summersux

I this is true. I do like magne traction, I just think that it is to extreme. There is no doubt it helps with griping ice, I just feel it helps too much. It cuts like a serated knife. It is real agressive, down and dirty. It works well but not for that perfect semi-circle lightning speed pencil line carve. I think it is best suited for what it was designed origanally for. It gives you some extra grip when you dull your edges on a park board. A mag board will carve a turn very well. It just isn't the perfect pencil line very few people are capable of anyway. True carving is starting to disapear. You will have fun on a mag board for sure. It seems like a great quiver killer, just not an alpine racer. Like a jack of all trades, master of none. But don't get me wrong. You can carve a mag board, and it will bite very well.

Is this the picture you can't decide on? I have big pictures of them all. Just let me know what you want.

This couple moment theory has no very little play in a snowboard, and one could even say it would be a bad thing. A snowboard flexes across its waist. Bindings also flex. Don

I did a lot of research on the ics system and feel compelled to correct this pile of garbage. As a mechanical engineer by trade I have to ask myself if you actually are a mechanical engineer. After I read this I think not. I bought an X8 155-last year

I took some pics of the rails yesterday. Here they are. I hope this works! Here is my girlfriend aganst the rail for perspective. She is 5'4" Here is the inverse rainbow

Boots>board>bindings as long as the board feels ok to you it won't make much difference.

I talked to the local shop and they recomended the x8. Does anyone have any time on the 09 x8? Did it turn in to a noodle or is it stiff enough to hold an edge? I will get the x8 or a custom as of now. I really want to try the ics system.

It doesn't bother me too much any more, but it does go from light and fluffy to bulletproof in about 20 min.

Late at night is great too from about 9 until closing. I just ride right up to the lift and get on, no waiting.

Long story short, I broke my board last year and need a new one. I was thinking about trying ics/est. My home mtn is bear creek and I spend most of the day in the park. Some days I just like to carve blues and blacks. I want something not so catchy on rails but stiff for carving and jumps. I have thought about a custom, fix, and a x8. Maybe an un..inc. Any one ride one of these boards or get a chance to demo one? At this point I am open for suggestion. I am 5'11" 155lbs. and size 10 boot. Thank you very much.

Id be in for a cheaper season pass.

Usually have one. Mine broke his wrist this year.

It's not a great idea, but something needs done. I almost killed a kid when I went off a 20 footer. The person in front of me cleared it no problem and I saw them continue on down the mountain. I figured it was ok to go, they didn't wipe out. When I got to the lip, some little kid stuck his head up and I hit his helmet. He was ok, just waiting for his friend.

They should require you to pass a safety test and give you some sort of park pass and only let people with passes in.

Yeah, rollers would work then. I just thing they should put something there. That part is less extreme than the bunny hill! When they have piles of snow it isn't that bad, though.

It would be cool to have a few rails to dork around on from the top of the quad at black bear to the start of black bear. Maybe a small kicker or some rollers to. They have a about two hundred yards of empty space they should do something with, even if they keep it to the side so people going to kodiak can pass.

a BIG ASS jump would be fun-Timberline wasn't bad this year with the jumps, I would like something a lot bigger to try without needing to travel. Rail garden Snow all year