Your Current Ski Jones Rating

[andyzee]

Not really feeling it this year, maybe a 2?

 

[Moe Ghoul]

If your ski jones is under 5.5, here are some helpful hints. F the economy, F the elections, F anything (with a few exceptions) that drags down the Jones. Helpful hints for boosting the jones include:

Checking equipment and ski gear, including trying stuff on, tuning up, buffing the helmet, putting together clutch song lists for the ipods/nanos, ski porn, keeping live webcams of snow events and ski stoke screen savers on your screen, coming up with a financial plan to maximize slope time and cut out a few discretionaries for the worthy sacrifice if need be. I combined my birthday, anniversary and christmas gift this year to buy new sticks. Celebrate the fact that gas prices are down so far. Go thru old ski trip pix and appreciate the grins on those faces. Pack the john with ski mags and brochures so you get your head right the first thing every morning. In a worst case scenario, resort to denial of anything dragging down the Jones and consider prayer and/or chemicals, prescription or otherwise, to smooth out any rough patches. Meditate about a perfect day on skis. No matter how bad things get, we're still all better off than about 80% of the whole planet. It's relative. Most importantly, know that you WILL ski this season. If we are forced to ski a few less days than other years, get to the mountain earlier, and ski longer. Carpool, join a ski club, think outside the box to git 'er done. Squeeze all the quality out of each day if quantity comes up a few days less. Now get busy jonesing.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Higher than a hot airballoon riding ontop of a spaceship..

 

[severine]

Spent some time in a few ski shops yesterday, as well as watching some ski porn. Definitely up there!

 

[fixedgrip16]

4237 feet.

 

[ERJ-145CA]

It's at its peak now. It was 27 degrees at 7:10 this morning, I scraped frost off my car this morning and I picked up my kid's seasonal ski and boot rentals yesterday. Plus while I was out I bought a 2009 calendar full of skiing pictures and it's hanging on the wall over this computer now. Not to mention all the snowmaking pics from Mt. Snow and SR.

 

[gorgonzola]

the 28d and frost this morning just upped it up a point, i'm running about a 7.7 this is my favorite season on the mtb so that's still keepin it in check a bit!

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

way low here...maybe a 2 right now...surf has been great, still in full MTN biking season...business sucks (really sucks) so dont know about the season and with the 2 kids at home and wife talking about skiing and not knowing if we'll be able to go is really stressing me out...

 

[bvibert]

My jones is pretty friggen high right now, probably a 9 or so. Cold this morning (upper 20's @ 7:30), I had to scrape my windshield again.

way low here...maybe a 2 right now...surf has been great, still in full MTN biking season...business sucks (really sucks) so dont know about the season and with the 2 kids at home and wife talking about skiing and not knowing if we'll be able to go is really stressing me out...

Sorry to hear that man, I hope things turn around for you soon!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

The hard frost this morning really elevated my Jones..it's October 20th and last year I skied November 10th so it's so close..

 

[altaholic]

Jonesin' about a 9.5 right now, especially when you see the NATURAL snow fall already accumulating out west in Utah. Going to see the new Matchstick Productions film "Claim" tonight at the Somerville Theater. Will probably be jonesin' a full 10 after that...

 

[mattchuck2]

Bump me up to 9.3

Just ordered my new Skis . . . Volkl Gotamas with Marker Griffon bindings . . .

On the way home I was thinking to myself: "Man, I wish there was a station dedicated to skiing on my SIRIUS satellite radio". Got home and wondered why, if there is such a thing as the Golf channel, that there is no such thing as the Skiing channel?

Oh, and welcome to Alpinezone, altaholic . . . diggin the signature . . .

 

[bvibert]

On the way home I was thinking to myself: "Man, I wish there was a station dedicated to skiing on my SIRIUS satellite radio". Got home and wondered why, if there is such a thing as the Golf channel, that there is no such thing as the Skiing channel?

What sort of content would an all skiing channel have? I didn't even realize there was a Golf channel, sounds really effin boring to me...

My stoke is pretty high right now. I just spent a couple of hours stuffing my feet into some different ski boots. I may have my new boots picked out.

 

[hardline]

What sort of content would an all skiing channel have? I didn't even realize there was a Golf channel, sounds really effin boring to me...

My stoke is pretty high right now. I just spent a couple of hours stuffing my feet into some different ski boots. I may have my new boots picked out.

it would have to be the snow porn channel. nuttin but snow porn 24/7

 

[Greg]

it would have to be the snow porn channel. nuttin but snow porn 24/7

Sirius is satellite RADIO, not a great media for ski porn.

 

[o3jeff]

Don't they have that ski/touristy tv channel in VT and NH, RSN or something like that.

 

[Geoff]

My cars are lightly coated with snow and it's snowing lightly. My Ski Jones just went from a pretty low number up to a 9.

 

[severine]

I don't remember what number I was at before... but I'd say a solid 9 or so now. Spending a couple hours in the ski shop last night does that to you. Bindings for the Celebrities should be arriving tomorrow, going for pass pictures Saturday (and will likely spend more time in the ski shop Saturday as well)... I'm ready.

 

[o3jeff]

My stoke is pretty high right now. I just spent a couple of hours stuffing my feet into some different ski boots. I may have my new boots picked out.

You hopping on the Dalbello band wagon

 

[bvibert]

You hopping on the Dalbello band wagon

Perhaps...