tahoetrencher

Niiiiice heelside

No offense here but does anybody realize how really, really good this board is?

You realize that not looking uphill every 2-5 cycles is as smart as riding with headphones. It doesn't matter if the slope was empty last look- they come out of the trees to get you!

in my opinion, but I hesitate to comment and kill this thread again. Killer looking board.

The last three years or so (I'm 47) My 18cm boards put me in the high sixties degrees I got knocked out briefly (slammed square in the lower back) three years ago riding and have been contributing my back pain to that? Beginning to feel a little broken down myself; on the other hand, my knees, ankles and left elbow tell me when it's going to snow:biggthump

"well im wearing 29.5 boots ad a 24 deg rear angle I need atleast a 22.5"- db You're considering a custom build to change your rear foot, uh, 1.5 degrees??? How about a little lift?

The pretty one with Cuban looks more like a cheetah. Man that is one toothy grin- or are those fangs? I think Cuban is going for his gun right then. What happens in Whitefish... And wtf with post #69 (coincidence?) top left photo. Are you dancing with a torso? Maybe she just hasn't found her dancing legs.

It is a great consolation to imagine an up and comer down and bashing gates! Best luck to greysontrays'son. Be fearless and conquer.

Yep, that's when I got mine. But I'm confused, John, 'cause my white-walled P8000 speckled base Madd boy graphics says GS170 (not Giant sl like nekdut's). It has a white box border around the whole thing and the white border and GS170 look like they're hand applied. I can feel the raised white writing/border with my fingers. Is mine one of the 20? Or maybe it's a later issue and I really got it in '96? I know pics will help, six years on the forum and I've never figured out how to post pics, even after promising Bryan one of my "original" Kemper flamingo one-piece, and Cuban a pic of my possibly rare handmade one-off carbon atomic...

Just the thick absorbent "work" types. After riding I put two in each boot; one in the foot and one down the calf. Always dry and smooth smelling for the next day.

It really does look like an awesome ride! Any off topic remarks I may have bestowed upon the community were meant to be intoned in the Eddie Murphy's "Bannana in the tailpipe" voice and only offered with the respect and esteem that I have for my fellow BOL members at large. I will gladly delete such remarks to restore this to the mainpage?

The rest say: "That's not an efficient powder shape. No one could possibly ride that thing in the pow. Grow up, get real and stop lying about your life in the trees. You really need to get a 120cm, super taper fish/mullet thing. Or anything Burton actually. No way you could hang on that thing. That's all." :rolleyes:

"that there's other things to do on Hardboots rather than just the groomers"-Bumpyride The last few days I really have enjoyed my shortest, narrowest SL stick in the trees

Go easy on the Cuban Goods- we have an appointment in Feb at the Heave. Can you come too? I'm ready for another performance appraisal.

19 hours ago? SLT= Reno, NV.?

That's just how they are.

Best wishes from a snowy Tahoe.

Nope.

+1 on the asym. The first HB board I learned to tree ride was an 1988 Kemper Apex 170. The radical tail cut might function as a ST? Never moved the bindings, never got back leg burn. As a bonus it was much easier to get going after a fall- you could kinda roll or swing forward and the tail would just slip into place. It was a softer ride. For me a little softness is important, my stiffies are no fun in the pow, regardless of length or width.

Two bidders over $12K! Anyone we know?

"SL boards haven't been a part of my quiver... I am positive that you won't be able to hang." -Snowman $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

"I will add one thing about square tails is that there is very little finishing the turn in the conventional sense of coming across the fall line. I tend to just push the tail down in the snow ( and or raise the nose ) to increase drag and slow down with having to lose plane completely. I call it skagging it out." I call it porpoising. I can pow my sl board all day and not get fatigued. No leg burn at all. Don't bother setting bindings back on a small board, you don't need it. On my UT 198 I'm toast after about 40,000 feet but that's aggro riding not the centered effortless cruise as on a sl.

And, of course you are right. It just kills me the overhype about boards(equipment) on the forum. They're just an interface with the snow. Tire choice is important in your drag analogy; it's not the only or most important one. That's all. There is only one "tool for the job" that makes a huge difference in the pow and that tool is between your ears. For me a powder board is just a race deck that's taken too many hits to be a goto pistepounder and has been demoted from rockboard status because of it.

So I have 14 powder boards. Every year this comes up and everyone says "Hey man, you got to eat chili with a spoon, A fork is the worst possible choice." Every tourist knows that the best method of travel below the rim of the Grand Canyon is a mule, all I'm saying is that if you have a jet and know how to fly then leave the wings folded back, be super sensitive on the controls and you can navigate the bends below the rim at about the speed of sound. Best tool for the job? It is if you fly for a living. Of course the cubicle carvers prefer the ass. How many of you naysayers can actually plane a sl board in the pow? How many of you have tried?

with a sl board; my fave a team fp(164ish) 17 cm waist that is too soft now for carving. And before this starts the usual flaming here's a disclosure: It takes a while to figure how to mach bottomless on a sl deck that isn't visible under your feet so being a 30 yr local with access to every storm helps a bit, but really it's not that tough. On the other hand you will be rewarded with godlike agility in tight trees with the ability to mach schnell and porpoise at will. Try not to fall but getting going again is like a waterstart on a sailboard; takes a little practice. Don't dive into anything less than very steep and you will prevail. This doesn't replace the 198 UT swallow but we're going to have so much powder that it will help switch it up to alleviate the boredom of floating pow 5days in a row.