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sounds great, I've been wanting to check out crystal. Any local's tips on loding for those of us who might wanna do two days?
I was at timberline yesterday. There's a solid layer of concrete with some fresh falling on top, maybe 12 inches on the lower mountain. Looks pretty good for this comming weekend, though the weather forcast looks dangerously warm. I hope meadows can open on the 29th.
I'll probibly be up at timberline next weekend. Heck, this weekend two aquantances built a 22 foot long funbox and hauled it up there to timberline yesterday to set it up on the bunny hill :D
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hey, thanks for the link, those vids are cool. They claim the surfing is warmer, but to me it really looks about the same as surfing in oregon: cold green water, rocky shore.
has anyone purchased their documentary? I liked the "Race Day" clip on the website, especially the sort few seconds at the end that appeared to be klug and someone else hauling down a cat track, just out to have fun somewhere. Just wondering if the full 30min is worth it.
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wow... that topic sounds like something completely else
when you guys are doing the bare foot in liner test, are you tightening the cuff? if so, how much?
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You can ride toeside in a common kiteboarding harness. I'm no kiteboarder (yet), but watching people in the gorge it seems pretty common. Imagine yourself on toeside on a board, and now imagine that you point at something 45 degrees to the side of the boards nose (left side for regulars). That's about where you'd have one arm holding onto the control arm, and the kite would be infront and to the heelside of you.
I've seen people carve jives that way, switching heel toe heel, looks pretty cool. In video of trick competitions I've seen a lot of guys will flip a quick 180 so that they're riding switch toeside before launching into their trick (I assume for better scoring).
As for behind the back, I don't think that'd work. From what I can tell, kiteboarding takes constant awareness of the kite... put it in the wrong place or fail to react to a gust, and you're going for a launch.
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It's warren miller... so you can't go into it expecting to see snowboarding for 2 straight hours. But I liked this years. Definately better than Storm. There is some fairly impressive big mountain body hucking on boards about midway through the first wheel.
It was durring that bit that we learned snowboards in portland are much more vocal than skiiers... people just started screaming and cheering.
Ohh... and there's an absolutely wicked stunt with one of those paraglide suits... I wanna do that someday ;)
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ahh, those. Actually, dan had a little ebay store for a while, and I remember seeing some 29mp rx's. Well, nice score for you :).
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I'd like to know where you picked those up. I have an order in with Dan, but the boots may not be shipping in time for the snowperformance camp in december, which I'm attending.
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Mr. Miller showed up to the shows here in Portland to do an introduction and intermisson speech. As a speaker he's entertaining and even more of a smartass than you might think from the movies.
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I bought a north face guide jacket of some sort last season. I can't even remember the name of it, but it's a discontinued model. Anyhow, it's worked out fine for the little time I've used it so far. But, I only expect it to last another season or so before something goes wrong.
So if you're looking for opinions, mine on north face is that it's perfectly fine considering how cheap you can find some of their products. (my traditional 2 layer goretex jacket was $140 on www.campmor.com, has all the usual features plus cordura re-enforcement on some parts) So if you get a deal, I think you get your money's worth. But if you're paying full retail on their high end products, I think you'd be much better off spending the $ on something that seems better built and better supported like Arc Teryx, Patagonia, etc.