Neil Gendzwill

You want one of USPS's expedited services. Use Global Express Mail (GEM, I think that's the same as EMS other places). The limits there are 79" long (200 cm) and 108" length + girth. That should let you ship a 200 cm board that's 30 cm wide. EMS is the cheapest way to send oversized stuff. I import long packages from Japan a lot, and they send them EMS there, turns into Canada Post or Purolator here.

Is that one asym? Weren't the Diablos asym sidecut (more sidecut on heel edge)?

Mines more like a cucumber. Mom claims she sat up in bed during labour and that's why it's squished on the sides. Anyways, I know Giro fits oval better but it's one of the few to offer a 62 cm size, snowboard or bike. Plus they make pretty good gear.

Giro XXL Ravine for my 62 cm melon. It's the only model I've found that fits that big. My head is long and narrow though so with the Giro there's a little bit of forehead pressure - it's packed out a little bit. Nothing else comes close to fitting so I live with it. I use a Giro bicycle helmet too.

That's the way it's supposed to be. Lets a little snow build up in there and it still works.

Whatcha doin' with that thar skinny board in the PNW? Get Sean to build you an AM.

Yup, you're right - I just checked the manual. It's still a great camera for the price, nothing else in that price range has all the manual overrides. I've got an analog video camera anyways so having the video mode wasn't important enough to me to exchange it. I'm not good enough/enthusiastic enough to warrant the extra features and $$$ of the W1 anyways.

He said he wanted compact, but at least one manufacturer provides a dual-lens job that supposedly offers good performance in both modes. See Samsung duocam. Caveat - I know nothing about this thing other than having it catch my eye in a flyer. The Sony W1 would be what I would buy I think - I was gonna get one, and then my wife got me a Canon A75 for my birthday that I like a lot. It'll do TV quality video too but only 30 seconds at a time, whereas the Sony will go for as long as you've got card space.

It doesn't need to be "bump", any new message in the thread will do. "Bump" is just shorthand for "please pay attention to this old thread again, I'm not contributing anything new".

Really depends on the mood. Last time I went shopping I bought Alison Krauss' latest, Lyle Lovett's "Live in Texas" and kd lang's "hymns of the 49th parallel". Before that it was a best of the Who collection and a best of Janis Joplin collection. Before that it was White Stripes. Last night I went to les Miserables with my daughter. Plus almost everything Art mentioned sounds good to me. I guess "eclectic" would cover my tastes. If you had to nail me down to just one most days I might say Elvis Costello.

I used to do that. But I found people could mistake a shouted "on your right" to mean "move right". So now I just make sure there's room and that I know where they'll be moving while I'm passing, and zip by. Sometimes they're a little startled but I figure that's better than a sudden move in the wrong direction.

Boogieman, if you want to take the time rather than just shooting from the hip you can read the Madd review over at www.hardbooter.com. The author there is not affiliated with Madd to the best of my knowledge and has no reason to be biased one way or the other.

Yeah, I'm with you. I have the good fortune to ride on some pretty nice wide trails but I still want plenty of room to open 'er up - preferably, nobody in sight. It seems like nothing turns so unpredictably or fast as a snow-plowing beginner.

Yeah, but one man's irresponsibly fast is another's jest havin' fun, ya know?

I dunno, if you've got the room and you know it's clear, bombs away I say.

Wow, that's gonna be one hyooge file at 200 dpi and 76" X 13" full size. Shred, any decent photo editor can resize a picture but I don't think that icon will blow up big enough without looking like crap. Much better if you could find a larger original.

I've got an old pair of Sims gloves with Kevlar palms and fingers, where the Kevlar wraps right around the fingertips. They're indestructible. I'm never giving them up. Neil

Well those are two brands that are even more expensive than Madd. Last I checked the Viruses were way over $1000.

There are currently no Donek boards of any flavour for sale on ebay (searched by title and by description).

My vote for place to live is the Okanagon valley, too. If I didn't have friends, family and career here in Saskatoon I'd be there in a heartbeat. Bit of a wierd place economically though - from my viewpoint as a tourist, it looks like a whole lot of people barely eeking out a living from agriculture and tourism, and then a bunch of retired rich people from Vancouver.

Sunshine has some great carving too, especially Brewster (Great Divide chair) and the blue runs off the Goat's Eye chair. There's a couple pretty nice easy blue pitches off WaWa chair. There's a short but excellent pitch right under the Jackrabbit chair. Louise has the men's and ladies' downhill, a lot of the stuff off Larch chair, plus a bunch of blue and green stuff on the front that's OK so long as you're there mid-week, otherwise too crowded. Be sure to check out Meadowlark, an uncrowded blue waaay skier's left on the front. Forget Kicking Horse for carving, but it's a great hill. Big White has quite a few nice carving runs, so long as it isn't living up to it's rep as Big White-out. The ones under the Ridge Rocket are a lot of fun.

Yeah, after years of hiding behind her hair in every photo, she busts out with the Maxim photo spread. wtf? I mean, not that I'm complaining or anything...

I'm too sexy for my avatar... That's Victoria J.

"Cleavage" at Sunshine - it's a run that goes between two really big rocks.

I've had some prereleases but they're usually my fault - snow under the binding and such. Sometimes in that case the toe lever isn't quite flipped enough, and if I'm in deeper snow it can get opened up just by the action of a toeside turn. It's one of the reasons I like the step-ins now - if I don't quite get the boot in, I know it right away, not 3 turns into the chute.