Dave Pushee

Add my vote to the polypro liner socks pile. Ultrathin wicking socks and thermoflex liners work fine. The liner socks hold retain very little moisture - unlike cotton which soaks it up like a sponge.

Sean, there's a cure for that - get a 2nd car seat for the other side of the car and alternate.

Are those both the same model wireless computer? Maybe they pick up stray signals from something. You don't both have pacemakers do you? :D

My bike speedometer once told me my max speed was something over 150 mph - riding in the rain no less! I have a wired speedometer with cadence. Rain got between the computer unit and its bracket. The computer was adding the cadence signal to the speed signal. My cadence was also higher than normal.

From the fuzzy blow-up Ursle posted, it looks like the toe "plates" pulled out. On both bindings, there is something dark sticking up that appears to hold the toe "clips".

Gotta go with #1. Terrain and Snow is what it's all about. You cang get a sense of either of those in #2. Too bad she had the goggles down in # 1 though.

I have one plate, but can't find screws for it. Send e-email if interested. I don't know what angle it is. It's about 8" in diameter, about 1" thick on the high side tapering to an edge on the low side. Metal center has six holes for attaching to board, and 3 inserts for binding.

Just got back from 3 days supporting our Boy Scout troop at summer camp. After meals, the dining hall staff dismiss diners in a controlled manner usually in the form of "If you did xxxxxx, you may leave the dining hall". On the evening of the 4th, veterans were thanked by being the first group dismissed. Only a handful of us left at that time. Of course, the vast majority of diners were boys under age 18, but there were many adult leaders in the hall as well. I had a lovely time at scout camp. Regards, Dave

There are veterans and then there are Veterans. I'm a vet (US Army Security Agency) 1970-1974, but all of my overseas duty was in Germany programming computers in air conditioned comfort. Most of the time it was a 9 to 5 job with weekends free for skiing (snowboarding not invented yet) in the Alps. The closest I came to harm was when the Baader Meinhoff gang bombed the IG Farben building in Frankfurt. I was running late that day - if I had been on time I would have been going through the front doors when the bomb went off. I had a pretty easy time of it, so I feel a bit sheepish standing up with the real Veterans who were in harms way.

You two guys are really OLD . I just turned 60 in May. As for birdies, no golf for me, but with my dog and my shotgun, I do get a few in the fall. Now that I'm retired and have a house closer to ski areas, I expect to ride at least one day this season for each year of my age. - Dave

Of course you retire. What's wrong with you even asking that question? After years of dodging the layoff bullet, I got involuntarily retired just before Christmas at 59 and a half. I don't miss work one bit. I don't think you will either edit: I just remembered. The best part about being retired is you can snowboard on weekdays and sleep in on the weekends when it's too crowded to enjoy yourself fully on the slopes. - Dave

Steve, as a certified old fart dad, I have the sad :( duty to inform you that the 18 year estimate is at least 5 years too short. Can you say college or wedding? Also, don't forget to add at least a few more years for the second and third kid. But, congratulations they are worth it. - Dave

Atteded a wedding over the weekend. If I could have converted the money that was spend on that event to a quiver, I could ride a differerent (high end) board every day of the season and not repeat.

Me too. In early June, I will close on a new house in Plymouth, NH. Now that I'm retired, I won't have to worry about commuting to work.

Hey, you can't do that! This is the off-topic thread about nothing. It's just not right to tie it back to boarding.

Nice meeting you briefly this morning. I was with my wife and her friend, so couldn't ride with you. Today was a good day. My weekend is booked, so I'm probably done for the season. - Dave

Gleb, If your question about whether to take the good board was in reference to Loon then yes coverage is good and probably will get better. If the coverage question was about Tucks, I have no clue.

I was there today and the conditions were awesome. Grooming was great and there was almost no one on the slopes. Slopes were empty and lift lines were non-existent. My bet is they will really close. The empty slopes today means no one is buying tickets, so why would Loon want to stay open. Also, a lot of employees probably already have commitments to be elsewhere next week. It's not easy or profitable for a ski area to extend the season at the last minute. But, do whatever you can to make it out later this week or this weekend.

Boy does this thread ever wander. I guess I might as well nudge it along with a long rambling story. I'm a pretty slow learner, but one thing that I've come to realize over the past (almost) 60 years is that you just never know how things will turn out. That's not a bad thing as otherwise life would get too boring. I got married right after college ('69). We didn't want kids then, because I was in grad school, and the world was a mess (it always is, but what did we know at the time). The Viet Nam war was on, and the US Army said I was theirs. It could have really sucked, but instead I got 3 years in Germany and we got a chance to see and ski a lot of western europe. But, kids didn't fit into that picture either. During this era, my wife worked as a blood chemistry tech in the Army hospital. She would break out in hives whenever she had to deal with kids. So, I finished my hitch with the Army and after a summer of touring Europe, we returned to the states and eventually both got decent jobs and bought a house. So, we thought - OK, it maybe we should have kids. Didn't happen (at least not until we forgot it was possible ). What a surprise it was in '78 when we learned that it was, indeed possible. We had been married for almost 10 years when Matt was born. You can get pretty set in your ways in that amount of time. We did adjust. Joan didn't get hives. It turned out that we actually were capable of functioning as parents and that kids really are fun to have around (unless they are 2 years old or teenagers). Somehow, there is something about a toddler just over a year old that makes you want another one. Luke was born almost 2 years after Matt, and Ben was born after another 2 years. We might have been slow learners, but once we figured it out, there was no stopping us :D We did finally decided though that enough was enough. We had our challenges, and we had to figure it out as we went along, but now we've got 3 sons graduated from college and mostly well launched in the world. The moral of the story? I don't know, but I keep coming back to the Forrest Gump philosophy - you never know what you are going to get. Go along for the ride and work with what you are given. All in all, it has been a pretty good ride so far. If we had never had kids, I probably would have never taken up snowboarding. We were on a ski vacation when the boys were 6/8/10 and Matt asked if he could try snowboading - the rest is history.

Enzo, I was riding my new Madd 158 at Loon yesterday. I thought from the look of the natural snow trails that I would post to let you know that Triple Trouble shouldn't be breaking anyone else this season. Now, looking outside, I'm not so sure. Heal well.

Today, I'm Madd, but I think Donek is great too. My Madd 158 finally came (long story, happy ending). Finally got it out on snow today. It was everything I remembered from demoing at ECES 2006.

I like the motorola razr. Don't know if it works with t-mobile though. The best part is that you can charge it through a USB cable. It's also bluetooth compatible. I haven't dropped it from a chairlift or carved over it yet though so I can't attest to durability.

Amen, Best cure I've found for this one is retirement and the subsequent ability to ride midweek I've had 3 boarding incidents: Shoulder dislocation leading to frozen shoulder leading to PT. This was in softies - a moments inattention was the cause. Ankle sprain in HB. While stopped, hit from behind by an out of control skier (one ski between my feet, the other behind me, fell on top of me). This was the first day of a week long trip to Banf :( AC joint completely separated - Hard boots, nose fold and catapult. I think I nearly broke my neck once in softies. Riding in about a foot of fresh, hit something with the nose and drove my helmet straight down into the snow.

I sense that Mr. Lynx (I'm sure he prefers to be addressed as Mr. Lynx, Sir) is giving the photographer a message. It's something like: Hey, can't a cat get any privacy around here? As soon as I'm done here I'm going to hunt you down and shove that @#*#*@# camera right up your *$%!

Honestly, the only way I have ever been able to know if a board will work for me is to ride it. If you are looking at softboot boards, ask friends if you can try theirs out for a few runs. Or, stop by a board shop and rent a demo board for the day. That will give you some basis for comparison. If you are looking at boards designed for hardbooters, your best bet is to plan to attend one of the bomber expression sessions where demo boards will be available.