KingCrimson

Just confirmed I'm heading up either tomorrow or Sunday

I sent you an email. No promises but I am going to try my best to make sure I'm back up there on time for you to stay with me. I'm almost 100% certain I can make that happen.

Monthly production code then

nah that means its a factory third, you definitely don't wanna go there.

Those windy days always have such good snow for carving on the more exposed steeps!

Yeah but it looks like reversing it covers the zippered flap for accessing my sidearm. Dealbreaker.. Dude I remember you linking me that on AIM probably 3 or 4 years ago and my reaction now is the same as my reaction then. BAD ASS!

I can't believe that we are talking this much about chatter, especially speculating from 3 pictures...And it's not even summer. :lol: I think we can all agree that Kurt is the best when it comes peddling used snowboards. It looks like he gets along okay riding them too!

Dingbat- Hidden chest pockets? Perfect so the stoner busting snowboarding Mounties can't find your stash!:D

Someone brought me Samoas, I really enjoyed the one I ate before my brother came to "make sure everything is going alright" How was it this weekend? Temps looked coldish.

I would definitely say that looks like chatter to me, but I could be wrong. More like undulating than skittering, bad chatter though, that has a really obvious look in pictures. I WAS an on-hill photog 25 hours a week before I broke my leg, and I see a LOT of chatter hahaha. It could be afternoon chop, and it could just be the nose flopping around as it "hunts" through ruts and stuff. If you go look at the Swoard videos, there's a lot of chatter in slowmo and similar spray.

I love seeing videos from East Coast resorts. I live in one of the most picturesque places in the world, but I grew up listening to my dad describe skiing on the east coast all the time and rolling hills covered with bare trees will always have that special allure for me.

That rental shop in Canyon across from where I work actually has Dalbello boots, you could also try to get her in Kryptons if you want to go to the plate route with her. The extra height helps way more than it hurts as long as it's not excessive.

This is an odd mix of scary and funny. I've seen a few passes get clipped at Mammoth for people riding the ganjola. Seriously though, I agree with Allee..It's ridiculous to spend any money catching people smoking when there's drunkasses all over the hill causing much more of a hazard.

I'd love to get diarrhea out of ANY hole at this point with how constipated I am, but that's a different story. Not sure what too big for britches means, if that's to suggest maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, you're wrong. I'd invite you to come spend a week with me in Mammoth, but I quite literally can't ride. I don't like the softie hate on these forums because it's short sighted and ridiculous. I don't think Cuban was going anywhere with his post, but it was pretty pointless, and the signal to noise ratio on these forums can already be pretty bad. I don't have anything against Cuban, and I think this is the first time I've ever addressed something at him on the forums. It was just an aside on one of my posts. Don't you have something better to be doing than posting something like that? And what's with these weird personal attacks? Am I supposed to call you a doodoo butt in response?

Before anyone gives 2stroke any more crap about putting a softie thread, he carves his softies better than a lot of people here carve their new school metal sticks. My softie carving/BX setup had Ride SPIs, they were very burly and stiff heel and toe but actually very soft laterally and gave a very forgiving feel when ending up in the back seat in moguls or doing dumb stuff like knuckling jumps. Though they are aluminum, I think they are unique in their lateral softness- I agree with Rob that aluminum bindings are generally overkill. Slopestar, a fantastic socal softboot carver swears by his Flows. He's trying out his powerplates tonight and I texted him to post his thoughts afterwards.

Photography doesn't HAVE to suck up money! That said, I would definitely pay to do my job. You saw first hand how awesome it is, I see a good softbooter tearing it up, I get to take a bunch of pictures of them, and then I hassle them to get on hardboots and end up with a friend! Can't complain about that, and it's happened a few times. I'm glad to see you're active in the forums now too! You especially nailed the purples in the sky, which I understand is supposed to be hard with most digitals because of their red sensitivity. I did more digging today (lots of time on my hands) and it was an absolute pleasure. Your wife was right when the first thing she said to me was "Aren't we just a cool family??" :) I am beyond thankful that photography sucks so much time, I've really spent a lot of time reading about photography since breaking my leg and it's been keeping me sane. I'm also glad I was only into film before breaking my leg.. Lots of digital-specific stuff to learn! Still down in San Diego, probably till like March 10th. It's not so bad being warm all the time and having my dad help me out, but Mammoth is Mammoth! I love it there. I definitely plan to live in ski towns for the rest of my life, maybe even Mammoth. I do like how it lacks the pretentiousness of a lot of other mega-resorts, it's got free and kickass public transit, a job that I love, a coaching position that I find incredibly rewarding (all except for 2 of our athletes, who are only on their second season riding, qualified for states!), and every morning it's like waking up on Christmas morning because I'm so excited to just be in Mammoth! It's so funny because people here see me hobbling around on my crutches with surgical bandages on and look at me and obviously feel sorry for me..But it Mammoth complete strangers are like "Yoooo dude!! Did you snap it doing something dope??!?!" and that's one thing that immediately struck me as awesome living in Mammoth. There's a sense of brotherhood among locals regardless of age, race, etc. I've said it a hundred times but I really think it takes a certain kind of person to want to live full time in a town that is really 4 hours from ANYTHING, and you have to really love what you do and where you are to make the sacrifices it takes to live in Mammoth.

I didn't have any lenses (that the D3000 can drive) but since I already have a film SLR I love, I figured I may as well not orphan it. I initially went Nikon so that I could share lenses with a good friend of mine, and I got my AF N80 for $50 in like new condition with a lens. And I looked through about 5-6 pages of your flickr. All very nice. I was always scared away from the offerings other than Canon or Nikon. They don't have the clout or market share or brand loyalty that Canon and Nikon have so they largely get by with gimmicks, like Sony's SLTs. I'm just not interested. I started on Olympus OM film cameras, so I'm really happy with just the basics.

Very nice Chris! That's pretty cool you have a NEX. I was debating between getting a MILC, probably a Nikon V2, and my cheapy D3000..But since I have a Nikon film SLR it just made more sense to stick with the same system. I just love the way Nikon's controls on their SLRs are arranged. And we use D90s at work so I figured it would be good to share the ergonomics and menus between my work and play cameras!

Have fun guys! I wish I could join you!

If you want a better testing protocol for that (in my opinion and experience) change one ring at a time, first do the back, then flip. That way you can immediately compare. It's tough on the brain, but you really have a more reliable basis for comparison, and you don't need to be used to a particular setup. You can really only compare from muscle memory and if you're only giving one or two days to a given setup that's not enough time to develop muscle memory to the way a certain durometer ring responds. Then go to both. And then go back to the original setup. E-rings are nice because they can be left in a goggle pocket in your jacket and it's no issue to bring them on the hill and that testing procedure only applies to e-ring testing. But fear not carrying the e-rings..they won't hurt you! All of that said, beyond choosing rings, I often don't bother with full days to test setups (fore and aft binding placement, stance width). I'll give something like 2 runs top to bottom to experiment with different kinds of riding and conditions and see how that works. It seemed like the last few weeks I was riding I was nailing setups on the first try though..probably because I ride every board maxed out width and I know generally what I want my cants to be.

Cornice is REALLY fun to carve in the morning after it's been groomed on a poppy old school GS board. Airborne transitions that just float you forever. It's fun on metal too but not quite as wild. I am not in Mammoth right now unfortunately. I wish I was but it looks like I'm stuck down here for like two weeks. I'll keep you posted if that changes.

I definitely think it's prudent if you're moving at a decent click. Especially with super grippy boards like the one I was on, it's just not worth putting the board back in the snow if the slope is flat enough to let you decelerate and there's nothing particularly dangerous downhill of you. Hopefully if you're carving fast enough to fear injury when you're chattering it's on an empty slope, and unrecoverable chatter for me always happens at the bottom of the turn so trees usually aren't too much of a concern.

Hey Dr Schwartz, it's too bad I won't be making it up to states, I'm assuming your high school is racing at Shasta. (since you're next door!) It would have been cool to meet you and talk shop on my leg a little bit with a hardbooting orthopedist. I help(ed) coach the Mammoth High School team.

Is this directed at me? I assume so based on the chore comment..I'll answer anyway, and if I make an ass of myself, it won't be the first or last time. I wasn't racing, I was riding very fast on a 200cm board though. I should have had a plate, the board was meant for a plate, and it may have lessened the extent of the injury based on my experience with crashing and chattering and the relative pain levels that follow. I live alone in Mammoth, can't escape taking care of business.. I am just down in San Diego for a little bit for some unrelated medical issues that are semi-urgent. Thanks Chris, let me know when you want me to get you set up on that Factory Prime..I'll make it happen, I promise. I haven't heard of any plans to have my screws out, as far as I know everything is being left alone. I'm still in a tremendous amount of pain, and unfortunately I'm allergic to Tylenol and the bleeding risks with Advil outweigh the benefits for me with my other health issues so I'm stuck with the good old opiates. I'm pretty sick of being dopey but it's better than hurting. Luckily things have been staying moving, so to speak.

Hey Joe, I run blues all around. I'm a very aggressive rider (too aggressive?) and find them to be laterally quite soft. To some degree I would rather have the TD2 bail towers on a TD3 baseplate and e-ring. The TD2 towers in my experience are considerably softer laterally than the TD3 ones. My blue rings will help out a bit with the feel if you want to borrow those. Next time you're up in Mammoth you're more than welcome to borrow them while you're up here. Here's my latest update..cross posted from the AIL list