LeeW
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Yep. This is the video of that rider: http://vimeo.com/36979569
enjoy! :)
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My condolences, mate. She's quite an intriguing dog! Finger licking was one of her trademark whenever I stop by the shop.
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P hilw, interesting comments...seems you're not brainwashed by mainstream media incl advertising...i usually refer to pepsi/coke as 'aspartamers' and macdonalds as GMOers.. ;-) ...bring back real food!Apologies for slight digression of topic :-0
GMOers? whats that? i instantly thgt gomer poyle
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Aw, man. Wish I could go.
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Not sure if it's a bug, but at the very bottom where it says bomberonline of the entire page -- the URL is at http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulletin/www.bomberonline.com and that's incorrect. Could that be fixed asap, please?
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My GOD! Those are bloody marvelous! All those seeing anime with that kind of interface is now a reality! I'm gonna take a look into this, no doubt. Oh my god, it's full of stars.
With the Z3 goggle you can monitor your speed, altitude, air temperature and receive phone call and text notices from your Android phone though a small screen in the corner of the goggles. With the integrated GPS you can find yourself and your friends on the mountain, which is perfect when you inevitably separated on a run, especially on mountains with spotty cell service.
But the Z3 is just the beginning. Next year Zeal Optics is releasing the iON goggles, which builds on what they've achieved with the Z3 by adding an HD camera, with a 170-degree wide-angle lens, and an 8 megapixel still camera and shoot 1080p video... (yeah gotta get those for next season.)
All of the controls for the goggles are managed through a blue tooth enabled remote that you can wear on your wrist like a watch and allows you to easily switch through all the functions.
These goggles aren't cheap, however. A pair of the Z3's will cost you $550. Fortunately the price of the iON's will be less, at $400. )
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I hope I don't sound like a prick, but uh, I just leave mine upright and leave it as is. When fall/winter comes, i take 'em off by using copper brittle when I sharpen the edge and put on wax. That goes for my skis, too.
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Don't know. A friend of mine who's a tellie (telemark skier) told me that run is totally insanely super fast that he chickened out halfway through (he's extremely fast teleskier). Me, I don't have the cajones to do that, tho I'd disagree about the cajones and replace that "I'm too smart to even risk that."
However, if you do check it out, lemme know what's the run like? Believe it or not, I rarely go to the Beav at all for I mostly stick to Vail all the way and use skis. So I wouldn't know much.
As for hardbooting at Vail, I would pick Golden Peak area (no, not the park but the run next to it -- it's called Ruder's Run) as well as my most favorite run in that area -- Whipper Snapper. Whipper Snapper is strong right turn type of pitch, but super fast and BE CAREFUL with the catwalk as you do want to be launched out gunning your board, dude.
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Seriously? Bird of Prey at the Beav (Beaver Creek).
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Lemme see if I get 'em.
Ok, here you go:
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Yeah, some guy in Vail Cat Crew posted photos of Mt Hutt with the insane amount of snow whilst doing snowmaking. it's awesome.
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This is a sig worthy quote:biggthump
It is for I have adopted it, myself because I know the very pain associated with that!
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YES! It's NOT fun when your thumb hook up on the snow high speed. This is one of several reasons why I kinda quit EC stylin' but sparsely do I do so.
Otherwise, I have a much strong preference towards racing stance just to play it safe with my thumb and other appendage of my upper body, man.
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Did somebody say Tinkler?
I thought he has been long gone aeons ago.
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Bryan, ages ago, I was reading a particular book about retaining my former eyesights back (it worked once)... it suggested bilberry for they do possess critical properties that the eyeballs would utilize to the maximum. Don't recall what it is at the moment.
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Would love to go, but being a poor engineering student at the present time isn't allowing me to do race training compared to the yesteryears of my racing days with Team Copper training.
However, I certainly hope by the time I get around to make the dollars roll in, I'd be able to return to racing, but in Masters category.
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so here it is!!!! My final tally.... Since the season is now officially over here, I thought maybe I'd share some numbers with you guys. Besides, I don't think my Facebook friends would get the same amount of appreciation out of it... so here goes:
33 days might not seem like a lot, but I think I'm doing ok for a single mom with two kids and a full-time desk job!!! and the teaching commitment (thanks to my ski school director who is ok with my one day a week commitment!)
now, if we were to count the number of days sitting at my desk staring out the window WISHING I was at the mountain..... sigh.....
You have no idea how much my wife would be green with envy with your amount of days of being on the snow. However, I, on the other hand, once rode over 200 days in one year way back in 1999 when we got insane amount of snow (it was the year Mt Baker broke all records) in the PNW (Pacific North West). It isn't all "that," because the next following year, I was so burnt out that I didn't ride much that year.
However, I certainly appreciate any amount of days to ride/ski... because this year, I've only ski like maybe uhm... 5 days? -shrugs-
But hey, you did ALOT considering your workload (family and all that cuz my wife could definitely relate), so alongside my wife, I'm green with envy too. :)
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Dayum. I cannot see the attachment at the present time (Fin or Michelle? says contact administrator)... however I feel yer frustration. My right ankle's been busted once and it's never able to recover the flexibility I used to have. Nevertheless, I ain't taking walking for granted.
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Well, in the eyes of the ski resorts, it doesn't make any difference as long as visitation is up and bunch of ski tickets are sold. That's the main bottom line. And not to mention that Generation X,Y,Z are primarily the parents as well as some of the 80's child are parents (I'm one of 'em) and during the snowmaking and grooming conference, Professor Bender (retired) of CMC made a speech with his finding/research on the demograph that we -WILL- experience a slowdown due to bunch of retiring/dying baby boomers. And then when the 90s become the vast majority of parents, then there will be a boom, assuming there will be still vying interests in skiing/snowboarding hence ski resorts frantically trying to market themselves one way or another.
As far as the economy goes, we're still long ways from making "in the black" budget wise.
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I have a question for you guys that ski and snowboard and are proficient at both, do you find that you worry about your knees skiing? I mean i just have visions at times of catching an edge or falling or something, and knee twisting and all that....
Oh! -wince- you have NO idea how paranoid I get at times when I'm skiing. The thought of feeling/"hearing" my bone pop while skiing from the knee area's actually making me -censored- shrivelled up inwards. -shudder-
However, I do ski conservatively (carving only, at reasonable speed, not hauling damn ass).
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Case in point: I'm always interested in how many harbooters whip out the skis when the conditions get dicey, instead of grabbing softboot boards.
Oh, TRUST me, it's ALOT of fun especially by the fact I use UPZ boots exclusively for skiing (I haven't swapped my boots back to hardbooting since I knocked the wind out of me with uh... bluebird, and shredderjen. :) And that was ages ago.
The last time I whipped out softboots was good number of years ago when the snow was DEEP powder and hadda pull my long gun out (Lib Tech Litigator).
Nevertheless, since I graduated to fat skis of lib tech NAS, I look forward to use it for deep powder. :) Carving, I still carve the s--t out of my lib tech skis. :)
The graphics don't exactly help either, on the boards or the clothing.As to another point, I'm still amused when people express shock that I both ski and snowboard. Must be some sort of cognitive dissonance in the general population.
Well said!
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Doesn't surprise me. In the late 80's and 90's, Skiing had a terrible image problem. Next to Snowboarding, it was lame. On top of that, only the experts could really make straight skis perform. Everyone else looked silly sliding around. And big air at resorts was discouraged or prohibited.
Now skiing is cool. Very cool. Youtube Simon Dumont for a taste. Parks and pipes are not only in, they are required equipment. But I think a huge contrasting factor is that skiing is now easier and safer than snowboarding thanks to shaped skis. Non-expert Snowboarders are now the ones who look silly sliding around, and only the experts look good outside of a park or pipe. My 9 and 6 year olds carve their skis whenever they can, because it's natural and intuitive and easy to do on the new gear. I taught my son how to snowboard, but he just doesn't have the fever for it because he's so much better on his skis. When I started snowboarding in '88, skiing was difficult and frustrating. Learning how to snowboard then was liberating. Today it is humbling.
"The percentage of snowboarders with kids grew from 18.8 percent in 2010 to 23.4 percent in 2011." - This is another thing, I know when we started a family, our slope time was decimated for 6 years. Also I actually know some people who went back to skis after they had kids.
Hello, Jack... that may be true, and I do not know if it correlates to World Cup racing (since they're pretty much the first stamp for the next generation batches of skis), but I reckon a ski racer friend of mine and I were conversing on how the FIS is now dictating straight skis would be eligible and Shaped Skis are out. I just hope it only limits to the racers, not the general public.
I admit I went onwards to skis, because it's far more practical when it comes to working environment at the ski resorts as opposed to the board.
I sincerely hope the NSAA will do something to address this issue for years to come. We shall see.
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Oh wow, didn't know about your eye, Bryan. Just got into this thread just now since I'm in the middle of the break before quiz review at noon.
Speedy recovery for your eyeball, mate!
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Are you telling me Madd snowboards is still around?