Getting To Know Your Fellow Ballers.

[Brady]

I travel a lot for work.....a lot. I travel all through the Country and sometimes out of it. So, now that I am involved with this new secret short-line club, I was thinking how cool it would be to start bringing my ski when I traveled and get the opportunity to both ski and to meet my fellow ballers. If you guys are like me, I am ALWAYS looking for ski partners.....that actually PAY for each set and know the proper etiquette of boating and skiing. I think it would also make the core group closer as a whole, knowing each other instead of wondering who the hell each other is.

 

So, to start this off, if any of you are ever in SLC and if I can sneak away, I would love to take any of you skiing to our course. My cell number is 801-792-5123. If you call, best to leave a text, cause I don't answer numbers not in my directory and I never listen to my voice mail.

 

There it is. One location and about 150 million to go. I should call this the IBSNA. Incorporated Baller Slalom Network Association.

[klindy]

@Brady I was in SLC 3 times in the last 6 months. I generally take my stuff with me on every trip (at least on city a week). Would love to stop by on the next warmer weather trip.

[6balls]

I'm in rural MN so it's kind of unlikely to get many visitors, but if a baller shows up they are my guest...I've got the gas covered.

[Skoot1123]

@brady - ditto for me as well. Don't travel for work, but if folks want to stop in for a ski they are always welcome. BTW I will be headed for Orlando, FL in Decmber. Trying to get some lessons with the Wilson Bro's.

 

Anyone going to Coble's next year? I'm going to book a trip there as well. Would be nice to have some fellow Baller's there and get to know some of the "clan."

[Brady]

@Skoot1123. Headed to Illinois next month. Wahoo!!! @6Balls, headed to your area too, but since it will be frozen, maybe we should grab a beer instead.

[Skoot1123]

@brady - too bad it's in the fall/winter. Skiing has been done for a while here. (at least for me)

[Brady]

K, guys now because @scotchipman gave all the info up, Utah is now 100 percent covered. We need the other 49 states covered now.

[6balls]

@brady, beer is good. Where will you be in MN and do you know dates?

[Brady]

@6balls. minne and surrounding areas. email me your contact info and i will get with you

[ForrestGump]

Note to self........... stop at truck stop this weekend in Texas and write on bathroom wall...... "For a good time, call 801-792-5123." But don't worry, I'll write it way up high. :)

[Brady]

@ShaneH. I always wondered about you!!! Not that there is anything wrong with it!!. :) Why don't you write it down low instead.

[ForrestGump]

@Brady If I write it low, the short guys will be calling you.

[Brady]

@ShaneH. Oh wait I am sorry, I thought u were a woman. My bad. With your snoopy icon and all the tender posts u make on bos, I guess I just assumed incorrectly. Please forgive me. :)

[jipster43]

If you find yourself in SW Montana, drop me a line. Our lake typically turns in late April and closes down for the season after the first week in October.

[swardco]

I am in the Boulder, CO area. I would be happy to offer up a pull. Little afraid to offer up a pull to some pretty seasoned skiers, the lake I ski on is little, my boat is old (1991 Prostar), and I don't have PP or ZO. With all those caveats, you are welcome.

[robscholl-OF]

Richard Doane and I are out here in Seattle/Tacoma area. Welcome at the BroHo anytime as long as it is not frozen. Two Five Three - Six Zero Six - Seven Seven One Eight. (Text is good as I won't answer a number not in my directory. OF

[Ed_Obermeier]

I've made it a standing invitation to my customers, and in fact have offered here previously as well, if anyone makes it to the Kansas City area during the season give me some heads up and you're welcome to join myself and crew for a little skiing. Over the years we've had 4 - 5 skiers take me up and it's always a good time. I'm 45 minutes or so south of the KC area but with a little pre-planning we can make it work.

 

@Horton maybe we need an opt-in, give-a-pull directory added to the site?

 

Cheers, Ed

[colo_skier]

Anybody ever in Colorado front range and need a ski fix, your always welcome to get some sets in with me in Pueblo. 07 Response with stargazer and z-box.

[gregy]

I'm in the Austin TX area. If anybody's headed this way I'm sure we can find you a ride. Greg Youens

[rodb]

Richmond or Williamsburg, Va. happy to give a ride.

 

[Razorskier1]

@brady -- I work in downtown Mpls and live west 22 miles. There are lots of ski choices around here with three man made sites within an hour of downtown and my public site, as well as @6balls "swamp" site another hour west. During the season I'd say you can almost always find a pull with someone in MN.

[skiep]

Tallahassee Fl. We will start mid Jan. come on down! Keith Albritton "skiep"

[Kelvin]

Anyone heading to the Houston area (west side of town), send me a message thru BOS and we will get you a ride.

[The_MS]

My problem is that I already know too many of you but if you are ever in SE Minn stop by for some sets.

[MattP]

@MS Honestly who really travels to Minn......

[Horton]

Is that part of Canada?

[Wish]

It's beautiful up there.....for that week or so in July. Sometimes.

[The_MS]

All kinds of Ballers come to visit. They even come back.

[Wish]

I'll resemble that statement come that warmish week in July. :)

[ForrestGump]

I'd like to say I'd never go to Minnesota, but alas my company would prove me wrong.

 

[Ed_Obermeier]

@Kelvin I have a sister living in Houston, may have to look you up sometime. She lives on the northwest side I believe.

[Kelvin]

@Ed_Obermeier That's close enough - come on down. The water gets warm here a few months earlier than the midwest.

[Brady]

I just love this thread. Because I am anal and can't ski because of my knee and hip and because it is winter, I am going to put together a spread sheet of all this info and all the available places. Hopefully, by spring, pretty much everywhere across this land, Ballers will have a pull if wanted! What a great day that will be!!

[lhoover]

Brady, put us on the list for N Houston. Kelvin and group are in a wonderful spot but are halfway to El Paso, so if one is flying into Bush (IAH), look us up. Shane loves our place---or is that the kiss of death? khoover@wt.net

[Kirsten]

I would be pleased to take anyone here for a ski run in Utah as well. I live in Northern Utah.

[RLogan]

From Jimmy Buffett Land in Mobile, AL, Ski Chaste Lake welcomes y'all anytime. 2 Miles off I-65. Yes, we have a jump ramp. Rodger Logan

[estrom]

Most people come here for the wine tasting, but if you want a pull while you're here, let me know. Word of warning though - public lake, no course, probably choppy water. Other than that, it's great!!

[andjules]

@Horton, I'd like to suggest a new forum category, something like 'locations and sites', where ideally individuals would start a master thread for each state, province, european country, etc.?

[Brady]

@andjules, I will be creating a Google doc with all that information. @Horton doesn't even have time to cut his damn hair, let alone create that spreadsheet. Give me a couple of weeks, and hopefully about 20 more locations and I will have it up.

[andjules]

A spreadsheet would be great @Brady and is much appreciated.

However, there are more questions than 'who can give me a ride when I'm in...'

I'd love to - for example - ask other ballers from my province about other sites they know of (even if the people at those sites aren't on BoS).

Similarly, threads start regularly about 'does anyone know if there is a course on such-and-such a lake', etc.

In that spirit (as well as the spirit of this thread and your work on a 'baller hospitality spreadsheet'), I think there might be a place for a 'sites and locations' sub-forum.

And of course I'm not asking @Horton to populate that sub-forum... just whether it's a good idea to have that sub-forum where we can all contribute to location-based discussion.

[luckyone]

no one ever,ever invited me to ski .

[Texas6]

@lhoover, where are you in N. Houston? At the place off of 1488? If you're coming to the west side of H-Town, I'm happy to get somebody a ride as well

[A_B]

@Horton, you could add a latitude and longitude box in our personal information which launches Google Earth or something, or different boxes for city and state along with specific gps, then pull that data into a table file for people to qquery against. What else is there to do in the winter??

 

I have added the coordinates of my lake on my signature.. My lake is on the Google Earth Ski Sites.

[norcalibu]

Lake Wildwood, Penn Valley in the Sierra Foothills of Nor Cal. Northeast of Sacramento (north of Auburn, west of Grass Valley). 330 acre private lake with a course. Whether or not you get PP will depend on which boat we are in that day.

[scuppers]

I welcome any Baller to come down for a set this winter. Private site just west of Daytona Beach. I'm only available on the weekends through the winter - work sun up till sun down. If you're interested PM me and we'll make a plan. PS, 2007 MC 197 PP & certified course.

[Razorskier1]

@skiep -- I'd like to get to your site sometime!

[lhoover]

Daryn, not sure who is on 1488 but we are off E 242, halfway between 59 and 45 with a Conroe address. Pretty much due East of Shane at Stevensons, about 25 mins. It is called Lakeport because Pat Deegan built the lake and a grass air strip perpendicular to it.

[XR6Hurricane]

I'm an hour northwest of O'Hare Int'l Airport. I don't have access to a course, but I'm 10 minutes from a 15 mile stretch of relatively narrow river that is the promised land of free skiing. The soft shoreline cancels out the wakes so well that it's almost like being on a private lake. Water is very dirty but the surface conditions more than make up for it. I've got a 150 hp outboard with a small wake. Always looking for people to ski with.

 

[Texas6]

@lhoover, very cool! I never realized there was another lake out that way other than Stevensons. Would love to ski it sometime

[6balls]

@XR6hurricane where exactly are you at? I flew the Mooney into Chicago Exec to visit a ski buddy who works minutes from there this fall. The field is just a little north of O-Hare so he picked me and the family up, then drove to his place in tower lakes. I've also flown into Dupage and lake in the hills. My buddy skis Laurie's Quarry minutes from his house, and puts his own boat into the river for recreational fun also minutes from his house. Depending on where you are at, perhaps a beer next time we are there to visit.