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There are 3 zipfit dealers in the denver area. I'm going to call all three today at some point. I might make an appointment for the one in dumont since it's on the way to and from loveland. I will say, even though i love my intuition powerwrap, it does tend to pack out in the instep area of my foot. I usually start at the first groove on my upz and i end out on the third groove by the end of the day. That being said, has anyone tried surefoot's injection liner? I think @Corey had surefoot make him a footbed. The surefoot in aspen rocks. They punched out and widened my upz boots and didn't even want to charge me. So i gave them 20 bucks for their beer fund and they were super happy.

Ugh, now i have to get a pair. I'm assuming they are ok with me using my custom footbed during the molding process, correct?

hmm, i might be tempted to stop at a zipfit shop this weekend in Denver. I would say my current boot setup is 90% of its way to total foot ecstasy. i still have some minor hotspots, but nothing that causes blisters or keeps me from riding all day long. Which model zipfit did you use @Bobby Buggs

Agreed. I have a turny nirvana and new 12/14 scr nirvana energy. I love both of them.

I always have issues with those tongue liners pressing against my shins. I always prefer wrap-around liners like intuition. It would be nice if they made an injectable wrap-around liner. My intuitions are comfy enough, after some major surgery to decrease volume on the sides of my feet.

I'll be at loveland Sat, Sun, and Mon. I'll bring some Grey Poupon for you @big mario

A note i'd like to add about carpet carving. This is something that is probably super obvious to all of you but easily overlooked. Ambient temperature; so i've been carpet carving to try out the different lift and cant settings. With my indoor temps kept at 73, on average, everything get's more flexible. Primarily, your boots and also elastometers on td3's. So when i switched back to my stock springs on my upz, they had a lot of foward flex when tightened up and locked. However, on the slopes, the movement is much more limited. So much so that i'm thinking of installing my set of dgss springs that i never got around to installing. These should give a lot more flex when compared to arnaud's system. So, the moral of the story is that everything will stiffen up in the cold temps.

nice, how are those new coilers doing? You must be bending the hell out of that board, those are some tight turns! awesome riding, as always!

Sounds like you guys will have more pow this weekend and next week. i need to move to CO. https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/colorado

I'll be back in town weekend after next. Friday night to Monday night. I plan on riding all three days. I must say, after riding pow for three days this past weekend, i feel like i'm just now starting to recover. i should have stayed an extra day to enjoy Tuesday with you guys. Oh well.

i say we keep in carving central. Maybe just pin it at the top and i can edit the first post with instructions? Copying some feedback i gave to bruce while riding my AM this weekend at Loveland since it also deals with technique and changes i made. "Just wrapped up a weekend at Loveland. Pretty much all 3 days were pow days with the last day (today) being very soft groom. I made the following changes before the trip. - Upz boots stock spring system re-installed - Shortened stance width to 18" buy moving the rear binding forward. This resulted in some very odd behavior with the board. It was very squirly and the tail just wanted to break loose constantly. So, i moved both bindings back by 1 set of inserts, problem solved. However, front binding is now the furthest back in can go, on the last set of inserts. - Locked my rear boot with more forward lean, on all runs. Overall, it performed very well. I would say it's about 80% of the way there to being a full on Pow only board. (comparing this to my donek nomad i have ridden in softboots and pow) However, i feel like the front half of the board could maybe be a little stiffer. Also, this board would probably be best served with a little bit more width. I'm sure this was due to the soft conditions and my lack of experience on pow, but the AM is very turny. And if not careful will really hook into a turn on the soft stuff. This didn't take away from the enjoyment of the board. With the more setback stance it was still a joy to ride in pow and i never really felt like i was going to submarine as long as i kept my speed up. "

i've been riding a custom built AM this season and i also ran into similar issues that resulted in me adjusting my riding slightly. Mainly, like you said, don't throw your weight towards the nose. If i overdo it, it definitely bucks and i get ahead of the board.

Just bought mine. The 7 days at Aspen is worth it alone.

Also, quick question for you guys. The GF is a beginner pizza skier and only comfortable on greens at the moment. I'm thinking we'll probably just stick with the lower part of loveland for saturday or the first half of that day. (The zig-zag area.) Should i just park at that lower area? Isn't there a lift that links both areas up? I'm assuming they also have rentals at that lower lodge...

https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/colorado Looks like a pow weekend, but who knows. The snow gods could just decide to dump it all just on i-70. I'll be there this weekend, including Monday. I'm assuming i'll actually be able to make it to the mountain. I hope the Outback i'm renting holds up. The last outback i rented had busted wiper motors that would crap out under a load of heavy snow.

Looks like i'll take the plunge and take my chances this weekend. I'll be staying in the lakewood area. The tough part will be getting the girlfriend up and out the door by 6am. She might just murder me.

Why don't we just sticky a critique my riding to the main carving forum? And make it part of the rules that you have to ask in that thread for advice? Just a thought.

Ah ok. Makes sense. I actually have a pair of yours that i bought last year but never tried them. Depending on how it goes with the stock upz system, i may or may not try them.

SO i have a trip planned to Denver this weekend. However, things look like they might get messy and i'm not sure i want to waste a trip just to get stuck on i70 for half a day. Thoughts? Shall i go? Sounds like it's too early to call it right now.

I don't mind if people use this thread. Might be a good idea to keep the number of advice threads down by doing so. Yeah, it's definitely not your version. the one i have requires a total of three holes be drilled. two for the plate that separates both springs and one at the bottom.

i'll post a picture of it when i get home. I actually have a set of the latest dgss springs from last year, i just never installed them.

i think that's too tight of a sidecut to ride on hardboots. Unless you want to tear off your torso...

Looks interesting. What's the sidecut radius on this? I couldn't find it on their site. looks like a turny board. My guess is 10m

I'm going to try the stock upz setup this weekend. It definitely has more travel than the springs i had on there. Perhaps i set them up wrong. Actually, what i have might not be the dgss, i remember now that i ordered them from some guy in italy on the EC forums.

For the very first iterations of the dgss you needed to drill holes to secure the middled plate and bottom of the threaded screw. It's not like the latest designs. This was a system sold by a guy that goes by druppi