Jack M
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Get ready for Timberline Express 6...
https://liftblog.com/2025-new-lifts/
It should run on the same alignment as the current Timberline, but extend down to the elbow in the new trail Chipper. That way you'll be able to ski down to it from Bullwinkle's or Bucksaw Express.
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16 hours ago, dredman said:
I think as skiers start carving more we will see more awareness. Lot more skiers in Europe carving lines like we do.
I thought this, but then I was surprised that both you and Sean Martin got nailed in Europe. Two veteran riders, on the same trip, it just seemed to beat the odds.
I think the situation isn't as bad at more remote places like Sugarloaf. It attracts a higher caliber of skier since it is inconvenient and further to get to from just about every population center. You have to really want to come here. Not to say it doesn't happen but I've only had a few close calls and no collisions here. I am super diligent about timing my starts with lulls in traffic.
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5 minutes ago, dredman said:
This is what I was wearing when I got run over.
unreal.
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I don’t know the temperature needed, but the material is Grilamid. Maybe your bootfitter is familiar with it or can research it.
@MountainSlope, is there an optimal temperature for shell stretching?
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Welcome @Spoon Shao, glad you found us. You can mold the stock liner yourself. I strongly recommend the oven method. There are good instructions here. It's certainly worth a try for your wide feet. You can add padding (like layers of Moleskin) to the sides of your feet during molding to create more room. And definitely make a toe cap. The rice sock method only heats the inside of the liner. This results in less deformation and doesn't mold the liner to the shell.
If you mold your liners and they're still not wide enough, the next step would be Intuition Plug wrap liners.
Good luck!
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19 hours ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:
Interesting, this is likely a new topic so as to not distract from this beautiful, confusingly-used board.
I’ve always centred the boot over the middle of the binding, then angle bindings until perpendicular over the edges. But in almost no case will I get directly over both toe/heel, so I typically adjust the bindings slightly toe/heel (along with stance angle) to centre the boot over the board edges.
But my boots are always centred on the binding. It sounds like everyone else uses the slots for adjusting stance width, but the binding is always placed on the middle of the board and you offset the boot on the binding to get perpendicular over the edges?
Centering the boot on the binding and centering the binding on the board is a good practice, but not the only way. Then both your feet are aligned and levering the board on the same axis. Due to the hourglass figure of the board, this usually results in your front foot toe and rear foot heel being inside the edge of the board - "underhang". You can compensate for this by moving the front foot toe and heel blocks forward, and the rear foot toe and heel blocks rearward. This way you can really geek out and zero in on a stance that minimizes both binding angle and underhang.
John Gilmour of Madd Snowboards stamps his name on this as "Gilmour Bias" but he didn't invent it. Maybe he was the first to describe it online. You can search that term here and see his thread about it. I've tried it (before reading about it) and I'm not sure it amounts to a hill of beans for my riding. YMMV
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16 hours ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:
I mean let me pick some nits here, the soundtrack is brutal
That is putting it nicely. As long as we're nitpicking, the hands/arms are rather deliberate, like he knows he's putting on a clinic for the camera. Which is fine, it's a good example of not being lazy.
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48 minutes ago, softbootsurfer said:
Personally, I believe this is a perfect demonstration of both Technique and Terrain Reading...
If you know of a Better one, please post it here...Thank You
Agreed. That is the standard. I mean I can name several other exemplary riders, members (and moderators) here, but this video is an easy choice.
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ZipFit and Intuition have liners with tongues.
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18 hours ago, Pat Donnelly said:
Oh yeah, Edwin Coratti is a great rider.
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Yeah but what's the radius?
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6 hours ago, bzqa said:
I was just looking up this guy to see if he still teaches and found this: "PARK CITY, Utah — A tragic hit-and-run accident at the Canyons side of Park City Mountain (PCM) on Wednesday, February 28, has left local resident and beloved snowboard instructor Martin Drayton with multiple spine fractures, sidelining him for the remainder of the winter season." Wishing him a speedy and full recovery...
Yes, very sad, an outstanding veteran instructor. Fortunately I believe he should recover.
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I suspect nobody is truly carving beyond 70 degrees.
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11 hours ago, NateW said:
It might be interesting to model how much the board stiffness affects carve radius, but my guess is that it makes very little difference
I intended the Winterstick Squaretail Plus 170 to replace my Kessler 168. I spec'd the sidecut at 9-12-11m, based on Kessler's published "sidecut range" of 8-12m. The first 170 was too soft for me and turned much tighter. At least as tight as my F2 WC163 (radius 9.8m) at the time if not tighter. It held a great edge thanks to extra torsional reinforcement, but it was redundant with the 163 which was not the desired outcome. I sold it and had another 170 made stiffer and I tweaked the sidecut a little and it was a success.
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15 minutes ago, Corey said:
The most important question is: How long is a rope?
Very important. The calculation of turn radius = sidecut radius times cosine of edge angle is just an approximation. Cosine of 90 degrees is 0. I think it describes the "projection" of the sidecut onto a flat surface. But because the length of the snowboard does not change, and because it sinks into the snow some amount, and because of flex, it's not that simple. I believe the actual radius is slightly tighter. My maths aren't up to the task.
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A lot of the same material is covered in the tech articles, but I know video is better, and he does a great job.
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Nevermind the softboots...
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Haha, we get powder sometimes.
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2 hours ago, big mario said:
inbounds avys
Like this one:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ZvPKBBpPWJypuRSe/?mibextid=WC7FNe
Sugarloaf 23/24
in New England
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I believe it's the swifty