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Johnny Law

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  1. DIN soles will squeak in a AT binding if the toe height is wrong. Different DIN is because the forward pressure is jacked and the only way it could hit the actual release value is to dick with the indicator settings. Your also moving around in the binding because as the ski flexes the binding is moving around too much and your loosing forward pressure. Older soli bindings used to do this with the wing screws. The mount may or may not be bad, the gap could be as simple as they needed to run the screw in a bit deeper but it's more likely the hole is stripped. If it's stripped you can either move the binding or drop a heli-coil in. Above avg shops can do heli-coils sometimes. This isn't Solly fault, it's whomever mounted them did a quarter ass job and didn't even bother to cover it up properly. This is why I say almost anyone can mount their own shit, it's eight holes. Nobody is going to care about your shit more than you, take your time, get the right bit and a good number 3 pozi driver and you'll do a way better job than 90% of shops.
  2. QBO or Quasi-Biennial Oscillation is looking good for winter in that its continuing its easterly phase. This gets nerdy but the QBO is sort of the first indicator of jet stream performance. The QBO is high level winds at the equator that change direction every 14 months or so, when they are in the easterly direction it weakens the jet stream, now the jet stream is fucked in general because of climate change but a weaker jet stream is better for winter storms and leads to a potential Polar Vortex. If you remember two or three years back we had a dope winter were it was under freezing for like two months straight with some redic cold mixed in, this is because of sudden warming in the stratosphere which in turn causes the arctic oscillation to wobble. We experience this wobble as super super cold air rushing into the NE, the news simplify this as the Polar Vortex. A weak jet stream both encourages sudden stratospheric warming and allows for that air to reach us. Imagine the jet stream like a fence that is also a seesaw, if it's strong that cold air won't get to us unless there is wicked troughing in the west which dips the jet stream in the east because it's riding high in the west. This is obviously better for the NE than say Utah but Utah is dope regardless. CFS is showing big easterlies with a big temp dip in late fall and cold august's are usually better winters, the big question is the ocean. The oceans are really fucking weird right now, temp anomalies are all over the place, southern pacific is way warmer while sub surface northern pacific is colder. Nobody really knows what this means except that we are likely in a nina winter or neutral ENSO winter in English it appears as if the oceans will be cooler too. This is all very positive and aligns with my general theory of boom bust due to the energy cycles in climate change but who the fuck knows it's weather after all. EDIT: I totally forgot but we've seen some really wicked lows across the planet, atmospheric rivers with massive lows this is terrible long term but would make for epic nor easters...........
  3. Gotta stay safe lol We were reasonable about it....I guess lol
  4. hahahhaa I just can't figure out why the fuck they stop after .2 seconds of skiing all the time. They'll start at the top of NMDW and stop above the first lefty, shit that's like 100 fucking feet. WTF you doing bitch keep it moving, this isn't cham it's 900 vert you could probably hold your breath and make it to the bottom LOL Even better is the dudes with like full overnight packs, wtf do you have in there ? You can see the bottom from the top 1:30 and you can be back to the lodge.......
  5. TP4 is 100% correct.......the idea is traffic behaves like water in pipes, at a certain point of flow the pipe almost can't be large enough so if you retard entry of in this case each car everybody can do 40mph instead of the pulsing 75 then 0 but it mostly doesn't work because people ignore the light and then just drive like fuck heads anyways.
  6. Immigrant investor program. You and a spouse can get a green card if you invest a million or 10 jobs but I could be wrong about the specifics.
  7. Good to hear from you dude, hit me up if you want to ride later in the summer in the PHL area. I got a thing I gotta get fixed before then but I'm hopeful I'll be back on the bike by June. If not see you at blue, I got nothing on the living situation as I live in the wilds of Berks....I would say Macungie is pretty nice LOL
  8. They were legit legit, a bunch sent hospital at squaw before the exodus. That's a legit 100 footer....one dude was from Phoenixville surprisingly....now it's alot of wannabes like myself....I only had name recognition in poly ass, it used to be awesome in there but now it's too easy.
  9. I don't remember what mag but in like 07/08 they wrote some article about how TGR was cool and that was the beginning of the end. Mad new heads that were mostly cool but previously it was pretty tight knit and people understood their roles in the fuckery. Regardless a bunch of the og tards disappeared and the quality just was never the same. Pre it was the kinda place where when some dude ripped off another dude over a ski purchase a third dude went to said scammer's house and took skis off the dudes porch sent them to the dude that got ripped off and told the scammer he would get them back when he completed the original transaction. This is the entire internet but the trolling went from clever and funny to mostly just forced bullshit.
  10. TGR circa 2005 and now are two totally different places, it's still cool and light years better than the barking bears but pre skimag article, TGR was the funnest.
  11. I swear they forget about it....with the way they generally do things I'm saying 2020
  12. Before my time I think It's the beaters you never see coming, I bet there are as many injuries on cats as trails, lots of people limited space and you don't think about it because it's just some where on the way to somewhere else.
  13. I know right burma, what can you do but I would like it known for the record is wasn't on the trail. Cat tracks are dangerous, I saw a dude come in hot never see it and launched himself into the stratosphere.......
  14. hahah when I'm on vacation I check out of life kind of, unless it's boring but I don't go on boring vacations. It did the job and got through, I did a little damage skiing and I couldn't ski ski but it was good enough. They'll fix it soon, simple 4" incision flip the tendons to the other side, suture and I'm good. I'm full on donkey kong when it comes to PT so next year I'm going ape, jackson for sure and me and my brother got a bunch of shit planned.
  15. Sick trip dude, CO april is the fucking tits mcgee
  16. Just bought it on amazon it looks pretty terrible but in a good way. Love this shit, listen to that dope song....shit is legit
  17. That shit is awesome, post more I love retro shit.
  18. Yesterday was fun, not the way I wanted to end Blue but whatever. lol
  19. Who knows ? shitty people are everywhere. My thing is don't let this type dictate my emotional response. If I try to give you a present and you say fuck off jlaw I don't want it, the present stays mine and so it should be when dealing with fuck faces. Regardless France may be your place they smoke everywhere though their lift lines suck donkey dick, fucking chaos dude. I feel like if that's what your hanging you hat on your doing the life thing wrong.
  20. I have smoked at pretty much every resort in CO for the last decade and nobody has ever said shit. Be cool don't smoke in the lines and don't hotbox a gondy without asking first. If your going to smoke in the woods do it away from others, smoke on the lift when there is an empty chair behind you. Way longer season and not nearly as wanna be.
  21. Best place is where ever it snowed.... overall though they are different strokes for for different folks. CO is a way better state than UT well the western half, the eastern half is mostly religious whack jobs, the drives are nicer, the resorts more developed plus you have the San Juans which are the coolest mtns anywhere in the lower 48. UT your odds for life changing amounts of stupid light snow are way way way better plus overall UT is steeper. UT is closer to the airport. One is better than the other, they are simply different maybe Oregon is your place or Japan but I still ski VT too because I enjoy variety and adventure, something new. IF you think JH is the best place on earth and want to go there every year awesome that's what makes skiing awesome it's a personal thing, everyone can have their own take on it.
  22. CO Telluride Crusty Butt Highlands (with bowl it's 1st) Vail Snowmass Wolf Creek (with snow) Abasin Copper Steamboat Breck Winter Park Loveland Beaver Creek Monarch Ski Cooper Keystone Silverton is number 1 assuming a couple of things........
  23. No idea but I'd guess $
  24. I think he's coming home early......smh
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