Justo8484

i'm not gonna get into the shop vs internet crap again, cause its been beaten to death, but there are knowledgeable sales staff at some of the shops around here. the guys at the ski bum helped us out a lot, gave me some good info on wetsuits and therefore i got one from them instead of online. making connections with shop employees never hurts. it got me a pair of skis to use in whistler for free after i broke mine. and about the 32 boots, we dont carry them anymore, i dont think, but i dont really know our entire snowboard stock. if you do end up getting them at amateur or online, you're more than welcome to bring them in and we can heat mold them for you and press out the toe box if you really want to go for a shorter boot, but i can't make any promises on cost for that; since they wouldnt have been bought from us, they aren't covered under the boot fit garantee. it really wouldnt hurt you to come into the shop and try on what we have though, you might like the salomons i mentioned, and you get a bootfit garantee with them, so if anything needs to be tweaked, its free of charge (except custom footbeds).

jackie is my hero. we met her like two years ago i think? when she first started doing the slopestlye/railjam comps at boulder on friday nights. this year she was trying 3's last i saw, and she's what? like 8? and correct me if i am wrong, but at 1:45 in on that video, is she trying to broken grind that box? if so, i quit, because those are really hard to do correctly and my knees dont like them.

if your trying to get into a smaller sized boot, first of all, go into a shop that knows what they are doing and get measured to make sure you are in the right size boot. in the ski shop at least, i get people coming in all the time saying they need a size 13 or 14 boot, when in reality, they fit perfectly into a 10 or 11. i'm not saying this is definately your case, as some people really do have feet that big, but its a possibility. other than that, check out the salomon f boot. same concept as what you're saying the dc boot has, i think. the liner ends after the ankle pocket, so the boot is a lot less bulky and gives you a smaller boot in the same size. and doug, if you're looking for an all mtn twin, you definately picked the right ski. the PE can rip all over the mountain. obviously its not gonna hold on the ice like you're used to with your atomics, but it skis arguably better around here than any other twin i've been on, except the nordica supercharger; definately check them out too. they ski like the nordica hot rod nitrous, if you've ever tryed them out, but with a twin tip to play around in the park and let you out of a turn in softer snow a little easier. either ski would also make a decent pow ski for you if you ever get to chili...

and he list goes on... - new invaders because mine blew up this year - prophet 90s to replace the 4FRNTs that snapped - new a frames to replace the ones that got stolen - new coat and pants, but i'm not sure what kind yet - i also need a bunch of new ski socks, mine all have holes in them

ummm, first, he said he was looking to keep the price around 400. 750 is not all that close to 400, and thats just for the camera body itself, not including extra lenses and batteries. yeah, its cheap for a 3ccd camera, but if you're just filming at the mtn without really having a ton of photography knowledge (how to set exposure, white balance, iris, etc.) and only really plan to upload the stuff to your comp and throw a few edits together to post online, whats the point of paying almost twice as much, when in the end, your edit is going to get compressed down to about 20mb anyway, in which case it wont matter what you shot it with. sure, if i watch what i shot on a 30 inch TV straight off my camera, it doesnt look as good as something shot with even a miniDV cam, but after its all edited, compressed, and posted online, you really cant tell the difference unless you really know how to fine tune the compression settings to squeeze every bit of detail you can into the smallest filesize, which i certainly dont know how to do yet. also, again, for editing and posting online, movie maker or imovie are fine. they dont give you as much control over your final product, but to get started with editing, they're not a terrible choice. and if you really need a serial for premiere, i can hook you up. nothing is too hard to get a serial for if you look hard enough.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller...=&O=&sku=423633 going for 479 right now, but theres some rebates in there to take it down a bit too. there's plenty of features for you on that thing and the picture quality it top notch for a consumer camera. 25x zoom and full manual adjustments for white balance, focus, zoom, etc. not a bad camera for a little over 400 at all.

dont get digital 8. i made that mistake. it was cheap, at just above 400 when i got it like 4 years ago, but looking back, i should have spent the extra 200 or so for a mini dv, as the quality is much better. i havent really looked at video cams recently, at least not the lower end ones, but i'm sure you can get something much better than what i have for 400 now. what i've found to be really important though are some of the accessories you can get. definately get a second battery. you dont know how many times we were just starting to get warmed up, the weather was getting good, etc. when the battery died. also, get yourself a wide angle lense if you want to do any kind of follow cams. i got a tripod free with mine, but i rarely use it, since it takes too long to get it all set up and leveled out on the hill. we usually do follow cams anyway.

method, who is your line rep? is it stefan by chance? none of my communication with line went through him, i dealt with them over the phone, talking to people at thier headquarters.

did you ride bear at all before this year?

you're refering to the park from two years ago, right? there was maybe one day this year that i would have considered bear's park to be "sick"; the day of the usasa slopestyle. i've said it before, but seriously: steeper, longer landings are key, as are landings to rails. the quality of the construction of bear's rails it top notch for the most part, but stuff just gets set up half-assed sometimes and gets neglected. i thought thier park was a lot more fun two years ago than it was this past season.

ummm... why couldnt you spin off that jump because of the rail? i never saw anyone even come close to hitting the rail, you landed well below where the rail stopped if you hit the lip with and half decent amount of speed.

toast has 174 foils with 912ti bindings. pretty much the lightest freeride setup you can get without putting a randonee binding on them, but you wouldnt want something like that for skiing park anyway. if you're looking for something thats gonna perform all mountain as well as in the park, foils are your better bet in my opinion. i skied the fujatives on a few groomers at blue and personally thought they sucked, but they were mounted at +5 for park riding, so its your call.

i already have a subaru; 98 legacy gt. i got it the end of january, and i havent had the chance to drive it in snow yet, since the one decent snow we got after that, i went skiing with my parents and we took my dad's explorer. i used to have a 90 legacy l, which didnt have awd, but was still pretty solid in the snow. i can already tell there's a huge difference with awd on my new one just from driving on wet pavement and around the mountain and dirt roads; no more spinning tires when i hit the gas. i like the 2.5 engine's power a lot more than my old 2.2, and surprisingly, its really not much worse on gas either.

how tall are you? judging by your weight, you're probably a little shy of 6 feet? check out the foils in a 174, mounted +2 cm. they're an 85 waist so they'll still hold their own all mtn, and they're super light and responsive in the park too. toast has a pair that he skied in whistler when we were out there and got a foot of fresh, and he said they still skied well in that much snow too.

yeah, i feel like there's a huge potential for this to happen now. the release on it is so smooth, you feel virtually no torque on your knee at all, bu it still holds you in when it should. i just hated how high you sit off the ski and how they blew up. the weight didnt really bother me, just because its all under foot, so it doesnt really throw off the swing weight of the ski that much. i'm hoping to see it resurrected and be an option for k2's freeride line in the future as well.

those three skis are all pretty different. scartch - stiff all over, more of an all mtn twin or i guess could be used as a park ski for a heavier guy, not much sidecut fujative - stiff tail, soft nose, medium amount of sidecut, designed to be a park ski, but skis like crap out of the park if you mount it forward of the recommended midsole line invader - soft all over, pure park ski that skis decently on groomers but can't handle speed too well it really depends on what you're looking to do with it. if you want an all around ski, the scratch, PE, or salomon foil are all solid bets. if you just want a park ski, the silencer or invader will be your best bet, as they will both be selling for 299 next season, since the fujative is getting bumped up to 329. silencer is the old PE shape with a cap construction and softer core, which should be a really fun park ski. for bindings, next year's salomons are different. no more toe peice adjustment, so they wont be prereleasing anymore. you can put p12s on the invaders, thats what i rode on mine. the only complaint i have about looks is that they are heavy, the breaks are expensive to replace (if you actually care about that) and they suck to put on in deep snow, but supposedly that's been fixed on the new px line. i would stick with salomon or look for bindings, personally. tyrolias release well, but dont really hold up to the beating we put on our stuff, unless you get the mojo 15 bindings, but thats probably overkill. good luck finding a pair of p12s in good condition though, they havent been made for going on two seasons now, and i had a hard time tracking down a new pair last year for a good price. for boots, as was said earlier, go to a shop. if you dont know exactly what you're looking for and how to fix problems that will inevitably arise with almost any boot, buying a boot online will just cause you more trouble than its worth. go to a shop, get fitted by someone who knows which boots will best fit your foot, check out custom footbeds (they really do make a huge difference) and other custom work that might need to be done (stetching out the toebox, ankle area, etc. ) most shops will garantee the work that they do and include it in the price of the boots, as long as you dont need excessive materials (footbeds, cants) to make the boots fit right. sorry this is so long, but hopefully it helps you out. we should be getting the new stuff in at nestors in late august.

line has had no problems with replacing every pair of their skis that came back through our shop this year. every time i've had to deal with them i've gotten straight answers and they were very helpful. i'm not going to say that the invaders were bombproof by any means, but we didnt have any other skis from them brought back this year, and we carried the chronics, celebritys and the invader minis. in fact, when my skis started delamming in january, i called line, spoke with kim, and told her what my problem was. she said i could do whatever i needed to to the skis to make them last through the season, as long as i didnt drill them and put rivets in them. she said as long as i stuck to glue, tape, etc. the warrenty would be no questions asked, and i will have a brand new pair of invaders in august or september when they get them into the warehouse. she told me to tell this to any of our customers who had similar issues. as far as the binding issue, i wouldnt really expect a company to stand behing a product they no longer produce, mostly because if they dont produce anymore, there's obviously a good reason. in the case of the bindings, they found out that they were not durable enough for freeride use, so why support something anymore that's not up to par? all our encounters with the binding were the same as with their skis this year. they either credited the person or gave them their money back if the binding broke. customer service wise, i feel like line has been one of the easier companies for me to deal with.

i'm gonna agree with DH on this one. dont get that thing near rails, wallrides, bonks, or other various terrain park features that are made solely out of snow. they stopped making skis with that sort of core for a reason. from what i've been told, it rides really well though.

that was some pretty valuable input. i'm sure it helped dorsey out. pretty ironic that you ride lines with only one look heelpiece. how's that work out for you?

everyone's definition of quality is different. i dont expect any pair of skis i buy to last more than a season, and my invaders didnt. i wasnt expecting them to. it was a cheap park ski that you can afford to destroy. other than the invaders i've never seen any lines that didnt hold up just as well as any other ski. my brother has a pair of mike nick pros that have held up great. plus line stands behind their product, and are constantly making new innovative products (reactor binding, invader, elizabeth, prophet 130). the only way i see the deal affecting k2, besides bringing them more money, is that IF k2 backs heavy development of the reactor binding, eventually, their skis could come with the inserts that lines had. thats a huge if, but with k2's financial backing and huge support, they could retool the binding so its not quite as awkward as it is now, and completely blow every other binding manufacturer away, because the thing has the potential to be ten times safer than any other binding on the market right now, line just didnt have the money to get all the bugs worked out.

baseball's as wack as it gets. go to mammoth.

so apparently k2 just bought line skis and karhu. its interesting indeed. i'm thinking it will actually be a good thing, because now line stuff may get to the shop before november. also, wich k2's financial backing, i'm predicting the resurrection of the reactor binding, maybe in conjunction with marker, since k2 also owns them?

1. What is 1 feature at Bear that you want to see again at bear that was there last year? 2 years ago - quarter pipe 2. What is 1 feature at Bear that you saw this year that you hated and never want to see again? (not the sliding board/ j rail we know it was bad) - y rail, rollercoaster rail, triple box unless you actually make a gap between them all 3. What is 1 new feature that you saw somewhere that you think bear could build to make the park better? better lips and landings for rails, longer, steeper landings for jumps 4. What sizes of jumps are best for the largest park? The medium park? The family park? 40+, 15-40, 4-10 5. Anything else that you want to add that could make bear a better place to ride - cut the pipe more often, rope tow for the pipe, better lighting, NO MORE NIGHT COMPS! change them back to saturday afternoons so we can actually see the course, please

thank you trevor, for introducing today's new vocabulary word; ducket. but seriously, i bought a pair of section gloves in whistler for like $40 and i love them. they dont breathe the best, because they are all leather, but leather tends to hold up better for me than most other gloves i've had. whatever you do, don't buy anything from drop. their stuff just straight up falls apart. grandoe isnt too much better, either.

lange boots sometimes leak in the area that overlaps on the toebox if the rubber gets worn out or mishapen somehow.