CB Utah

I would suppose we all have our “Ferrari” boards that we lovingly wax, tune, clean and ride during the main season, but do you have an older board or boards set aside to use that you don’t cringe as much when you hit dirt, small rocks etc. and you use this board to ride early and/or late? If so, what board is it? Asking because I’m having a such a blast late season on my highest performance board and want to acquire more, but I’ve got a dilemma. I know I have to sell some of my other boards first. Also, I’m encountering more exposed tree branches, rocks, dirt, and ground squirrels popping out of burrows in the trails, (not on the side, but in my path). I’m up in the air as to which board I’ll sacrifice as the rock board and interested in everyone’s thoughts.

Tracks are looking good. Snow conditions looked nice too. What air temp?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; always read a book when I fly and laughingly grabbed this old copy off the book shelf as I left the house for Florida. I read it straight through. Samuel Clemons was a talented man. But then after I read it, my mind wandered to the Rush song, then to their song YYZ, then to the snowboard and gear dealer in Ontario of the same name where I buy stuff. I smiled. The connectivity of it all pleased me greatly.

10/10 on what @barryj said about Fast Stik. I too used paraffin in slush long ago and loved it but the Fast Stik isn’t as clingy to dirt like soft wax. Warmest this year so far for me was at Snowbasin (UT) and it was 55 degrees F. Overheating was my main concern. Dry fit shirt worked nicely. Rub on wax won the day; other boards I didn’t use that on stuck and almost threw me forward on the slope transition. It claimed it was 47 degrees F at Solitude (UT) today but was more like 52 at the base. I had a blast and will go until they close. Note line between clean snow and grunge snow in photo.

Resolved: Tried calling the Dakine customer service number, and that works great, provided you want to buy something. The extension for warranty service is not accepting calls. So I tried the company at their store website email address, used for ordering or checking on orders and a customer service representative resolved the issue within 5 minutes. What started in February had now been successfully resolved. Hope this helps anyone in the future.

Xargo, that board description sounds awesome. Graphics are top notch. So it looks like I just bought the lighter version of Big Mario’s Thirst 8RW; a new goofy foot with a slinky 18.7 cm waist and a .266 flex. For my photography session, I went with the theme of this thread… cue the Rick James funkadelic soundtrack.

Hi Chris, in fact it was the Dakine torque driver. I also own the stance driver and it has been flawless. I take it with me everywhere. The torque driver had some sort of internal shear happen after a few uses. It rotates freely now, regardless of switch position. Agree about Utah Ski Gear; great customer service every single time and their separate tuning/racing supplies shop is awesome.

Just curious, because I had a Dakine tool self destruct after a few weeks and it’s been radio silence for the last two months. I’ve sent inquiries but nothing. I even checked the junk folder to see if a reply went there. All I have is the acknowledgment my claim and documentation were successfully sent. Thanks

Daft Punk. And wondering if I could successfully incorporate such a helmet into my riding outfit.

Congratulations and way to represent. Is footage from your runs up yet?

Very smooth carving on the steeps. Great videography too.

I was waiting for someone to say that, @Odd Job. Interesting to ponder, a bit more difficult to implement the side to side. On a side note, Sparky the F2 stomp pad fan would totally do it if he was allowed to drive the Piston Bully… But to be serious for a minute, @JohnE, could this be tested in effect by finding a wide, even groomed slope that is relatively level, straight lining for a bit to build speed then turn sharply against the slope to try some quick turns perpendicular to the fall line? I seem to recall some slopes at Beaver Creek that were really wide and potentially good for this experiment.

Damn, that does sound intense and 45 minutes is brutal. Did you just lay there and think happy thoughts about snowboarding endless powder or what mind game did you play to pass the time? PS last weekend they were blasting into the afternoon to mitigate.

Great film. Jealous that you had that slope all reserved for your event.

The humor here is genius. I’m visualizing this screened on a t shirt with a graphic of alpine snowboarder.

Hey thanks @Wolf. That’s actually a great idea. Of course this review was me having fun on April Fool’s Day. Hope everyone enjoyed it and got in some spring riding today. We hit Sundance tonight; their last hurrah for night skiing/boarding.

This review will cover the dimensions, engineering and practical application for the F2 snowboard stomp pad. The F2 stomp pad may only be obtained by ordering F2 plate bindings. After unboxing each set of F2 Titanium bindings, I always feel like a kid at Christmas. Hidden underneath those precision German engineered bindings, instruction booklets and the F2 leash, is the one thing I can’t wait to grab out of the box; the F2 stomp pad. Measuring a respectable 3.957” (100.500 mm) wide, 6.313” (160.337 mm) long, and a beefy 0.082” (2.070 mm) thick, this thing is the under-rated gem of the industry. I can’t believe F2 doesn’t sell these separately. They make every snowboard top sheet graphic look stunning and get me way more attention in the lift line than anyone else. A lot of alpine boarders are quick to put these on their boards but are missing the real utility of F2 stomp pads. For example, I use them as cheap dog tags for all my dogs, cutting boards in the kitchen, hot pads when cooking, covers for my laptop camera, mouse pads, free standing shelf levelers in the metal shop, drink coasters, soap dish replacements, and I keep a few in the truck for 4x4 emergency tire repair. I can’t say enough great things about the F2 stomp pads and hope this review is as useful to you as the F2 stomp pads are to me.

Looks fun on groomers, it might be really fast. In powder (we got 25” last night) it seems like it would be a sketchy submarine. Curious about how it would handle death cookies and if frozen clumps would strike the plate. I’d try it, if only to melt skier’s brains in the lift line.

Interested for anyone’s solution. Was just retightening mine last night at Sundance, wondering why there wasn’t a lock feature and the lack of engineering that went into that. Contemplated/cringed using tiny strip of Gorilla tape.

First twin tip was indeed Barfoot. I used to own one. Heaviest slab of a board ever. Tough but not the most enjoyable to do tricks with in the air. Riding backwards was indeed called fakie and ISM mag started jokes about flakie. Best of luck on your cert.

Dang, that looks and sounds amazing. Deep powder, great trails, no crowds, perfect board and not much wind either? Looks like they do a good job with illuminating the slopes, too. Thanks for sharing and slash the powder for all of us.

Thanks. 10 minutes from the house and each time I drive by, I drool at the trails. Then I laugh because you can see where some snowboarders hiked and poached them. Daughter put a Deer Valley sticker on her board just to mess with people’s minds :)

We never shared this but now this seems relevant. The following situation could have easily gone very bad, where a recording would have been useful at a trial. @slabber and I were night snowboarding at Sundance. (Chime in here @slabberbecause I may have the details wrong; it all happened very fast) We were on the lift, on our way to disembark at the top. As we were approaching, we saw an adult male beginner skier flopping around on the ground, trying to stand up, but constantly failing. The lift just kept running. He was confused and panicking with no idea low side crawling away was safer than staying in the danger zone and trying to stand. He was so focused on trying to stand and so new to the sport, he never realized each big steel chair was almost wrecking him and passing right over him. He was directly in my path on the inside. His child was standing, watching dad struggle and I think he was in @slabber’s path. Each successive chair kept going right over this guy’s head and body, since he was on the inside, sometimes glancing him. @slabber saw the lifty sitting in his little darkened shack, looking down at something, not paying attention. We managed to get the kid safely out and avoided running into either person with our boards. I had tried to signal the lift attendant to shut down the lift before I focused on dealing with what was in front of me but I failed. I think @slabber was able to get his attention. He came out of the shack way too late, after @slabberand I helped get both safely away and then lifty stopped the lift way too late. Looking back, we could have witnessed someone’s dad get completely destroyed by a chair lift and been testifying at the subsequent trial. Hopefully I haven’t hijacked this thread but it brought up a situation where film may have played a role in a court case.

This got my wife thinking about GoPros, such as street bikers often have on their helmets. Are we approaching a time where having a front and rear facing helmet cam could be our black box to provide evidence if such an accident occurs? How have some of the members here who have been struck dealt with the legal aspects? My best friend in college was an expert skier who grew up skiing the most challenging terrain at Winter Park. One day in 1991 he was skiing with me as I snowboarded at Copper. He slowed to tell a guy to stop recklessly tailgunning him and as he slowed, the guy ran him over and skied over his face, causing brain damage. What transpired was absolutely horrific and led me to believe the ski areas were ill-equipped to conduct criminal and accident investigations. I rode enduro bikes so I started boarding in my lightweight full face motocross helmet after I saw what a ski can do to a human’s face.

Thanks for posting. I’ve always felt that the telemark skiers’ skills are generally unnoticed and unappreciated by the majority of skiers. Anyone agree/disagree ? Haven’t been to Breckenridge in decades but they used to have telemark Santas there, stylishly skiing down black runs around Christmas time, some taking on moguls. We’d always cheer on telemark Santa from the lifts.