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How about black? The number of people that wear black while night skiing is surprising. Even with a massive amount of flood lights turned on, black clothes against a black horizon is never good fashion.

I’ve always thought that there is an untapped business model here: pants by subscription.

Watched about 60 seconds of that. Might be a defect in my head, but I don’t get it. Looks like ok transport, but that was as inspiring as a lump of cheese rolled in gravel. But then, I get off on stealing all of the downhill ebike KOMs on my “acoustic”(bleah) bike.

I hope they have some form for calibration so we can remove boot cuff flex from board inclination. Half of me really wants to get raw data, the other half knows that I would probably loose interest before I got any actionable info out of it.

A perfect season end. The snow was still pretty good, but rain and warm temps will kill that this wee and the hill closes next saturday. Snuck out of work early on friday and biked up to the hill, then I took an early saturday morning ride today. Hardly any people, pleasent weather, and about 30cm of fresh snow, Nice! Now I’ve cleaned all of our sticks and packed them away. MTB forks and shocks are on the way back from service. Anybody else hanging up for the season, and is it on a high note?

The spray at each apex:

Problem is they don't and won't support snowboarding. When I asked about the possibility to recalibrate it for use on an SB, just for data logging, they basically said: nope.

Maybe you can setup an ASB payment option so we can all pitch in to buy one for @crackaddict to review on YT?

That raises a good question: who is actually producing the board? I would be willing to bet that that the board is made by a known board manufacturer (or alibaba) but blinged out to the luxury brand's specifications!

After seeing that, I had to «Wipe with a soft and dry cloth».

This! I'm fairly convinced the flex profile of the board is at least as important as the sidecut for determining the realized turn radius. But, what properties of the snowboard are really important to describe? Two boards can provide the same theoretical turn radii, but how the board reacts on the way into that operating point determines if the board feels good or bad or if you can even reach the required degree of inclination. Like MTB: total suspension travel is one of the numbers that people get really hung up over (and it does, to an extent, describe the intention of the bike). But factors such as progression rates, axel path, anti-squat, damping, length, reach etc, etc are going to have an even greater influence on the ride qualities that may inspire the confidence to really push the bike. I'm sure there are some analogs between MTB and SB. Damping, progression, etc in a SB are created by materials, camber and side-cut profiles. If you really want to capture the dynamics of a full SB turn, there is a lot of factors that should really be taken in. Snow deformation is an inherently nonlinear phenomenon (Ski-Snow Contact Mechanics), camber and side-cut geometries would need to be handled simultaneously, board flex, length, rider weight, COG, and torque inputs at the bindings, slope grade, board speed, etc, etc. In the above discussions I'm wouldn't even be 100% sure that the assumption of uniform trench depth is valid (but maybe close enough). At that point you might as well perform you simulations on the hill.

That wheel is _not_ compatible with my park-rat pants and wallet chain.

Here is my calling card, sometimes visible from LEO. Small children have refused to participate in ski school when I've been spotted at the hill.

Thank you for your service!!!

Hmmm, alternatively not over developing prime skiing land, not overselling passes, not offering every luxury and convenience under the sun for the entire family, and enforcing a zero tolerance to bullshit on the slopes would be my preference. Chilli in a drafty cabin served by a group of volunteers, half sketchy chair lifts without safety bars, only t-bars to the very top, deathtrap-one and a half lane road to the base, Subarus in the parking with skis and boards bungied to the rack, not a condo in sight and God's own stash of powder and glades. Long live the dirtbag skiers/boarders that truly burn for the sport. The dorks that complain that they can't get Wagyu beef on their burger in the lodge can get bent.