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Baldface didn't suck this year...

9K views 59 replies 27 participants last post by  Matty_B_Bop 
#1 ·


The last day might have been the single best day I've had in 16 years of going there, some years for 2 trips.. It was magical..
 
#24 ·
Hit me up. It's on my list :)

BTW: vid not available in your country... :dry: can't join the jelly crowd.
 
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Fawk, I don't have data on my phone to watch ten min of video.
Ahhhh, it's torture I'm gonna have to go somewhere with wi-fi & watch this.


TT

Without seeing it yet, I can say.
Yeah, haha, it's the best fuckin' place in the universe.
 
#12 ·
I ride a Prior Khyber 165.. A lot of set back and taper,with mostly camber and a tiny bit of early rise in the tip/tail... It's been my go to pow board for years now and I have it in a split as well for touring...

Staying at Baldface is awesome, its super nice while laid back at the same time... The food is excellent as is the company, the trip I'm on is all guys who have been going for at least 10 years with a handful of us being day one clients ( I'm a day one person, this was my 16th year going ).. So we all go on the same trip and we have the whole lodge, all 4 cats. So it's a good time and we all know each other well and we are all high level riders/skiers so there are no Barneys slowing us down..

It's worth every bit of sacrifice through out the year to get there, and there is sacrifice, make no mistake about it. But I'm not one of those to wait to hopefully cross things of my bucket list when I'm older/retired, there's nothing guaranteeing me I'll make it there. So I make it happen here and in the now, and love it every year...

( thankfully I also have an awesome wife who is a travel agent and she gets it )
 
#13 ·
Another instructor at my club has invited me to join him on his annual pilgrimage to Baldface whenever someone in his group has had to cancel. He also says that it is a "bucket list" type of thing where you don't want to wait until you are too old.

You don't go with anyone from Toronto by chance, do you?
 
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Exactly, if you think you are gonna rip it up when you are retired?

Haha get real, you'll have a fuckin' heart attack first run.

I talked ballistic from this forum & local riding buddy, into coming with me.

Not an easy task to do.

First the cost. I'm sure there are more expensive places to go?
But it ain't the cheapest either.

Having to convince him that not everything is retardedly steep & gnarly.
That was by far the hardest part, all the way up to the day we left he kept bringing it up.

Right beside every mental run, there's a easy one right beside it.

What I think hit home though.

I'm 40 & I know I'm not gonna be able to rip like I can now, in 10 or 15 years.
Ole dirty bastar-llistic he's gotta be pushing' 50.

I straight up told him.
This is it, you might not get another chance @ this.
if you do, sometime in the next ten years.
Is it really gonna be awesome @ 60?
Sure it won't suck. Haha how could it?
You seen it. Hahah

This is a now thing.
Like right fuckin' now.
You don't know it yet, but it'll change your life & how you see things


TT
 
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The Pilots are perfect for me.. I'm kinda a weirdo, I like mid stiff boots/bindings.. I don't want super soft but I really hate super stiff, seems to twitchy to me.. I guess you could say I like my set up to perform a little more skate/surf like using the natural articulation of my knees and ankles vs. being locked into some super stiff ski like set up.. No disrespect to people who like stiff boots/bindings, but they're not my jam....
 
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Well that looks like perfect mid steep, perfectly spaced trees, perfect conditions, perfect amount of snow, fucking perfect riding.

i've been trying to get a couple of my friends to do this for the last 5 years and the amount of excuses is staggering..

oddly money is not the issue, either is skill = nobody is travis rice but all of us have been riding for more than 10 years and 2 of us lived in CO for a few years = all advanced to say the least.

I sent them your video to see if they can get off their suburban asses and convince their wives to do this next year.---- wives are an issue as well as procrastination.

Perhaps you could post some footage of the dinners/lodge so I can send that to them as well to help my case....
 
#29 ·
awesome to the max.

to the op, how was last year? i have some friends that have been twice, first time was all time (normal) but last year was particularly bad snow conditions so i saw a lot of drinking games and costume skiiing/riding.
even at bf ullr can be pissed
 
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Last year was the worst year i've had in 16 years of going there.. But even with that being the truth, it was still better than resort riding and we were still riding pow, it was just settled old pow... and yes there was drinking games and a disco night and costume riding, but my crew does that every year, no matter the conditions... Maybe your friends were on my trip? We have openings from time to time and some newbs sneak in here and there if they know people on our trip..
 
#36 ·
Such an awesome thread.

Popped my cat cherry this season at Big Red Cats with conditions that look similar to your vid. Didn't take us long to book another trip for March. Timmytard totally nailed the incredible vibe of the cat ride back up after a run - massive grins and laughs all around for sure.

But Baldface just looks next level between the terrain and the after riding lodge scene going on there. Might have to take the plunge some time soon.
 
#37 ·
I'm going to start a gofundme page like that kid wanting to go to Japan so I can get up there haha jk, I'm an adult...

Actually, I think I have a high enough credit limit I can swing it lol

Robyn Van Gyn on instagram joked she would be my tour guide if I came during Christmas and I swear I almost dropped everything and went whether she meant it or not!!! Instead I'm here jealous like everyone of this guy who did go :dry:
 
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#39 ·
I think it's pretty booked solid fo the next couple years?
The people in the know, don't fuck around.

It's a revolving door of superstars. If you can make it up there, there's prolly a 95% chance you get tossed in a cat, with living legends.

Someone in one of my facebook groups just posted this


Well, BALDFACE first day was pretty sick. Nothing like having Terje, Jamie, Iguchi and Müller here as well. Salute to all the DMQ. Oh yeah. Had the 96 Custom out the first day as well. 'Twas sickness

You might not even know who any of the dudes are, they look like everyday normal people.

Until you see someone bust out somethin' you didn't was humanly possible..
It's the smoothest easiest riding ever.
When there's no tracks to cross pretty much ever.
You instanty become a way better snowboarder.
It's litterally impossible to not ride the best you ever have.

Fuck i love powder haha my eyes are all welled up.


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