Winter outing stories in Colorado

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Follow the carver By: tom, 12 April 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : I recently bought some motion stabilizing video processing software,
How to carve a 360 snowboard turn By: tom, 6 April 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : For me, the most interesting BOL post this year was about carving a 360 turn. In true BOL fashion, although the original poster asked for video, the following 8 pages were full of "i do it all the ti...
Aspen and Pureboarding 2008 By: tom, 3 April 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : We joined the Pureboarding group on their annual April trip. Here are some pictures... Day 1 was 20" of powder at Snowmass. Day 2 we carved on a nicely set up snow at Ajax. Day 3 was 2-3" fresh over ...
Jimmy and Frank hit Monarch By: tom, 29 March 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : Jimmy and Frank came to visit from Chicago -- first two days they rode at Monarch. Dr. Scott and I joined them, had a great time!
Angelfire NM By: tom, 13 March 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : Having the Monarch season pass entitles us to three free days at Angelfire, NM. We found a few days to head down there before the spring break madness starts, and it was a great trip! We loved the sk...
Fourth anniversary of snowboarding! By: tom, 8 March 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : Ha! Tempus fugit! Today marks the fourth year that I've been snowboarding -- probably got in some 200-250 days over those four years. I started riding when I met Lisa, she was already a skilled rider...
SES 2008 By: tom, 7 March 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : This was the worst session for me so far -- due to the fact that both Sunday, before we got sick, we spent the morning riding with Joerg
Monarch Invasion Session 2008 By: tom, 1 March 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : The Loveland crew decided to use up their free passes at Monarch and came up for three days. A few other riders showed up too, namely newcarver from Montrose, RDY_2_Carve and his friend Shawn from Al...
John Gilmour carving clinics By: tom, 7 February 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : John Gilmour wrote on the bomberonline.com forum about being available for coaching in Colorado this season. I thought it would be a great way for me to open yet another "door", get more ideas about ...
Lisa's "B" turn By: tom, January 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : I really enjoyed seeing Lisa's turn on the SES 2007 DVD that can be
Hardbooting in powder By: kjl, December 2007 \| : Ken wrote me a letter: A few of us here have been talking, and we really think you have a Hardbooting in powder is just unhealthy, and it really hurts us If you don't get some softboots on that powst...
Monarch opening weekend 2007 By: tom, December 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: Monarch opened three weeks late this year, due to lack of snow. But
Review: Pureboarding "TWO" By: tom, April 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : Last year Joerg started producing a new board, the TWO, and in February he kindly left me a 164 board to ride and experiment with. I really enjoyed riding it -- it was a blast. I rode the 164cm board...
Lessons in carving on alpine snowboards By: tpalka, April 2007 \| : Feel like you hit a wall with carving? Carving in the "park and ride" style, where you get nice deep and fast carves, stand up in the transitions, then lower your body into the next turn? Still think...
Riding "A-style" with PureBoarding By: tom, April 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : Joerg from PureBoarding and a dozen guests came to Aspen again for a 10-day April trip. Lisa and I had a great trip riding with PureBoarding last year, and jumped at the opportunity to ride with them...
Profile: Mats By: tom, February 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : Some pictures I took of Mats, our Swedish carving fiend/friend, during the World Carving Session.
World Carving Session 2007 By: tom, February 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : My third year at the session in Aspen, this year renamed from SES to Day 1 of the World Carving Session in Aspen -- 2007. Spent that day The day started out foggy, but there was blue sky over Big Bur...
Post-WCS week By: tom, February 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : After the World Carving Session was done, a few of us stayed and rode for another week. Lisa and I skipped riding over President's weekend, but skinned up Buttermilk one day, and rode the other mount...
Review: Prior Metal WCR By: tom, January 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : I rode one at A-Basin demos and loved it -- so much, in fact, that I For more info, visit Prior Snowboards.
Carving Monarch 9-Jan-2007 By: tom, January 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: I've been pretty comfortable riding with hands behind my back, but
Alpine practice: Switch - steeps - and fresh By: tom, December 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: Getting better, but still having a hard time dealing with the terrain I have been initiating turns a lot earlier, traversing the hill on Oh, still tons of counter-rotation, but I felt good on my Prio...
Riding class with Lowell Hart at Vail By: tom, April 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| vail: We heard great things about a hardbooting instructor, Lowell Hart, He had us work on separation of joints and on understanding ways that It was an outstanding day -- we were up on the first chair, an...
Swallowtail snowboarding at Wolf Creek By: tom, April 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| wolf-creek: I bought the Prior Pow-stick swallowtail board, and it arrived two Thankfully, the Lord hath provided, and the weekend brought snow. It was the last day of the season for Wolf Creek -- $23 tickets as...
Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge race at Beaver Creek By: tom, March 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| beaver-creek: Copper was a zoo on Saturday -- fortunately we missed it, running In the early afternoon Jeff and Kim headed over to race -- it was the
Carving at Copper with Dr. Scott By: tom, March 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| copper-mountain: I easily settled into the routine of getting up before 5 to get work On Thursday I had the biggest fall of the season -- I was riding down On Friday Dr. Scott and Greg came with us, and Lisa spent so...
Riding with PureBoarding in Aspen By: tom, March 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| : Joerg from NEWSFLASH: (4 April 2006) Check photos from Richard NEWSFLASH: (7 April 2006) Check out the
Review: Prior Powstick By: tom, February 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| : I've been going back and forth on whether to buy a powder board -- Read more about the board at the riding swallowtails at Wolf Creek.
2006 Summit Expression Session By: tom, February 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| : It's that time of the year again -- Scott Firestone of Over two or three days we took a number of runs with Joerg Egli and I saw their movies last year, and wanted to learn how to ride their On our l...
Practicing push-pull carving turns By: tom, January 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: We got back from Christmas in Europe and were very stoked to finally I am working on three different things at once, hoping that they will I put together a video from a bunch of short clips, quality ...
More carving exercises By: tom, March 2005 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: Easter came along, seems like just a few weeks of the season left, Following each of the pictures are my comments on what I think we're Lisa has sometimes a hard time with her heel-to-toe transitions...
Telluride weekend By: tom, January 2005 telemark-skiing \| telluride: See the thumbnails of all pictures. Telluride -- I've been there only once, during the summer, and have With a dinner stop in Montrose (excellent Chinese buffet with lots The first day we all snowboa...
Carving at Beaver Creek By: tom, January 2005 alpine-snowboarding \| beaver-creek: My Lisa was a bit freaked with all the people on the slope, and that Scott was ripping it up! We didn't ride a ton with him, but I got a I noticed that I'm still C-shaping a little bit -- especially ...
Drills for alpine carving By: tom, January 2005 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: One of the main comments that I get on my snowboarding technique is To see the recommendations from folks on BomberOnline, click here. Following are some pictures of what happened, and a video that L...
Starting 2005 carving season at Monarch By: tom, December 2004 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: Whoo-hooo! Monarch opened Lisa got back into the swing of things fairly quickly -- had some I had a harder time -- although there is no doubt in my mind that But with all the falling, I still had a g...
Learning to snowboard at Monarch By: tom, March 2004 snowboarding \| monarch: As a telemark skier, I always thought that picking up snowboarding My friends Michael and Kanyu came to visit for a few days, and as I'd like to think that I picked it up reasonably quickly -- and I ...
Learning to carve at Monarch By: tom, March 2004 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: Carving -- I saw the movies of Patrice and Jacques on the web (at
Skiing at Wolf Creek By: tom, November 2003 telemark-skiing \| wolf-creek: Well, just a few days ago I wrote about how I feel I live in Kathy Mears and I drove down to meet Jody and Thai at Wolf Creek. They and their Not much to say here -- snow was outstanding, it was the ...
Winter ski trip to Conundrum Hot Springs By: tom, April 1999 nordic-skiing \| crested-butte: Other weekend plans failing, Mike, Scott, and I decided to ski out to The plan was to drive out to Crested Butte, go to The I got up at 0445, finished packing my gear, made bacon with We reached Gunn...

Follow the carver By: tom, 12 April 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : I recently bought some motion stabilizing video processing software,
How to carve a 360 snowboard turn By: tom, 6 April 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : For me, the most interesting BOL post this year was about carving a 360 turn. In true BOL fashion, although the original poster asked for video, the following 8 pages were full of "i do it all the ti...
Aspen and Pureboarding 2008 By: tom, 3 April 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : We joined the Pureboarding group on their annual April trip. Here are some pictures... Day 1 was 20" of powder at Snowmass. Day 2 we carved on a nicely set up snow at Ajax. Day 3 was 2-3" fresh over ...
Jimmy and Frank hit Monarch By: tom, 29 March 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : Jimmy and Frank came to visit from Chicago -- first two days they rode at Monarch. Dr. Scott and I joined them, had a great time!
Angelfire NM By: tom, 13 March 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : Having the Monarch season pass entitles us to three free days at Angelfire, NM. We found a few days to head down there before the spring break madness starts, and it was a great trip! We loved the sk...
Fourth anniversary of snowboarding! By: tom, 8 March 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : Ha! Tempus fugit! Today marks the fourth year that I've been snowboarding -- probably got in some 200-250 days over those four years. I started riding when I met Lisa, she was already a skilled rider...
SES 2008 By: tom, 7 March 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : This was the worst session for me so far -- due to the fact that both Sunday, before we got sick, we spent the morning riding with Joerg
Monarch Invasion Session 2008 By: tom, 1 March 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : The Loveland crew decided to use up their free passes at Monarch and came up for three days. A few other riders showed up too, namely newcarver from Montrose, RDY_2_Carve and his friend Shawn from Al...
John Gilmour carving clinics By: tom, 7 February 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : John Gilmour wrote on the bomberonline.com forum about being available for coaching in Colorado this season. I thought it would be a great way for me to open yet another "door", get more ideas about ...
Lisa's "B" turn By: tom, January 2008 alpine-snowboarding \| : I really enjoyed seeing Lisa's turn on the SES 2007 DVD that can be
Hardbooting in powder By: kjl, December 2007 \| : Ken wrote me a letter: A few of us here have been talking, and we really think you have a Hardbooting in powder is just unhealthy, and it really hurts us If you don't get some softboots on that powst...
Monarch opening weekend 2007 By: tom, December 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: Monarch opened three weeks late this year, due to lack of snow. But
Review: Pureboarding "TWO" By: tom, April 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : Last year Joerg started producing a new board, the TWO, and in February he kindly left me a 164 board to ride and experiment with. I really enjoyed riding it -- it was a blast. I rode the 164cm board...
Lessons in carving on alpine snowboards By: tpalka, April 2007 \| : Feel like you hit a wall with carving? Carving in the "park and ride" style, where you get nice deep and fast carves, stand up in the transitions, then lower your body into the next turn? Still think...
Riding "A-style" with PureBoarding By: tom, April 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : Joerg from PureBoarding and a dozen guests came to Aspen again for a 10-day April trip. Lisa and I had a great trip riding with PureBoarding last year, and jumped at the opportunity to ride with them...
Profile: Mats By: tom, February 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : Some pictures I took of Mats, our Swedish carving fiend/friend, during the World Carving Session.
World Carving Session 2007 By: tom, February 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : My third year at the session in Aspen, this year renamed from SES to Day 1 of the World Carving Session in Aspen -- 2007. Spent that day The day started out foggy, but there was blue sky over Big Bur...
Post-WCS week By: tom, February 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : After the World Carving Session was done, a few of us stayed and rode for another week. Lisa and I skipped riding over President's weekend, but skinned up Buttermilk one day, and rode the other mount...
Review: Prior Metal WCR By: tom, January 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| : I rode one at A-Basin demos and loved it -- so much, in fact, that I For more info, visit Prior Snowboards.
Carving Monarch 9-Jan-2007 By: tom, January 2007 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: I've been pretty comfortable riding with hands behind my back, but
Alpine practice: Switch - steeps - and fresh By: tom, December 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: Getting better, but still having a hard time dealing with the terrain I have been initiating turns a lot earlier, traversing the hill on Oh, still tons of counter-rotation, but I felt good on my Prio...
Riding class with Lowell Hart at Vail By: tom, April 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| vail: We heard great things about a hardbooting instructor, Lowell Hart, He had us work on separation of joints and on understanding ways that It was an outstanding day -- we were up on the first chair, an...
Swallowtail snowboarding at Wolf Creek By: tom, April 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| wolf-creek: I bought the Prior Pow-stick swallowtail board, and it arrived two Thankfully, the Lord hath provided, and the weekend brought snow. It was the last day of the season for Wolf Creek -- $23 tickets as...
Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge race at Beaver Creek By: tom, March 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| beaver-creek: Copper was a zoo on Saturday -- fortunately we missed it, running In the early afternoon Jeff and Kim headed over to race -- it was the
Carving at Copper with Dr. Scott By: tom, March 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| copper-mountain: I easily settled into the routine of getting up before 5 to get work On Thursday I had the biggest fall of the season -- I was riding down On Friday Dr. Scott and Greg came with us, and Lisa spent so...
Riding with PureBoarding in Aspen By: tom, March 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| : Joerg from NEWSFLASH: (4 April 2006) Check photos from Richard NEWSFLASH: (7 April 2006) Check out the
Review: Prior Powstick By: tom, February 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| : I've been going back and forth on whether to buy a powder board -- Read more about the board at the riding swallowtails at Wolf Creek.
2006 Summit Expression Session By: tom, February 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| : It's that time of the year again -- Scott Firestone of Over two or three days we took a number of runs with Joerg Egli and I saw their movies last year, and wanted to learn how to ride their On our l...
Practicing push-pull carving turns By: tom, January 2006 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: We got back from Christmas in Europe and were very stoked to finally I am working on three different things at once, hoping that they will I put together a video from a bunch of short clips, quality ...
More carving exercises By: tom, March 2005 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: Easter came along, seems like just a few weeks of the season left, Following each of the pictures are my comments on what I think we're Lisa has sometimes a hard time with her heel-to-toe transitions...
Telluride weekend By: tom, January 2005 telemark-skiing \| telluride: See the thumbnails of all pictures. Telluride -- I've been there only once, during the summer, and have With a dinner stop in Montrose (excellent Chinese buffet with lots The first day we all snowboa...
Carving at Beaver Creek By: tom, January 2005 alpine-snowboarding \| beaver-creek: My Lisa was a bit freaked with all the people on the slope, and that Scott was ripping it up! We didn't ride a ton with him, but I got a I noticed that I'm still C-shaping a little bit -- especially ...
Drills for alpine carving By: tom, January 2005 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: One of the main comments that I get on my snowboarding technique is To see the recommendations from folks on BomberOnline, click here. Following are some pictures of what happened, and a video that L...
Starting 2005 carving season at Monarch By: tom, December 2004 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: Whoo-hooo! Monarch opened Lisa got back into the swing of things fairly quickly -- had some I had a harder time -- although there is no doubt in my mind that But with all the falling, I still had a g...
Learning to snowboard at Monarch By: tom, March 2004 snowboarding \| monarch: As a telemark skier, I always thought that picking up snowboarding My friends Michael and Kanyu came to visit for a few days, and as I'd like to think that I picked it up reasonably quickly -- and I ...
Learning to carve at Monarch By: tom, March 2004 alpine-snowboarding \| monarch: Carving -- I saw the movies of Patrice and Jacques on the web (at
Skiing at Wolf Creek By: tom, November 2003 telemark-skiing \| wolf-creek: Well, just a few days ago I wrote about how I feel I live in Kathy Mears and I drove down to meet Jody and Thai at Wolf Creek. They and their Not much to say here -- snow was outstanding, it was the ...
Winter ski trip to Conundrum Hot Springs By: tom, April 1999 nordic-skiing \| crested-butte: Other weekend plans failing, Mike, Scott, and I decided to ski out to The plan was to drive out to Crested Butte, go to The I got up at 0445, finished packing my gear, made bacon with We reached Gunn...