Justo8484

I have no race gear or race training, but with enough notice I could probably fill in one night if you need someone

i've never been there, so i'm stoked to get out there and check it out. plus we have friends out there who we'll be riding with, so having a local tour guide will be nice too. hopefully their weather pattern continues and we get nuked on!

i've heard people toss around the whole spring tension thing for many, many years, but i've never gotten a firm answer on it. i ride a 6-14 DIN binding and have my DIN at 9-10, so i'm pretty safely in the dead center of the DIN range if there's any truth the the outer limits of the spring not releasing as accurately. some techs swear by it, others think it's a load of crap. i'd love to be able to read something affirmative either way.

like toast said, as long as our flight can take off on wednesday, i don't care what it does. http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=48.780627593814906&lon=-121.79168701171875&site=sew&smap=1&unit=0&lg=en&FcstType=text that's the forecast i care about right now

logically, it kind of makes sense, but i really can't see how they'd be allowed to have that binding on the market if it doesn't test out accurately through the entire DIN range, although elasticity isnt really tested in a binding check. i generally prefer other bindings to marker (at least the twin cam toe) for that reason specifically. the bulk of the toe piece actually slides before your boot can release, as opposed to just the wings of the toe pivoting like most other bindings on the market. now that you explained it, i can see why he'd recommend the salomon binding over the marker in this case, if that is in fact an issue with the marker.

to my knowledge, the m4.5/m450 is the lowest DIN binding that marker makes. that's what we put on pretty much every kids ski that leaves the shop these days unless they're heavy enough for the m7.0/tyrolia SL70. i don't know off the top of my head what your daughter's DIN should be, but the m4.5 goes down to .75, which should be low enough for any kid who's strong enough to stand up on their own two skis.

surfrider? they're pretty broad-reaching. or somehow block replenishment in deleware seashore state park so indian river will still break? cause naval jetties is skunked now.

any idea why they're using two different plugins for the different video feeds? wtf? what plugin does the 2nd one use, anyway? doesn't work on my macbook pro or on my imac at work, and it doesn't say what plugin it needs. edit: it uses realplayer. no wonder it doesn't work.

If you guys need a stand-in and I can steal jeff's skis, I'm in

That or I own a MacBook pro and use a Mac pro at work so everything just works. Being a developer, I love the idea and ethical backing of android, it just does not really play nice with the Mac ecosystem at all, which is a shame.

if it's GPS based, cell coverage shouldnt matter at all. i downoloaded the app but i never ski with my phone these days so i haven't tried it out yet, so i can't vouch haha

Robert2? oh wait, he teaches snowboarding...

the third jump is awesome. the lip gives you plenty of float, is nice and smooth, and the landing is steep. if it was about 15 feet longer, it'd be perfect. speed is definitely not an issue at all either. land at the sweet spot on the 2nd jump and straightline into the third and you're spot on.

i still don't understand the park layout at bear. maybe it's because of the layout of the terrain you guys have to work with, but i always thought blackbear made a much more fun park up top than cascade. the setups that used to be there for slopestyles back in the day were always really fun and flowed well, with a jump or rail option on each hit. cascade has never seemed to accomplish that, aside from what used to be the tubing hill jumps.

i think ya forgot the screenshot there buddy... but judging by the video, that last hit looks long and not floaty, but i'll reserve any more judgement til i hit it tomorrow. it does look like it's made well.

is blue actually going to have sidewinder open before boulder park? wow...

agreed. that's what i hated about boulder last time i was up there. sure, i can ollie onto a mailbox from flat ground, but it's really not that fun. i'd much rather have something like that set up on a spine that you can hit from the front as a rail or from the sides as a quarterpipe/coping kinda feature. maybe stuff like that is fun on a snowboard, i dunno, but it kinda blows on skis.

They were setting up in the valley lodge over the weekend

Oh. Hahahaha

concrete jib? are there some new toys that i haven't seen?

there's actually a little raised spot on mine where the chip is. it's centered left to right about 2/3 of the way to the bottom of the pass. punching a hole at the top should have absolutely zero affect on the thing. we use RFID badges at work and they have holes punched in them and they work just fine.

stock up on hand/toe warmers and pack a flask. it's might chilly up there in the heart of winter.

wholefoods in plymouth meeting. although i got it in margate over the summer and i swear it was 9%, not 10.5%...

look at it this way. how different is one snowboard binding from next, aside from burton's EST system? they're all pretty much the same, with a baseplate, a highback, and some straps. the difference in the bindings comes in the highback and straps, and the material the baseplate is made from, but the shape of the baseplate, for the most part, is all the same. ski bindings don't work like that. look at the difference between the pivot/fks binding and something like a marker m11.0. the m11 has a dual cam heel, which allows the user to step into the binding really easily, but requires a longer mounting length for the extra parts, whereas the pivot/fks has the shortest mounting pattern of any high performance binding on the market, at the sacrifice of it being a huge pain to step into in soft snow. same goes for the toe piece. the marker is designed to have the least amount of elastic travel possible and provides a very 'locked in' feeling, whereas the pivot/fks is the complete opposite. it's designed to have the most elastic travel on the market, allowing you a split second to regain your balance before you get kicked out of the binding. the m11.0 is a great binding to go on a ski that's primarily used for carving groomers. it's a horrible binding to put on a park ski. the problem with creating some sort of interface so that all bindings can use a plate or something with a standard mounting pattern is that you get into the issue of stack height. FIS limits your stack height to some specific number of millimeters off the snow (i think? i don't race...), so creating a binding with a mandatory plate under it would make everything race related far more complicated. same goes for park/freeride skis. i want to be as absolutely close to my ski as possible, with minimal stack height, hence why i use pivots. the pivot accomplishes this at the sacrifice of adjustability. if it used a track heel with a tab adjustment or wormscrew like most other bindings, you gain a lot more adjustability, but then you're adding at least half a centimeter to your stack height. that was quite the brain dump, hope that all makes sense. line's idea was good, i just think it's going to be really, really difficult to make some sort of interface that works well in all scenarios.

i've got a few cans of ten fidy that will be making their way to blue with me.