What is "EPIC"?

[bobbuilds]

EPIC is a pool in Fort Collins, or when I can't see good deep in the snow.

[UserName]

I remember a day in '89, 30 inches overnight. Was living in vail, working security for the world alpine championships, who cancelled the downhill for the day. Highway was closed and it was too deep to ski a blue run. Just couldn't make any headway in it. Hence the general public was turned away, the mountain was pretty empty, and everyone that was on the hill was screaming in the backside. The lift line was like one huge group scream every run. So the runs I still remember 30 years later were on Ghengis Khan and Rasputin's. I was telemarking and each turn took me into "the Curl" of my own wake. This was truely a snorkl day. At least half of every run that day involved snow rolling over your head. Not just a face shot, but rolling over your head. Breathing was as much choking out the snow you just took in as exhaling. Head for the steepest faces you can find and Ski by feel. For me on tele's even getting off the mountain via blue runs was a riot, as I had to "run" down the slope. It was all surreal and amazingly exhilarating. There were a few days in this category during my 18 years living in Vail, but this one stands out and above. There was one more 30 inch overnight in that 18 year period, several 20 inch days, and I remember one 54 inches over a three day period. But that day in '89 was unparalleled.


Epic - Noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style.
-Homer's Iliad
-Virgil's Anead
-That day in '89
-Beowolf

[Meng]

Epic IS whatever the f you want it to be. All in the eye of the beholder. No ones epic is the same. Can't be defined. If you think you can define what is epic for someone else you need to check your ego and get some perspective.

Epic = a trace on the bunny slope at the hill in Oklahoma.

Epic = AK on the best of days with a massive heli budget.

Whatever.

[yetigonecrazy]

Originally Posted by UserName

Beowolf

good call, they dont get much more epic than that

[freexbiker]

Brendo I'm suprised you went with binary....
Binary is childs play.
You shoulda gone with hexadecimal or even octal.

[ID Surfer]

I'm way to lazy to read all these posts but if you are talking epic pow days blue bird skies the morning after big dump is a must.

[caseybailey]

an adjective

[snowbiss]

Had to throw in my two sense. I was taught an epic was a climbing trip gone bad as in " we got to pitch 12 and it turned into a total epic" Or as a verb He tottally epiced on pitch 12." But i also tend to use it as it was an epic day with 2.5 feet of freshies. All depends I guess. And manky is dirty nasty that chute was a mank fest. Or that chimmeny was manky because it gets no traffic.

[sbratt]

Manky is that dirty-ass hippy roommate that stinks of puchili oil, goes to the Massage Therapy school and nearly burns down your apartment with lit candles.

That or all the roadside mank we love in Colorado.

[Roy]

What is "EPIC"?

Can you feel it, see it, hear it today?
If you can't, then it doesn't matter anyway
You will never understand it cuz it happens too fast
And it feels so good, its like walking on glass
Its so cool, its so hip, its alright
Its so groovy, its outta sight
You can touch it, smell it, taste it so sweet
But it makes no difference cuz it knocks you off your feet

You want it all but you can't have it

Its cryin, bleedin, lying on the floor
So you lay down on it and you do it some more
You've got to share it, so you dare it
Then you bare it and you tear it

You want it all but you can't have it
Its in your face but you can't grab it

Its alive, afraid, a lie, a sin
Its magic, its tragic, its a loss, its a win
Its dark, its moist, its a bitter pain
Its sad it happened and its a shame

You want it all but you can't have it
Its in your face but you can't grab it

What is it?
Its it
What is it?