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  3. Broken Pelvis

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    Uhh, enzo, I'm kind of speechless. I wish you the best with your recovery. It is a long road and patience certainly helps. Fortunately, while they start slow, the improvements do speed up and get bigger.

    Take care, Buell

  4. metal

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    jnshapiro, if you get a chance, try the Prior again. It will feel different to you the next time you ride it. I didn't like the Prior the first time I rode one, now it's just a dream to ride. There are several others here with the same experience. I don't expect you can go wrong with a Coiler either. I've got a metal Coiler AM on order myself.

  5. Favorite Riding Conditions

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    Yes, well....

    I tried to carve on my first man-made in Utah this winter. Never seen it before and I couldn't carve on it. Downright dangerous for me. It actually made me completely rethink my technique because I was so frustrated. So I am now a better rider, but still may not be able to carve on man-made. :ices_ange

  9. Board Characteristics & Specs

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    Neil has touched on my method. If you ride as many boards as possible in the discipline you are interested in (alpine for me), you are able to create a method of communication with other riders who have also ridden those boards. You can then understand where they are coming from when and how it might affect you when they talk about a board you have not ridden.

    Unfortunately, aside from the specs given for all boards, you will often need to talk to others to figure out the other stuff like flex or pop. The snowboard world, especially non-alpine, is so full of short marketing blurbs that really tell you nothing about the board. In the alpine world, a lot of the wonderful small manufacturers can tell you very clearly how their boards will compare to someone else's boards.

    If you are even slightly aggressive, there is a strong chance you will give up quickly on women's FS / FR type boards. Rebecca started snowboarding last year and quickly went through two new women's Freeride boards before realizing they are not made for women who really want to ride. Unless, perhaps, you are 110 pounds.

  12. Hardbooter gets a new look

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    Hey Kirk, get on the snow! It will be gone soon.

    The knee will eventually get there. Looks like another 7 weeks on crutches - long recovery for this one. Rebecca is getting in some good riding though.

    Yes, the OES was a blast, we are hoping to see you next year (in Utah and at OES). :biggthump

  14. Hardbooter gets a new look

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    I second that. Nice clean new site. These guys are truly an asset to our sport and they speak from a ridiculous amount of experience. Looking forward to the articles and reviews.

    I should add that Billy and Dave are incredible with the demos. I completely changed around the boards I was riding mid-season because for a few bucks, they let me try board after board. They even let me take several of my favorites for a few days so I could really test them out in different conditons. Thanks guys.

    Hey Kirk, how are them temps around your parts? :angryfire A little warm?

  15. Erratic behavior

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    Thanks queequeg. It is interesting to me, that if we interpret rule #1 strictly, almost any collision is both parties fault. No way around it. We'd all be riding much slower than we do. That it is rule #1 is certainly intentional, though most of us, including me, try to ignore it.

    I really, really wish that the ski patrol wasn't just a glorified ambulance service but they are, there is a simple financial reason for this, if mountains clipped every irresponsible skier's ticket on the slopes they'd start losing money fast. That's why I've always believed that we should have "licences" like we do for driving and that said licences would be tied to a point system where X amount of points means you lose your licence

    That is exactly right. When the resorts run with the "customer is aways right" business mentality, this is what results. Even a lecture by patrol could possibly lose the mountain a "customer." Maybe it is not that extreme, but it sure can feel like it. Licensing and testing would also allow the rules to be more thorough, rather than over simplified. See how fast the resorts reject that for their "customers."

  16. Erratic behavior

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    I'm not saying it is always the carvers fault. I just dissagree with the black and white reasoning that a guy downhill is ALWAYS in the right and can do whatever the hell he wants to because he is downhill.

    We are probably thinking almost the same thing. I am just having trouble with the interpretation of "ahead" in rule #2 to mean "in front." I think "ahead" could, and likely does, also refer to "ahead on the trail."

    Personally, I think the jibber on the cat track falls under common sense, but between the rules of responsibility. I would love an argument otherwise as we all deal with that on a regular basis. I usually yell at them that they have to yield when they come back on without looking and half out of control.

    Dr. D, I live by some of your philosophy. Uncrowded mountains, uncrowded days :biggthump. Rule interpretations aside, you hit on one of the biggest issues: No enforcement and hardly any posting of the rules where they will be read.

    It's like driving through a big parking lot. Technically there are rules, but you can't count on being safe because you know what is in front of you.

  17. Erratic behavior

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    queequeg and philfell,

    As I mentioned before, there are obviously many interpretations of the responsibility code. I ponder the code often and there is some great food for thought in this thread.

    I do have some issues with, if I understand your interpretation correctly, the fact that someone could carelessly pass me at a high rate of speed and turn it into my fault when I hit them from the side as I come out of my carve. I am not talking about carving back up hill, as this scenario could easily happen with turns that are less than C carves. As you said queequeg, rule #2 is meant to compensate for the fact that we do not have eyes in the back of our head, yet in this situation, we have almost no hope of knowing the person is there until we hit them. They, on the other hand, know that we are there.

    Taken to the extreme, I was trying 360s and I certainly considered it my absolute responsibility to avoid any dangerous situations with other riders.

  18. Erratic behavior

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    This is a great thread.

    The skier's and rider's responsibility code is extremely vague, and as we see here, open to fairly wide interpretation. More importantly, it is often unknown / ignored by many people on the hill.

    Be safe out there.

  19. Coiler

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    Hey SEJ,

    Is it a Metal, or a regular WCR? If it is the Metal, Bordy recommended that we use .220 thickness plexiglass under our bindings. The length of each plate is 12", and the width is determined by the board width. You will need to round the bottom edges of the plate with a sander to keep it from etching into the topsheet when you decamber the board. You will also need longer screws to mount your bindings. The plate is meant to diffuse any point loading by metal bindings on the aluminum topsheet.

    I was riding with the suspension kit under my TD2s instead, though I will try the plexiglass again next season. I would definitely not use OS1s on a Metal board. Softer bindings like F2s are supposed to be the safest.

  20. Impact! Hit from behind.

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    I started snowboarding last year and am incredibly frustrated by the fact that so few people even know the couple of rules that govern riders on the hill. Let alone, how few people even bother to be aware of what is around them or care. Most ski areas do nothing to ensure that people will see the rules in anything other than the fine print. Worthless.

    Hey D-sub, Timinor mentioned the other day that you got to help defend him from a woman that ran into him, and then started yelling at him.

    Does anyone ever turn these people in to patrol? Especially the ones that take off?

  23. Broken

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    BTW I've never seen a break like that before....

    That's what my doctors and PT people say! :smashfrea It is a rare fracture. I figure I have one hell of a tibial plateau, since that is what usually breaks in my situation.

    My surgeon in Utah said that the screws will stay in. I am going to ask my doctor in Oregon the same question on Thursday. Ask two people, get two answers.

    I figured you'd like those images Blackbird. ;)

  24. Oregon Expression Session (OES) 2007

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    Allee, I sure hope I can call myself a carver without being knocked out cold with a broken helmet and no memory of the event. :eek:

    D-sub, that girl in the photo is Greg's (guy in the center of the pic) daughter. I think that day had 5 women on plates. The Prograss board owner is Slopetool. At Park City this year there were two teenage girls in front of me in the lift line who looked a lot more like jibbers than Greg's daughter. One of them was riding a Kessler! Nice.

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