Eboot Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 And so it starts again. Arrived at the mountain to be challenged by an ambassador: Why wear uncomfortable boots if you are going to snowboard? 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post drschwartz Posted December 2, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 My thoughts exactly… Its why I wear hardboots 4 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gawdzira Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 8 hours ago, Eboot said: And so it starts again. Arrived at the mountain to be challenged by an ambassador: Why wear uncomfortable boots if you are going to snowboard? ..."follow my line and I will show you." 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eboot Posted December 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2021 Arrived at a lift this morning with @GeoffV Lifty: I like your boards, i want to get me one. Just like a kneel board, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger jr Posted December 4, 2021 Report Share Posted December 4, 2021 Lifty at Solitude last Wednesday. ‘’ Those are the coolest bindings I’ve ever seen!’’ First time I’ve gotten a binding specific comment. They are TD3 Sidewinders, so the guy had good taste:) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eboot Posted December 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2021 Older man standing next to me: Wow there are 2 of you mono-skiers here today - you must be a club. Earlier I had seen a hard booter riding with ski poles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted December 21, 2021 Report Share Posted December 21, 2021 19 minutes ago, Eboot said: Older man standing next to me: Wow there are 2 of you mono-skiers here today Seriously has anyone successfully ridden at Deer Valley or Alta claiming to be a monoskier? I may have to go to DV for one of my daughter's competitions. On the bright side of this thread... the other dayI was waiting for @trailertrash on the side of the trail and as he approached, a group of skiers near me said "check out the alpine boarder!" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drschwartz Posted December 21, 2021 Report Share Posted December 21, 2021 Just rent some skis We seriously won’t hold it against you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibrussell Posted December 21, 2021 Report Share Posted December 21, 2021 I tried the mono-ski thing years ago at Alpine Meadows told them it was a mono with feet front/back instead of side by side for better turning. They didn't go for it , but I did get a refund on the ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted December 21, 2021 Report Share Posted December 21, 2021 2 hours ago, drschwartz said: Just rent some skis We seriously won’t hold it against you. I just don't enjoy skiing. Been snowboarding too long I guess, since age 13. It just feels unnatural and awkward. I was a good skier, and I can do fine now, I'm just constantly worried that I'm going to cross my tips and/or do my ACLs. I envy people who can enjoy both, maybe I'll get serious about it again someday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibrussell Posted December 21, 2021 Report Share Posted December 21, 2021 I had to drop to 165 cm from 225's and stay on groomed runs. With 165's I can to go slow enough off trail to pick up that crossed ski and move it back. The only times I get on skis is when my daughter comes to ski once ever other year because (Mom's too slow) Not sure I'd want to pay $175 to putt around on skis unless you want to be a racer chaser, carry coats, and cheer, bring a cow bell. been there Good Luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drschwartz Posted December 21, 2021 Report Share Posted December 21, 2021 Any way you wanna get down the hill is fine. Just go out and get down the hill. Unfortunately Deer Vally is unlikely to let anything but skis on board the lifts, even a Skwal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted December 22, 2021 Report Share Posted December 22, 2021 ride up in split mode w/poles and transition in the trees 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drschwartz Posted December 22, 2021 Report Share Posted December 22, 2021 3 minutes ago, b0ardski said: ride up in split mode w/poles and transition in the trees Yeah, and then have your $150 day pass yanked on your first run down. Better get good Go Pro video on the way down so you at least have something to show for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haus Posted December 30, 2021 Report Share Posted December 30, 2021 Snowboarder rides up "that board is crazy looking, are those ski boots?" Me on a coiler nirvana with upz boots. "No, they are snowboard boots" Snowboarder "so is that like wake skiing?" Me "ya, sure..." 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowburn Posted December 31, 2021 Report Share Posted December 31, 2021 Young gal snowboarder said to me" hardboots?? why would you wear such uncomfortable boots verses soft boots?" My reply was "unlike rumors these boots are more comfortable than house slippers and my disliked for pinch points from SB bindings". She said "yeah, I have heard of that before" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st_lupo Posted December 31, 2021 Report Share Posted December 31, 2021 Not in the lift line, but at work I was talking skiing/snowboarding with some colleagues and one of them mentioned that his son knew me. I started racing through my head trying really hard to remember his son and to not be the d***head that forgets other people. Luckily he saw my confusion and said his son only really knew my jacket, because when he sees it on the local slopes he gets a really uncomfortable feeling. It turns out when his son was younger and starting to move up to the blues and blacks, he was terrified of having to cross my trenches. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allee Posted December 31, 2021 Report Share Posted December 31, 2021 ^^^ I understand that. When I ride with my crew I hate crossing their trenches too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st_lupo Posted December 31, 2021 Report Share Posted December 31, 2021 It’s the sport’s dark underbelly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkaholic Posted December 31, 2021 Report Share Posted December 31, 2021 Try riding with Big Mario, those aren't trenches they're like crevasses! We've seen kids go missing for hours in them. ink 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big mario Posted December 31, 2021 Report Share Posted December 31, 2021 1 hour ago, inkaholic said: Try riding with Big Mario, those aren't trenches they're like crevasses! We've seen kids go missing for hours in them. ink I think you might be crossing one of mine in your avatar 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slopestar Posted January 1, 2022 Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 18 hours ago, big mario said: I think you might be crossing one of mine in your avatar Following anyone in the LCI is pure joy but you definitely change your line to cross Mario’s trenches at the proper angle… 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1xsculler Posted January 1, 2022 Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 Me, a ski instructor and her little girl student are standing at the top of a nicely groomed beginner run at Jackson a few days before Christmas. The little girl asked me why I had only one big ski (I hadn’t clicked in yet). The instructor said, “No, honey that’s a very special snowboard called a carving board and it’s only for really good snowboarders. Let’s watch him go.” I told them I was a beginner myself and the instructor said I had no business being on a carving board. It was my first run of the season on a brand new board I had never made a turn on. There was no way I was going to push off first. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big mario Posted January 1, 2022 Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, slopestar said: Following anyone in the LCI is pure joy but you definitely change your line to cross Mario’s trenches at the proper angle… I broke my rear boot cant adjusters a few years ago hitting one of my own at speed, and parallel in the infamous flat belly spin video Carvin Marvin took of me a few years ago. I think Gary's faceplant/headcarve pic from a few years ago was a direct result in of hitting one of mine during first tracks In copper bowl Edited January 2, 2022 by big mario 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwavedave Posted January 1, 2022 Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 14 minutes ago, big mario said: I broke my rear boot cant adjusters a years ago hitting one of my own at speed, and parallel in the infamous flat belly spin video Carvin Marvin took of me a few years ago. I think Gary's faceplant/headcarve pic from a few years ago was a direct result in of hitting one of mine during first tracks In copper bowl I hate when my own trenches start interfering with my own carving bliss, and they do sometimes. While my trenches don't compare to Big's, I do get "complaints" especially from one of the early morning regulars at Spirit, an older woman who's often there for the first chair. I swear I can hear her say, "damn, he's here", when she sees me. But, she jokingly says to me, "While I enjoy watching you come down the hill can you please not make big grooves today". *btw, I had a personal encounter with one of Mario's trenches in the super soft groom at the 1st MCC. I was minding my own business when my turn was redirected in one big trench heading for the edge of the trail. I suppose I could have just relaxed and followed the trench into the next turn, but I thought, "What if he didn't make the turn and went off the trail?", so with great effort, I forced my way out of that trench. This is a true story. And, as it turns out, he did make it. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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