I skied Sugarloaf in ME last week and they still had almost all the terrain open. I just started to put my dock in this afternoon and will probably try to get the boat in over the weekend.
Let me paint a scene for you: It's 06:30AM. You woke up at 05:30AM, pressed the snooze bar a couple times, prepped the boat with gear and trailered it to the lake. You're groggy, but a stop at the gas station for coffee and some gas for the boat helps. Friends are waiting at the ramp, and you don't want to be late regardless of how late you stayed up the night before. The lake is glass. No wind,...Read more
Don’t you just love your onside?If you are left-foot-forward (LFF) like me, you can crank your one ball and get a super early jump on two ball. Sometimes your onside turn is so good you feel like you’re cheating, it’s like a legal false start or the ultimate eraser atoning for mistakes made at the previous buoy.Do you turn 3 ball like Parrish? Have you ever felt like...Read more
So, I had a crazy idea last night: What if I mounted my GoPro camera to the front of a helmet, facing directly DOWN? Wouldn't that capture everything my arms and core are doing? YES! Brilliant!I dusted off my old Ace Wake helmet (unused since eardrum blowout of 2007) and stuck a self-adhesive GoPro mount RIGHT to the front of it. Clamped it in place for the night and it was rock solid by this...Read more
There’s a reason why all of our skis, bindings, ropes, boats, etc. come with warning labels - slalom skiing is high risk. If you ski with the aggressiveness and desire to pick up more buoys, sooner or later you are going to get hurt.Last week I wrote about how the Great Binding Catastrophe of 2011 is Over. Well, that’s not entirely true because a significant part of...Read more
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I don't know what to say to
I don't know what to say to that.....except I would be getting snow ski passe by the year.
I skied Sugarloaf in ME last
I skied Sugarloaf in ME last week and they still had almost all the terrain open. I just started to put my dock in this afternoon and will probably try to get the boat in over the weekend.