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Champ wrote: Web forums suck. LOL! You're a Champ! haha. Seriously I missed this place. I got so much knowledge from here way back when. Thanks Dave et al. Keep the faith!!! -jw |
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"jw" wrote in message ... In article , Champ wrote: Web forums suck. LOL! You're a Champ! haha. Seriously I missed this place. I got so much knowledge from here way back when. Thanks Dave et al. Keep the faith!!! It'll get a lot busier here as the season starts in the north. Inches of snow predicted tonight in the cascades. Bob |
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Bob F wrote:
It'll get a lot busier here as the season starts in the north. Eh, it never gets very busy. Web forums have almost 100% replaced rss. Neil |
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Switters wrote: On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:03:24 GMT, jw allegedly wrote: You were never mean to me...I was probably mean to a few people once or twice, but didn't really mean it... There were quite a few flames... thinking back, they were quite amusing. Yeah, but as you know they can get old, esp. when it's non-stop. I remember alt.skate-board before it went to pot, so to speak...hey, I do that on occasion, too, but can keep my head screwed on straight wehn I do...haha. I know you from when you were briefly on alt.surfing as well (Foon is still there, Dave Blake, T. Keener, Surfer Bob, and a bunch of others. Ha! Now that's a blast from the past. Talk about a volatile group, but it was funny as hell. I've not been there for a very long time. Still surfing though, just not so much. Still very volitile, but way less traffic. Sort of like here, people moved onto SurferMag BB (eh...) and other Web forums. All those animated smilies and crap really bugged me at first and still do a little, but I've become inured. I think we all agree, Web forums are at best, a necessary (?) evil in the digital communication world. I've been spending WAY more time in the water the last ten years or so than snowboarding, but I still have my ol' trusty Burton A.deck (in great shape considering I'm suprised that thing hasn't rusted away. Must be 10 years old by now! Yeah, I take good care of my boards. In between the A.deck and the Santa Cruz, I was on an Burton SuperModel 162 -- great board -- and an Original Sin 152 something or other, also pretty good. The fact that I've been on so few in between is testament to my lack of time on the mountain. I've been putting my $$$ into surfboards, wetsuits (need lots of them in frigid New England in winter), and uh, beer? At Mount Snow, I tried friend's or demo'd Morrow T-Rex (Todd Richards pro model), K2 Dart (cheap rental, but not bad); rode Burton Twin 52 (my own until stolen over Christmas vacation :-(; and a couple others, I forget. Again, not pitching any one company, I like something about all the boards I've ridden (almost...) but I don't like to rash someone's handiwork if it appears they've put effort into it and care. I really, really like the Santa Cruz -- the riding (I can get big air off natural hits, carve super fast, top-notch construction, etc. -- it's a dream board for me). They make great skate decks, too. I'd like to get one of the new Burton's this year...as usual, sick stuff! Pray for snow! -jw |
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Champ wrote: Pretty much the same for me. I've got my gear, I know what I like, so there's less stuff to talk about here. What would be useful would be conversations on places to go, etc, but as most of the members of this group are based in the US (and, it seems to me, most US riders just go to their local hill), that's not so handy for a world wide perspective. I use rec.skiiing.resorts.europe for a lot of that sort of thing now. HEY! I already said I'm planning to go to New Zealand to surf and snowboard.. My brother went to college in Colo., and I used to go out there on spring break. We usually went to Arapahoe Basin (great mtn.), but also Breckinridge, Copper, and one crazy week at Steamboat. While living in SF (1990 - 1995), I went up to Squaw Valley a few times. I want to broaden my horizons. My father spent a lot of time in Germany in the service and skied at Zermatt. He has some very cool pix from there (Matterhorn, too, etc.). I used to post here about my ultimate snowboarding fantasy of snowboarding Mount Fuji on New Year's Day at dawn...don't ask me why, just sounded good at the time. Amazing how stuff accumulates. For you young up and comers, and I'm not one to lecture at all, just responding to some queries: I have rarely been flowed any gear and had to pay for travel out of my own pocket. I am far from wealthy, but I worked my ass off and got a few good breaks. Plan your snowboarding life carefully, have fun and experience the world. Grab for the gold ring, as I say. Don't let anyone tell you what to do, just go for it. You'll never regret it and have stories and memories to last forever. (Stepping off podium now....lol). -jw (un-pigeonhole-able, if ya know what I mean) |
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jw wrote: Amazing how stuff accumulates. For you young up and comers, and I'm not one to lecture at all, just responding to some queries: I have rarely been flowed any gear and had to pay for travel out of my own pocket. I am far from wealthy, but I worked my ass off and got a few good breaks. Plan your snowboarding life carefully, have fun and experience the world. Grab for the gold ring, as I say. Don't let anyone tell you what to do, just go for it. You'll never regret it and have stories and memories to last forever. Sorry, one more thing -- I'm not THAT old. -jw ("over 30") |
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:22:09 GMT, jw
allegedly wrote: used to post here about my ultimate snowboarding fantasy of snowboarding Mount Fuji on New Year's Day at dawn...don't ask me why, just sounded good at the time. Champ and I have done the sunrise thing. Overnight at the Refuge de Cosmiques, just off l'Aguille du Midi in Chamonix, in sight of Mt Blanc. Up at 5am, and riding as soon as it was light. Took a short hike, and watched the sun come up in the mountains - amazing experience. -jw ("over 30") HA! But are you "under 40" :-) - Dave. -- The only powder to get high on, falls from the sky. http://www.vpas.org.uk/ - Snowboarding the worlds pow pow. Donek Sasquatch 162, Prior Pow 181, Burton Canyon 162 The Snowboard FAQ lives here - http://www.vpas.fsnet.co.uk/rssFAQ/ |
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"Neil Gendzwill" wrote in message ... Bob F wrote: It'll get a lot busier here as the season starts in the north. Eh, it never gets very busy. Web forums have almost 100% replaced rss. This is certainly not one of the busiest. There are others that are very much used. I find usenet way easier to keep up with than web forums. New messages are obvious in multiple newsgroups without major 'clicking'. Bob |
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"Bob F" wrote: "Neil Gendzwill" wrote in message ... Bob F wrote: It'll get a lot busier here as the season starts in the north. Eh, it never gets very busy. Web forums have almost 100% replaced rss. This is certainly not one of the busiest. There are others that are very much used. I find usenet way easier to keep up with than web forums. New messages are obvious in multiple newsgroups without major 'clicking'. Bob Same here. Plus I'm on a fairly old system -- G3 iMac running, get this, OS 9.2! I'll be upgrading to 256MB RAM so I can finally install OS X in a few weeks, upgrade all free players, etc. But the Web-based forums will always be slower. Way back when, I'd check TWSnow or Burton forums, but gave up after a few minutes. Now I only occasionally check Surfer Mag BB and participate in a local Web-based BB...content can be good on those but putting up with all the other garbage (animated icons, slow-loading, frequent asshole-ish comments - excuse language, but...). I've found Usenet, at least the small handful of groups I'm subscribed to, has become more quality, not quanitity. Here, for example. Others, like the Red Sox and Patriots newsgroups (local baseball and American football teams, for you far-flung readers ) are equal to Web forums in regard to their supply of trolls, etc. Anyway, I never post to the latter two, just read. Still a lot of dreck to wade through. -jw |
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jw wrote:
"Bob F" wrote: "Neil Gendzwill" wrote Web forums have almost 100% replaced rss. This is certainly not one of the busiest. There are others that are very much used. I find usenet way easier to keep up with than web forums. New messages are obvious in multiple newsgroups without major 'clicking'. I've found Usenet, at least the small handful of groups I'm subscribed to, has become more quality, not quanitity. Here, for example. I said "rss" not usenet in general. I like the interface too, although I sure like web fora for making sure everyone is looking at the same set of posts and being able to edit. Anyways, I'd argue that rss is quality. It's the same half-dozen guys who hang here more out of habit than anything. For my style of riding, Bomberonline is the most info-filled and entertaining forum around. There's even good softboot information there from time to time. You know the info is good when guys like Lowell Hart and Chris Karol drop in from time to time. Neil |
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