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I moved my stuff into the Rocky Mountain Inn in Frasor and killed a little time then hit the slopes of Winter park. It was mostly groomers on that side and some tree-- this slope made me think of Capt. America, it was corduroy heaven--





The SIA convention was happening--







a lot of a amazing stuff. I met some great people; at the hostel I was sharing a room with some brothers whose company is called NATIV -- they have a surfing mentality and their boards are short wide and directional every boarder in the place tried them and spoke well of them; even in the ****** conditions that prevailed



Another roommate was Kyle -- a snowboarder who mostly rides at cataloocchee -- small world



Johnny from the band umconcious hooked me up with the Icelantic people and I got to ski the PILGRIM -- I don't listen to music when I ski but for their song "trip" I might



Lastly though and my best part of the trip was talking to the people at 4FRONT; a guy about my age was saying that I should try the CRJ which is a superwide ski heavily rockered at tip and tail; I said I wasn't sure about that considering me and the conditions;

then he said "well hell, here's CR, talk to him about it, its his ski"



He was incredibly passionate about what he'd designed and spent a lot of time describing the ways you could ski it and what he was trying to accomplish. I didn't really clue in till later who he was but his ski is amazing -- you can skate or GS down steep groomers and it swiveled in tracked out trees -- no powder unfortunately. Anyway it was a pleasure to meet CR



Anyway -- not a lot of pictures -- a lot of tree skiing mostly -- here's a drop out of panoramic into trees that go a long time--











And me at the top of Panoramic--







And MaryJane side with Berthoud weather station in the background--







the same station from the pass on the way out









two photostichs -- an alice in wonderland from winterpark; and another from mary jane, in front of sunnyside with panoramic and eaglewind in the background



















Good trip despite conditions and I still skiied some untracked trees-- last year for the front range ; I'm going to learn to do Utah or Tahoe cheap next year

What was your verdict of the Icelantics? I've always loved the graphics, but we all know graphics don't make the ski.



And meeting CR Johnson, hella cool.

@Zeus 207249 wrote:What was your verdict of the Icelantics? I've always loved the graphics, but we all know graphics don't make the ski.



And meeting CR Johnson, hella cool.



I had noticed the Icelantics too at the Loveland rental shop, both because of the graphics and the weird shape of the Shaman; but I didn't try them -- it would be worth it to pay LL's rate and work through a few of them -- At WP I only tried the Pilgrim which looks like a park ski but is actually a fast powerful carver; it was ideal for conditions that day or most days around here, and the people were also great



But the CRJ, once I got away from my "eastern" stance and put some weight on my heels, was priceless , and so much lighter then my P4's





btw here is a link to the snowboard company I mention and a review that reflects what the other boarders were saying when they tried them

http://www.nativboardriding.com/media.htm

http://www.theskichannel.com/news/equip ... rozen-surf

It doesn't look like the conditions were too bad.... at least from the pictures.

Sick! I have been eyeing those CRJ for awhile, glad you posted some beta.

@KneeDeep 207287 wrote:It doesn't look like the conditions were too bad.... at least from the pictures.



any days a good day esp on a big mountain but some of my favorite tree runs (I'm only just scraping the surface there) were out of the question in this coverage -- that's a big part of me planning that much time at WP/MJ ... oh yeah, that and $22/night