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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (AP) -- Bode Miller became the first man to open a World Cup season with three victories in three disciplines, winning a super-giant slalom Sunday ahead of Hermann Maier. Miller's first career Super G win came one day after his first World Cup downhill victory. He also won the season-opening giant slalom in Soelden, Austria, and is just the fourth skier to win World Cup races in all five disciplines over his career (slalom and combined are the others). ``It's awesome,'' Miller said. ``I didn't have as high expectations of myself coming into these races as the results I have achieved. It's always nice to get surprised once in a while by yourself. To move into that group, that's the most exclusive club there is in World Cup.''
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The advantage is cost, convenience, and quality of wax. You should wax ever time out, ideally. But even if you wax every third time, that's a ton of money. And if you do it yourself, you'll end up matching your wax to conditions. Hard wax for cold weather; soft wax for warm weather. If I'm using a basic universal wax, it costs me about $1 to put a quick hot wax on my skis.
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A cheap binding is about $100...a great binding is $350.
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Interesting link and always good to read something new...but does one spend a thousand dollars and give up a solid platform just so the squirrel lives? I say @#$% the squirrel and ski on...
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I bet that's what he's saying, especially after last year's start.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (AP) _ Bode Miller of the United States won the first World Cup downhill race of the season on Saturday, finishing in 1 minute, 42.75 seconds to claim his first career World Cup downhill race. Miller, who in the past has been a slalom and giant slalom specialist, is focusing on improvement in the downhill this season as part of his bid to become the first American man since Phil Mahre in 1983 to win the World Cup overall title.
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It's pretty crazy that ski areas that have been open for weeks still only have a single run off the top. Belleayre did a great job of piling snow on one black diamond, so there were soft moguls on a slope a little longer and steeper than CB's Rocket, which dumped you onto a runout that's a decent intermediate cruiser. Pretty empty for the first 1 1/2 hrs., then people showed up. And props to Skimom for being able to hammer a black diamond bump run! I almost went into the woods twice.
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Yeah, just drip it on your base going back and forth until it looks like when you put your iron on the base, you'll lay out a smooth coat over everything. I guess one good drip will spread out to cover a quarter size space on your base. When in doubt, more is safer. Imagine having dimes everywhere on your base and put a drip on each dime. Technically, 20g of wax will give you a good coating. Keep the iron moving at all times and be careful not to stay in one spot too long. Don't ever make the wax smoke, or you'll be burning your base.
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Well, snowboards generally follow the same rules as skis, but I only tune skis, so my expertise ends there. As far as skis go, factory wax is only a light topical coat. It's really important to get your skis (and I'd assume boards) hot waxed even when they are knew. All of the tech sites like SVC, RR, and the Beast people, recommend that you hot wax then scrape new skis 10 to 15 times. Race room skis are hot waxed 40 times. Sound crazy? Yeah, I agree. When I get new skis, I wax and scrape them four or five times. A skis base is like a sponge. It can only soak up just so much wax each time you hot wax. You want the wax as deep as you can get it and that comes from repetition.
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Some of it is from me and a friend, but the majority is from an ATV they were using when they work working on the lift. Notice the snazzy new chairs? They used to be old, splintered wood. And, 'Dude, I was checking on the price for copolymer "snow"...looks like $895 for a 5' X 60' roll. So ten rolls would give you a tight slalom slope that's 10' wide and 600' long, for just under $9,000.
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They have to have metal edges---which they appear to have---in order to be used at US ski areas. Since they went with metal edges, you'd assume the base material is decent.
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Mmmmmm, copolymer....
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What snow? This weather is !
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I'll race you on grass any day, 'Dude!
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Great pics! Thanks for the tour emtp. Watch for the 'road closed' signs:
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I've gotten four sets off of EBay, so far. We had a blast. We're going to invest in gates for next season to run GS courses. They run on studded treads. http://www.grasski.de/english/e_Fram.htm
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Our guys are breaking out the hoses and are taking over the slopes to prep for the winter...we took a last few runs today in the rain...
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Camelback would never do something like that, Atomic. They take pride in offering a true alpine experience and put skier's and rider's customer service and satisfaction first. They would never end the ski season early to begin construction of water attractions. They would never tear down buildings that housed race teams and ski patrol to build wave pools. The management is always prepared to listen to constructive comments, however critical, in order to improve operations. And when they say 'machine groomed, packed powder', they believe it.