Johnny Law

Hahah that's some interesting history...

Reverse Reverse and 100-110 ski for hardback. A 110 ski isn't really any more difficult to carve than 80. Reverse Reverse is the greatest thing to happen to skiing since they got rid of straight skis.

Saturday before the snow went to shit you could find boot top in the woods and outside of the resort boundaries. Nipple deep though didn't happen unless he's a midget. Pillows ? Only if you use that term very loosely.

I don't understand where your pain is ? Whole foot ? Intuition liners ($200) would certainly feel better and be way warmer but either way it sounds like maybe a good boot fitter would really help. Lots of people in UT do really really good work with intuitions. http://www.intuitionliners.com/products2.htm

It almost has to be... The problem if I understand you correctly is that after you got your Hottronics (lulz) your feet hurt. What happened is something in your foot bed changed, the decreased room has caused reduced circulation and your getting cramping in your arches which can be pretty painful. It gets worse the more you work the ski. First check that they installed the footbeds in the right boot, it sounds stupid but depending on how old they are and how they have deformed its a easy mistake to make. The way you can usually tell is your feet leave stains on the footbeds the area with no stains is where you arch is. (Gross I know) I don't have Hottronics but I believe they are wired underneath the footbed and can be damaged if you rip the footbeds out so you may want to take them to a shop. You may also need new footbeds which can be $$$ if they are custom. The only shop I trust in a 8 hour radius in Pinnacle in Reading, the head tech guy is really really good and the older guy who I think owns the place is a very competent boot fitter. Take them to him and tell him exactly whats wrong, don't let anyone else work on them as their other people don't know shit.

whole lotta melt..

Blue Knob has a mid mountain bar that is Buffet themed, but the lodge is at the top of the mountain not the bottom. Additionally all lodging is condos and such. What a stupid question......

This is grade A 100% fucking retarded, I pray that one day in this country managers of all types will get their heads out of their asses and realize you just turned a non-event into a fucking big deal. Be an adult, some guy just ribbed you on a message board, big deal. SL is private and they can do whatever the fuck they want, what bugs me is that some dickwad didn't think about what happens when you suspend this guys pass for the year. You turn a nothing into something thousands of skiers will see. Its horrible that someone died while skiing but that life, far more people die falling off the toilet or lefty's using tools designed for right handed people. Legally speaking this isn't worth anyone's time but that is never the rules we play by. Its not a constitutional issue because SL is private, rather its more of a contractual issue. SL got him in a catch all clause, chances are some appellate judge would throw this shit out five years down the line. Lets hope the former pass holder is far more intelligent than those at Boyne and simply goes somewhere else.

^^^ Thanks for the info man and good to hear you're feeling better. Weird timing but my sister texted me today and told me these guys finally have a working product. Apparently its a 100% real working heal releasable http://www.kneebinding.com/

In some falls, most commonly backwards twisting falls the binding won't release.....ever. This essentially means your blowing an ACL. The reasons for this are actually quite simple. Originally your boot was connected to the ski in a system that had no release (leather straps and so forth) unfortunately in the most common types of falls the ski acts as a lever in opposite force of your leg. Levers can exact tremendous force and consequently leg brakes were very common, additionally due to the way in which the force is applied to the tibia and fibula spiral fractures were common as well. I'm no doctor but spiral fractures can be difficult to treat now let alone in early part of the century. With the rise of stiffer boots and better skis some smart dudes got together and realized this was way too dangerous and essentially came up with the binding we use today. Two springs in the toe and heal, when lateral pressure is applied to the toe piece your ski releases. The DIN is a fancy french word for what amount of force requires compression of the springs, hence why sit skiers and others replace the din spring with metal sheaves or just pin the whole damn thing. There were actually some other designs and in some aspects better designs that for various reasons didn't take off. AFD's, lifter plates, rollers and some other crap was added along the way but binding tech is still pretty much the same as its always been. The Look toe piece has essentially been the same since the 70's and the heal prior to the PX series was essentially the same since the first turntable design 40 years ago. The main drawback to this type of binding is that it only releases from the toe and ski industry bs aside does not release straight up. There have been a few experiments with electronic bindings (Marker) and heal releasables (Tyrolia and Line) but they all sucked. They released so much that you were far more likely to crash into a tree and die than you were to blow an ACL. What's happening in your body is also pretty simple, the toe piece from a physiological point of view only measures force exerted across the lower leg bones (tib and fib). In a backwards twisting fall you femur is jammed into your hip socket and essentially locked, you lower leg is at a 45 degree angle to your femur. The force of the twisting fall is spread not in the tib/fib but across it and ultimately into your femur and knee, because of this there is no force "twisting" the binding open and force continues to build across your whole leg. Eventually you pull your shit together (hammy pulls you up) or something is going to break. ACL is the weakest part and that is what is going to go, the reason they call it phantom foot is because no twisting action or force is being applied across the lower part of your leg so there's no way for the binding to release. This is far more common in women as they generally have weaker hamstrings and generally have smaller intercondylar notches. The way to fix this problem is to have a heal release that would effectively measure force across the femur, the problem with this is there is a ton of lateral force exerted across the heal piece all the fucking time in regular skiing. Up to now nobody has figured out a way in which a mechanical binding can consistently distinguish the difference between people tail gunning and blowing up their leg. This is why people snowboard.

Good to hear you liked them, I have a pair of JJ's that I'd like to throw Duke/Barons on and wondered what people thought about the Marker toe pieces. The mechanics of the binding are nearly identical to the Look/Rossi P series so I thought retention should be good. How is the screw pattern ? I couldn't throw a P series on the JJ"s because the pattern is so narrow, with the way that ski is constructed chances are I would have pulled them out. I was hoping the Markers had a wider screw pattern. How is your knee doing ? Hopefully you've gotten to the point where you can move around pretty good. Ahh the old phantom foot, the scourge of modern bindings. Some companies have and still are screwing around with an actual heal releasable binding. Far as I know, no one has got it figured out yet. Weird thing is the 50's era Spademan actually eliminated the whole phantom foot thing, maybe we all need to go back to that.

Let us know what you decide to do, I'm definitely interested as my brother needs a car.

They are nice boots, the forward flex is kind of cool and they finally come in something else than the bumblebee motif. I like that you can fully customize nearly everything, and the old Rachieles were the shit. Why Jesters ?

He' fucking with you it's some dudes back yard most likely, rest assured no one in PA is doing avy control let alone with explosives.

Saw this movie over the weekend and its pretty fucking redic. I may be biased because I really like MGMT but the Jackson sequence is killer.

Happy Bear hahah

I so try not to but people were getting off on the models last week...its like a self inflicted nut shot.

Fucking BULL SHIT !

You may already have a deal with your lodging but just in case Jay 2 for 1 http://www.ishotmattlucas.com/pkil1/coupons.pdf You can just print it out

Its official Sunday night after I return from VT the Lenai Lennape Power Whores will make a sacrificial offering of day glow 80's Rossi's (thanks spring mtn.) to Ullr. Because we will be sacrificing such radical skis Ullr is guaranteed to bless us all with the mighty deep, the knob and some closer projects around town shall be schralped with reckless abandon.

But its going east because its weakening, for Moe who will be at Jay it ain't going to matter (enjoy btw so so so jealous) but PA may get seriously hosed on this one. There talking maybe an inch of water, with significant upsloping, good ration and wrap around Jay could easy hit a two day total of 20". Want to see what the Euro thinks this afternoon, track will continue to be the factor and just like in previous storms the models have moved the track two or three hundred miles overnight.

That's exactly what I was thinking, way way way too much wax. You could try to get to drop in but I don't think there is anywhere for the wax to even go as the bases can only hold so much. You may have to scrape it off.

Jay is the place for when it snows from what i've heard things are really good right now. Trees are excellent. Stashes - Only one I'm really giving up is Big Jay At the top of Timbuktu glades on the right boundary you will see a "gate" go through the gate and find a place to drop. The closer you are to the line the easier it is to get back to the lift, you can ditch the lift and run it down to 242. People will pick you up and take you back to Jay. DO NOT SKI THE CLEAR CUT, big jay was only opened three or so weeks ago and they will close it again if people don't let that area be. Off the left of the Boneventure chair almost directly under the lift is a really nice line that will stay fresh until noonish. The line is semi obvious the entrance is not. Beaver Pond Glades are normally the last to get tracked.

Pow mow is one of the best in UT if you know where to go....enjoy the ride up.

I can't imagine the kinds of forces needed to shear a toe piece off like that, thats got to be a 20 din+ all metal binding on a truly trucking ski sheared in half. Amazing that he can be all right.