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Swix Yellow and Swix Red. That's really all I *need* --but rarely do I stop there. There's no better way I know of to kill 5 or 6 hours than to layer on all kinds of exotic stuff and then maybe cork in some powders on a few of my rides and on the family's gear too.. I know it's not practical. I know that adequate wax is cheap and abundant. But I really like the smell of the Swix products. Something about that smell tells my whole body that I'm about to have some fun. I enjoy the ritual of maintaining a board (or nine) and keeping the base waxed. Spending some time on the gear is like a form of meditation. I look at wear patterns and I think about how I was riding. As I tune and wax I think about what kinda riding I'm going to do. Feels good so I do it.

True confessions: I scored a couple of nice decks. I chanced across the listings and figured out where the boards came from about 10 days after I bought them. Right away I found it odd that merch like that was being sold by someone who did't appear to be a snowboard enthusiast. After a little bit of looking I figured out that bro was a banker (and not a board-stealer/fence!). I followed the account for about 2 weeks and I recall that there might have been 8 boards total that he sold via eBay. Probably 4 were F2s of older vintage that didn't seem that desirable. To his credit, seller bro wasn't offended by my strategic use of ebay's "Make an Offer" button. That's how I knew I was dealing with a business person and not someone (like myself) who might have had an emotional attachment to hardware.

Getting some footy for the boys is a key goal this year. It’s a learning aid. Plus it’ll look sick on social media. I had some gopro fails last year that I learned from. This year I’m making footy with the gopro on my head cabled to a big battery in my pocket. Looking to swap out with my kid and some local bros at shooting my SLR which can peel off 15 or so fps. Just gotta keep it warm and fog free. My prediction for photos and vids is many days of pretty much failure and a few days of success. I’d love to refine technique for shooting this stuff. Obviously some folks have it dialed. But average Joe-sumer results from the snow hill typically suck. This years gonna be different. I just know it. I acquired same Swoard last year after the season was over. I’m way excited to get it dirty.

Waxing is too painful. I religiously use Nair.

Dude I just launched a threak about like this one. My bad. My goal is to make it through the season without having to wear a cast.

Where will it be? What gear will you ride that first day? When is it gonna happen? Goals for the season? I haven’t gotten my season started yet but I’m confident it’s coming very soon. I got some new (to me) gear and I built a sick hotbox. But my secret weapon is that I’m starting the season 20lbs lighter than the end of last season. I’m ready to get low. Very low. Since August my daily regimen has been twice as hardcore as the training montage from Rocky IV.

Honestly I'm not sure that the format really makes a big difference to the seller. The beauty of an auction is of course that by starting low and allowing the bids to escalate the seller is given the assurance that he has obtained the highest price that the market will bear at that time of sale. That's what sellers are generally trying to do I expect. There's a benefit to the buyer as well. The buyer gets to know that the market supports the price he's paying. I personally feel this when, in an auction setting, I am willing to offer more when I can see that my offer is supported by other bids. That gives me the confidence that the item is salable in the event I need to get rid of it later. But how sales works now, at least with respect to the seller, isn't really that much different, it's just a little bit obscured. The current custom on this forum and most others permits buyers to make offers below the seller's asking price. That means that in order to get what the market will bear the seller sets the asking price on the high side of that number. Market driven pricing is still working its magic. And the seller still gets to see all of the offers, aka bids. But buyers don't get that info. The only time that the potential buyer gets to know that the seller's asking price isn't supported by the market is when the seller has to lower the asking price. Based on current marketplace rules or customs the buyer doesn't really get to know if his offer price is actually supported by the market. I suppose that going off of known historical sales prices for similar items provides some assurance to the buyer. But I'd argue that it's not the same as seeing real bid info for a particular item. Is there some community benefit to keeping buyers in the blind? Would seeing prices get bid upward hurt community feelings of fraternity? What is lost if the forum allows auction type listings but also allows fixed price listings? I'm not really advocating in favor of one mode or another. Just wondering.

I have 4 or 5 boards but only a couple pair of bindings. So I'm pretty much accustomed to popping my hardware every day. I do worry that I'm not keeping consistent angles. But I haven't had much trouble getting things set up good-enough on the fly. At the root of it all is that I just can't bring myself to buy more bindings. They aren't that fun. And improvements seem few and far between. Hence I drop the money on boards and other things that are more exciting.

I like that. Can you tell me what size PVC you are using? And have you connected your source for air yet? How does it work? I might wonder if pulling a one of my wall covers and rigging the duct to blow into something like this might alter the air velocity balance on the entire trunk. Assuming you connected it as you described earlier, did you notice any change in velocity of air on the other outlets connected to that line? I've spent many hours balancing my hvac system and I've learned from doing it that any change that results in less warm air being forced in the direction of my wife is not an acceptable change. I originally bought the dryer below because I have pretty thick hair and it was taking a long time for me to dry it with my old conair. This thing improved my hair dry times a lot. It did it by having more velocity, not by more heat. I'm thinking that I'll rig some flexible tubing to connect it to boots and gloves for next season. At this point I've got eight and sometimes nine pairs of everything that always need drying after a day in the field. It would be nice to know stuff is going to be dry for the next day or maybe even the next hour! https://www.amazon.com/Ridgeyard-Grooming-Hairdryer-Adjustable-Portable/dp/B01K4NTRRY/ref=pd_day0_199_7?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01K4NTRRY&pd_rd_r=YEWP677RQCAAQND72ETV&pd_rd_w=Dyx8U&pd_rd_wg=GwLgr&psc=1&refRID=YEWP677RQCAAQND72ETV

That’s really intriguing. I don’t have that kind of indoor option. Maybe I’m glad? I’d probably go if we had one. But I think I might like the seasonality of the sport. In the summer I surf and ride motorcycles. Plus I take delight in working on boards and my winter gear for when the season comes back around. I’m not sure if I’d have the same passion if i could ride year round. Kind of like when Circe offered Odysseus the chance to be immortal and he was like nah, thanks for offering but I think I’ll pass.

I’ll get some and try it out. But I worry that I’m not going to like the smell as much as i like the smell of swix yellow.

Swix yellow. I usually hot scrape before I put boards away. Especially if I've been riding in Spring mud. Then leave every board with thick layer. I start the season by scraping down whatever board I'm going out on, brushing it out, and then by applying a more temp specific type wax if necessary. Sometimes you need something harder than swix yellow for the start of the season. But if you don't then why suffer having to scrape that stuff? Yellow is easy to work with, good, and cheap when you buy the big blocks.

All the ads I’m seeing feature old couples holding hands and looking at each other with bedroom eyes. I’m not sure what “Are you tired of making excuses?” means in that context. But I’m happy to see some ads if that’s what makes the site free.

These are not bad. I have the all black ones and the clear lens ones with the black strap. I used each of them probably 15 times this season. They still look and feel good. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01LWVQX5E/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1524157930&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=ski%2Bgoggles%2Btraverse&dpPl=1&dpID=41HwKkcv3JL&ref=plSrch&th=1&psc=1 For $11 I don’t have to feel bad when they get all scratched up. I’m honestly surprised it didn’t happen yet. I have some $60 smith goggles and the foam that touches my face is nicer. The ventilation is nicer. But for $11 these are a much better value.

I’ve been taking all boards and bindings apart. I’ve got enough set up notes and pics to get back to where I started. Then I wax with something cheap. Here’s my question: is it good or bad to leave wax on the metal edges? Does it inhibit rust? Promote rust? Or neither?

FAS = Fetal Alcohol Syndrome http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/fas.html

Suddenly my want for a 3D printer has turned into a need for a 3D printer. This thread prompted me to do some looking around. I get the impression that little plastic pieces like cant discs could be printed. That’s very intriguing to me. I lost a UPZ cant disc due to my own negligence and increased stress caused by installing DGSS springs. I bought a couple of new replacement discs from the UPZ site after it happened. It took a while for them to get to me. I had no hardboots for maybe 12 days of my short season. What if I could have just printed a replacement? That would have been huge. Cants, go pro mount stuff, new google clip for my helmet, and who knows what else. Wow.

I found that something more along the lines of an all mountain alpine board really helped me to get the feel for carving in hardboots. At the beginning the long, skinny boards were tough to use. My situation was complicated by the fact that I was riding in really messy, chopped up snow.

That looks real nice. I've been planning to put together something similar for a while. I guess now that the season is over I had might as well. Yours looks clean and simple. I had been envisioning something that would be adjustable to handle more softboot completes and maybe even some skis. I was thinking about using dowel rods as dividers and allowing those rods to be moved into different positions to account for different sized gear.

The DGSS provides more and better flex in my rc10s. Watch out for additional stress on the cant discs. Mine blew out after a few rides with the new spring system. I had never found that the discs needed tightening. Then suddenly I lost a disc and all the others were loose. Also be careful about how the new bolt hangs down behind the heel. I wrecked a leather car seat with it. I also caught it on a concrete stair while leaving a gondola. It caused me to fall and bent the hell out of the bolt. I had to disassemble it and straighten the bolt in a vice. Still it makes for a better ride. Worth it.