Greybeard

If I have a greybeard you know I am dating myself-but that has nothing to do with ability and speed of learning. On one of my last days out before the snow turned to slush I was sitting tightening up my bindings when a small female boarder skidded over and said what are you doing with those bindings set like that - 45/30. She pulled off her goggles and revealed a smiling 65+ year old shining face and told me she wants to learn to carve and has wanted to talk to someone who was doing it softboots. One of the good guys at a local board shop fed me different boards to try from a Palmer Carbon Circle to a Supermodel which I got as the best choice for a small ski hill. It was astonishing how different boards performed.............

Heres one I would like to see explored- I have been snowboarding for years and only ran into some hardboot carvers last month at our local ski hill. They suggested going to carversalmanac for pointers etc. I found this site, found a reference to Gilmour who softboot carves at 45/32. I set my angle to this and found a free carve board and am having a great time learning. I am curious how high an angle people do use in soft boots even tho it is said that you can't.