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WHERE MY HAT IS AT posted:The touring bug bit my wife unexpectedly hard, she picked herself up a pair of Hoji boots today and is demoing some Kastle skis this weekend. I'm going to try out a splitboard when we go out Saturday. The Hojis are a really nice blend of tourability and performance. I can easily easily overpower them, but if you don't want to carve GS turns, they're pretty fun inbounds and out. Also they're like super duper comfortable
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Eejit posted:The Hojis are a really nice blend of tourability and performance. I can easily easily overpower them, but if you don't want to carve GS turns, they're pretty fun inbounds and out. Also they're like super duper comfortable That’s pretty much what they said at the shop, with the caveat being they have a weird fit. Whatever it is, they fit her perfectly without any work which is great. Edit: there's the new Hoji Pro Free which is about 20% stiffer than the Pro Tour if you want something even stiffer. WHERE MY HAT IS AT fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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If anyone else is looking for an avi course to take, Bluebird Backcountry just opened up a bunch of spots. My friend and I are taking the course on 2/11-2/12 if any goons would like to join. https://shop.bluebirdbackcountry.com/aiare-1
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Jan 20, 2021 16:18
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In case anyone here hasn’t seen this yet, probably my favorite snowboarding movie ever, The Eternal Beauty of Snowboarding - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FKeUVMMl0fc
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MMD3 posted:I picked up a new pair of K2 Holgate Snowboard boots recently and wore them to the mountain for the first time yesterday. I’ve ridden both the Darkos and Enders. Never had an issue with them hurting my ankles, but they did put a lot of pressure on my instep which was enough to have me switch over to DC boots. If it’s just the mechanism pinching your ankle an insole might help to “shrink” the shape of your foot and provide better comfort
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retpocileh posted:In case anyone here hasn’t seen this yet, probably my favorite snowboarding movie ever, The Eternal Beauty of Snowboarding - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FKeUVMMl0fc Dude, this movie is also one of my favorite snowboard movies of all time. He also put out a coffee table book this year called Heroes that is entirely about women in snowboarding. It's the film's equal.
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retpocileh posted:In case anyone here hasn’t seen this yet, probably my favorite snowboarding movie ever, The Eternal Beauty of Snowboarding - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FKeUVMMl0fc My newer jam is this. This is bizarre air off side hits. https://youtu.be/DRruzeLwB-o
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  I'm taking at least half the day off work tomorrow. My replacement phone with a better camera AND A SKI LANYARD to keep it fastened even when "safe in my pocket" is also on its way. 4 Year Old's Ski Lesson Update: After watching a bunch of parents on the mountain, and at the base area, with kids of various sizes, I decided that before I take kiddo to Mad River I want them very comfortable holding on to my ski pole and being pulled. I'm pretty impressed how fast kids this age pick stuff up. We've only gone out a half dozen times. Two days ago, she seemed completely incapable of standing up by herself, when sitting down in snow, in ski boots -- I showed her how to roll over, go onto her knees, but from there she just seemed to lack the strength and intuiton, so I had to help her. Today, the first time she went to try to stand up... she just did it, without saying anything or asking for help, and when I pointed it out she seemed surprised and happy. Since then she did it another half dozen times. Two days ago she basically refused to try to hold my pole tip at all; today she is comfortable on flat ground, enjoys it when we go down a slight grade, and only hates going uphill. I think this is a mix of her having a hard time keeping her tips straight, and not having at all developed a lot of the core and thigh muscles this needs. I ordered a tip connector for her skis which I'll have Saturday. Her endurance tends to be 30-45mins with some breaks, so, whenever we do start going to the mountain, we'll spend as long getting there and back as we spend there, but that's fine with me. I want this to be fun for her and even though I am making her work harder than she wants to through a combination of bribery, goading and flattery, I sort of know where the limit is where she'll come inside and say she had a good time. Past a point I am not going to be pushy; I want to give her a shot at learning the basics from a young age, and then I will make it possible for her to ski as much as is reasonable, but if she hits a point where she either has no interest or says "f you dad, I want to snowboard instead", that'll be fine with me, even if it will grate me to start buying Sugarbush passes. 2020 flashback: here's one of my last runs down Paradise last year. I could spend a whole weekend on this one run and associated glades, easily. 
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Anyone have strong feelings for or against cutting new skins for new skis? The skins I cut for my old pair fit decently on the new ones. The gap to the edge is 1-2 mm wider than I’d like, especially underfoot, but I can’t imagine it’s going to make a huge amount of difference especially with the mellow touring I do right now. Am I going to regret this? Test driving the set up tomorrow so maybe I’ll answer my own question.Cabbages and Kings posted:I'm taking at least half the day off work tomorrow. My replacement phone with a better camera AND A SKI LANYARD to keep it fastened even when "safe in my pocket" is also on its way. This is so cool. MRG was the first place I ever skied. Can’t really say I learned to ski there, we left VT before I was 4. But my parents would carry me up the little slope by the lodge near the base of the race hill and I’d slide down between their legs. I did spend a lot of time in the cricket club. Does that still exist? Enjoy tomorrow.
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ought ten posted:Anyone have strong feelings for or against cutting new skins for new skis? The skins I cut for my old pair fit decently on the new ones. The gap to the edge is 1-2 mm wider than I’d like, especially underfoot, but I can’t imagine it’s going to make a huge amount of difference especially with the mellow touring I do right now. Am I going to regret this? Test driving the set up tomorrow so maybe I’ll answer my own question. As long as it is not covering your edges you are good. If it is covering your edges I would go ahead and run a trimmer down them.
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spwrozek posted:As long as it is not covering your edges you are good. If it is covering your edges I would go ahead and run a trimmer down them. Yeah don't be an idiot like me and try to ski down a sidehill slope with your edges covered.
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Partial Octopus posted:Yeah don't be an idiot like me and try to ski down a sidehill slope with your edges covered. Hey it least you were not eating poo poo every 20'. I watched a guy on a split fall on that 1/2 mile on the way out at least 15 times. I felt pretty bad for him.
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Partial Octopus posted:Yeah don't be an idiot like me and try to ski down a sidehill slope with your edges covered. Look, if you’re not falling you’re not pushing yourself. Thanks both. Might need a little trim near the front but I think I should be good to go
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Moey posted:My newer jam is this. This is bizarre air off side hits. Longo is ridiculous. I could watch him and Kevin Backstrom all day long.
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highme posted:Longo is ridiculous. I could watch him and Kevin Backstrom all day long. Videos like that are 10000x more interesting than watching people spin to win off park jumps.
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Partial Octopus posted:Videos like that are 10000x more interesting than watching people spin to win off park jumps. Floaty BS 180's will always win in my heart.
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highme posted:Dude, this movie is also one of my favorite snowboard movies of all time. He also put out a coffee table book this year called Heroes that is entirely about women in snowboarding. It's the film's equal. This looks awesome.
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Oh my god is it actually gonna snow? Starting to get worried about my trip to Silverton in February.
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When I booked my trip I thought to myself "I would rather get out there earlier, but I bet by February there will be tons of snow and everything will be open".
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Moot .1415926535 posted:Oh my god is it actually gonna snow? Starting to get worried about my trip to Silverton in February. Southwest flow looking good for you. IncredibleIgloo posted:When I booked my trip I thought to myself "I would rather get out there earlier, but I bet by February there will be tons of snow and everything will be open". When you getting here? things are looking up at least a bit.
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Booked a motel near crested butte last night and of course the nearly 18" forecast is now looking like 3"-7"  So much for trying out the Archetype.
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spwrozek posted:Southwest flow looking good for you. I should be driving into town on the 31st. And I am staying all February, so I am quite hopeful that there will be some snow in the meantime. I am staying in a condo in Avon that is walking distance to the parking lot gondola for Beaver Creek, which has me really excited, because I won't need to drive to the mountain everyday, so that should be great. I am going to go ski vail the day of the super bowl though, and possibly more during the week.
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I know better than to take a forecast (let alone one this far out) at face value at this point, but I can't help myself. We might finally get a real storm this season. (Mammoth too!)
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Yeah the next week or two looks promising, fingers crossed. We are headed back up to the condo on Sunday for another week of "remote work" in anticipation.
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Is that bit at 5:02 the same guy from a third person perspective?? E: nevermind, just realized the second guy started with his skis off.
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Because the project I'm on required a more defined PTO calendar than usual, I took the entire first week of February off for my birthday. 14-day forecasts are dodgy as gently caress, but the pattern looks promising for me to get a day or 2 in somewhere. Otherwise I'm just gonna stay home and play shootybangs.
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ought ten posted:This is so cool. MRG was the first place I ever skied. Can’t really say I learned to ski there, we left VT before I was 4. But my parents would carry me up the little slope by the lodge near the base of the race hill and I’d slide down between their legs. I did spend a lot of time in the cricket club. Does that still exist? It does! I didn't really look into it this year because of COVID concerns but it's on my list of potentially useful things for the next few years (we have another kiddo on the way soon). Plenty of powder in the woods today. Also some rocks, ice, etc; I have a strained hip and the usual assortment of bumps and bruises, but I expect to be good to go again by next Tues. VERY FOGGY AND MYSTERIOUS TODAY WOW    
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Partial Octopus posted:Those tree runs look like a blast! They are, I can't stay out of the woods and I get tired as poo poo and hurt myself. Doing lots of glades made me stop thinking of mogul fields as tiring, and instead as a place to practice higher speeds with substantially less risk. ninja: i have an icepack on my rear end/hip right now, deliberate controlled fall into what turned out to be a stump under 1/8" of white ice, oops.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:What are the odds that guy was able to retrieve their skis? If he had that much trouble stopping, I wonder how well the binding brakes worked.
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Just tried on the Phantom Slipper... I foresee saying good by to too much money in the future. I am going to demo them on a tour soon though and see what I think.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:It does! I didn't really look into it this year because of COVID concerns but it's on my list of potentially useful things for the next few years (we have another kiddo on the way soon). Nice. Foggy over here in Maine today too. No pictures but conditions sound about the same. First day on new skis so after one scrape-y scratchy run in the trees I stuck to man made snow. One more good storm would put us in good shape I think. I heard sugarbush just got a ton of snow though? Found out when I got there there was a tele demo day going on. I’d had my fill of the few runs that were open so I tried that out for the first time. I was surprised I could make it down the hill on them okay, but it was very obvious how far off even bare proficiency was.
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So I'm taking this with a million grains of salt because it's just one model run, probably cherry picked because lol, and it's still pretty far out. But uhh, still some indication that things might be escalating pretty quickly.  That's inches of snow in the next 16 days. I live just north of the "." in "271.8"
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Black Crows makes some good short films. Tony & Deano, ski bums forever
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Steve French posted:So I'm taking this with a million grains of salt because it's just one model run, probably cherry picked because lol, and it's still pretty far out. All depends on where that snow line is. But umm go buy more food and water. Just in case. That much snow, if it happens, is your ain't going nowhere.
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