mmmmm.... cord.

[Jack Michaud]

http://www.sugarloaf.com/images/cams/large/116593672212-12-06snowy1.jpg

from today's Sugarloaf report.

Post your current cord porn below!

[Randy T.]

Cord porn is the best!
Unfortunately I haven't seen any in person to be able to post, hopefully soon...
Until then i'm going to sit at the computer and stare at other cord porn. Is that so wrong? :rolleyes:

[pebu]

The whole reason I have the internet is cause I can't get any cord porn of my own..
Been raining since sunday night and now we don't have any snow anymore. Wouldn't be suprised if crystal mtn closes for the weekdays...

[Bullwings]

in the past i liked cord, but couldn't really figure out what everyone was raving about when i first started posting here.

however, i've been out on my HBs and plates a few times this season, and i now know what everyone is talking about.

i'm getting a stiffy just staring at that picture...

[Speedzilla]

An hour before this was taken, it would have qualified as "cord porn".

Now it is just a used and abused former porn star.

[Gecko]

:nono: :nono: :nono: posting porn is not nice some of us are trying to work

[pebu]

Some of us are PRETENDING to try to work..... There's a difference..

[jdgang]

and some of us are just waiting for it to get cold!!!!!!

[MUD]

:nono: :nono: :nono: posting porn is not nice some of us are trying to work

So is this NWS????

[Neuffy]

Not if you want to get work done, it isn't.

[Justin A.]

I had some amazing cord porn this morning, and I was the partner :1luvu: . My camera won't be back for about another week or so though. I'll be participating in more cord pornography tomorrow, thursday, and friday as well. I may borrow someone elses camera for a day or two so I can post pictures. I know I know, I'm being cruel.

[scotts.Scheinman]

Cord porn is the best!
Unfortunately I haven't seen any in person to be able to post, hopefully soon...
Until then i'm going to sit at the computer and stare at other cord porn. Is that so wrong? :rolleyes:
agreed on all counts

[pebu]

An hour before this was taken, it would have qualified as "cord porn".

Now it is just a used and abused former porn star.


I'd be up for sloppy seconds...:eek:

[Pat Donnelly]

Pebu - I bet you could take it to an exponential factor based on the gear you ride ;)

[pebu]

Sloppy to the max?

Give me a break, I'm workin on it. I'll be hard... I mean, I'll be in hard boots in no time..

[alexgforce]

Couldn't resist sharing these photos. I took them last year in the olympics in Torino.

ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!

[alexgforce]

You want more?

[alexgforce]

In case you are wandering, the guy in the picture is Creg Gouras the US alpine snowboard team technician. And behind him is the olympic hill just before they start setting up

[alexgforce]

Last but...... I am not gonna ruin it by making a comment!

[alexgforce]

Sorry too excited. Forgot to attach

[Blackbird]

An hour before this was taken, it would have qualified as "cord porn".

Now it is just a used and abused former porn star.

Bet All those trenches in the pic are yours too.....:cool:

How many runs did you get in that day??:eplus2:

I'd be smiling too..... except today it was like 105*F outside :barf:

Hows the cord pornography guys.....?!!! Not fair......:(

[Speedzilla]

Bet All those trenches in the pic are yours too.....:biggthump

How many runs did you get in that day??:eplus2:

Actually, there were about a 1/2 dozen of us out that morning. Which is pretty typical.

More pics from Sunday are posted here: http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulletin/showthread.php?p=117529#post117529

[Blackbird]

Actually, there were about a 1/2 dozen of us out that morning. Which is pretty typical.

More pics from Sunday are posted here: http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulletin/showthread.php?p=117529#post117529

Wouldn't get much better than that Speedzilla, I'm very jealous!

I'll be lucky to EVER see a fellow carver In Aus.... :(

[pebu]

You want more?


:eek:YES, PLEASE!:1luvu:

[alexgforce]

allrighty then

[alexgforce]

its coming

[alexgforce]

and then

[pebu]

Second to last... Those whoops are perfect for weightless transitions. And that's if you're going slow. Going fast they're perfect for getting 50-60 feet of air without even trying...
Man I hope Crystal Mtn doesn't close because of the rain/lack of snow...

[tpalka]

It was outstanding this morning -- and the grooming rivaled Aspen, I was amazed.

http://www.slackerdom.com/2006/12_monarch_corduroy/imgp0716.jpg

http://www.slackerdom.com/2006/12_monarch_corduroy/imgp0715.jpg

More at my slackerdom page (http://www.slackerdom.com/2006/12_monarch_corduroy/index.html)


tom.

[tufty]

Tom...

I hate you.

[alexgforce]

That is amazing! Taking into account that Europe is praying for snow. Races are getting canceled all over Europe and we havent seen a snowflake ...yet!

Hope will set you free

[Justin A.]

Today sucked. Stop rubbing it in. 50 defreakinggrees and sunny. The snow was either ice or slush. It blew big floppy donkey dick. Maybe tomorrow will be better :( .

[wavechaser]

That is amazing! Taking into account that Europe is praying for snow. Races are getting canceled all over Europe and we havent seen a snowflake ...yet!

Hope will set you free

Same in the northeast US my man - all three of my races got cancelled this weekend. :angryfire

[Gecko]

yeah last week was looking so good, cold snap and lots of cold nights to blow snow and then BAM heatwave. I guy in my office rode his bike to work today in Cycling shorts and a sweatshirt this morning...it's mid december and in the high 50's? :nono:

[tpalka]

...sorry can't send you any snow.

We're actually quite light here as well, but the ski area has done a great job of grooming the few 8-10" dumps we had and temperatures have cooperated. Monarch base is around 10,200' I think, which helps.


tom.

http://www.slackerdom.com/2006/12_monarch_corduroy/imgp0738.jpg

[pebu]

I see a dark spot! So much for 10200' of base...
This weekend is iffy for us too. Look at it this way, crappy weather keeps away the fairweather fans of skiing/boarding... Open is open as far as I'm concerned.

[Justin A.]

Attitash is closed. Today was supposed to be free day up there...and they had no snow. Seriously, like Gecko said, last week looked sooooo promising, and this week was a huge letdown. I was up on top of the Kanc last night watching the Aroura...on December 14th...in a sweater. And I wasn't cold. I think it's because we abandoned Ullr this week to go skiing. He is the god of snow afterall. If he's not happy, then it won't snow :confused: . Or something like that anyway. I got some Northern Lights porn if you want to see that.

[RDY_2_Carve]

I got some Northern Lights porn if you want to see that.

Porn is porn let's see it!

[pebu]

Yeah, what the hell, why not.. They're supposed to be going on again tonight I heard.

[Justin A.]

They're gonna be glowing even better tonight than last night, but it's TOTALLY overcast. Oh, and I came back down to southern NH earlier today so I won't be able to see **** through the city glow that is everywhere. Oh how I hate it here :barf: . I'll scan some of the pictures from last night later and throw them up here. We're getting them retouched as we speak (NEVER trust your photos to RiteAid), so when we get them back tomorrow they should look MUCH better.

[Justin A.]

One of my money shots from last night. It looks awful, I know. Our scanner face is all scratched and this is raw, unprocessed from RiteAid :mad:. When we get the processed ones back from the lab tomorrow I'll put some of those up.

It's also awful because it was my first ever attempt at shooting the Aurora, and I was doing it with 800 speed film (I was planning on shooting some riding during the day, but the snow sucked) on a 1970s vintage Yashika 35mm. Ahhh, the glory of highspeed film in low light. Next time I think I'll break out that can of KodaChrome 64 I've been saving :biggthump .

[pebu]

I know it's been a bad year for it, but I'm gonna have to bump for some more cord porn...

[BobD]

I don't know if this made it onto the main forum yet. It's been in the MN annex. Trent took this one of Bob L a week or so ago. Needs no further comment...

BobD

[pebu]

Aaaaaaaahhhh yeeaaaaaaahhhhh! That's the spot... Oh, a little to the... aaaahhh....

Was it as good for you??

[oldvolvosrule]

That pic is the best ever, I love how you can see the corduroy coming off the edge of the board. I have never seen that before in a photo. He just needs to get that left arm in front of him or else he will be washing out the tail very soon. No trailing arms!!

[pebu]

That must have been a super fast shutter.. (neither shutter nor shudder look correct....)

[wavechaser]

That pic is the best ever, I love how you can see the corduroy coming off the edge of the board. I have never seen that before in a photo.

No s*** - that is so cool how you can see each little cord ridge spitting the snow up perfectly in line...wow. :biggthump

[Speedzilla]

I don't know if this made it onto the main forum yet. It's been in the MN annex. Trent took this one of Bob L a week or so ago. Needs no further comment...

BobD


A few more pics from that day are located here:

http://www.buckhill.com/winter/gallerypage.shtml

[Jack Michaud]

sorry for the planker, but... dang that looks soft!

http://www.sugarloaf.com/images/cams/large/11691345541-18-07bill1.jpg

[carvedog]

wow wow

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Yeah, I hate to stick it to the East-coast people, but one downside of all the snow we're getting is that a lot of runs are too soft and/or get chopped up far too easily.

I went to Marmot Basin in Jasper this past Friday with only my Prior WCR and it was frankly the wrong move. They'd had 36 cm in the past 4 days or something, but I guess their groomers weren't keeping up too well – I had to stick to about 4 runs, because the rest of the groomed stuff up top was just too soft to be any fun. After a few embarrassing times submarining halfway into the cord, I gave up and stayed with the tried-and-true.

Of course, then I somehow how broke the board, which Prior is partly charging me for...but that's another story. :angryfire

greg

[kjl]

From last year's SES. At Highlands - it was maybe 2 inches on top of perfect cord:

http://ribsngibs.com/images/snowboard/SES06/mycam/thumbs/03.JPG(big version here) (http://ribsngibs.com/images/snowboard/SES06/mycam/03.JPG)

And to see the scale of the tracks:


http://ribsngibs.com/images/snowboard/SES06/mycam/thumbs/07.JPG(big version here) (http://ribsngibs.com/images/snowboard/SES06/mycam/07.JPG)

[shrederjen]

Shoot, I should have taken a picture at the top of Regulator Johnson, yesterday at 0915........ It was very, very nice for an hour or so.

Snowbird Utah has been pretty good, early in the morning, for carving, this past week.

Jen

[willywhit]

finally some friggin' SNOW here in the Northeast ! :biggthump
Pat Donnelly sent me these to resize-
Buckskin (Buttermilk) Friday Jan 19th . . . . CORD!
Rider is Larry Castruita
thanks Pat ! :cool:

[pebu]

You know, it's funny. I was just looking through this thread looking for some wallpapers...

[BoarderYUL]

Who said we weren't lucky enough to get nice corduroy ?

[Paulk]

From this week....

[carverchick]

Cord Porn makes me umm happy :p

[Bullwings]

You know, it's funny. I was just looking through this thread looking for some wallpapers...

i'm using BobD's (post #43 in this thread) as my current wall paper.

[Paulk]

enjoy!

[Mellow Yellow]

last week - big mtn

[pebu]

I wanna lick it!

[oldvolvosrule]

Here are a couple of shots from our local mtn today. MMMMMMM! corduroy!! The second photo was taken a few days ago but the first one is current. Just goes to show that the local hills really likes to lay out the cord for the carvers

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/nailknot/ss_galleryb4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/nailknot/corduroy.jpg

[Jack Michaud]

now that's where you haul out the 205.

[Dave ESPI]

How big of ridges are those ?


The cord around the North East is like 3 inches high 3 inches wide at MOST.

Nothign I love more than hitting a nice run and "burping" the cord first thign int eh mornig.... ( When I actualy get up early enough to do it :D)

[oldvolvosrule]

Dave, the snow grooming machines lay down a nice 1-1.5" from valley to peak. The corduroy is also spec'd to have no more than a 45* angle to it. There is a guy measuring with a protractor, if you get there early enough you can see him out on the slopes. We are particular about our corduroy out here, being that there are so many carvers located out here in SoCal.

Jack, yes there is definitely room for a 205 or longer on this run, this is the last pitch before you jump back on the lifts, it is called Widowmaker. The entire run is known as Miracle Mile. It is located at Snow Summit in the San Bernardino Mountains. Above that first ridge is plenty of wide open carving runs, you just have to watch for the straightliners.

[Bullwings]

can't wait till my skills catch up to my gear and get up to par.

then i'll bust out the donek FCI 171. you're definitely welcome to try it out aaron. i have a feeling it'll be a bit stiff for me for a while, some of the guys here are 200 lbs and riding on that thing - by comparison, i'm only 150. hehe

yeah, next year is definitely a season pass to snow summit. i think i'll be spending a lot of the rest of the season at summit too. i only needed 5 days at mt. high to break even, and i'm at 7 days there - 9 total for the season so far. bar any more injuries, i should be able to hit my 30+ day mark assuming the season lasts into mid april and i get to make a few "big" trips.

[carvedog]

Here are a couple of shots from our local mtn today. MMMMMMM! corduroy!! The second photo was taken a few days ago but the first one is current. Just goes to show that the local hills really likes to lay out the cord for the carvers


Sorry but in that first picture in lower right I can see where the groomer picked up the tiller and towards the middle of the picture is an ugly seam that must be an inch higher than the groom on either side.

And you call that grooming????

[Justin A.]

This is last week (1-30-07) at Bretton Woods, My girlfriend took the picture of me riding.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/UllrRocks/2007-01-30_13-08-27DSC_0061.jpg

Yes, I know I suck, but look at the cord! and that's at about 2:30 in the afternoon!

[D-Sub]

I keep seeing this pic on the mammoth site, and it makes me want to be there:

[Bullwings]

I've been seeing that pic since the beginning of the season, and can tell you for sure that it was not taken this season.

Although, with the latest storms, i want to be there too. And, if things don't fall through again, i should be there, first weekend of march.

[Blackbird]

That looks great..... it makes me wanna cry.... today they say it's gonna top 100* F here.... but only a week and a half till I fly to Jackson Hole....
YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Every time I butter my toast ... it reminds me of seamless, carve enhancing cord...


Great pics guys... keep em coming!!!!:biggthump

[pokkis]

This pic from last Monday makes me feel so happy too :biggthump

http://carving.grewu.org/gallery/ecsIV/ecs0502/dsc_4789.htm

[pebu]

http://www.sunsnowskishop.com/about_us.htm

Pic on the left... It's not cord, but look at the angulation... And that has to be about 50 years ago. There's a little twisting, but give him a break, those are straight skis.

I got that picture on my local ski shop's web page.

[pokkis]

Nicely signed slope from last week Oppdal carving camp:

http://www.flegmatic-carving.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=10&pos=2

[Cuban Carving Gooding]

Big Mountain 2007

[Chubz]

:barf: :barf: :barf:

Hate to belly ach, but I would silly with giddiness :biggthump to ride cord like that.

At Blue Mountain in PA, its not uncommon to see 3-5" ridges the entire length of the run and that is a ridge at each width of the groomer. It is especially entertaining when you throw in what I have deemed "groomer pockets" (voids of snow) where the groomer just simply didnt fill in the slope. So you go from ridge to pocket. Since the mountain faces north, no sun until mid morning, so you are riding Grasshopper style. Can't see a thing.

Been trying to get pics to show what I mean but the lack of light doesnt afford the opportunity. I think I am going to borrow some pics from this thread and start mailing them to mountain Manager and the groomer shack.

Once in a while they get a good day of cord in, but they bat about .200

Enjoy that stuff, because it makes me grin just looking at it.

[Phil]

Hey Chubz,

Two hours to the SE there is cord like that every morning.

:biggthump

And of course, there was cord like that at MAC Tracks as well. - Missed ya.

[Chubz]

Couldnt make it this year due to work and funds have been redistributed to making boards. Plus my "beer" relationship with the groomers hasnt blossomed yet ;)

MAybe next year and hopefully we can get more participants at BMES 2008. We were down to 3 this years

[Dave ESPI]

Only place I can find cord late in the day is the turrain park. It's the best kept secret on the mountain for us boarders to be able to play in since most skiers have no interest in getting a special pass to go "hit rails and jumps"..... but they for get about all that great open area where the jumps and stuff is not at...... I'm like a kid in a toystore playing with the things that everyone else ignores because theya re not "bells and whistles".... :1luvu: