Justo8484

FYI - there is jack shit to do in eden/huntsville/liberty area where we are staying aside from drinking.

26-31st. where are you skiing bob? and phillycore, legible is the key word there. toast absolutely will post. maybe we'll just communicate through PASR like we did in VT... toast, grab me a beer, please!

finally got to hit up bear tonight, and tom and crew did an awesome job building and keeping the park in great shape. the rail options at the bottom are awesome, especially the fat down pipe. tom, when you guys get more snow, take the dimensions of the jump you built and double them, and you'll have perfection. that jump was sooo much fun tonight to get tricks back that i hadn't done since last season and learn some new ones. all in all, super fun night. anyone who didn't go cause of the rain earlier today definitely missed out.

super easy and download aren't really going to go hand in hand... easy to use: iMovie - comes with every Mac, not available for windows, in my opinion, dumbed down to the point of being difficult to work with if you're a 'literate' computer user downloadable: pinnacle studio, sony vegas, adobe premiere - none are free, but you can all be easily acquired, if you know where to look and aren't concerned with the legal ramifications, listed in order from easiest to most difficult learning curve, but also fewest to most features what you probably have access to: windows movie maker - i haven't touched it in probably about 5 years, so it may have come a long way, but when i used it last, it was years behind imovie as far as ease of use and feature set, and it used .avi and .wmv, the bastard children of video formats iMovie will take raw gopro footage and do what you want with it. that's what toast uses for everything he's posted here. everything i've posted has been done using mpeg streamclip to convert gopro mp4 files into apple ProRes .mov files for use in final cut, then edited in final cut, but i'm a nerd and that's probably way overkill for your use. converting to ProRes allows final cut to do on the fly rendering, so you don't have to preview render every time you add a new clip to your timeline. you don't really need to mess around with final cut or premiere unless you're doing advanced color correct or elaborate transitions or effects to the audio or video.

threat title says it all. I used these boots last year, loved how they skied, but didn't give me enough ankle hold cause i have stupidly skinny little chicken ankles. I'm in a plug boot now, so these are up for sale. I'm looking for $200 for em. They're generally in awesome condition with the except of one of the buckles, which has a broken spring so it doesn't spring back into place anymore. it doesn't affect the boot being able to be buckled up at all, so i never bothered to replace it. hit me up here or on ichat if you're interested so we can work something out! thanks!

how much of that is really a factor for inbounds terrain though? obviously the bowls and wide open stuff is going to be affected by the snowpack getting real slide-y, but i'd imagine the first round of storms with heavier snow is just going to compress all the crap down in the trees where it's less likely to slide, or on areas where regular avy work is performed, or on groomers. at this point, i'd be 110% stoked on skiing 4"-6" of fresh on top of a groomer with how this winter's been going thus far. i'm just hoping stuff stabilizes a bit so i can jump off things without too much worry of being swept away on impact.

i never said it was the best solution... just that it was technically feasible haha

actually, it'd be pretty easy to implement a pass system at bear if they dedicated the lift closest to tubing to be just a park lift, like what camelback does. you'd really only have to rope/net off the upper portion of whatever that main trail is between the two lifts. after that, there's trees to keep you from crossing over into the park. heck, take some time in the off season and plant a row of trees up top and you could have more rail features in place up there.

geographically speaking, tahoe would be getting the appetizers, not the leftovers

how's the park looking? might be heading up tonight. did the rain to a ton of damage?

they tend not to cave to pressure...

just throwing this out there, but i'd say there's near 0% chance sidewinder will open this weekend. they blew on it what, 24 hours now? no snowmaking tonight or tomorrow. we probably won't see snowmaking temps til wednesday night. judging by past experiences there, and how this season's been going, sidewinder is probably going to be a more or less once and done build for the season. it's not like bear where things get switched up every week or two. everything on sidewinder is much bigger, for the most part, and takes a shit ton of snow to set up properly. i doubt they'd rush to get it open with a smaller feature set, and to make 30 and 40 foot jumps, you need an epic crapload of snow; a lot more than they'd be able to make in 48 hours of snowmaking, with some rain thrown in for good measure tomorrow. believe me, i would love if they opened sidewinder saturday with a full build, but i really doubt it's gonna happen, and i'd rather wait a few more days for something of better quality.

can't wait

kryptons only have replaceable heel lugs, so you'd have to go the AFD/binding shim route. aka go into a shop, this isn't something you can take care of yourself.

now he's just mashing it

amateur

i don't really know much about the misfit itself, but the addict was stupid stiff and i absolutely hated it as a park ski, but i tend to like softer park skis. i have next year's ON3P jeffrey, which i love as an all mountain ski, but it's a bit stiff for my liking as a park ski.

let me address the boot issue first. it could be either, but since it's happening on two sets of bindings, it's most likely the boot. take them in to a shop to have them check it out. there's a tool that they should have to make sure the heel and toe still fall within DIN spec. if they're still within spec, the boot is fine. earlier generation marker royal series bindings sometimes had issues with toe height on dalbello kryptons and full tilts, so you may have one of the earlier bindings. as for play in the px, make sure the forward pressure is correct. there's no toe height adjustment on that binding. for skis... you're in whistler. it shits snow there. do you have another set of skis, or is this going to be the only pair? if you have another pair, what are they? ideally, you'd have two skis: a park ski, and a pow ski. if you can't have both, i'd recommend getting something at least 90mm in the waist, but probably wider. look into the k2 kung fujas, line blend, ON3P jeronimo or jeffrey. the k2 and line are on the softer side, and the ON3Ps are on the stiffer side of the spectrum, but any of those would kill it in the park or out, and are all slightly rockered as well.

interesting observations, and pretty much how i felt about them as well, although most likely, when you're saying it feels like the ski throws you backseat, you're actually probably just very centered and balanced on it. this is an effect of a ski with rocker. generally, with a traditionally cambered ski, you can really pressure the tips in a turn with no negative consequences. on a ski with rocker, if you really pressure the tips, things get weird and you learn pretty quickly to back off, essentially skiing the ski very neutrally, not actually backseat. the first few runs on the first pair of rockered skis i tried felt super weird, so if you're not used to that, that could be what you were experiencing.

what'd you think of the BBR? and what lines are you on? I've got my own opinion, but i'm curious what others thing. We've got a good stock of them at buckmans in Ardmore if anyone on here is interested in the ski.

i'm just gonna leave this here... http://wasatchsnowforecast.com/

where'd you go, out of curiosity? also, you never know, but you may have just gotten lucky and the old nordica was indeed the perfect boot for your foot. or it big enough to the point that your toes had no chance of banging off the front. do the new boots ski better than the old ones?

Correct. Snug boots are the answer. Most likely, some side pads to hold your foot in place would give a big improvement, but it's best to see a competent boot fitter.

i haven't actually looked closely at the new lift ticket cards. does it say anything on them about being non-transferable? when you buy them, is your name associated with them somehow, so that if you were to reload the card at the ticket window, they ask for your ID or anything like that? what if you're just trying to be 'green' and give your card to a friend to reload when they want to ski on a different day to save a few dollars? it gets kind of touch as far as where the line can be drawn when you're implementing a reusable ticket system like blue has.

except that person is already paid for. the only extra money they'd be making is off food/beer if that person stayed til 3. blue's bar is expensive, but you'd have to get pretty well loaded to equal out the cost of the other person buying a lift ticket.