Yo Lci!!

[inkaholic]

Good to ride with you on the other day JP1. Also good to see LLR out for day 2 and meet MattJ. Good riding wicha guys and gal.

This saturday:
Family Race Day - This Saturday, December 18th
Join us this Saturday, December 18th for the first Family Race Day of the 2010 - 2011 season! Last season's Family Race Day was hugely popular and this season we are excited to have a dual slalom course so you can race side-by-side against your friends and family. Medals will be awarded to the top finishers! All ages, abilities and disciplines are invited to register the morning of in the Subaru tent at the base of the Loveland Basin at no cost.

Runes Ohana should be up for the race down Firecut. KarverKai has visions of gold but Concussed is talking about taking it.

Ink

[jp1]

LCI, I just want to say " THANKS EVERYONE " !! I had a Great Time again (except for the tree @ A-Basin) ..... I thought I was above the tree line
Loveland was absolutely AWESOME @ 70+% !
I'll have to check my notes when I'm awake to mention everyone, but it was a Great time for the 2nd year.
Lotsa carnage this trip, hope everyone heals up well and quick !
Always cool to see an 'Alpine Snowboard Shop' (Bola's) All Boards Sports actually and Mr. Wizard's (Fin's) 'Bomber Shop' is only surpassed by his Engineering Marvels.

What a Beautiful area

[oldvolvosrule]

Thought I would be heading to CO for Christmas to ride with you guys but a change of plans has me going to Salt Lake instead. Hope to catch up with the LCI in a month or two. Merry Christmas to all the LCI!

[live_love_ride]

Thnx for a allowing me to tag along with you guys the other day. Was nice to run into you folks. Doesn't quite feel like I have my "winter" legs yet... but still a good day on the snow

llr

[big mario]

Got out and spun the pedals up Apex tonite to celebrate the solstice, and I didn't do too terrible considering I have not been on a bike since july. Fun way to spend an evening.
Back on topic, I am planning on friday if anyone is interested, see you at the wedge
mario

[inkaholic]

that's RAD bigs!

would like a little on friday, we'll see closer to that time.

web cam showing a groomed Scrub under 4

Ink

[D.T.]

ink - need to drop by your work tomorrow to drop off something for KK. I'll call later today or tomorrow.

[GeoffV]

Make some turns for me fellas. I haven't been on snow since I rode with you guys Do you know how lucky you guys are?
D.T. I know Loveland sucks

[live_love_ride]

... the Holiday folk are here in full-force.
Did a morning session today, left at noon. Lots pretty much full.

Snow was very nice though

llr

[big mario]

Fun day today, scrub was mowed in its normal three track wide configuration, Pete and I spent the first hour( 5 runs) trying to make it down with some sense of style and aplomb and not make total asses out of ourselves. Greenleaf, glad to see you back out today, it has been too long and too deep into the season to finally ride with you.
Geoff, hope you are making some turns this weekend, if not I will make a few more for you
see you sunday
mario
loveland blows

[monodude]

I still don't have internet in Rock Springs. I have been riding at a small Mom & Pop ski area called White Pine Resort. (It's a 2 hour drive north). They don't quite know what to think about the MonoDude. It's all good though. On the second day most of the staff knew and greeted me by name. It has one chair and nothing very steep but the groomer is good and the trees are open. Not many people ride there and even less good riders. ( I guess with Jackson 80 miles north they ride there). Riding down the main groomers I might go 3 or 4 runs and not see anyone else one the run. Most of the time carves I layed down at 9:00 AM are still vivid at 2:00. It also seems that I can have all the fresh that I want. I went up on Thursday and had my pick of areas, (nearly top to bottom), of fresh untracked from the previous Monday, and I've only seen 2 or 3 tracks in the trees. I'm waiting for more cover in them. There's already been extensive P-Tex work done on the "Monster Fat" Powder Mono.
Ski Patrol is hounding me hard to come onboard. It looks like I'll be taking the required EMT type course in Jan. I think it's called "OEC". The General Manager and the 4 Owners want me to teach in the ski school. I'm in Heaven and trying not to get "The BIG HEAD" over it all.
I miss ridin' with the LCI. All you guys rip and my carving skills have have improved tremendously in the last two seasons by hangin' with ya'll. Thanks for lettin' the Freak ride along.
I'm going to try to come down for some more lessons in a couple of weeks.

Don

Feed the addiction...

[inkaholic]

This is the plan if work doesn't mess it up:

ride tomorrow with Concussed after dropping off KarverKai at camp. Should arrive around 10ish.

Ink

[D.T.]

Ski Patrol is hounding me hard to come onboard...

The General Manager and the 4 Owners want me to teach in the ski school.

now that is just plain scary!!!

I'm going to try to come down for some more lessons in a couple of weeks.

let us know when so we can try to get some people out to join you!
my travel schedule is crazy for January so no week days for me, but weekends are open.

[Angie]

Hi. I miss you guys.

[D.T.]

Hi. I miss you guys.

Hey Chica, you know that we are always there and you guys are always welcome to visit!




On another note, I decided to take my Christmas present (to myself) out for a spin in the snow today - what a hoot!!! The only thing better than enjoying the new bike was finding that a bunch of new singletrack has been built on my local trails!!!

I did an out-and-back with a little break to enjoy the snow and scenery at a lookout. Within 15 minutes, my tracks from the "out" portion were non-existent. While the new trail is nice, they need a few lessons from the Trailblazers. The way things are contoured, they will have a few mud holes develop, along with some other drainage and maintenance issues. I should probably find out who is in-charge of building the trail and figure out a way to get them educated - might have to call on you, ink, for some assistance.

Bike geometry along with the DHX Air 5.0 worked superbly. That thing climbs like an effing mountain goat! The Talas 36 was awesome. Still need to dial-in the rear derailleur as I was getting some ghost-shifting at inopportune times. The tires hooked up great!!! The rear Ignitor broke loose a few times on some short and super steep climbs, but would quickly reengage and was awesome otherwise; holy sh*t that tire leaves a super-wide foot print! The Ardent on the front was hooked-up the entire ride.

Six hours later and I'm still grinning from ear-to-ear.
Ready to ride again as soon as the snow mellows!

[Angie]

Hey Chica, you know that we are always there and you guys are always welcome to visit!

I know, I hope soon...but its busy season in the land of wine and art, so might not be until mid/late January unfortunately. It seems I have forgotten how to ride, and a day with the LCI usually fixes that

[inkaholic]

Hi. I miss you guys.

Happy New Years from the Runes Ohana to you, Jim, and the LCI! Well everyone else for that matter.

KarverKai should be out early on Day 1.

Ink

[inkaholic]

Six hours later and I'm still grinning from ear-to-ear.
Ready to ride again as soon as the snow mellows!

So, the transition from the GT went well, stoked for you. KK and I went sledding in the yard this evening. Good times!

Ink

[arneburner]

Ink, I looked for you yesterday, but did not see you. Saw one guy on a test Rossi skwal, but that was the only other hardbooter. Rode the Oxygen proton from 9 to 10:30 when the sun was out. Went to the softies once the snow came and the light went flat. The crowds were out in full force. Besides being cold and windy, it is also crowded now.

Anyone riding Sunday, the 2nd?, should be a good day.

Happy New Year!

[inkaholic]

Arnie, I wasn't out yesterday. After the crowds on Wed and only 2 runs, I decided not to go. Concussed heard that Lovey exceeded their record attendance by 900...

NINE HUNDRED! Yes, you could say it was crowded. D.T. and I were both saying that we had never seen it as crowded in all our years of attendance.


Concussed, KK, D.T., Shelly and myself should be out on Sat and hopefully Sun.

Ink

[live_love_ride]

I too observed the crowds when I was up on Tues. Rather shocked to say the least. Have never seen lines like that before!!

From an article yesterday on 9News.com...

"The last two days at the Loveland Ski Area have been our busiest in our 70 plus years,"

Looking forward to next week when crowds are gone and temps are a bit warmer

llr

[jp1]

I swear, I haven't told a sole ....... I agree with DT ! (LS )

" Happy New Year " to the LCI Gang and the whole Bomber Crew !

[inkaholic]

Just me tomorrow (Sat).

Ink

[oldvolvosrule]

Happy New Year to the LCI crew. Be safe out there and most of all have fun. Hope to see you soon.

Sounds like someone got a new bike, 36 Fox fork, sounds like a DH bike. What is it?

[D.T.]

Happy New Year to the LCI crew. Be safe out there and most of all have fun. Hope to see you soon.

Sounds like someone got a new bike, 36 Fox fork, sounds like a DH bike. What is it?

Happy New Year to you! Were you affected by the mudslides? Sounded like they were near you.

I picked up a Transition Covert - a 6" AM bike. Then swapped to a beefier shock and wheels. Not a full on DH ride, but will do most anything that my sorry a$$ can throw at it.

[oldvolvosrule]

D.T., yes the mudslides occurred in my hometown, just below my parents home. Very sad to happen so close to christmas.

On another note, our most direct highway to our reosrt took a major blow. The hwy will be closed for the rst of the winter. Now my drive is 1.5 hours vs. 50 min.

[D.T.]

D.T., yes the mudslides occurred in my hometown, just below my parents home. Very sad to happen so close to christmas.

On another note, our most direct highway to our reosrt took a major blow. The hwy will be closed for the rst of the winter. Now my drive is 1.5 hours vs. 50 min.

That sucks about the highway, but glad to hear that neither your or your parent's homes were damaged!

[D.T.]

when looking at the Lovey forecast, a wise person would stay home when the high temp is predicted at -2°F, with windchills around -21°F... Ink, Shelly and I had a great time today because the wise people were at home leaving the mountain wide open for us. I think the -2°F/-21°F forecast was a bit of an overstatement; I honestly believe today was the coldest day I have ever spent at Lovey! We rode until ~12:00, including an hour warm-up break (cough, cough, coco-porter, cough, cough). The carving was decent, there were some soft spots to be had. The snow should be set-up really nice tomorrow!!!

Thanks guys, it was lots of fun; see ya tomorrow!

P.S. - Ink, tell KK that if he does not show up tomorrow, I'm going to tickle him until he is blue in the face!

[monodude]

when looking at the Lovey forecast, a wise person would stay home when the high temp is predicted at -2°F, with windchills around -21°F... Ink, Shelly and I had a great time today because the wise people were at home leaving the mountain wide open for us. I think the -2°F/-21°F forecast was a bit of an overstatement; I honestly believe today was the coldest day I have ever spent at Lovey! We rode until ~12:00, including an hour warm-up break (cough, cough, coco-porter, cough, cough). The carving was decent, there were some soft spots to be had. The snow should be set-up really nice tomorrow!!!

Thanks guys, it was lots of fun; see ya tomorrow!

P.S. - Ink, tell KK that if he does not show up tomorrow, I'm going to tickle him until he is blue in the face!

I've spent some mighty cold days @ Lovey with you guys and loved every minute. My wife and I went up to Pinedale for the new year's eve and sat nite.
Fri morning was -25* below and warmed up to a balmy -15* below. two runs coco, repeat. and sat morning was -16* below warming up to -10* below, three runs, coco, repeat. Felt just like home...

Don

Feed the addiction...

[inkaholic]

Got word last night that Monodude will be in the pack on Sunday with you all. The DUDE still doesn't have internet but is looking forward to riding Lovey with the LCI again.

As for the Runes Ohana, we will be in Steamboat this weekend.

Ink