East Coast Vs. West Coast

Gee thanks OP, we really needed another East vs. West shitshow douchebaggery thread.  Don't know where we'd be without groundbreakers like you. 

insists nobody can charge eastern trees = skis like a bitch and assumes everyone else does too. 

Of course you'd rather be out west, you fucking suck and can't hack it.  Sure, rag on tight trees rather than admit they're just too tight for your shitty form and lack of aggression, but everybody who read your post understands it's because you fucking suck on skis and want an easy, wide open trail to flail on with your shitty technique.  People like you are the reason so many eastern resorts overthin glades rather than tell people to fuck off and go get better.   

Eastern trees are not too close together, they're tight, rocky and steep to make the sandbagging bitches move out west, where they can just cherry pick blower days and ski open terrain rather than, y'know, get better.   

Anybody who thinks that's a stab at WC skiers, it's not.  Lots of fucking rippers out there who huck their meat and get mad props from me, but this kid sounds like a real fucking pussy.  "You can't charge a nice aggressive line on any steep tree skiing in the east"...  What a fucking bitch lolololol

Anybody who says the EC is shitty as hell is probably a groomer zoomer douche who has never toured a day in their life.  Once you start chasing storms, paying attention to weather, learning your BC routes and getting your ass out there, the number of pow days goes through the roof and the quality of the terrain and conditions in the green mountain spine is far beyond what most people would imagine.  

I can honestly say that while yes, I go out west at least once a year to tour and get some vert and *hopefully* some deep pow, there is something that those mountains can't provide.  That big, open huge terrain is freakin awesome, there's no denying that and I totally love it.  There's just something else about tight, steep, cliffed out and rocky trees back home that just keep me coming back.  It's a tremendous challenge, but in a totally different way.  It's more private, tighter, and offers less forgiveness for mistakes.  A friend who moved back east from SLC for a job put it well when I brought him to some cliffs we ski.  He was scared, straight up.  I asked him why when he sends shit at snowbird all day- his response?  "Yeah but there the outrun is open and the landing is blown in pow aprons.  Here the landing is just a strip and then you're right back in the trees, there's literally no room for error in here.  One mistake and you're tomahawking into hardwoods"

So while I will totally say it's bigger and badder out west, you'd be a fool to think that everything on the EC is just ice and groomers.  To those of us who actually get out there and are looking for a real challenge and some solitude, it's an unknown and rarely explored pow paradise out there.  Compare that to Teton Pass skintracks that look like centipedes and it's not too hard to figure out the appeal of the road less traveled.  We have a ton of steep lines and deep pow, but if you simply look at numbers you'll never see them. 

Oh well.  It's an old argument, and I don't really care.  I love both places because they provide a most excellent juxtaposition to each other.  Cheers to anyone anywhere who doesn't give a fuck and just wants to ski whatever they can.   

this guy gets it! 

I mean shit, I drove 11 hours overnight to tour and ski shitty WV mountains with this hurricane Sandy storm snowfall over a week ago.  Sure, it wasn't as big or badass as even what I would normally ski in VT, but it's still skiing pow and there's only so shitty that can be, y'know?  WV did teach me something important too- that each little nook in our amazing sport has something cool about it.  Whether it's a standout stat or not is another story.  Glad somebody gets what I'm talking about though!