Mike T
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Hopefully I can take a day offg next week midweek.
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... but my wife is still recovering from a broken clavicle... I make her jealous enough boarding locally ;) Anyways, Jim will represent us well!
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Great riding with you (again), Jim, Mark, Jason! That first run into Heather Canyon was INCREDIBLE. I don't even miss the groomers ;)
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I'll be up there 8 am to noonish! 5/12 as usual.
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I used to use a graphite wax (One Ball Jay "Summer Slush") for spring / summer riding... it took 2 - 3 base grinds for the discoloration to go away, not that I care or anything.
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I wear a gray and black no-name-brand jacket, silver helmet, and Oakley goggles. I'll very probably be on a red 172 w/ no graphics at all (not even logo) on topsheet and hard boots.
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I'm certainly not advanced enough to give you much in the way of tips yet, but I'd be happy to make some turns with you. I try to get out one weekday and one weekend morning each week, however if it's been snowing I tend to go for steeps and powder rather than carve. (Although I have been doing said steeps and powder on plates more often than not this season - great fun!)
BTW Meadows was excellent this morning - they said only 2" of new overnight but it seemed more like 10 by the time the lifts opened.
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OK, who's up for Meadows tomorrow AM? It's currently dumping hard at my house in Sandy, elevation 800 feet, so leave early tomorrow morning!
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For me it depends on what type of terrain I'm on and just how powdery the powder is. I've got a ton more experience in softies and consider myself a far better softie rider (working *really hard* to "rectify" that though!)
I still find soft boots easier when the trails are not very steep, or when the snow is heavy, deep and tracked, steep narrow chutes, or on *extremely* steep slopes.
On open bowls (even pretty steep ones) I prefer my hard boots and Axis 172.
I have a gut feeling as I get to be a better, more experienced ghard boot rider I will feel just as comfy on plates anywhere though.
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I was at Ski Bowl yesterday, conditions wree indeed epic. Jim, I'll look for you tomorrow morning.... will try to get their for opening and will likley be in Heather Canyon once it opens. Al, I'll probablyu suse 10/5 instead of 5/12, if you decide to come out early!
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I'll be there in the AM - FRS channel 10/5, probably on my red Donek Axis 172, probably in Heather Canyon.
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I have plenty of web space and can host your pic if you want... mtovino@yahoo.com if interested.
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Donek Wide 161
Salomon S6 bindings
Salomon Malamute boots
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As far as I know the shells are sized such that one shell covers the whiole size and the half size, e.g. one shell for 28.0 and 28.5, a larger sheel for 29.0 and 29.5, etc. Only the standard liner comes in half sizes, thermoflex liners only come in full sizes.
So no, a size 28.5 probably wouldn't fit you. Unless, that is, your feet are like mine and shaoped just right so that, with a Thermo liner, they are actually happy in a "downsized" shell. My feet measure 26.5 and 26.7 and I actuallky prefer a 25 shell.
Keep in mind the Rauchle shelss come in several parts, and each of them might be stamped with a size range. The one that matters most is the bottom part.
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Is there a maximum waist width you can use for these, or will you take freeride boards as well? If fereride boards are OK I've got one I can donate laster in the season.
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Some details about summer riding/skiiing:
Timberline will stay open year-round as long as coverage on the Palmer snowfield permits. Note that it's a semi-permanent snowfield and not a glacier - a glacier is flowing snow and ice, a snowfield is, well, just a field of snow.
Either a low snowfall year or a very warm summer can cause the snow supply to run low sometime during September or October, in which case they stop running the lift and it re-opens after about 3 feet accumulate on the snowfield. This happened in the falls of 2001 and 2003. Actually, this fall, Palmer never re-opened... the first signifigant snowfall went all the way down to about 2500 feet, so they just opened the lower mountain, in "winter" mode. When this happens, just go to Mt Hood Meadows!
The lifts close for 2 weeks starting the day after Labor Day regardless of conditions for maintainence. In years where they re-open afterwards it's weekends only until it starts to snow again.
During the summer most of Palmer is divided up into lanes - there is one very wide public lane, and a whole bunch of narrower lanes for camps, plus the freestyle terrain. The public lane is a good place to carve, especially early in the morning, as ong as you don't mind boilerplate. The lifts start running at 7am and it usually starts to soften around 9 and by 11 it's slush. The snow is salted and it wears down bases and dulls edges quickly. I pretty much always use a rock board during the summer. I usually put in a very aggressive struture on whatever I use during the summer and after about 8 riding days it's *gone*.
During June there's actually quite a bit of freeriding room available on the Magic Mile run and off-piste. It gets pretty slushy but can be quite a lot of fun on an all-mountain board like an Axis, 4x4, Coiler All-Mtn.
I knw it's not summer but May is probably my favorite month for riding at Timberline. Lots of blue sky, Big long wide groomers on Magic Mile and Palmer, *very* few other people at the mountain, and usually one snowstorm thrown in for good measure. This year I'm going to make sure and take a week off from work to ride in May. Come join me!
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I'm partial to "Where's My Thing" by Rush.
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I agree with the others who find hard boots more comfy. I certainly find them easier to carve in than softies... my softie setup is Salomon Malamutes, Salomon S6 bindings, Donek Wide - all in all a pretty carvy soft-boot setup. I consider myself a more skilled soft boot rider than hard boot, but I enjoy plates more... each year I spend less and less time in softies.
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Perhaps those are from 325's which is what I've got. The dark gray is stiffest, the light gray is medium.
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Probably not as good as Monday or Tuesday but still decent. Upper half of HRM was the best spot in the AM.... nobody there, rode with Brian S. (oldsnowboards.com), made some really good runs!
I can't make it Friday unfortunately, but make some turns for me Jim!
P.S. Brian, thanks for all the help with my technique!
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Originally posted by Randy S.
As Mike T pointed out above, Donek's Freecarve boards are in my opinion a great compromise between GS and SL.
Technically, you inferred the Donek part, but that's certainly the board I was thinking of!
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Perhaps your best bet is to start on neither a GS nor an SL board. I started on a SL board and it was just too jittery. I couldn't get it locked in. I went to a freecarve board with a sidecut that split the difference betwwen an SL and a GS and had a much better time of it. A typical FC will have a shallower sidecut and more length than a typical SL, but a deper sidecut and less length than a typical GS.
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My wife will be looking for some protective gear once her fractured clavicle heals. If anyone's got any pointers, I'de love to hear about them!
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... it's meeting day at work. Have fun though! I'll do the same on Wednesday. Should be able to make it one morning this weekend, till noon.
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... but it's well used.
It's either a 98/99 or a 99/00, and it's a 165. The flex is still nice and stiff but the topsheet is peeling away in a few places and the base has been ground quite a number of times. Don't get me wrong, it's certainly rideable... but IMHO it has only one or two base grinds left before it's done.
I can take some pix and post them if you are interested.