumps.

edit: by par the best film of the year AFAIKIMHwhatever...

Post by **saturn** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:14 am

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:i *heart* Saturn

me *rides* nauty

Post by **saturn** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:16 am

Underpants? wrote:looks pretty crusty but still virgin freshies is virgin freshies. mad respeck, sat. they tell me that I'm spoiled with the copper mountain (co.) champaign powder, but I don't know anything else... going again on weds, maybe I'll snap off a couple from the ridge of union bowl.

yeah, it was pretty much heavy snow cause the sun was shining during the day. That don't stop me

Ryoki wrote:
saturn wrote:riding fresh powder is the best thing after sex
:icon14:

Quite heavy though

lol, if you stop you're buried 3 feet in the snow idd

Post by **saturn** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:20 am

sys0p wrote:
saturn wrote:riding fresh powder is the best thing after sex

the glacier pics are taken in Val Thorens, France.

Many people here in the hospital have racoon tans, it isn't really special anymore heh
I was in VT for most of last thursday.. It took so long to board there from Meribel. I think over an hour if you include lift rides. I prefered it to meribel

That glacier is actually in Orelle, the mountain ridge you see there is from Valtho, but it's all part of the enormous 3 Vallees area (which Meribel is part off I think). One hour isn't that long sysop, once it took me 7 hours to get to a far away mountain/glacier and back. During that time I got to a 5 peaks and 5 villages just reach that amazing point. Of course I had a good long French lunch with steak and red wine haha.