In no particular order.

Statue of Andy on top of Mount Porte Crayon (MPC)
Bill Bright and MPC and what was that farm?
Crush to English translator
Jimmy and Bow Wahhhhh!! (or something like that per Andy)
JohnL's endless Top 10 List threads
RogerZ
Snowcone
Almost Heaven (pre WV Alpps)
Mountain Masher and Blue Knob
Winter beer and summer beer
Pre MM Blue Knob glade threads
Global warming thread
Johnfmh's epic tome on everything you need to know about driving to Timberline
Laurel Mountain Trip Reports
David still in school. Oh, that's now New School.
National Ski Expo @ Chantilly
Physics Man
FishNSki was Andy was ?
Pirates had a losing team
Otto
Whitetail's ski bus
Skier219
Tromano and SQOTS were locals and didn't know how to ski powder
Timberline's slow lifts
National Ski Expo @ Ballston Common Mall
Bonner Mountain Lodge
Roy
JimK never heard of a Ski Safari and had a car with safe tires
Skinny skis
Helmet discussion threads
Anony.mono.us posters allowed along with Aby Normal
Pirates had a losing team
How to ski powder?
Never heard of Corridor H (thought it cured you know what)
Blue Knob was going to be bought by Intrawest?
Moonshine Mountain
Blue Knob sold to British Company
BWPA and his early season hike up HV
Wisp wasn't eligible for AARP
Canaanman (turns out he was 16), his CB threads and hucking the pump house apology
Whales at T-Line
Tory Mountain
Vokl was the king
eeeerf uh poof arrrrrrgt slpuuuurfrrghbbbb
Powderpig
Maryland boarder kills woman at Jackson Hole
Roffe Training Center at Roundtop
What other mountains have soul?
Silver Streak and White Lightning were separated
Ski Kansas
Comprex
Just six words ski stories
Myrto
Avalanche at Wisp
Snowmaggeden
JohnL stuck in Utah during Snowpocalypse
Pirates had a losing team
Who's Gonna Blow the Hardest and Who's Gonna Blow the First?
Montage Mountain
JimK's Catch of the Day

Edit: Have to add a few more:

Bawalkers's Corridor H construction progress threads with pix
Kennedy
KevR
Clay's looking out the window T-Line reports
The Untopic was at page 1

Oh, the good ole days!! By the way, does anyone know where Otto went? We were going to take some runs together at Liberty a half dozen years ago and never got around to it.

Speaking of where folks went... I haven't seen a thing of RogerZ in forever. He still around out in Kansas skiing?

Two or three or fifty can play this game:

Scott had enough spare time to actually ski
Lake parties with Connie and Charles
Lbotta had a real job
GRK thought it couldn't get any worse than Virginia
JamieGrose79's dream to be boutique ski entrepreneur was only a gleam in his eye
langleyskier's dream to be a ski weather forecaster was only a gleam in his eye
Denis survives another solo WV car crash
Hidden Valley, PA survives long period of neglect
JohnL didn't own a helmet
Wisp didn't have a North Camp
David didn't have a wife
Johnfmh's epic tomes on European skiing
The Colonel learns to PM
Timberline, WV learns a 1.0 website
I thought Kwillg6 and SCWVA were cousins
Jimmy padded the untopic thread by joking with himself using four different usernames

BTW, JimK never had a car with safe tires until Vince put four new, REAL snow tires on '97 Maxima in Dec 2012 then took it to college.

PS: I think Mo owns record for lowest post to tenure ratio averaging about two per year!! Also, possibly oldest "junior member"

The Colonel learns to PM - if we could only get him to figure out email notification...
Timberline, WV learns a 1.0 website - Hah! With the exception of the snow report, it's still a 0.1 website
Jimmy padded the untopic thread by joking with himself using four different usernames - He's got at least a few more unregistered users trapped inside him.

must be a slow day at work

Last nite actually.

Crush moves to Utah
Crush disappears forever
Crush moves to a boat
Crush sort of reappears
Boarderbabe
Shady WV authorities threaten bawalker's family land
Best way to Snowshoe from...
Ski dogs! (thanks lbotta)

I miss Physicsman's perspectives

+100

How could I ever forget her? (Odds are "she" was a 60 yo old guy.)

haha crush - often irritated but never duplicated. oh the boat ... this was from the Southwest DC Waterfront Boat-Home Tour ( The Blue Hawiian )- and i have room to store ski stuff on it too! and my "back yard" has an eeexcelent view and most of my neighbors are alcoholics




meh - but "she" did wear a bikini once whilest riding - gotta go to to something positive (oh my eyes) !

Until I see photographic evidence, I'm guessing another one of Jimmy's usernames.

I think she was andy

Hey folks-

David Wray just sent me a facebook note about this page. How's life in DC? Just a quick update: I am no longer in Kansas City. I have been living in Durango, Colorado for almost two years now, skiing at DMR every weekend with a healthy dose of Wolf Creek and Telluride thrown in the mix, still waiting for the right conditions to go ski Silverton. Ski season is a little more complicated this year as my wife and I had our first baby in early November- a girl, Amelia. She's two months old so my ski trips are generally half days to DMR. I've asked her for Christmas next year if I can take a day off of work and go snowcat skiing.

Honestly, with a two month old baby I don't mind limiting the ski days a bit to be home!

We have also limited our X-C skiing this year. We spent a lot of last winter at Andrews and Little Molas Lake but this year it's just me horsing around our neighborhood for the most part. Next year we'll have Amelia in the backpack schussing around the high country again.

Lots of incredible hiking and biking in the summer too. Life is great out here!

freakin' awesome my cousin! you're leading the life - and congrats to you and you wife.

WOW...good job JL..Bringin out the Ole School..
Great to hear from ya Z!..
.Just in time time for another MPC aint got no water due to global warming..save the Salamander/flying Squirrel..(I still got some great recipes for em)..Drill baby drill and the economics of the whole kit and kaboodle Thread!!

Those threads back then drove me to friggin drink!!...too much fun after a couple!...good times...

PS...I remember feeling uneasy about posting in the early days and u actually told me how to spell ck RogerZ..i'm still a posting caveman but after reading Jimmies posts back then i realized there was an art to not having correct grammer!!

hey guyeeez don't loose site of JimmyZ's poetry - a re-post (all rights reserved) - dayum

Whompum stompum,
Crush ed kettle grill.
Breakfast bowl's green,
needs snow to fill.
Beer brat hot tub,
Whompum stompum yum.


---- my analysis ----

clearly this is to remind us of what is good in life and indeed life itself; the concept of destruction and rebirth is presented in the second and third stanzas. The destruction of the "kettle grill" is balanced by the icon of a "Breakfast bowl" - an object/concept that is equivalent to the new day, a new start, a new life.

The next two lines reminds us of that which we live and love; snow sports. We are empty and need all that snow brings us to fulfill out needs but we find solace and comfort in sensuousness - that so closely related to the turns that we make. The implied sexuality of the hot-tub is a universal call that most will understand.

This piece is beautiful in that there is no purposeful attempt at form, but the symmetry of the first and last lines gives us a vision of balance, innocently similar to "outsider art"; "Whompum stompum" recalls works by Rudyard Kipling and Theodor Seuss Geisel, reinforcing the ancient call to all humans to live, love and explore.

Roger,

Great to hear from you and congrats on the move to ski country and the family.

Just a reminder that the mountains you a now living on block the scenic view of the endless amber plains for those in Kansas.

John L- great point. Someone in Kansas once said (and I still can't believe they said this) that they didn't like the Rocky Mountains because they "blocked the view." But I guess it takes all kinds! - Roger z

Yes, Jim. I'm also possibly the oldest (or rather the most tenured) beginner!! Still skiing the green slopes! But the important point is that I'm still skiing.

Now, you've made me use up my quota for posts this year! Talk to you in 2014!

But you can be sure I'll be reading your posts, even if I'm not posting any of my own!!

Charnita
Rappahannock
Lochner at Bryce
Poma lift (main lift) on North Face at 7Springs...if would lift you off the ground!
Unpaved entrance road at Snowshoe, with no guardrails and deep ditches on the switchbacks
Wild Thing March weekend at Canaan, and the pond skim
Outside bathrooms in a trailer at Canaan
Bales of hay next to tripod snow guns at Charnita..,I learned to ski from bale to bale...would aim at next bail and then turn around
Blue Knob powder..aka clear ice
The old AF NIKE site barracks at Blue Knob...shared bathrooms.,and talk about hot!
ESCO at Mt Sutton....Eastern Ski Co-OP w shared sex bunk rooms!
Coldest ski day/nights in my 45 years of enjoying the sport...both Tues and Wed nights at Mt. Sutton, high of 26 below 0 F on Wed daytime.One max two runs then inside to check for frostbite! That's actual bulb temp folks, no wind 0r wind chill
Having to be evacuated from disabled chair...and having to climb 0ver THE BACK OF chair in ski boots and step onto a wildly swaying ladder with big hooks that was placed 0verf ghe back 0f the chair
Sugar pies at the top snack SHACK AT Sutton
Riding the Montrealer from Wash to Essex Junction, last town in VT...train went all the way to Montreal...left Wash late in day and arrived at VT stati0n in early morning. Train had sleeper cars
More later
The Colonel

...dirt chicken...

There is some kind of vicarious gratification knowing that RogerZ is getting a taste of Rocky Mountain life.

Hey Mr Z! Glad to hear you're doing so well! And who knows, now that Colorado is a solid Blue State I can spend my money there... (heheheheee), I may have to plan a Purgatory visit...

Don't GET me STARTED on Mountain Masher and BLUE Knob! Global Warming WILL have a HUGE effect on the Glades THIS season.

No attempt at form? I summarily disagree.

I think another look is deserved to the rhyming structure and the line scans - do notice that the second line after the first "Whompum stompum" announcement is the longest. All the lines after that gradually diminish into a recap of "Whompum stompum", a recap barely noticeably different from the first.

The first line is also disturbed by the first element in that line -'Crush'-. The "Whampum Stompum" first -person reciter is taking an external influence -'Crush'- and attempting to integrate it into his kettle grill world view. That is the stone in the pond. The following 2 lines are less disturbed and have a diminishing quality that is based on what has gone before in the recitation. Just like a wave moving away from the original plonk of a disturbing stone.
The line after that -'beer brat hot tub- is chaotic but on a small scale, not rhyming with anything, although completely determined by what has preceded it in the recitation. Just like waves in a pond become a small scale chaotic mess after the original disturbance has reached the boundary of the water and reflected back towards the center. (It is not an accident that this happens just as we reach the boundary of the poem).

Metaphorically speaking, this is a capture, in miniature, of the effect others have on our "Whompum stompum" lives - we create both chaos and sensuousness in response to the disturbances others cause. Then we, if we're lucky, settle down to a symmetry in ourselves. But that symmetry is never unaffected by what has gone before.

Yeah, I think it's a nice poem too.

Google "Whompum stompum" Don't accept the correction.

Guess what page shows up.

We are in the presence of autistic greatness.

We used to chant that poem at Redskin games...at RFK...OLD SCHOOL!!...Hear the sounds of the diesel?...

You mean like in "the wheeze through the oxygen mask"?

Now your showing your colors..you are Old school!...They worked the hell out of him...+..he might..have been a little hungover..BAMMMMM...another 3 yards!!..

PS..Sonny Jurgensen is from my adopted hometown of Wilmington,NC

Indeed my ski-poet cousin. I fail to open my-eyes to the incongruity/friction of the piece. The author clearly intends to stimulate by providing contrasts and in a quiet way point out my own personal foibles as you say "both chaos and sensuousness in response to the disturbances others cause." myself being the other.

I am a child; let JimmyZ be the father.


( now actually off the record Jimmy Z;

dude ha ha let's ski sometime soon - Utah, or local. And do the thing where you step into your binding and then they release and you fall down, or just do the "wahooo" thing while powder skiing on a blue-bird day where the smiles are bigger than our skis and everything is centered and snow and beauty are all that we care for - and i do miss it )


PS - Jimmy, u getting this? lol

No more can, nor should be, said.

E, mon this is for you and all the rest of the old school

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!

We've had some smiles old friend. Binding/skier interface malfunctilations.... I'll noever forget that days just dickin around on the edge of tombstone, pretending to be an airliner, we were flyin WOO HOO.

Or how about that time skiing the slush bumps under the Big Bird Super Duper Condor express til our legs fell off.

It's been too long

PS-fishnski I did not know, why did RogerZ never tell me, of all people that dcski has a spellings checker? Don't worry fishmon, spellings not so important as long as you got you're grammerz and punctilations in the write places.

PSS- ROGERZ wow congratulations on your daughter, your move to ski country and stop here by more often, ya?

I had totally forgotten I posted about the government taking the land issues on here. Wow that goes back to my early 2004 days first on here!

Anyway, the news is not good in that regards. Court cases have been lost, so personal liberty and freedom for us here looks to be overrun by a county government seeking to take private property in the name of "you citizens are too stupid to know what to use your own property for"...

ahh but we move on...The hogettes have officially disbanded, but RGIII era has begun (hopefully the knee holds). Many have moved on from mid atlantic to western mountains, but they will always know the ice and crud is what made them the skiiers they are now. I wonder if they laugh at their new westty friends when they complain of bad conditions??! FishnSki has mellowed so much, I cant remember the last time he was threatened with being banned (did someone really threaten your life over those posts??). The coffee stops and hole in the wall gas stations have turned into wawas and sheetzs. helmet vs. no helmet and the i hate Ipods discussions have run their course. Boarders are almost accepted, maybe tolerated and can be found in mixed company. (come on dont ruin boarderbabe for me). but their are some things that remain. PA sports fans still wear jeans and black/gold and refuse to accept reality; The best part of snow is the anticipation and storm tracking leading up to a non event; loving the smell of hot wax and the sound of tunes with a beer in hand while working on skis in basement. And I still suk at bump skiing no matter how much I love it.

You would be surprised at the number of Redskins jackets being brandished about at the Springs this winter. Of course these son and daughters of the gub 'ment class can afford Gore-tex pants and Kastle skis. Such swagger!

I saw a boarderbabe somewhere during my ski trip out west. Can't remember where, but she had a sticker on her board that really made me chuckle: I liked it better when you hated us.

It was fun riding chairlifts out there and talking with folks about a whole new group of sports teams, particularly how the Seahawks were going to fare against the Redskins

We were skiing Homewood on New Year's Day and a guy with his son told us on the lift they had to leave the slopes early to go watch Stanford play in the Rosebowl on TV.

PS: Happy Birthday Jimmy!

Well, since all those Redskins fans who remember the SB years are of retiring anyway, of course they will have more time for the slopes. :P

And random NHL fact. 1998 is the last time a Stanley Cup Final concluded with a sweep.

Another truism from past and present:
the mysterious "Scott"...leader and founder of DCSki. His real identity remains unknown 'til this day.
The Colonel

hey -

your that guy @ ski liberty that skied the bumps from eastwind top to bottom 100 times today. i was there. you - stacked and smooth no bullshit and i saw you hang an edge and get late ha ha ha

you keep it real - and i was the guy skiing the bumps on ultra with no poles - until my last run i lost my right shoe and laid down .

that was fine

This time it wasn't me, but does sound like me! Go until my legs go and wipe out late in day! Actually today I am sitting in an airport in Kabul, AF on my way home after a fun filled couple weeks of snow and mud afghan style.

Very true Bumps. If you want to be a truly great skier*, you learn in the east and then move out west. This year the snow is a bit thin, so there's been a lot of "survival skiing"- jumping around thin areas, rocks, and baby spruce trees in the mogul fields- which was a technique honed on the slim pickens' of Blue Knob among other places. And what passes for ice out here is generally laughable, though I hit genuine bullet-proof spot at Telluride and did a 180. Last year I also finally took John L's recommendation and skied a mogul field with my boots unbuckled. It had been three weeks since it had snowed so it was a good training day. Nice good eastern moguls that day.

* The one exception is powder. You can't learn powder in the east and you can barely learn it out west either unless you go backcountry. This year, right before our baby was born I bought my first pair of twin tip rockers ever- Blue House Pandas. What a game changer. But the fat skis also tend to catch uphill edges on groomers, so watch out. I had a fall last weekend that a friend said looked like the Hiroshima bomb was going off when I hit the snow. I think that "uphill edge" issue with fat skis is just snowboarders getting revenge on skiers, since the technology is a transfer.

I know what you mean. I got sultans a couple years ago and last year at Elk I was heading back on last run of day, just flying long curves and thinking about a beer. I hit a ridge or bump unexpectedly and caught an edge. I was out for a few weeks . And thinking of beer and old school, I don't see too many toasts to the snow gods anymore. Could be why the winters have been bad lately .

Oh and I am back in Dubai with a beer and glass of scotch. So here's one to Ullr. MAy he bring some of the white stuff!

Thanks for your service Bumps. If you make it to Blue Knob on Feb 23 or 24 we owe you a brew.

I'm not in uniform.i am contractor that runs some training and logistics programs in support of our heros in uniform. But I will still share a beer with you sometime!

Otto lives! I am at Liberty from about 11 am until 7 pm or 8 pm every Saturday and Sunday.

If anybody wants to make some turns with me, just ask at the ski school desk or ask a liftie on the backside. They will know if I am around.

I should also be at the 2pm, 4:30pm, 5:45pm and 7pm ski school lineups. If I don't have to teach, I will be skiing...

Woohoo!

fifteen minutes til wapner