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Saw todays report. Am I gonna need a pow board? WTF, I was tryin' to pack light.

Best I can offer is a Thirst sticker on the back of my helmet or next to a Biden sticker on a gas pump.

Please inform Mrs. Wonton I'm not responsible for subsequent tattoos, body piercings, excessive gear purchases, exorbitant airbnb/airline charges, nor anything "snowboard" related. Please direct further inquiries to @BLOODTYPEZX10R. It's his fault.

Pork roll, Easter egg and cheese sangwiches it is. See you then. Wonder if @Carvin' Marvin's spray tan wore off yet?

So...Easter Sunday LCI? Is that a thing?

I'll give some credit to Stratton for throwing on the guns this week, but after 3" of rain and ice pellets the last two days, It's a mess here in southern VT...

Well…it looked like winter. Rock board time.

Packed up and headed back to sea level with those good body aches and pains. April perhaps? I see a small window in the calendar which of course includes a Sunday. Thanks (again) everyone for you hospitality and camraderie. Neil

I knew at least ONE person here would understand. I originally had "TT Quick at the Birch Hill", but thought it needed bigger hair. Wonder what board would be "Murphy's Law at City Gardens"? +/- 5 years? I had fake ID at 15...but yeah I'm old.

Finally an honest review. If it was the 80's, this board would be an IROC Z, not with the 305, but with the 350 and 3.27 rear and a t-top for cruising the strip at Seaside before heading to Baby O's to see Twisted Sister...

Surely you're not looking for support in unloading those UPM plates for a more useable Vist or Donek-F, correct?

I've seen his topsheet. The colors are there. A Case's or Taylor logo would fit right in.

Not unless the long range forecast changes. Bigs loaned me his tankah just in case.

Some might argue this is why God created edibles. Not that I would sanction such a thing of course, but maybe the first step is to stop that guy from yelling at Bob so much. He sounds like a real bummer.

Must have been the blue ones as mine cracked after 3 days of riding. This was back in 2018ish when they first released that color. I continued to use them anyway...

@Carvin' Marvin wins the innernetz today. That thing is glorious.

So some good news...I guess. My wife informed me the Souly Grail finally arrived. UPS dropped it off on Tuesday...3 hours AFTER my flight to Denver...

Love it! Already told my son I'm doing the "old fart" mod on his step-on's for when I borrow them.

Terrifying... Not the experience of the OP, which probably did have a amattering of terror, but that someone doesn't cherish their life enough to shim and/or cant a bindiing that appeared last in a catalog in 2001.

Looks like they rescheduled for a delay. At least we're making some headway.

Received an update after 7 days. Apparently they are "experiencing transit delays". Anyone know what "rescheduled" means in German?

@Chouinard, fwiw, I ride my SF at 60F/64R for precisely the reason @ibrussellmentioned. It acts as a governor for the amount pressure yo can apply to that stubby SF tail. I ride all my boards that way actually. Just feels right now. Your mileage, or in this case anatomy, may vary, of course...

Wasn't my intention either, @bigwavedave. I read it as a discussion on the sidecut, which my understanding is thats where the similarities of the two boards end(and my extremely limited non-experience with the Contra). But I would still expect them to mostly behave in the same manner based on entering and exiting a turn. In my mind I was in agreement with @Jack M, but sometimes it doesn't communicate well with my fingers...

Stowe will have better conditions and better carve-friendly terrain, but those weekend crowds...aye carumba. Sugarbush, while still crowded on weekends seems to better disburse the masses. Trails are a bit tight and rolly, but still some good opportunities. I go there when it dumps to ride softies as their trees are awesome and plentiful. It may be a bit sparse in April if VT doesn't start getting some snow. We're coming up on Presidents Weekend already and only have a third of what we usually have by now and northern VT has done much better than southern with the white stuff...fwiw

@Carvin' Marvin I assure you it was trying to kill you. We talked about this at Lovey in December as I had the identical experience. That was the FIRST thing I sad to Mark after my maiden voyage on the 8RW. Get too far in front of it and it comes around so fast it launches in the opposite direction off the nose or load the tail and it sends you at warp speed into the woods, as @big mario can attest. I have to look back at the messages as I remember them being pretty funny, but I think Marks advice, in it's simplisctic form, was to ride the terrain, NOT the board. Try to even forget the board is underfoot, just maintain steady even heel and toe pressure as you tilt it in the direction you want to go. Haven't ridden the Contra, but from what I've watched, I expect it to be nearly identical to the Thirsty ride I love so much... Oh, and ice, yep, it's very different out here and takes a far different strategy. As good as the Thirst is on ice, sometimes it's not enough. And the condition of the ice can vary from run to run. Rode with @Mr Wonton this morning at Mountain Creek on my little SF and that was't enough effective edge to bridge the gap between the ever-changing conditions of faux-groom, ice, snowcone granular, etc. He was much better off on his XC. When it's like that, a 171-175 with a small sidecut and a plate is the way to go, just to bludgeon it all into submission...