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  17. Lower Mainland Carvers' Diaries, 2023/24

    in Canada - British Columbia

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Jarcode said:

    Apparently my training is next week, there's two people named Levi in our department! 😆

    I was just reading through instructor list, for Saturday training - we have 8 people of Chen last name! That's only snowboard side and only Saturday. 

    35 minutes ago, Cousin of Beagle said:

    Easy Rider 10:30am - 4:00pm Thursday.

    I'll be up for on snow training/orientation, on Friday and Saturday. 

  18. Good slopes for carving near Vancouver (New Carver)?

    in Canada - British Columbia

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    11 hours ago, Sirui said:

    Unfortunately I got into an accident a few days ago and broke my pelvis. The Doc said I should spend at least 2 weeks resting, and no snowboarding for 6-8 weeks. 

    After come communication with the snow school, we have come to the conclusion that since I will not be able to attend the on-snow orientation, I won't be working at Cypress this winter anymore 😞

     

     

    Oh boy... We all wish you a speedy recovery. Hopefully you can hit the slopes for some spring riding. 

  20. Accidentally reshaped F2 speedster rs wc

    in All Mountain Hardbooting

    Posted

    On 11/24/2023 at 5:33 AM, Kasper said:

    Hi, this is my first post in this forum so please correct me if i did something wrong, posted in the wrong section etc.

     

    Some back story. I'm 18 yo snowboarder from Finland and have been snowboarding for about 10 years. The last 3 years with hardboots. The switch has been a game changer and i love it!

     

    To the topic. I bought this snowboard used (for 120€ with bindings) about a year ago. And in the end of last season i had an accident in the powder. I was thankfully ok, but the snowboard took a slight bend in the nose.

    I know its not a powder board, but when you got fresh pow you cant resist. Works ok if you got enough speed.

     

    Before it was a traditional camber like almost all alpine snowboards. Now its more like a powder rocker or a different directional camber profile. 

    I find it a really interesting combination the really narrow and stiff board with a more forgiving camber profile. Takes the park and freeride much better.

    Would be interesting to see alpine snowboards offered with some more interesting camber profiles 

    The board has a full metal core for stiffness, but i can say from experience that if it was a normal wood core snowboard it would have been in two peaces after the impact

    And as a bonus I don't need to baby it any more. Now i can just send it, because it has already taken a beating 

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    Hay, welcome! 

    That was a great buy, for 120. 

    It would still have wood core, the metal is 2 layes, above and below the core. It got bent, because metal can reach the point of plastic deformation (overbent, then it doesn't straighten completely), unlike the fibre composites. The wooden core still might, or not, have developed a crack. Try aggressively bending the board by hand and listen for any cracking/squeaking sounds. 

    I have an old metaltop Volant that I have "redesigned" like that 🙂

    BTW, that board probably already had a bit of early nose rise, but less noticeable than now. Most of the modern alpine boards do. Sometimes we call it nose de-camber (sometimes tail too). Anything more than that is not required, or desirable. 

    Anyways, enjoy your alpine journey. 

  21. Climate Change

    in The Lodge

    Posted

    Those who really believe in WEF agendas, should stop winning on internet forums, while happily driving 4x4s to the mountains and riding power hungry lifts, and diesel groomed slopes. At least hike the backcountry for your turns, while it would be way better to reduce your activities only to absolutely necessary ones. Even better, move to land and get into self-sufficient farming. But mind you, it will probably turn out that your cows fart too much. Of course, there's still the ultimate solution of assisted suicide, already offered by progressive governments, like ours. 

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  23. Lower Mainland Carvers' Diaries, 2023/24

    in Canada - British Columbia

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    4 hours ago, Cousin of Beagle said:

    Obviously this thread is under "Ride Board" ---> "Canada - British Columbia," called "Lower Mainland Carvers' Diaries, 2023/24."

    But there is no existing thread called "Lower Mainland."

    Obviously, here. 

    He opened a Cypress thread, I have advised him to post here instead, mods have merged his and my post into this thread and deleted his. 

    How is your girlfriend, have you mouted her yet? 

    3 hours ago, Jarcode said:

    Manning opening day set for the 9th. Heard cypress pushed to the 10th... but given the weather I assume it is unlikely they can (safely) open by then.

    Kind of nuts that we might be opening first. Harsh start to the season for the north shore mountains.

    I'm pretty sure they can make enough snow for opening, the nights are really cold. It's the staff on snow orientation that's been pushed to that weekend. 

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