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That's my friends' website. The boards are short but very agile. If you're a heavy guy or girl you'll want to ride something wider and longer. Checkout the vids, too. I got my eyes on a swally that he built for some rider in Europe and the dude never got back to him. Mark

Long time professional Information Booth for hardbooting, carving, snowboarding, and skateboarding. Has attained Guru status in my opinion. Checkout Freecarve.com (aka: PSR's Garage). Mark

I think this is the guy that is good friends with Jeremy Jones (the former Rossignol rider). Those guys do some unbelievable lines in Deeper. Some carnage involved as I remember from the video. Thanks for sharing! The quality of the process of making videos is definitely on the rise. Mark

Dude! Although the youngster named Andrew isn't a teen-ager anymore, he's in his twenties and still a terror. Thanks, Mick. Mark

I always try and err on the side of caution when posting on the web, dealing with customers, and shaving my MIL's back. I'm glad that you've got your end covered, Don. Skully and EmDee, my bad for not realizing that I had options when it came to hardboot instruction. I know now that if Don is not available, I still have the option of the SLC areas and the hardboot posse down there. Affordable would be the word, Curt. I look forward to seeing you guys on the hill this season. Please, try and keep up. :) Mark

I've dealt with Bola online and over the phone in the last 2-4 years. Both times were completely satisfying on my end. Good egg, that one. Maybe it was a very unfortunate situation for all involved? Mark

It says COILER. Mark

Like I said Jack, I couldn't find any other local alternative. Recently, I realized that Chris Karol is operating FAST Snowboarding at PCMR. This will allow me to go 'legit' and not abrogate the rules of Utahs' existing ski areas, if I choose. Mark

Last season, I was the recipient of some excellent coaching on-hill at a northern Utah ski area. Because this ski area, as well as ALL other Utah ski areas don't offer 'hard-booting, carving, racing, or alpine-style riding' lessons or coaching or anything related to this subject, I was forced to obtain coaching, lessons, from someone I hired to teach me. Over the course of several days, this 'coach' taught other riders including one of my sons. Was the law violated? Probably. Should I care? Nope. One of the old maxims (?) of law is Habeus Corpus (Bring forth the body). Sorry, I'm not a lawyer so my knowledge of law is from a layman's viewpoint. That is, show the court the damaged property or the damaged person(s). It seems to me that this ski area would have to provide proof that their property (real or productive) was damaged by this agreement I had with my 'coach'. I could not find a suitable source for information locally, so I went shopping for it online. The execution of the delivery was local and probably violated several existing laws which prohibit the exchange of information due to lack of licensing, profitability, and market. That said, I had a great day of riding and gained some important information which was not available on-hill from the ski area. Their loss. My gain. Another black-market shopper done happy! Mark

Now everyone who buys this system will have that 'Lord Vader' look. I like the idea but like Dave I'm questioning the goggles fogging up. Mark

Very nice! Thanks for the laughs over the off-season. That's some funny schtuff there, my friends! Thank you for bringing up a very important rule for traveling sno-Boardrsz: Never, never spend beer money on food. Beer money is beer money. Food money is potentially beer money and can sometimes be considered gambling money OR, 'I'm buying you a drink' money (..which is really, kind of the same as gambling money!). Beer money is sacred. Food money, not so much. It is so very and important to discuss these things here on BOL. Mark

Chef, chef, first question: Is the bread brioche? Are you using a natural peanut butter so that it holds up against multiple groomings? Also, does one have to have the underlying strata of jelly and bread in order to get a perfect groom? Thanks, Emeril Florence LaGasse Flay Skully Bordy

It's like waiting for the season premiere of AMC's 'Breaking Bad' (Season 4) or Showtime's 'Dexter' (season 5). What'll happen next???? (fingers in mouth). (chattering) What'll happen next? (guffaw)! Mark

ROTFL! Thanks for a mid-summer's laugh! "...go to a commerical." Mark

All of the textures that the filmmaker shows us is just incredible. 'Dark Side of The Lens' is quite the appropriate title for this surf quickie. The lighting, flat light, shadow, rain, cold, dark and handsome; ethereal and transic. Such a change from the viewpoint of tropical surf vids. The heaviness of the waves! The left: It's like a Celtic Teahupoo. Thanks so much for sharing! Mark

You've got to get those cones out in the street and off of the sidewalk neighbor-eeno Neil! You gonna hurt yourself, diddlely. Welcome to the 5-0 club (again). Mark

Sorry Bryan, I thought Don and Etsu were from Reno. My bad. I didn't have Don or Etsu cook for me but, he sure helped me with my riding. Hope to see him again next season. Here's Don and I working on my riding. Mark

I kinda got to ride with Buell back in February at PM. We mainly hooked up to get me to some lessons with Don R. from Reno. Fun, fun time with those guys. Hope to see you this season along with Buell and Rebecca. Mark

Bryan, you're welcome here, too. Logan puts you about 45 minutes to Snowbasin or Powder Mountain or Beaver Mountain. Add another 30 or so minutes and you've got access to Park City areas, too. Add another 20 minutes and you can access Big or Little Cottonwood canyons. The wife and I are empty-nesters. So, we've got some extra room now. Mark

Nice cover. Mark

Here are some of the players from Sunday's session (Top left: Chris Karol; top right: Bob Harper; Bottom: Kevin Hornibrooke):

Anyone on the board dry-age their own steaks? Or, has anyone invested the money in dry-aged steaks and then had success at grilling them at home? I'd sure like the idea of dry-aging my own meats instead of paying one of the big online companies to process and ship some to me. Big Money, that is. Alton Brown did a 'Good Eats' where he showed how to do it at home (dry-age). Another one he tackled was gyros (yee-rows) with all of the accoutrements. Mark

Does anyone know how to upload or link to music files other than the ones offered in the editor? Mark

Dan, apparently the makers of Viagra are posed to market a new vodka: Viagra Vodka. Yep, it seems that anyone can pour themselves a stiff one now. Mark

But, now I 'm wondering how someone could even say that the car (that's vehicle for police talk) was driving erratically. The road it was on was a north-south corridor that is under construction. You HAVE to weave in and out of construction cones so this car was probably weaving more than was needed. BTW, what is up with the vehicle was....whatever? I mean, it was the driver who was driving erratically not the car. That's like when watching the news you'll often hear the talking head or headette say, "...heavy rain is being blamed for a severe traffic accident on blah-blah-blah". As if heavy rain was an animate object that could possibly overtake drivers and make them crash their cars. What they should be saying is, "...3 or 4 idiot drivers wouldn't slow down this morning on their way to work and this was the cause a severe traffic accident in the rain". The blame lies with the drivers not with the rain. Unless the rain could be given a citation and fined, blame the real cause of the accident: idiot drivers. Mark