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Simply^Ride

Snowolf stayed at our hotel over night, it was a good idea that way he could save on gas costs. The last day was pretty good, unfortunately I fell pretty bad a couple of times (there were talks about having to change my nickname to simply^fall instead of simply^ride ). On of the falls I landed on my nose and scratched it a little bit, I am going to have a fun time explaining that to my boss.


Thats the park they were building up in mile for summer riding, they were all day up there working on it. You can also see at the end the roof a lodge, that thing was completely buried under the snow.


Another shot of the park they were building


A nice shot with clear skies, riding up magic mile, you can see the palmer lift and the Half pipe.


this is on top of magic mile above the cloud cover, thats Daniel, Snowolf and me.


Cool shot of my board with Daniel and Snow in the background.


Thats Palmer glacier.


Looking down from Magic mile.


After landing face forward into ice snow. Didn't hurt but I hope it doesn't leave a scar in the center it's a little deep.

After 3 full days of riding I am so tired, on top of that I think I have to get my knee checked up, something is going on in there thats feels out of place.

Snowolf was extremely helpful and he is probably the nicest guy that I ever met, thanks again Snow. I am looking forward to coming back to hood next year, if the $$$ allows it. This trip has to be in my top 3 riding trips I highly recommend it to anyone reading this.

Timberline is a great resort, they really have one of the best people working for them. Riders/skiers are friendly and respectfully unlike some resorts in the east coast. Their terrain is not what I would consider double black, but they have some great glades, parks and natural jumps to make up for it. They also offer plenty of vertical to keep you busy and just in case you feel like having more you could hike some more for some more runs from the summit.

Love'in Life

Great Pictures! Looks like it was beautiful . Sorry about your nose, but thats good it didn't hurt.
I can't wait till next summer when I get to go up! It will be awesome!

Snowolf

Great shots! Thanks for riding with me; I had a blast! I will be working this weekend at Mt. Hood Meadows if any locals wan`t to take some turns if I am not teaching. Fainerbrainer it was great meeting you and riding with you; look forward to it again!

The parks at Tline are excellent! We started out on the beginner jumps in the park off of the Jeff Flood chair. These are perfectly constructed to provide a very gentle take off with no table top to clear. They are on perfect rollers about 10 feet high and have about a 1 foot lip on the takeoff ramp with a long, gentle, sloping landing zone and nice tansition to the next hit. These are ideal for learning and foe dialing in spins. I was enjoying doing 1`s and working on 3`s on these.

The half pipe off of Stormin Normin was perfectly cut and the walls were clean and smooth with a very good tranny and the flats were full of great, soft slushy corn snow to speed check and stabilize any problems coming off the wall. Below the pipe on Conways are superb intermediate jumps with 10 to 15 foot tables and are built on 20 foot tall rollers. Each jump has two ramps; one with a gentler, shorter ramp allowing a less experienced park rider to clear the table and reach the perfectly sloped landing zone. The more advanced ramps give the rider more vert and longer table to clear. There are two really awesome step ups that allow the rider to to just haul ass and launch like the space shuttle yet never risk being more than 10 feet above the surface. These are perfect for gaining courage and confidence to go bigger while having that safety net there for errors. There are nice rails and boxes along the way for all ability levels. At the end is a curved quarter pipe that the rider can use to do any number of fun freestyle tricks on. The flow of this park is great the rider can maintain speed while getting set up for the next hit without having to rush things.

The biggest park is on Paintbrush with very big features. Some of the rollers are nearly 50 feet high with large tables. The ramps are angled expertly to give just the right trajectory to gain huge air and easily clear the knuckle. I got the biggest air yet on these things. The thrill of landing something this big is awesome! What is really great about these is the way the park crew built the table top. They are not flat, but slope downward toward the knuckle so that an intermediate rider, not quite ready to clear the entire feature can hit these things at a slower speed and pop a little air off the ramp and still not pancake flat onto the table. I have to say that Tline`s park crew is phenomenal thins year!

Fainer...sorry your experience with trees was`nt the best. Trust me, those were not great conditions for riding glades. Don`t let that discourage you from hittng them either another day this season or next. Honestly, that frozen crust with goo underneath is about the worst thing on earth to ride in and in trees where you need some precise control it was especially challenging. That shit is what caused my spectacular 20 foot cartwheel off that small lip. My nose broke through and stuck and with as much speed as I had, I violently flipped like I did.

Awesome 3 days of riding guys and I look forward to it again!!!

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fainerbainer

Eh, I just have a heck of a time doing the same thing in the trees that I can in the open. It seems like I can go heel to toe fast if I "feel" I have room for error. In the trees I don't have much room for error and so it doesn't make the run as fun for me when I get down in a tree "low spot" and have to crawl my way out of it. It spends way too much energy trying to move 5 feet from where I was stuck in the trees, hence why I hated this time out.

I also know that it was my first time trying to link turns, feel the bumps and turns, concentrating where my head is to avoid limbs, and making sure my weight is back (at least balanced) for a transition that doesn't bury my nose.

So don't feel bad that I hate them. I'll definitely hit the tree runs again. I just hate them for the time being. It was fun to hit some of those orange jumps from stormin norman. I got a grab here and there (albeit not much air) but I'm getting more comfortable with speed off the jumps and keeping my weight balanced.

I absolutely loved the jumps after the superpipe. They felt "vertical" on approach but you end up going over it. It's one of those things where if you've never done it your corn hole puckers up and then releases once you feel yourself balanced over the knuckle.

All in all it was great. I want to get back up there before the months over so i'll give ya a holler.

Snowolf

I did`nt know this...Shit, you are doing awesome! That was challenging conditions and some of the tightly packed groves were challenging in any condition. You play around in the wider, more open glades at Meadows this coming year (I recomend the trees along HRM) when there is fresh pow and you will have this thing dialed in well in short order....

Anyway, glad it was an overall good time and I look forward to riding with you again soon!

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MikeFromTheBay

Hey simplyride:

Thanks for putting up those pictures. They are getting me so stoked for my hood trip. Thanks for all the info too. Been a big help. :]

And Wolf:

Are you gonna be riding much this summer? Like June or July?

Snowolf

You bet. I will be doing a lot less than now of course, as it will be rafting season, but I am up for riding any time.

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Simply^Ride

Well I am back Florida and my knee is fucking killing me, I am going to work today and if it continues like this I will see the doctor over the weekend. For now I am going to buy a knee brace. I have a love hate relationship with Florida, the weather here is wonderful, but the lack of snow really makes me hate it.

Fainer: you were doing amazing for the first time linking turns, shit for all I know you never felt behind and Snow was hailing ass most of the time . We took the GPS on the last day and I think he logged 47mph the most I got was on the first day and it was 36mph. You will get into glades later on, I actually saw you doing very good in the glades and you got some good air off those big jumps next to the pipe.

mikefromthebay: No problem, I enjoy sharing pictures, I am glad you enjoyed them. If you want to see more PM me.

Well I am off to the Walgreen's to get a knee brace, I hope it helps a bit today.

fainerbainer

Sorry about the knee and the nose. I'm still sore 2 days later. I can't even imagine three days in a row. To clarify, it wasn't my first day linking turns. I did that the last time I was out. However, Wednesday was the first time I had linked turns that fast and smooth. It was the 2nd day I had hit jumps and what not. But the jumps @ Timberline were 2x as big as skibowl. This was the 5th day overall that I have been.

Sporting stuff comes easily to me so it just takes time getting out there. I also watched all of you so that I can learn. I followed right behind wolf here and there and tried to stay exactly in his tracks. I noticed I'm not quite as "responsive" in linking. I should have changed my back binding from the angle I had it. I felt it was making me have a hard time getting back to my heel edge.

The trees weren't that bad. I just hated going down them and burying my nose right in one of the tree "divots" to where I had to hop back to the decline to get going. It takes so much energy that when I'm on the decline I have to sit there for a second because my legs burn. lol.

It was great though. You guys think you'll come back up here?