1xsculler

Excellent condition TD3 step-ins with yellow pads, spare screws, 2- 3*, 1- zero* and 1- 6* cants. $350 including shipping.

Donek Axxess 162, excellent condition. One of the best all mountain carving boards. $400 including shipping. Sorry, I couldn't upload more images. email me for more xheacox@gmail.com

Gig Harbor, WA 98335

If you want to bury side wall, bend the board and get it done with your board way up on edge, whether toe or heel side, your lower legs better be damn close to the snow. This just dawned on me but you all already knew it.

Deeluxe T700, size 28, about four years old, well used but 100% functional with no issues and a lot of life in them, includes installed BTS with yellow and blue springs, original 5-position flex adjuster, Fintec step-in heels in very good condition, new original stock heels, no liners, $330 plus shipping which is about $25 to California and about $50 to the East coast. I bought these boots about two weeks ago from Barryj on BOL if you want to see more photos go to his ad.

UPZ RC8, size 29 for a foot measuring 28.5cm to 29.5cm, IMHO. latest model, no liner, ridden once, $350 plus shipping which is about $25 to California and about $50 to East coast.

Deluxe Track Free 69, size 28, used for about three, two hour days, as new as you can get without being brand spanking new. Identical to 325s except for their eye catching yellow color. Nearly new BTS with yellow springs included. Five position original flex adjuster included. No liner. $330 plus shipping which is about $25 to California and about $50 to the East coast.

I am happy to hear this and to hear it related to flow because it must take a sincere energy focus to do it well. My comments are probably related to my novice, newbie level and to my totally solo association with carving. I drive up to the Mt. twice a week by myself, about two hours each way. I ride by myself about two and a half hours and head home. I am addicted but also trying to sort the whole thing out. I expected some push-back from some of the long time, dedicated, hard core riders who really couldn't care less who's watching. They maintain the total stoke all on their own and that's probably why they're so inspirational to watch. If I don't run out of B-days first maybe I'll get there.

How about size and a full description?

I hate to bring this up but I beleive it's certainly true that this sport is more narcissistic than most. I'm totally guilty. Now that I am just beginning to lay down the occasional pure carve trench I find myself visually surveying the hill I'm going up in the chairlift to find what might be the best carving terrain to come down and, yes, where I might be able to pull of some of my best turns where people riding up the chair might see me. I'm not very good but am always the only hardbooter on the mountain so I have no one better than I am to steal the show. I doubt that many riding the chair actually even pay any attention to me but I fantasize that they might and that thought makes me want to try my best to hang on to bend my board and hang onto that edge. I also like to ride a run under the chair so I can drool over my occasional set of pencil lines as I ride the chair up. Not that we all don't get a lot of personal satisfaction just feeling the "Gs" in our turns even when no one is watching it's just a little more fun when we think observers might think what we do is pretty cool. To deflate that thought, I have thought pure carving was the coolest thing in the world ever since I viewed the Pure Carve VHS video I had over ten years ago but I have never, not once, been able to convince my many ski buddies, some of sixty years of skiing together, to try carving. It seems to me that almost no one but us BOLers and some Europeans have any interest in laying down the trenches that we think are so awesome.

Just received my X socks and I think I'm going to like them. They seem to be of very high quality. I wear a 28 Deeluxe or UPZ, foot measures 28.2cm and I wear a US 12.5 street shoe. I ordered EU 45/47, UK 10-12, US 11.5-13 X socks and I think the next size smaller might have been better although I won't know for sure until after a few days on the slopes..

An entire week is not on the radar but I may be able to take in two days. Which two days would likely be the most well attended?

It seems like the Palau 141 liner is similar in stiffness and thickness to an Intuition Power Wrap and the Deeluxe Thermoflex 131 liner is more similar, but maybe not quite as thick, to what I think are my Full Tilt Intuition Plush liners.

I'm not sure what liner I have but it's probably a Full Tilt Plush Intuition too, size 11/29 which I use in my size 28, 325s and RC10s for my 28.2cm feet.. I remolded the toes only for my rear foot using a heat gun before riding yesterday and it seemed to help. I used a modified Deeluxe toe cap and 1/4" thick, fairly dense foam between my big and second toe and the next toe to create some room.

Me too!

Did hard boot snowboarding cause Bruce to need new knees?

Thanks for the informative and inspiring post and a lot of aloha to you as my season pretty much ends when my wife''s wishes to get back to Maui will be realized next week. She may keep us there past the end of March unless she starts missing the grandkids too much which I will bring up often.

It''s a sport loaded with complexities and variables. I guess we nerdishly like it that way.

Much worse things could happen like your original flight not getting cancelled.

And that first photo is the wall paper on my computer and my phone....very inspirational!

I found a PZ3 in my tool box and it does seem to fit that screw a little better than a PH3. You learn something every day.

Yup, you're correct, it is a K2 Trucker 159, 32.5, 28.2, 32.5. I now remember that I bought it and did use it for a North Cascades Heli-trip that I took my daughter and one of my other daughter's boyfriends on in the early 2000s. I skied on a pair of wider 160 (maybe Kneissel Red Stars, I can't really remember for sure) in the morning and switched to the Trucker with plate bindings (probably 45*/0*) using my same Salomon SX91 ski boots for both in the afternoon. The Trucker did well in the deep pow.

My PH3 driver seems to work well in that screw in my Titanflex toe piece. I've never hear of PZ3 before but I will have to find a one and try it out.

My old but nevet used Burton Trucker 159 is about 30cm wide I think. Maybe I should see if I can find it.