Tuesday i woke up and checked my email on my iPhone (i have an iPhone). The little ding sound i set to notify me when i got a new message was going off. Over and over and over…
When all was said and done, i had like 150 new emails piped from my Gmail account to my iPhone.
They ended up all coming from YouTube. WTF? I just assumed i got some weird spam bull shiz. Which is partly true.
Backup 1 month: I started uploading a few vids to YouTube to take the traffic/bandwidth dent off my site and figuring it’d drive some new traffic here.
One of the videos i put up was of Harstad riding the dude-tube at Ski Acres (more…)
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UPDATE: 01.14.1008 2:00pm
Just talked to a reliable source. Said that the reason there is no pipe right now at Snoqualmie is because the Water Utility Company for Snoqualmie Pass jacked up the price of water 10 times what they were paying last year. When you consider that it takes something like 200,000 gallons (?) of water to build the halfpipe and the fact that Snoqualmie Pass operates under a finite budget that explains why there’s been no pipe yet.
Ideally the halfpipe would be made with a mix of natural and man-made snow. The man made snow is way more dense than the natural stuff so it holds it’s shape longer. Remember the all natural snow pipes way back? With our wet NW snow and warm temps, those things fell apart quick. Pipes made from man-made snow hold their shape longer, last longer and are probably less maintenance in the long run.
The good news is they they started pushing snow today(01.14) and plan to have the pipe cut in the next two weeks. The guy who built the jumps and halfpipe for the Grenade Games last spring is tentatively planned to come out and build the pipe. While it lasted, the pipe at the Grenade Games was sic. The jumps were super sic too. All i know is Danny Kass was going richter in that thing. Check out pics from last years Grenade Games in the Gallery.
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01.13.2008
So it’s January 13 and Washington has seen above average snowfall so far. This time last year we had less snow yet there was a pipe at Snoqualmie Pass.
Has anyone heard what’s up with the Snoqualmie or Stevens Ujump?
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