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I got there at 9:15 or so, and then had to fetch my season pass,etc. Probably only overlapped you by half an hour, and I was still trying to find my legs. I'll be there a bit, and I'll be on a metallic gray axis172, deeluxe325t, black pants, grey/light grey spyder jacket, grey ski race helmet. Not the most highly visible guy there. Haha

Looks like blueb claimed phil's, and the length seemed a touch intimidating, anyway. Anyone else?

..anyone have something that they'd wish to part with which is designed for the following: ~170 lbs rider, 3 years of hardboots. Currently on a Donek Axis 172 w/ snowpro race & 325Ts I ride east coast conditions, but avoid ice where I can. Sunapee, Stratton, Okemo (in that order of frequency) Sunapee trails are wide enough, but not super wide, so no huge SCRs. I can lock into hard edge-to-edge carves on good condition days, but when it gets choppier, I struggle. I'd like something that doesn't chatter as badly when conditions are variable (metal does this, I believe?) I also find it harder to set the first carve when conditions are variable. Once I'm locked into one, the following ones come easier. Input & sale offers appreciated.

Conditions weren't too bad on the 11th. Saw one other hardbooter from the chair, never caught up with them. Starting to get my legs underneath me for the season. Handful of good carves, but chatter problems have me lusting after a metal board.

I'm minus the experience on the new generation of wheels (say, anything newer than/including o'tangs) but have made my way through a number of the other older wheels. Two most predictable drifting wheels are the old white 80a hotspots & pink powerballs. Hotspots have a good deal more grip, obviously.

How's it looking for this weekend & beyond? Looks like rain in RI. May be time to head farther north?

Windsurfers can jump, too! I haven't tried kiting, but I've been windsurfing for years.

Weekend included?

I have (mostly, had) the same problem in some 325T's (SB shell) Go to tognar, pick out a few heel pads. add them to your cart. Then, go grab their "eliminator" tongue pads, buy those too. They pad the upper portion as well as the ankle area. Put your heelpads on the outside, and the "eliminator"s on the inside of the inner wrap of your thermomold (you do have thermomold liners, right?) liner. This should help a lot, made a very significant difference for me, but it's still not perfect. I do want to try the AF shell and/or some other brands eventually.

I was intending to go tomorrow- anyone have a guess at the conditions?

Hey Sean, When will you be around at ECES? I'd love to try out a metal version of my aging axis 172.

Anyone on here at sunapee yesterday in a full camo print snowsuit, hardboots & stepins, with a motox helmet? Didn't catch up with you, but saw you once.

How have the weekends been crowd-wise this year? I'm going to try to avoid them until school is back in session (25th) but they'll be my only real option after that point.

I was playing with that yesterday! fun! I need to explore more of sunapee this year, I stuck to the right hand side last year.

I'll be at sunapee for first lifts tomorrow, wed.

I have a friend who has a season pass there, yet I have a pass to stratton/okemo/sunapee. The friend wants to do at least a day there before taking a trip farther north as a warmup. If I'm going to go to a smaller mountain, I'd sure rather not pay more! If anyone is aware of cheap deals, let me know!

How is it looking for next week?

I'm waiting for this week to be over. I'll be picking up mine of the same pass at sunapee next week & doing a day or two of riding.

I've never had a problem with using a quality brush putting on poly-crilic

At least on narrower bennetts, you'll find 15* to be a bit much wedge. I have one that is a stock 4.3 and also another thats been cut down to closer to 4. LDP & slalom respectively.

Very stiff. I can only bounce about 1/2'' of flex out of it, at my 155 lbs. The customer is in the low 200s, and this is a speedboard. Main board is 3x 1/8'' baltic birch, center beam is an extra 2x 1/8''. Baseplate recesses are 1/8'' deep. Titebond III wood glue. Composites are 6oz E and silver texalium (aluminum coated glass- not carbon) with resin research epoxy, using perf ply & a bleeder cloth. All is vacuum formed in several steps. The wide & pointy end is the front. WB around 32''

EZE, good point. Yeah, I'd rather keep the driving on the short side where possible. That said, I still have to make a trip or two to somewhere other than sunapee to make that pass worthwhile. I'd get a college pass to sunapee alone if it was cheaper, but that's not an option.

Going off to the customer's artist, I'll ask him for some pictures once it's set up.

Guess I should clarify. My ideal is consistent slope, wide trails, and none of those stupid rollers. I can't lay consistent lines on them. I know most of you can, but I'm still basically learning. Oh, and sharing the mountain with 10 guys would be nice:rolleyes:

College season pass purchasing time. Two options. Mount Sunapee • Gunstock • Wildcat- $240 Mount Sunapee • Okemo • Stratton- $280/ 315 (depending on purchase date) Need some input on which trio you'd pick. Sunapee is my favorite of the second trio, haven't done gunstock & wildcat before. That said, some other friends of mine prefer places like Okemo.