Siglufjörður Iceland Heli May 2019

[philw]

Playing with my old Dump Truck and new Atomic Backland Carbon boots in Iceland last week.

Thoughts:

You can see in some of this that I was having trouble "disciplining" the front of the board - it was chattering at high loads. 

• I eventually worked out that was probably because the stance on the dump truck is set-back for powder, and this wasn't powder.
  I could have ridden it on my SL board.
• I shifted the stance forward about a cm and had no more hassle with that - but I was done
  with video by that time, and the snow conditions were somewhat different (wetter), so I'm not really sure I have that nailed.

I could not previously get enough forward lean out of my back boot.

• I tried a "shim", following very useful "try a piece of old pizza" advice from here. That didn't work as it moved around... it would
  need fastening to the boot at least. It felt a lot like a shim, too, I wasn't hugely keen on it.
• I tried "walk mode" on the back foot, and that worked fine - it turns out that I don't rely on the back of the back boot for support (I'm pretty
  sure I do rely on the front one, although maybe I'm just beautifully balanced...).

Future plans:

• See if I can cobble more forward lean from the boot, by changing the anchor point for the walk lever, or replacing it.
• Think about switching from 3-degrees of heel lift on back to 6.
• Forget about it and ride with the back foot in walk mode.

Stiffness-wise I've no issues with these, they're nice and stiff, the way I like it. They're small, and I may get cold feet in winter, we shall see...

 

 

[Lurch]

Spectacular location Phil. Keep the info on the Backland coming.

[Allee]

I loved Siglu. Super cute little village. That whole area was one of my fave parts of Iceland, and the tunnel to get there's fun too!

 

Edited May 9, 2019 by Allee