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It is the RS model. Specs are, Overall Length 168 Effective Edge (CM) 151.5 Side Cut Radius (M) 13 Nose Width (CM) 22.6 Center Width (CM) 18.6 Tail Width (CM) 22.6 Construction Sandwich

Wonderful board. Next to new condition. Just have way too many boards. $240 shipped.

Bought approach skis instead. $280 shipped for both. I have made a decision not to split the split decision at this time.

Might have a couple of pairs. Will check tonight.

Which ones are you calling the automats? Is that the rat-trap rear heel or the carrier step-in? Can't quite remember which is which.

Post Script. I ride a Ultraprime 162 for carving and a 156 for bumps and off piste until more than 6" of freshies.

Riding angles are completely dependent on what's comfortable and how you want to ride. I ride at 66 and 45 which affords me the quickest reaction to changing situations (bumps). I dialed in my stance over a couple of years or fiddling around, and found them to be at exactly the same position that my feet end up at when sliding down an icy hill in shoes. I wouldn't necessarily say it was the best position for strictly carving, but it is the best position for me to change directions and keeping my center of gravity split between for/aft/side/side. Much like a martial arts stance.

Do you have new boots or old? Did you check to see if you had the wedges in correctly, or are the screws tightened all the way?

I went 2 snowboard seasons with Plantars. Never bothered me once carving, in fact I felt better after doing toeside turns. The usual seems to be a year to 1 1/2 years till complete recovery. It sucks, but there's definitely worse things. The rigid boots worn to bed are the things that helps the most, and stretching it before you hit the floor in the morning. Funny thing was that when I was out climbing in the mountains, the stretch from going up was very much a factor in relieving the pain, and I guess that would be the same thing for the boots in bed. The calf tendon has shortened up and is tearing the tendon in the bottom of the foot off the heel, which causes the pain. It's just like tennis elbow. The good news is that very few people seem to get it a second time.

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This is precisely why I use the Burton 156 Ultra-prime. Unbelievably low swing weight, very adept at jump turns, holds extremely well when setting a hard edge on ice, and carries speed reasonably well. It dies in over 6" of fluff, but screams on corn and in those icy chutes. Has an added bonus of loving to be in the air with a lot of pop. Actually did some fairly ugly Euros this spring. So it's my weapon of choice except when conditions dictate another board. My son (the one you skied with) thinks the board is a little too stiff for him and he's in the 165 lb. range. 2nd choice for a board for those conditions would be a 156 Coil. Doesn't hold on ice as well, but killer in corn. I always ride the shortest and lightest board that works for the prevailing conditions. Off surfing tomorrow. If you're down this way sometime this summer let me know if you'd like to try. I have plenty of equipment.

When you're working for yourself, versatile, competen. content with smaller projects, and honest, there's generally not too much of a problem, even with this downturn. When you get too big for your britches, don't do the work yourself, or working for a company, then you have a bit of a problem. Try this link. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html?em ,

Over the years, at least the early years, I've had several jobs and a college education. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do with the education, but I was rather sure that I didn't want to be a ditch digger. I wanted to be working with my intellect or rely on salesmanship. This led to work being an office manager, and a bank trainee. At the bank I was hired on a Thursday (the bank created an opening for me), started on Friday, and quit Monday morning. Prior to that I sold men's clothing for 5 years while going through high school and college. In the meantime (after high school and during college) I bought my first house. It was truly a fixer-uppper, and went to work on that. When I quit the bank, I took on my first contracting job, painting houses. As I became more adept and aware of the building trades, I started an unquenchable thirst for finding out how things worked and came together. I became a voracious reader of all things building, and subsequently became somewhat well versed in most aspects of the building trades. I found it a challenge to learn things unknown and implement them in projects that presented themselves, never entering into a project unless I knew how to accomplish the project. I find it a wonder how mankind has strayed from their path of being somewhat self-sufficient to being completely dependent on others to take care of their everyday living needs. I've also found that by dissecting the processes of building trades that it transfers everyday life, including biomechanics, sports and sporting goods, camping, climbing and just being able to amble about life in general. So I was pleasantly surprised to read the following article in the New York Times. I thought that some of you might enjoy reading what may have led you into the trades in the first place. Good luck and remember the first rule of a great contractor: "NEVER BULLS**T" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html?em

Fun Fun Fun! That's what it's all about..

First we have to take a look at the typical skier/snowboarder. Skidded turns very little lateral movement across the slope. Some mainlining down the hill, almost imperceptable turns or speed checks. Those on carving skiers typically seem to use 25 to 50 % of the lateral area on a slope. Sill level, slope awareness and skier/snowboarder awarenss vary from day 1, to rank beginner, to rank intermediate, to rank experienced, and then just to rank period those morons mainling down the hill Now go to the carving community here. Let's face it boys and girls, nobody take the slope like we do when we're in full carve mode. We are the wild card here. Nobody does this and there are so few of us that the skier/snowboad community just doesn't have a sense of what's coming up. The only ones that know what is coming around the next turn is us. As the sole beneficiary of that knowledge, it's up to us individually to assess the situation and act accordingly. When there are muliple accidents happening in the same manner, ie. hit from behind by a skier/snowboarder that just didn't see us coming, it is of little comfort to be in the right and in the hospital. Downhill skier having the right of way just doesn't count when we're hurt. boardski is correct. I follow that rule also. I will stop if I see someone coming because I know they don't know what the heck is coming up from my bag of tricks, and why should they? They haven't seen it before so why should they expect it. We are coming from the periphery not from their immediate line of sight. It's almost like we are getting t-boned when running a stop sign. Who expects a car to run the stop sign so they keep going, until it's too late. We're coming from a side road. Protect yourself and wait until the coast is clear and then check uphill every opportunity that you can or join me in the bumps where I never worry about getting hit from a bunch of wimps. I was going to say pu**ys but I didn't want to offend anyone.

I wear the thinnest balaclava I can find as it keeps the powder out of my nose, but only when there's knee deep or better. The hair factor is no longer a factor--sadly I must say. That either comes with age and maturity or resignation or I just don't give a sh-t attitude. Or maybe it's just a little too much gray to care.

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What? No riding switch. No double cab over and under rodeo ollie grabs. He must be retired. Kind of a nice ride though.

Didn't see that in the video and that's steep, but again no steeper than what I was talking about. Give it a toss up at this point, but your pictures show some definite pitch.

Nice video. Never saw one on Tuckermans before. I thought it was not quite as steep as I had imagined. It's certainly less steep than Upper International at Alpental, where a good jump turn on skiers right drops you 10 feet or so with bumps. For me, I would use my favorite 156 Ultraprime. Not quite as stiff as a race board, but short and light, low spin weight and bites perfectly in conditions like that. Hardboots in walk mode of course, and running 66/45 degrees (which is my usual angles. I find that I can "feather" the board on steeps when I have more forward and rearward movement. Would never use softboots on anything like that especially if one was to hit something hard.

Hey Bordy, It's only some of us.

Nice added touch to lend credibility to April 1st.

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Perhaps they should start making more rigid prophylactics. Something like one in the "Ride Mode". Sorry cross threading here.