bumpyride

Visual aids are worth a gigazillion words.

Too much tip in the steep bumps and I usually go for a long ride head first down the slope. Course I'm a wimp and using a 156 anyway.

All de slopes ve ryde haf tres und roks, und bumpes in dem.

You know sometimes we make mistakes and our obligation is to own up to them. Most of you guys should be ashamed of yourselves. This is the same kind of thing you'd be obsessing if it happened to you, or your kids. I know about the lawyer thing, but it's the right thing to do. Some of you guys are not exactly showing what responsibility is all about. I bet some of you guys are calling for the heads of the CEO's that got us into this financial mess, and look what you're advocating.

Was at the Seatlle Snow Show and picked up a new carving board out of the swap meet. Was walking around and stopped in front of the Burton Booth and a yung-un maybe 20 something asked me "What the heck is that?" "I've never seen a board like that." She was working the Burton booth, and I'm not sure if she was "Eye Candy" or if she was part of the crew manning the booth, but none of them had an idea what it was. Did my best to explain.

I have both if anyone is interested.

It would be fun to do, but haven't enough time on the groomers to seriously think about perfecting a Euro. The call of the bumps, and trees, and steeps, and glades, is far to powerful to be on the grooms except to get back to the lift. This is not to say that when going back to the lift lines it wouldn't be fun to be totally laid out, just so it's not in the lift line itself. Back to Lutsen Mt. for the next two weekends.

Is that you on Squeezebox Forum?

On the 23rd of January forgot what day of the week or for that matter date of the month was It happened to be my wife's birthday. Sorry, that's the stupidest thing I've heard so far. I'm still paying for it.

Raichle 123's again. Ugly but comfortable and is pretty much the ideal off-piste/terrain boot. Walks easily and rides well in the Walk/mode if you're not too big. Have intec heels on all my 123's easily installed with a drill to enlarge the holes for the T-nuts. I have one pair that I have used continuously for 14 years and bought them used. Bought 2 other pair for backup and for the other home.

Thank you sir. Any Grizzly Bear wrestling there?

Dremel tool with sanding cylinder.

Wife and I are trying to make a choice between there and Salt Lake. We normally take day 3 off and in case of bad weather/bad luck would like to find out what options there are for the off days. Anything to explore, and must sees etc. We're looking at the 2nd week in March. Thanks

My wife and in-laws were talking about the cougar thread and the ages associated with it. Figured it was somewhere around 45 or so, and someone asked about women over 50 and my mother in law said "They're not Cougars they're Wolverines".

Trying to figure out what to do for storage.

Bomber's threads are healthy because they contain more than a few members who are not afraid of speaking up when they have differing views. I've seen quite a few threads that have become a little heated when discussing certain topics--bindings, board construction, technique, walk/ride mode, hardboot/softboot etc. It helps to offer those differing opinions which gives us pause to think that maybe were're not always right and or the prevailing opinion is not always right or at least there are other alternatives. I encourage anyone that is hesitant to voice their opinion, to do so. It creates healthy discourse, and enlightens us all. The reason for this thread is to congratulate you all, especially after reading this By Elizabeth Landau CNN (CNN) -- You're in a room with 10 other people who seem to agree on something, but you hold the opposite view. Do you say something? Or do you just go along with the others? Imaging techniques help scientists look at the basis for principles of social psychology in the brain. Decades of research show people tend to go along with the majority view, even if that view is objectively incorrect. Now, scientists are supporting those theories with brain images. A new study in the journal Neuron shows when people hold an opinion differing from others in a group, their brains produce an error signal. A zone of the brain popularly called the "oops area" becomes extra active, while the "reward area" slows down, making us think we are too different. "We show that a deviation from the group opinion is regarded by the brain as a punishment," said Vasily Klucharev, postdoctoral fellow at the F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and lead author of the study. Watch to learn more about the study » Participants, all female, had to rate 222 faces based on physical beauty on a scale from 1 to 8. Afterwards, researchers told each participant either that the average score was higher or that it was lower than her rating. Some participants were told the average rating was equal to her rating. The researchers then chatted with the participant before suddenly asking the participant to do the rating again. Most subjects changed their opinion toward the average. The two leading theories of conformity are that people look to the group because they're unsure of what to do, and that people go along with the norm because they are afraid of being different, said Dr. Gregory Berns, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Berns' research, which he describes in the book "Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently," found that brain mechanisms associated with fear and anxiety do play a part in situations where a person feels his or her opinion goes against the grain. Don't Miss Why your brain can't always make good decisions Putting a price on procrastination You may be more racist than you think, study says Participants looked at projections of three-dimensional objects, and had to identify which shapes were similar. As with the new study in Neuron, participants tended to shift their opinion to the majority view, although in this case the problems had objectively correct answers. The effect was also more potent in this experiment because actors were in the room to simulate a group with a shared opinion, he said. But brain images revealed participants were not lying just to fit in. Changes in the activation of the visual part of the brain suggest the group opinion actually changed participants' perceptions of what they saw. One reason behind conformity is that, in terms of human evolution, going against the group is not beneficial to survival, Berns said. There is a tremendous survival advantage to being in a community, he said. "Our brains are exquisitely tuned to what other people think about us, aligning our judgments to fit in with the group," Berns said. The most famous experiments in the field were conducted by Solomon Asch in the 1950s. He found that many people gave incorrect answers about matching lines printed on cards, echoing the incorrect answers of the actors in the room. But unlike Berns' finding that fear and anxiety relate to this effect, Asch saw conformity studies reflections of people's reliance on one another for knowledge of the world, experts say. The darker side of conformity relates to Stanley Milgram's experiments of the 1960s and 1970s, in which most people obeyed orders to deliver electric shocks to an innocent person in the next room. As in these studies, subjects caved into social pressure, presumably going against their own previous moral convictions. Read more about the Milgram study Health Library MayoClinic.com: Positive thinking The research calls into question decision-making bodies that operate by consensus, Berns said. For example, in the U.S. legal system, many cases are decided by the unanimous judgment of the members of a jury. "You can't separate those judgments from the fact that you have 12 people who have to come to a unanimous decision, and have to conform their opinion to each other, so of course it will distort how they view evidence," he said. "Any type of group decision-making process that does not require unanimous decisions is likely to make a better one," Berns said. "That applies to committees in particular." What does it take to break the conformity effect? Asch talked about the power of the "minority of one." When a unanimous group pressures the individual, that group is weakened as soon as one person breaks off. "Anyone inclined to draw too pessimistic conclusions from this report would do well to remind himself that the capacities for independence are not to be underestimated," Asch wrote in a 1955 "Scientific American" article describing his research. "He may also draw some consolation from a further observation: Those who participated in this challenging experiment agreed nearly without exception that independence was preferable to conformity."

Very true. There's nothing like a double black bump run to make a blue seem pretty tame. Also helps you to realize it's no big thing to enter and exit a turn on autopilot.

The liners with the built-in wedges for the ankles don't work for everyone. Someone else was complaining about another moldable liner being too stiff, so one liner doesn't work for all people. I've had nothing but good luck with both the thermoflex and Intuition liners that are just all foam with no added gizmos.

I wouldn't bet on it. Trying to be a new age sensitive male, I held my composure as long as I could, and snuck off to the bedroom, crawled into bed and put the blankets and pillows over my head. I didn't say anything, but when she came looking for me and saw my head buried she said she was lucky that her parents were supportive or she'd have a complex. I tried to explain that I was being as tactfull as humanly possible, by just trying to get away, and not making any derisive comments but she insisted on punishing me by not playing while I'm around. Boy did that work out well.

Describe how you molded them, from start to finish. Don't forget anything you do. One time my son rocked back and forth on his liners that created a bump in the arch that was incredibly painfull. Did you put the sock ends in? I normally put in 3 sock ends cut back to the ball of the foot and then put on my normal boot socks over it. Liner's too big/small for the shell. Did you clamp the boots too tight/loose. All these things can make the liners very uncomfortable. When molded and sized correctly they should be like slippers.

Do they have one of these for a flute? My wife started playing last year and my ears are already severely damaged?

You don't have to bend down as far. You get to make a lot more turns. It's the next logical step to hone your skills. You generally stay warmer. The penalty for failure exhibits itself in very notable effects. It's safer, in that you don't have to worry about the clutter that infects blue and green runs. It's safer because you generally don't have to worry about a bunch of jibbers tucking out of control. You generally have bumps (Wheeeeeee!!!!!) You get to use the word generally quite often.

Pokkis, I'm with you on getting older, and needing more flex. This was meant to be very tongue in cheek with the last part of the quote "and have less tolerance for other's opinions", to be the real message. I ride F2 Intec Challenge comps (blue ones) and love 'em. Just enough flex to get me out of trouble. By the way I'm 1/4 Finn.

Purportedly as people get older they become more ridged and inflexible in their views as well as their physicality and that may be why some people need to have very ridgid bindings and have less tolerance for other's opinions.

Fastech buckles, about 30" of 3/4" webbing and a plastic Black Diamond Biner run through the zip of my pants gets me into the lift line without even bending over. That's not even mentioning the fact that I can stand anywhere on the slope and release while waiting for others, or get out of a dicey off-piste foray without getting a mouthful. Been skiing with a bunch of Telemarkers (whom I sometimes refer to as "TELEGROOMERS" for their lack of testosterone in refusing to hit the bumps and trees), and never fail to be off the lift and skiing before they even get to the start of the slope. Always click in on the last kick before heading downhill.