Sugar Mountain

[D.Choe]

I got back from North Carolina yesterday and decided to share some pics.
Enjoy :)

[D.Choe]

one more :D

[speedminded]

you suck! i wanna plan a ski trip for sooooon.

[Halfwit]

looks like fun.

[#1Beaver]

damn looks nice
wats easier skiing or boarding, always wated to snowboard but neva have

[trythefly]

Been to Sugar before. I remember that hill. Isnt that the only slope they have-lol?

Best bet on the east coast is to go to Snowshoe or Winterplace in West Virginia.

Nice pics though..

[speedminded]

Been to Sugar before. I remember that hill. Isnt that the only slope they have-lol?

Best bet on the east coast is to go to Snowshoe or Winterplace in West Virginia.

Nice pics though..it's the highest/longest slope in NC...still only takes me about 1 minute to get to the bottom :( But they have a another slope on the other side of the trees (standing at the bottom looking up it would be the farrr left) then you have the medium slope that comes down from the top instead going down the double black and then you can split off several places towards and past the snowboard park area. i also get back on the lift halfway down in the center so you don't have to wait at the crazy long ass lines at the bottom :)

[#1Beaver]

damn no love for a nigga that wants to snowboard

[speedminded]

damn no love for a nigga that wants to snowboardit's whatever you feel most comfortable on...i thought snowboarding was pretty easy to learn but i'm still more comfortable on ski's...ski's go faster too :D

[#1Beaver]

o ok sonds good always wanted to go!

[RUSH]

Dude thats funny, cause I pretty much have that first pic in the same spot, I'll post it tonight

I was there these past two weekends,

These pics must of been sunday or monday, cause it was nasty saturday!

[RUSH]

it's whatever you feel most comfortable on...i thought snowboarding was pretty easy to learn but i'm still more comfortable on ski's...ski's go faster too :D



Ski's arnt faster

[speedminded]

Ski's arnt fasterlol, ohh reallyyy? how much you wanna bet i can ski BACKWARDS [while holding a camera] faster than just about anyone on a snowboard? I use long ski's, parabolics are 190-205+mm and i've used straight ski's up to 220mm. Do we have a challenge? :)

[RUSH]

Tell you what, I can leave the lift at the top, and I will never cut until the bottom!

[goldeneyes]

lol, ohh reallyyy? how much you wanna bet i can ski BACKWARDS [while holding a camera] faster than just about anyone on a snowboard? I use long ski's, parabolics are 190-205+mm and i've used straight ski's up to 220mm. Do we have a challenge? :)

We know how Jason likes his Challenges. ;)

[speedminded]

Tell you what, I can leave the lift at the top, and I will never cut until the bottom!yeah, but boards are short and slower...and i've done that at sugar and parts of cataloochee several times (especially when the big drop is too icey to cut) Do we have a race here?

[RUSH]

I was kidding about boards are faster, cause there not....

But, I can hold my own coming down a mountain!

[RUSH]

yeah, but boards are short and slower...and i've done that at sugar and parts of cataloochee several times (especially when the big drop is too icey to cut) Do we have a race here?


Yeah Im game, I'll be at the looooch this saturday!

[speedminded]

Yeah Im game, I'll be at the looooch this saturday!i wanna see you go straight down the double black at cataloochee without cutting...I'll be at the bottom of the first run shortly to cut the tree down you're stuck in the top of :tongue: (i removed a snowboarder from a tree there once, i spent an hour building a jump and he hits it at an angle throwing him off the side of the mtn....he was stuck upside hanging from the board with his feet between two limbs....) :D

[RUSH]

The best I can do at loochee, is leaving from the 3/4 lift on either side and not cut till the sharp right turn....
The top is to bumpy, if you know what I mean, and I do have to cut a few times up der!

[speedminded]

We know how Jason likes his Challenges. ;)I'm always up for a good challenge :devil:

[speedminded]

The top is to bumpy, if you know what I mean, and I do have to cut a few times up der!lol, if you went straight down at the top by the 3rd or 4th mogul you'd probably be upside down 10 feet in the air screaming like a girl :tongue:

[RUSH]

lol, if you went straight down at the top by the 3rd or 4th mogul you'd probably be upside down 10 feet in the air screaming like a girl :tongue:


prolly not screaming but laughing!

[speedminded]

prolly not screaming but laughing!lol, i was laughing when i went off the top at the looch...3 of us racing and i cut across in front of someone just as we were leaving the moguls and the last jump sent me flying....they saw hat, then they saw ski's, then hat again...then *BAM* i centered one of the plastic barrels protecting the steel hydraulic line sticking out for the snow blowers to hook up to....lol, i think it sounded worse than what it really was but still had a bruise all down one side of my rib cage...good times :)

[ironchef]

I've never been skiing/snowboarding, and I really want to go. Is this place good? Close? How much is it to rent equipment? Anyone got any links?

[speedminded]

I've never been skiing/snowboarding, and I really want to go. Is this place good? Close? How much is it to rent equipment? Anyone got any links?Cataloochee is the closest www.cataloochee.com/

With a small group i can get the best deals at Sugar and rent the equipment from the place i normally stay at...they have all new equipment, it's cheaper than the lodge at the mtn, and you no waiting in lines.


www.skinorthcarolina.com/
www.goskinc.com/
www.skinc.com/
www.skithehighcountry.com/
www.groupskirentals.com/

www.skisugar.com/
www.skibeech.com/
www.hawksnest-resort.com/
www.skisapphire.com/
www.skiwolflaurel.com/
www.appskimtn.com/

[HiPSI]

can't wait man... hitting cataloochee on sunday :D.

anyone else that wants to tag along is welcome to come, we're only making a day trip out of it.

[RUSH]

One is from last weekend, and one is from this past weekend! Sorry about the quality, throw away camera, I never keep a good camera with me on the slope!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/rushmb/snowboarding2.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/rushmb/snowboarding4.jpg

[HiPSI]

man that picture makes whoopdedoo look not so big ;). it looks gigantic from the bottom looking up. i like going down to the right, i think it's called boulderdash... and then the blue to the left is fun because you can play a lot on it with all the little jumps/drops off to the edges :).

[speedminded]

man that picture makes whoopdedoo look not so big ;). it looks gigantic from the bottom looking up. i like going down to the right, i think it's called boulderdash... and then the blue to the left is fun because you can play a lot on it with all the little jumps/drops off to the edges :).that pics the center run right? pretty much just a straight smooth shot down with no moguls or anything? On the far right it's fun just to get a "running" start and jumping off...sometimes you can make it feel like your not in NC, lol...until you land on the ice below anyways ;) I've done it in a blizzard several times where you couldn't see 20 feet below you :D

The left side is fun when there's not a million people sitting on the edges...like cutting the inside corner in the hair pin and jumping...hoping you can cut fast enough not to go off the outside edge :tongue:

[HiPSI]

that pics the center run right? pretty much just a straight smooth shot down with no moguls or anything? On the far right it's fun just to get a "running" start and jumping off...sometimes you can make it feel like your not in NC, lol...until you land on the ice below anyways ;) I've done it in a blizzard several times where you couldn't see 20 feet below you :D

The left side is fun when there's not a million people sitting on the edges...like cutting the inside corner in the hair pin and jumping...hoping you can cut fast enough not to go off the outside edge :tongue:


yeah, whoopdedoo is the bigass straight downhill with no moguls at all. you're right about the blue to the left, there are usually a lot of people that don't need to be up there trying to get down to the easier stuff and it gets kind of annoying dodging them... but i can usually make fun out of it :).

[fox]

yeah, whoopdedoo is the bigass straight downhill with no moguls at all. you're right about the blue to the left, there are usually a lot of people that don't need to be up there trying to get down to the easier stuff and it gets kind of annoying dodging them... but i can usually make fun out of it .
dodging and scaring peopel can be fun as shit.

what kind of boards do all of you ride? also, can you give me some details
about the cheaper lodging at sugar? i'm up there pretty often throughout
the winter.

[RUSH]

Mine is a GNU 163. it was time to change it up so I got it painted just like my car....ah, something different I guess!
I got a good idea for my next board...lol...errbody is gonna like it, but its a secret!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Ftr_10/110_10590.jpg

[fox]

nice. 163 seems really tall though.

[RUSH]

nice. 163 seems really tall though.


its Perfect for me...

[HiPSI]

mine's nothing special... just a House brand 158 w/lamar bindings and boots.

[fox]

mine's nothing special... just a House brand 158 w/lamar bindings and boots.
lol. lamar bindings are a joke. i have a pair too...