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Anyone have any recent updates on Whistler conditions? Can I leave my snorkeling gear at home? I'm heading out there for a week starting Feb. 27th. Any carvers going to be out there at the same time? Gabe

It was a fun day yesterday. Great to see some old familiar faces as well as meet some new ones. The carving gods were good to us ….despite the spring like weather, conditions held up remarkably well throughout the day. That’s a great hill you’ve got there with some excellent runs. Thanks again Chris and John for your effort in putting this all together. I look forward to the next session. Chris, thanks for taking the videos and putting together the movie. You got in some really great shots! Gabe

Thanks for the reply Chris. And yes, you’re right about the last name. I think I had read on BOL that you were riding an orange Coiler at one point and emailed you a couple of seasons ago wondering if you were someone I had met at MSLM. Turns out it was someone else so I don’t think we’ve met. It’s too bad it looks like we’re in for a bit of a warm spell. With the possible thought of not so great conditions this weekend, I couldn’t help myself and took the day off for an ‘epic’ day of riding at MSLM yesterday. Without the usual weekend crowds, I was able to squeeze in about 70 runs for the day. My legs should be fully recovered for the weekend. : ) I just picked up a FreeCarve from Bruce this past Friday and rode it the last couple of sessions out. Had a great time with it yesterday…Really enjoying the extra turns I can get out of it. I actually borrowed Bruce's ExtremeCarve to try out as well. That thing was stiff! Took a lot of work to get it edge to edge as well. Because it was so stiff I had to pressure quite a bit which caused me to lose a lot of speed. It didn't work well for me on harder snow conditions….just couldn't get the edge to hold as well as my other boards. (PureRace, RaceCarve, FreeCarve) I can actually ride closer to an"extremecarving" style on the Freecarve I just got. At almost 190 lbs Bruce said it's actually even too stiff for him on the hard stuff and is planning on softening it up after he gets it back. (I’m only about 165lbs) I think he plans to take it with him to SES. It was interesting trying a board that feels so different. I’d love to try an ExtremeCarver one day with the right stiffness on a hill with the appropriate pitch (MSLM not really steep enough for that type of riding.) See you on Sunday. Gabe

Hi Chris, If a spot opens up, please let me know. It would be good to ride with some new and old faces up at Osler. (I expressed interest in the original posting but looks like I was a bit late in responding.) Thanks, Gabe

Hopefully I'll have a new toy to play with tomorrow. I'm dropping by Bruce's shop in about half an hour to pick up the new board. See you folks bright and early tomorrow. Gabe

I was scanning the TV listings in the Sun TV guide and it looked like they will be televising this Saturday at both 1pm and 4pm (back to back?) Gabe

Hey Rob, I plan to be there on Sunday. Depending on the weather, might try to get up there tomorrow as well. Looks a tad chilly though for tomorrow. High of -21 C in the morning. Yikes! Gabe

Thanks for posting the video Henry. Didn't even know you were recording that day. I didn't even know about this post until someone mentioned it me on the hill today. Not sure if you know Ken, but his son was shooting a few of us earlier that same morning. Ken said they came out pretty good, so maybe he'll get those posted some time as well. Was up at MSLM today ... about 6/7 carvers turned out. The snow was actually really good! Looks like they got snow the past couple of days after the warm spell. If the Osler thing is still going to happen, please count me in.

I might have something that you might be interested in. Send me an email at gtung@interlog.com and I can give you more details. Gabe

I've got a standard (non step in) set of TD1s. I'd like to get a set of TD2 step ins, interchange 1 from each set so that I have 2 set of step ins. I already do this with the TD1s. One thing I noticed with the TD1s was that the step-in has a higher sole block compared with the non step in, so I added a bit of lift on my front regular binding to even out the height. How does the height compare on the TD2 step ins? Any idea if the combination I'm talking about would work ok? Gabe

Plan to ride on Saturday morning. Will be on the Moonstone side most of the day (Promenade). Snow was best it's been all season last weekend. Imagine it has only gotten better with the recent snow. Will be riding a white Coiler 184 PR. Gabe