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  1. Experienced snowboarder wanting to transition to alpine snowboard- Board/Boots/Binds help

    in Carving Central

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    Donek.com sells beginner Voyager or Turner FC Mild snowboards, F2 Titanium binding, Deeluxe 325 or 700 boots. Up to $250 discount if you purchase boots and boards together. I started with 700 but now uses 325 because of better fit.
     

    You may also want to use spring system such as BTS (https://www.bomberonline.com/BTS-Kit_p_106.html) on your boots if you want to be comfortable rather than feeling like you are wearing a plaster.

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  2. Softboot carvers: mainstream vs custom

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    6 hours ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:

    I looked at the Pentaquark last year and leaving their questionable “designed only for the real men” macho marketing aside, I think it had like a 260 waist with an 8.5 sidecut.

    Those numbers may not be ideal for all riders; and it’s designed for all types of riding, not carving-specific. The big benefit of custom is to be able to tweak those numbers to fit your preference. 

     


    The company (Amplid) call traditional camber “[b]urly man-camber”…

     

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  5. Climate Change

    in The Lodge

    Posted · Edited by leeho730

    4 hours ago, SunSurfer said:

    @leeho730 Mt Hutt is busy mid week and bonkers busy at weekends in our shortening ski season. Rode there for 5 days this year during August. Managed to carve in shortish bursts with the traffic and rapidly lumped up snow.

    Can’t be worse than during the mid week at Perisher. Besides, when I lived at Methven I used to ski at club fields (I have a hardboot split board set up just for this) and around hill on the weekend. Or have a rest!

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  6. Climate Change

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    1 hour ago, SunSurfer said:

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/03/major-australian-ski-resort-perisher-closes-some-lifts-for-season-due-to-lack-of-snow

    Make turns while you can.

    Yeah, this year was really hot. I skied on 21st August in Perisher. They supposedly have had 30cm of new snow over the weekend but when I went there on Monday, snow all melted. 

    There is a smaller ski field, called Selwyn, that just recovered from the devastating bushfire that destroyed their chairlifts in 2019. Then COVID hit and they couldn’t operate properly for 2 years. They were expecting to make some money this year… But they had no snow!
     

    It was the hottest winter recorded. And we also expect hottest summer this year.

    Personally I believe the writing’s on the wall for Australian ski fields. For me, I used to have a ski house in Methven so I’ll buy there again.

  9. Climate Change

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    4 minutes ago, patmoore said:

    I'll be in Val Gardena in late January.  Hope coditions are good.

    Increasingly, even some of the skeptics are acknowleging that climate change exists.  Still, many of them insist the cause is purely cyclical, not anthropogenic. Hopefully they'll eventually pull their collective heads out of the sand.

    1927 saw a "Hundred Year Flood" in southern Vermont.  Then Hurricane Irene caused devastating destruction in 2011 followed by this past July's catastrophic flooding.  Don't count on another hundred years before the next  event.  When Irene hit, we had a condo in Proctorsville.  We had the 3rd and 4th floors but the ground floor units had four feet of water in them and we acquired an upside down Subaru.  Fortunately we sold that condo a year and a half ago. It got hammered again last month.

     

    I put together a composite of shots of Pie Alley, the driveway for the condo, in 1927, 2011, and 2023. 

    Here's a fifty year old brochure our meteorological team put out.  A hurricane tracking map was on the other side.  In addition to my on air duties I taught Introductory Meteorology and Climatology at the University of South Floida.  I never dreamed how rapidly climate change would become.

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    I guess science is hard to understand, but insurance premium isn’t…

    Some places in Australia, insurance companies either refuse to insure the properties or for those that offer, $30K per year…

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/where-home-insurance-costs-30-000-a-year-or-you-can-t-get-a-policy-at-all-20230721-p5dq69.html

  11. cants and lifts for burton plate bindings

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    When I first bought Ibex TC (now CC) from BomberOnline in 2011, it came with adjustable cant wedges that came under heel/toe blocks. 
     

    Now I believe there are only two native options: the cant/lift listed above, or unicant (https://www.carversparadise.com/en_US/products/speed-cc-uni-cant). Alternatively, you can buy a bombed power plate with 3-degree or 6-degree cant disks which will significantly add weight.

  12. Climate Change

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    All I know for certain is that Olympic level and world ranking skiers are concerned about warm weathers.

    “Mikaela Shiffrin, Federica Brignone and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde are among nearly 200 athletes from multiple disciplines who have signed a letter addressed to the International Ski and Snowboard Federation demanding action over climate change.


    The letter was written by Austrian downhiller Julian Schütter, an ambassador for the nonprofit organization Protect Our Winters, known as POW.

     

    Olympic cross-country skiing champion Jessie Diggins and Freeride World Tour championsArianna Tricomi and Xavier de le Rue were also among the letter’s signees.“

     

    https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/alpine-skiing-climate-change-world-cup-schedule

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  13. Perisher in August

    in Southern Hemisphere

    Posted · Edited by leeho730

    In short, not good. Snow is already melting in mid August, worse than spring, in some trails, base is exposed.  Too warm to make snow or even groom the trails, and extremely busy even during the weekdays.

     

    I’m unsure how long we can ski or carve in Australia, but from what I could see this season, the writing’s on the wall so too speak.

     

    Also, too many people with no manners. Hit me from behind, I have injured my right shoulder, not a single “sorry”. Numerous other incidence. First time in my life skiing, I felt like I need a helmet mounted GoPro just to keep a legal record in case something happens in Australia. With this and my snowboard instructor certificate I really have a good chance if something happens but still it would have been better if people are more considerate of other skiers there.

  15. 23/24 Board Porn

    in Carving Central

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    3 hours ago, svr2 said:

    I have been on snow this month on two www.rad-air.com Tanker prototypes (red is the 181 and green is the 201). Production 201 will be black and silver but just wanted to share that this new shape and camber profile is something special 😎🤘🏂🤙

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    Interesting, until last year it was a reverse camber but now it’s back to the sorta traditional camber. 
     

    I have a rocker camber Tanker 171 which simply wouldn’t submarine, could manage to go on 40+mph on powder. Would the new camber float just as well?

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  16. 23/24 Board Porn

    in Carving Central

    Posted · Edited by leeho730

    Donek MK 161 with stock dimensions and stiffness. Can’t wait to compare this with Virus Terminator 166 with 17cm waist, my current board of choice for narrow, steep (and quite often icy) slopes.


    Oh, and Donek board sleeve L size works pretty well. Looks slick, oozes quality. Right length, too. 

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  18. Nz season opening

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    I was at Perisher, NSW, Australia this weekend. Really bad season this year. There was no natural snow on the slopes, it was all man-made. And temperatures during the day ranged from 9C to 12C (48F-54F), and the condition was soft in the morning with lots of patches of ice by 10am. More than half of the lifts were not running due to lack of any kind of snow. And according to the report, Thredbo was worse with only 3 trails open (someone saw Torah Bright this Saturday, poor her).

    Bugger.

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