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dude, the walls are breathing!

You sound like you are on the right track, find something that fits before you worry about features and looks. If the Giro you have now fits well, try out one of their higher end helmets, like the stylus, or save a few more pennies and go for the atmos, it looks very well vented, but unfortunately is quite a bit out of your price range.

Thanks for the inspiration, just finished the stealth anchors in the back yard, waiting for payday to pick up some lumber to build some a-frames.

Please tell me this is sarcasm and not the ignorant bigotry that it seems like.

EA Miller made a releasable plate binding in the late 80's early 90's. It didn't really go anywhere. The first releaseable ski bindings relied on a plate fitted to the boot similar to what a snowboard plate binding looks like. I will mirror what others here are saying, it is unfortunate that you were injured in a crash, but snowboarding can be dangerous, that's life. If you want to go through life with everything "bubble wrapped" for safety, that's your choice.

No, but it might have something to do with the Winter Olympics starting soon.

I've seen quite a few painful injuries as a result of people putting their hands down. Had a buddy pull off his mitten after digging a hand into a soft patch of snow to discover a badly dislocated finger one time. Get close but keep the hands off.

Ah, I see you have experienced the Whistler gorby syndrome as well.

You need a bittorrent client. something like utorrent works well (if you have a PC). http://www.utorrent.com/

I guess since someone brought up this old thread, I'll post my skid.

Something to think about, Most credit card companies prohibit businesses from billing a customer before the item has been shipped.

Don't remember offhand, board is in storage currently, when I drag it out I will have to measure. Not sure what you mean by that?

Nova scotia here, won't have a pass to martock this year, but would be up for getting out a couple times for a good carve session with soem other people.

In the XC ski world no-wax bases are textured with a fishscale pattern so you don't have to mess around with messy grip wax for going uphill. Doesn't really apply the the "glide" part of the ski. If you want good performance you still need to apply a glide wax.

Sorry to dredge up an old thread, Just want to add some info. Carl, the owner of Skid, is living in Golden, and as far as I know, will still build boards/skis for people if they want them. My 178 all mountain is still going strong after about 8 or so years.