SkiingInABlueDream
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Lol, no. Just no. Sooo totally off the mark. It's not even... actually it is funny how wrong this is
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Lol, no. Just no. Sooo totally off the mark. It's not even... actually it is funny how wrong this is
SkiingInABlueDream
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I totally get why gravel is becoming so popular. Id be nervous riding on many roads these days. I don't begrudge gravel riding or those kinds of trails. The only thing I really object to is the removal of challenging features in traditionally technical trails, to make them rideable for non-mtn bikes.
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Hawk
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If I look at those pictures of skiing at Killngton above, that is exatly what I am taking about. Skiing patch to patch with yards of grass skiing in between strewn with rocks, I do not miss. That is fun for about 1 ot 2 runs and then it's time to drink beer.
KustyTheKlown
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once any connectivity is lost, particularly for the chair load and unload, I am done caring
Hawk
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The gravel riding that I have done is on gravel roads with very large climbs. VT, NH and Western Mass. There is no way to ride gravel bikes on any of the MTB trails where I live. You would flat in the first 10 yards. I can understand out west there are long smooth uphill trails that you could get away with a gravel bike.
Also the flow trials I have done are no fun unless you have suspension. KT, Killington, Highland and parts of Sugarbush. I would hardly call that riding easy and how else would you deal with the jumps without suspension. I think the definition of flow trail here is being interperted two different ways.
Also the flow trials I have done are no fun unless you have suspension. KT, Killington, Highland and parts of Sugarbush. I would hardly call that riding easy and how else would you deal with the jumps without suspension. I think the definition of flow trail here is being interperted two different ways.
Keelhauled
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I don't know what you mean by the word "skiing," this is clearly a thread for bickering about bicycles.
drjeff
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abc
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You were “spoon feeding” a personal preference “point” to others. I was polite enough to sidestep it without calling you out on it. But since you’re so self-righteous on your “point”, I will now call it out!
You‘re obviously not going to ski Superstar when there’s even the slightest gap, because it’s not “flow”, which is beneath you to ski. And anyone who actually enjoy such skiing is not understanding what “flow“ is and therefore “wrong”.
You’re no better than the moron who build a ramp on a jump landing because he view the requisite jump as “breaking the flow”.
abc
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Yep, I rode them in my hard tail. (Those are the easiest trails in Moab)
Actually, Klondike has flow. Dead Horse not so much. It’s just an easy, wide, flat mostly beginner trail set. Excellent view though.
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SkiingInABlueDream
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abc
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Sorry, that’s the whole freaking ironic point you completely missed. The rails are there to launch off from!You went off the rails impressively there
SkiingInABlueDream
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Aight, you sent it well then. Happy ridingSorry, that’s the whole freaking ironic point you completely missed. The rails are there to launch off from!
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PSA: Today is the last day to buy passes at early season pricing.
urungus
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Mudslide, flooding, downed power lines close roads in Windsor and Rutland counties - VTDigger
A Killington selectboard member estimated “well over a million dollars worth of damage” after a mudslide “about 15 feet high” came across Route 4.
vtdigger.org
RH29
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This is not good. Going to be lots of damage and this will be much longer lasting than the previous storms that caused the floods and landslides.
RH29
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The cost of a K-ticket is up to $109 from $89. No longer worth it for me this season, especially when I have a European trip planned. My family been going to Killington annually since the 70s. Not anymore for me.
BodeMiller1
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Umm aren't mudslides for places without trees? Wall of mud? This summer, not good.Mudslide, flooding, downed power lines close roads in Windsor and Rutland counties - VTDigger
A Killington selectboard member estimated “well over a million dollars worth of damage” after a mudslide “about 15 feet high” came across Route 4.
KustyTheKlown
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have you ever even driven route 4 during the past 10 years? the mudslides from irene are still obvious to anyone with eyes.
drjeff
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Enough moisture in the ground + enough pitch to the hillside, and often a bit of "push" from some wind, and the mass of the tree that the root system is trying to keep in place in the unstable soil, especially in a mountain situation where often there isn't that much soil covering up the rock underneath, and yup, you certainly can get slides in tree covered steeper hillside areas
