Baller jerseydave Posted December 27, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 27, 2011 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller jipster43 Posted December 27, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 27, 2011 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 6balls Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller bigtex2011 Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 north texas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporting Member Than_Bogan Posted December 28, 2011 Supporting Member Share Posted December 28, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Steven_Haines Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 Canyon Lake Ca. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller jcamp Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 Norwich, Vermont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ Wish Posted December 28, 2011 Baller_ Share Posted December 28, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller bishop8950 Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller thager Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 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, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Horton Posted December 28, 2011 Administrators Share Posted December 28, 2011 @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 Goode ★ HO Syndicate ★ KD Skis ★ MasterCraft ★ PerfSki Radar ★ Reflex ★ S Lines ★ Stokes ★ Baller Video Coaching System Drop a dime in the can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller thager Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 Hard to believe it's Dec 28th in Minnesnowda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller dbski Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ The_MS Posted December 28, 2011 Baller_ Share Posted December 28, 2011 Went ice fishing this weekend and needed can cooler to keep the beer cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller xrated Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 Dec 24th. Maybe an inch of snow, Lake Minnewawa, MN http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz45/minnewawa/IMAG0627.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Ham_Wallace Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 Nashville. Tennessee! Public Lake Rat and loving it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller thager Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 @ MS, I got a Clam and went fishing this weekend too. Caught nothing but bottle bass and solidarity. Not even a darn sunfish!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller scuppers Posted December 28, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 28, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporting Member Than_Bogan Posted December 28, 2011 Supporting Member Share Posted December 28, 2011 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!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Chuck_Dickey Posted December 29, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 29, 2011 Sunny Southern California! Still skiing this year, 80F today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller jerseydave Posted December 29, 2011 Author Baller Share Posted December 29, 2011 @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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ The_MS Posted December 29, 2011 Baller_ Share Posted December 29, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller A_B Posted December 29, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 29, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller bishop8950 Posted December 29, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 29, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Ed_Johnson Posted December 29, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 29, 2011 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 !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller galejan Posted December 29, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 29, 2011 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...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 @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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller JC McCavit Posted December 30, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 30, 2011 Frozen Arctic - Wasilla Lake, Alaska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller igkya Posted December 30, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 30, 2011 Minden, NV. Used to live in southwestern PA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Boody Posted December 31, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 31, 2011 igkya, I've skied in Minden Nevada. Sierra Springs and Ski Oasis. Are those sights still up and running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller jackski Posted December 31, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 31, 2011 Halifax Regonal Municipality - Nova Scotia - Beaver Bank Lake Sat morning -33 deg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Cam Posted December 31, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 31, 2011 Cold wet and windy Scotland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Horton Posted December 31, 2011 Administrators Share Posted December 31, 2011 You know Sarah? Goode ★ HO Syndicate ★ KD Skis ★ MasterCraft ★ PerfSki Radar ★ Reflex ★ S Lines ★ Stokes ★ Baller Video Coaching System Drop a dime in the can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller igkya Posted December 31, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 31, 2011 @Boody Both sites are active. I ski at Oasis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Cam Posted December 31, 2011 Baller Share Posted December 31, 2011 If the Sarah question is for me, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ lpskier Posted December 31, 2011 Baller_ Share Posted December 31, 2011 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. Lpskier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller jerseydave Posted December 31, 2011 Author Baller Share Posted December 31, 2011 @ 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swchicagomike Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Southwest chicago - ski on the gorgeous but interesting illinois river... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ lpskier Posted January 1, 2012 Baller_ Share Posted January 1, 2012 @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. Lpskier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 6balls Posted January 1, 2012 Baller Share Posted January 1, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Texas6 Posted January 1, 2012 Baller Share Posted January 1, 2012 Katy,TX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Ilivetoski Posted January 2, 2012 Baller Share Posted January 2, 2012 Louisville KY,.... to cold. Final ski day was 9/11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller jdarwin Posted January 3, 2012 Baller Share Posted January 3, 2012 Cottonwood - NW Louisiana. We could ski year round but choose not to. If MS were here, the boat would never come off the lift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Marco Posted January 3, 2012 Baller Share Posted January 3, 2012 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ The_MS Posted January 3, 2012 Baller_ Share Posted January 3, 2012 As long as the hot tub is warm I would ski every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 6balls Posted January 3, 2012 Baller Share Posted January 3, 2012 Flew over your joint, MS, on the way back from IA yesterday at 6,500 ft. I waved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ The_MS Posted January 3, 2012 Baller_ Share Posted January 3, 2012 Were they out playing broom ball? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Triplett Posted January 5, 2012 Baller Share Posted January 5, 2012 Clio, MI. Mid Michigan, just north of Flint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller vegar Posted January 5, 2012 Baller Share Posted January 5, 2012 Malmoe, Sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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