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You have been a nice person during your life, but not always (as a snowboarder you didn't respect the skiers, hehe). So after your death you can choose only between two paradises. What do you prefer? (no other choice possible)

A paradise with slopes which are groomed daily (by God himself). The snow is perfect for extremecarving (but off piste snow is bad). There are many chair-lifts for you only, but you may prefer teleportation.
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A paradise with fresh and deep powder every day for amazing freeriding. You can be teleported to the tops of the mountains as often as you want with your freeride snowboard.
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Post by pokkis » Friday 23 April 2010, 14:25

fivat wrote:Well, riding alone would be boring after some time.
OK, i will allow firends to join me one at the time on afternoons 8)
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Post by Hans » Friday 23 April 2010, 14:49

POWDER in heaven of course, carving is boring :roll:
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Post by Silber » Friday 23 April 2010, 14:56

hehehe.....I can carve verylow in powder as well if it's no more than 20cm...or I just need to resurrect my Shaman..

So...POWDER!!!
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Post by Swiss Mike » Friday 23 April 2010, 19:07

Gee A hell of a question and what a dilema !!!

Just can't choose: Both are great.

But I think I will follow Silber's thoughts
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Post by rcrobar » Friday 23 April 2010, 21:12

Hi Pat

POWDER and Freeriding.

As much as I love Alpine and ECing, I would choose the second option ... powder and freeriding.

When I look back on my years of riding it seems like many of the lasting snowboarding memories that pop into my head on a hot summer day, have been perfect powder days on terrain that feels like you are hitting the lip when surfing. Yes, linking a few very good EC turns on a nice steep piste' are in the happy memory banks as well, but powder is when I seem to get excited and will run to the lift line as early as possible!

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Post by tali » Friday 23 April 2010, 21:36

Paradise No.1 :D
Having heavenly groomed slopes all to myself without the fear of numerous nice fellow skiers and snowboarders behind me...ahahah... 8)
As regards bad off-piste snow conditions - do you mean it is perfectly groomed EVERYWHERE?

And.... could my clone go into the Paradise No. 2?
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Post by tali » Friday 23 April 2010, 21:41

It seems that powder riding is much more friendly than carving.... Carvers want to be alone and to spoil the un-spoilable snow themselves...
In freeride you really do appreciate friends... particularly when digging you out...
By the way, any avalanches in Para-2?
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Post by philwi » Friday 23 April 2010, 23:44

Well I chose and choose powder mostly, although in the real world I get tired of too much powder after a while and a few days on hard-pack are always welcome.

I'll stick with heli rather than teleport though - even with good technique and proper hard boots it's nice to sit down for a few minutes between runs.


Slightly OT...
I don't like the "free*" words, which I could never really figure out. They describe things which really not at all free, and mostly "free" means ballet or skate, neither of which are particularly free in any other way either.
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Post by deeper » Sunday 25 April 2010, 11:30

like this year i can,t did backside :( , i prefer the first opcion
so i,m much heavy for the powder :oops:
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Post by Whitey » Sunday 25 April 2010, 22:19

Difficult to choose, indeed. Maybe powder (with teleportation, as it is environmentally friendly). Or maybe EC-slope (with teleportation as well). Or maybe powder. Or maybe slope. Or maybe powder. Or maybe slope. Or maybe powder. Or maybe slope...oh man!

Like many other things in life, the real wealth comes with diversity :angel2:
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Post by starikashka » Monday 26 April 2010, 9:18

I have used my decision maker coin and vote for the groomed slope.
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Post by Arnaud » Tuesday 27 April 2010, 9:41

I choose the second.
For the first option I know where to go ....

This season was close to paradise, because I made very often both ! EC with empty slopes and dedicated chairlift and also many fresh powder conditions ....
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Post by starikashka » Tuesday 27 April 2010, 15:55

Arnaud wrote:I choose the second.
For the first option I know where to go ....

This season was close to paradise, because I made very often both ! EC with empty slopes and dedicated chairlift and also many fresh powder conditions ....
No way :-) You will not be allowed to have another choise :-)

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Post by olive » Tuesday 27 April 2010, 21:26

Took me a long time to be able to make up my mind.

My thoughts are that as great as extremecarving is, spending eternity on a Barthelemy-type slope might get boring.

Whereas riding a steep couloir with deep powder in high altitude remains the essence of snowboarding... Especially if you can teleport on a different summit for each ride!

I choose freeriding!
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Post by pokkis » Tuesday 27 April 2010, 21:33

Why would you teleport you allways to Bart for slope carving even that is fabulous ride :wink:

Idea should be that you can teleport yourself to all great Aspen slopes, enormous wide slope of Oppdal, that famous private slope of Evgeny in Russia, all those Korean slopes seen in films and all others same way as to those different couloirs for off piste riding 8)
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