What's your location?

[jerseydave]

Since I'm new to this site, just wanted to see if anyone is near my location? (NJ, eastern PA, Delaware, MD)

I may need to enlist more skiers for the coming season since all my friends wakeboard.

 

Feel free to post where you're from anyway.....it's always interesting!

[jipster43]

I'm originally from Seattle, but I have since migrated back to my ancestral roots... Bozeman, MT. What was I thinking? I could be waterskiing right now if I was still in the PNW!

 

JP :)

[6balls]

Minnesota, frozen lakes, no snow yet...kinda bizarre but I'm not complaining about the 500 acre skating rink in our back yard at the moment.

[bigtex2011]

north texas

[Than_Bogan]

Eastern MA. But my parents have a place just down the road from Henderson/Belluci in northeast PA, so I occasionally find myself there or at John's Pond.

[Steven_Haines]

Canyon Lake Ca.

[jcamp]

Norwich, Vermont

[Wish]

My brother in law was a colegent hockey player. Never skated on lake ice having been born in Cali. One yr in MN same senario.....no snow and miles of ice. (doesn't happen that often BTY). We all walked down to the lake to skate, saw him crack a smile and he was gone.... I mean speck in the distance gone. Didn't see him again for a while. When we were little we set up sails on old runner sleds and went for a mile or two...mom would fallow along on lakeside roads and pick us up. Miles of frozen glass was cool.

[bishop8950]

Grew up in MI, but lived in NJ 2000-2006. Skied Raceway Park and a local quarry. I skied tournaments at the "South Jersey" site which sounds close to your neck of the woods. Great conditions in the summer, but hung em up Nov-April. I live in Northern Cali now.

KB

[thager]

In 7th grade my Navy pilot uncle sent me a flare parchute and I would rip across the glass ice lake on skates, collapse it, gather it up, and skate back a couple miles to do it again. If you fell you could slide for what felt like forever. One time almost slid into open water. I take a pic of our lake and try to post it tomorrow,

 

[Horton]

@jerseydave I bumped an old thread for you ....

http://www.ballofspray.com/forum#/discussion/2265/it-is-time-for-your-yearly-who-are-you-guys-thread

[thager]

Hard to believe it's Dec 28th in Minnesnowda.

[dbski]

Southern Michigan We're dying for ice here as in the winter we get our speed fix ICE BOATING. For those southerners a ice boat is a sail boat with runners. Lying on your back 6 inches above the ice reaching speeds of 55+ makes waiting for spring much more bearable. Search DN iceboats for more info.

[The_MS]

Went ice fishing this weekend and needed can cooler to keep the beer cold.

[xrated]

Dec 24th. Maybe an inch of snow, Lake Minnewawa, MN

http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz45/minnewawa/IMAG0627.jpg

[Ham_Wallace]

Nashville. Tennessee! Public Lake Rat and loving it!

[thager]

@ MS,

 

I got a Clam and went fishing this weekend too. Caught nothing but bottle bass and solidarity. Not even a darn sunfish!!!

[scuppers]

Check this out. One of two caught out of the ski lake Christmas Day. Both about the same size. http://static.cl1.vanilladev.com/ballofspray.vanillaforums.com/uploads/FileUpload/47/e6640eab2260a9945a74dee4b20d4c.jpg

[Patrick]

Hey Dave - I got in touch with you on the other site; we'll have to get together sometime this summer. For the rest, I'm a newbie not too far from Philly.

[Than_Bogan]

dude sweet bass! Always hard to guess size from a photo, but that looks like it might be in the 5lbs+ category? Those are very rare in Massachusetts!

 

Boy do I wish I could do more bass fishing, but it just takes so much time!!

[Chuck_Dickey]

Sunny Southern California! Still skiing this year, 80F today!

[jerseydave]

@bishop8950, I've always wanted to ski at raceway park. Just seeing that site from the pits behind the drag strip some 30 years ago always got me stoked.....looks so perfect! I met Bill Cooper back in the 80's when I was a punk kid with my 18' Challenger jet boat with BB Chevy. He actually had a course in the Delaware river so I tried it a few times with my 19' Ski Eliminator. I think Bill is still active with raceway park right?

 

@horton, GREAT SITE! Glad I found it and hope to meet more of you local guys. Thanks for the bump of the old thread, great reading about your backgrounds.

 

@Patrick..yeah I'll hit the Schulykill river with you next season! Matter of fact, I'm going Jan 1st to Port Indian to watch the polar bear skiers take to the water for charity. You going?

[The_MS]

Thager, we crushed the Walleyes and some nice Jumbo Perch. No fish house needed when its 45f and sunny. My face looked like I was in a judges tower all day.

 

[A_B]

Is the Readimg PA ski club still active?

I skied there a few times back in the mid-80's.

Right by the dam.

Not much going on in Harrisburg PA back then.

Skied by Three Mile Island some with Bill Filling.

[bishop8950]

jeresydave - Bill Cooper is still active at RWP. I saw him at Nationals this past year and he is still at it. I think there are only a few diehards keeping that site going. I have a feeling once Ron Nill (who has the personal relationship with the RWP family) stops keeping the site alive, it will close up to waterskiing. They have better/more profitable options as sad as filling it in for additional parking.

 

Its such an interesting site being bracketed by an airport and the race tracks. On race days you can hardly talk to the skier over the big blocks with open headers. The lake was originally 5x as big and built for drag boats. That didn't stick and they have been filling it in bit by bit. Set up is short now. For those that are curious, Mapquest 267 Pension Rd Englishtown, NJ 07726 for a pic

 

KB

[Ed_Johnson]

I remember that well. Flew several Airshows there with my Bud Light Jet back in the eighties. Both Harrisburg and Reading held big Airshows back then.

Great people, sure did like to party !!!

[galejan]

Tunsatter lake, Nykoping; Sweden.

Ice but no snow, even if we had open water we dont have any boat, new SN200 is to be delivered in april, waiting......

[Patrick]

@jerseydave - We don't have our new years plans finalized yet but some guys do the same thing over on our stretch of the river. If we were available I was going to head over there, but maybe I can make it over to Port Indian. I'll track you down if I can make it over.

[JC McCavit]

Frozen Arctic - Wasilla Lake, Alaska

[igkya]

Minden, NV. Used to live in southwestern PA.

[Boody]

igkya, I've skied in Minden Nevada. Sierra Springs and Ski Oasis. Are those sights still up and running?

[jackski]

Halifax Regonal Municipality - Nova Scotia - Beaver Bank Lake

 

Sat morning -33 deg

[Cam]

Cold wet and windy Scotland.

[Horton]

You know Sarah?

[igkya]

@Boody Both sites are active. I ski at Oasis.

[Cam]

If the Sarah question is for me, no.

 

[lpskier]

Lake Placid, NY. I make it to Monroe, NY/Twin Lakes for a tournament or two each year. That should be somewhere near your neighborhood.

[jerseydave]

@ AB, I knew Bill Filling back in my Lake Aldred days. He was a rep for Supreme at that time. Is he still around?

@ lpskier, I'm about 2 hours south of Monroe NY. There is also a ski club 2 hours south of me in south Jersey called Dividing Creek ski club. Raceway park skiers are closest to me if I ever want to get into some serious slalom again. For now I'll be free skiing and footin' close to home.

[swchicagomike]

Southwest chicago - ski on the gorgeous but interesting illinois river...

[lpskier]

@jerseydave I used to shoot skeet at the Winchester Gun Club in Englishtown when I lived in Jersey in the 80's. I lived in Bridgewater. My in-laws live near Colt's Neck.

[6balls]

chicagomike, where at more specifically? I fly into Lake in the Hills and ski w/a buddy who lives in Tower Lakes. He pays for time at a quarry where we run buoys in the a.m., and in the afternoon we take his boat to the river w/our families.

[Texas6]

Katy,TX

[Ilivetoski]

Louisville KY,.... to cold. Final ski day was 9/11.

[jdarwin]

Cottonwood - NW Louisiana. We could ski year round but choose not to. If MS were here, the boat would never come off the lift.

[Marco]

Vision Lake-Western Colorado. Water ski season late April- Oct, snow ski season Dec thru mid April, (except this year the snow is really bleak to date).

[The_MS]

As long as the hot tub is warm I would ski every day.

[6balls]

Flew over your joint, MS, on the way back from IA yesterday at 6,500 ft. I waved.

[The_MS]

Were they out playing broom ball?

[Triplett]

Clio, MI. Mid Michigan, just north of Flint

[vegar]

Malmoe, Sweden