WRITING ON THE WALL

taken by Dirty Mike

central park

stupid queens

dumbo

the bowery

taken by Good Luck

MY BIRTHDAY- THE END OF THE WORLD

SO I'VE GOT THAT GOING FOR ME.........................

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY GAPING- CITY STYLE

5 AM on a Mon. on the Lower East Side- serious gaping

DISCOUNTS- AND WHAT CAN STILL BE DONE

 LIFTS THAT ARE STILL ROCKING:


JAY PEAK, VT: Jay is still open! This weekend you can get a lift ticket and lunch for $39, or you can golf and ski for $59. Sweet. (http://www.jaypeakresort.com/)

BRUNDAGE, ID: Brundage is closing after this weekend. Tickets are $30. (http://www.brundage.com/9473/brundage-to-close-record-setting-season-this-sunday-may-15/)

SNOWBIRD, UT: Snowbird is reopening today and will be open all weekends (Fri., Sat., and Sun.) in May. Tickets are $64 (http://www.snowbird.com/index.html)

MT HOOD, OR: Hood's last weekend is this weekend (May 14th and May 15th) with $49 tickets. (http://www.skihood.com/Community-and-News/Meadows-Blog/Posts/2011/04/Meadows-Offers-Bonus-Days-In-May)

CRYSTAL,WA: Crystal is open until the snow is gone for the weekends. Tickets are $40 until the 22nd of May and after that they will be $35. (http://www.crystalmountainresort.com/Spring-Skiing/tickets) 

ARAPAHOE BASIN, CO: A-Basin is open until it's not and tickets are $59. (http://www.arapahoebasin.com/ABasin/tickets/default.aspx)

SQUAW, CA: Squaw is open until May 30th with $39 tickets. (http://www.squaw.com/spring-events-activities)

KIRKWOOD, CA: Kirkwood is reopening for Memorial Day weekend with $35 tickets. (http://www.kirkwood.com/site/events/memorial-day-weekend)


MAMMOTH, CA: Mammoth is open until July 4th with a $74 lift ticket (yeah, that's a lot)

plus- you can always go hike fatties!

WRITING ON THE WALL- FOR YOUR MOM

taken by dirty mike in stupid queens

dumbo- bk

dumbo- bk

CALL YOUR MOM! bushwick bk

dumbo- bk

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY GAPING- THE GAPER SISTERS

MY MECCA- SUN VALLEY

me in the ganj

First resort in America. Known for it's gorgeous sunny days. Warren Miller started here, living in the parking lot of River Run. All the old school film stars came here to ski and make movies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFfzbZKMdmU). It's a place of great history. It's also a place of great rippers, not only do many infamous skiers come from here and train here, the locals are phenomenal. I mean phenomenal, they just rip- and they always have (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP3wU677tcg). 

Andy- Siegfried's line

  

Sun Valley is in Idaho. Bald Mountain (the main hill) is in the Smokys in the Sawtooth National Forrest.  This resort started out on Dollar  mountain.  Dollar is now Sun Valley's bunny hill. There is also a big boy terrain park on Dollar.  Here is the most recent TWS photo shoot at dollar-(http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1000151579/featuresobf/sun-valley-park-sessions-preview-with-aguirre-hironaka-kotsenburg-bros-willet/). Dollar is treeless and a great teaching hill.

Melissa- Old Olympic

The leg killer- Baldy. You come to Baldy to get strong. The summit is 9,150 ft. The vert is 3,400 ft. This hill is steep, blue runs here are east coast double blacks. The River Run side of Baldy has a great glass elevator (ganjula) that will take you to the old famous roundhouse. From there you can shoot up to the top on the Christmas quad or you can head over to Seattle Ridge. Seattle Ridge is the calm part of Baldy. The runs are short and not as steep. From the top of Baldy you can drop into the bowls or you can get to the bowls from Seattle. I love, love, love the bowls. The Mayday triple will keep you in the bowls. The Lookout express lift will give you access to all off the River Run side. Frenchman's quad is lower and in between River Run and Warm Springs. Warm Springs actually has a hot springs that you ride over on the chair lift. The halfpipe is on Warm Springs and they race a lot on Warm Springs. They also run a lot of gates off of the Greyhawk quad.

J2- top of Flying Squirrel

I  was in Sun Valley for three and a half weeks riding every day with my ski instructor bro. My legs are like anacondas. Spending so much time on the mountain lets you see the real ski fiends. There are locals that ski everyday. There are locals that ski in between beers. There are locals that only ski in the sun. There are locals that ski bell to bell.  Everyone has a different way of looking at the mountain. 

This place is paradise.

me- bench view of Exi