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Does anyone in the Great Lakes area hit handrails?

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Hornbeck
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Just wondering...... It would be sick to get more people involved in Michigan and the surrounding areas. I mainly ski in Kalamazoo and Grand rapids. Anyone else have spots on the east side? up north? down south? I would love to ski new spots around here.

Armada, Myself and Spencer Milbocker made a 10 minute movie this year in Michigan skiing in the cities. And damn! It was a good season. If more people were actually into it, and we had enough eyes out there finding new spots; The Midwest could be even a better place to ski. After living out west for 10 years I finally realized that I have everything I need right here in the midwest to be a good skier. If we all worked together around the great lakes, we could create something insane. We created something great out of Michigan this season and now its time to bring that to the next level.

If anyone is really serious about this, or has a spot they know of, hit me up on here. The movie comes out in October; if you see a spot you want to hit from it, let me know and I will tell you.


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Jul 30 2015 9:07AM
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JCTheut
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Theres a super long quad kink at Calvin College, that would be sick to hit at night if your interested. Theres also a really nice down rail and down flat down at Aquinas. I'll try and get pics up tonight!
Nov 5 2015 3:43PM
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JCTheut
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Here's the quad kink
Nov 9 2015 7:16PM
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Hornbeck
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JCTheutHere's the quad kink


hell yea! is this the one you can see off the beltline? I think I have seen that before from a far
Nov 13 2015 3:13PM
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JCTheut
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Hornbeckhell yea! is this the one you can see off the beltline? I think I have seen that before from a far

Yea im pretty sure it's the same one your talking about! Me and my buddies have been scopin around this past summer and hope to hit handrails more this year. Pretty much all the small colleges around GR have a ton of prime rails to hit, only hard parts gonna be getting past campus PD haha
Nov 15 2015 12:45PM
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John18_6
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Already hit 2 handrails in Minnesota this season, they were babies but they were a start. Went to Ely (very small and very sweet town) which has a hefty closeout, abandoned mine site with lots of metal, and 1 standard handrail (not pictured).
Nov 15 2015 4:11PM
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JohnBolea
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The egr middle j rail is pretty prime then the fish ladder dfd you already know about the lakeside when i was there when kim spencer and you hit it but the breton closeout is a good one swell as the egr high wall ride
Nov 20 2015 5:16PM
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.otto.
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JCTheutTheres a super long quad kink at Calvin College, that would be sick to hit at night if your interested. Theres also a really nice down rail and down flat down at Aquinas. I'll try and get pics up tonight!


I know what rail your talking about, im at calvin weekly, but that quad kink is to close to the rails next to it:( theres some other cool spots at calvin tho.
Dec 1 2015 7:37PM
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.otto.
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some of my snowboarding buddies no an unreasonable amount of hidden spots in gr especailly downtown where alot of suburban kids never venture.. ill see if i can squeze them out of them
Dec 1 2015 7:38PM
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Hornbeck
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.otto.some of my snowboarding buddies no an unreasonable amount of hidden spots in gr especailly downtown where alot of suburban kids never venture.. ill see if i can squeze them out of them


DoO itttttt hahaha
Dec 3 2015 9:00PM
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.otto.
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HornbeckDoO itttttt hahaha


lackin on the motivation right now but ill try compile them, this warm weather is boggin me down! hope to see you at the burg or bittersweet this year, ill be their every day! This video is all filmed in gr and a bit around if you are wondering where any spots are my friend would prolly know. Ill try get back to you soon
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/798352/Mullet-Chicken-The-Movie
Dec 3 2015 9:14PM
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skigan
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Hey guys, mountain biking is also a passion of mine. there is an app called trail forks that you can add trails to for others to see, it's like a virtual map that anyone can add to for mountain bikers such as trails, shops, etc. Why can someone do the same thing for rails for urban? It could be an IOS/Android app that people to log the location on a database, maybe throw a couple pictures too. It would make it so easy to find urban spots.
Dec 17 2015 8:42AM
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JohnBolea
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There is a lot of rails at kalamazoo college a lot of c shaped down rails.
Apr 13 2016 6:14PM
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Knewnews
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ferris state had some good ones back when
Aug 7 2016 3:58AM
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