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Thanks El Niño...

Nah, not that hardcore. Rather get them a little broken in before taking them out on the mountain. It also helps start building up callous on the feet, so they're also not as sore the first days out. Ah, from your post, I thought you bought them up at Blue and rode the mountain before/after you bought them. They don't say much about the boot's liners, but it sounds like they're heat moldable, so just wearing them around and the heat from your foot might help to mold them as well.

I usually wear them around the house prior to going out the first time. I'll buckle them down as tight as I can stand it, flex them a lot, walk around in them, sit at the computer, watch TV, etc. for a while. Do this daily or so to help the process progress faster. WJW the Speedmachines. You looking to keep up with @GrilledSteezeSandwich? Looks like they have some new fandangled fitment gizmo for molding the liner. Did Blue mention that and/or have the kit to do it? (Nothing like spelling/grammar checking your site before publishing it... "you just need to heat the area trough the infrared lamp", "apply the suction cup to neutralize the pressure in few minutes.") https://www.nordica.com/usa/en/men/boots/medium-100mm/speedmachine/speedmachine-3-120-gw

Bring along your old ones too, JIC @saltyant

Do they come with skins or are those a separate purchase?

Seems to be a more recent thing (power companies shutting snowmaking down). Don't know if it's the grid, amount of people/development in the area, lack of electricity production, number of Teslas??

Yup, I believe shortly after they shut em down again. Indeed, it was a total downer, expecting huge amounts of snow only to see nada. Damn people turning up their thermostats to stay warm! Don't they know there are sliders starving in the East for man-made perder???

They know what brings in the cashola...

And then another super cold shot came in, but the power company shut them down.

I was expecting to see some snow on Vista this morning with how cold it was.

Haters gonna hate!

Evidently Pat (bumper who wears red pants w/ white knee patches and stretches up at Blue) was out there.

I didn’t know! I was the Great Pumpkin!

They used to have pretty good wings, but I haven't been there in a long while. I thought there was a change of ownership at some point not too long ago?

Except the neighbor is enticing the wildlife to bring it to you..

From Jackson...

At least the retention ponds are filling...

The deer shit the most. Everything from piles of pellets to huge piles, both of which seem to turn into big clumps of weeds.

Don't get me started on foxes. We've got a big rock out at the corner with a shit-ton of mulch around it. There's a pair, siblings? mates? that INSIST on digging foxholes in it and chase one another around the big rock. They leave a banked racetrack around it. Every week I refill the foxholes and the next night they're dug out again. I've sprayed deer away, sprinkled a ton of cayenne in the holes and on top after I refill, but they keep coming back. They've beat me down. I just leave the holes anymore. For some unknown reason they also insist on shitting in my driveway that I keep having to shovel up. They're worse than having a dog. Once I thought I saw a groundhog from the house run under the shed, so later I went out to check out the hole and something hissed at me from it, so I set the trap. Caught a huge racoon by the next day. It was the last time it hissed at anything. Another time I had something digging by the house, out came the trap. I don't know how this racoon fit in the trap it was so big! I don't know what I'd do if I caught a fox. They annoy me, but they also keep the other rodents in check.

I got one a few years back. Threw a blanket over the thing and was able to pop open the door and ran!

People out here hunt deer from their cars at night with spotlights. After the corn has been cut down, they just spot across the field and plunk a deer. You know it when you hear a gunshot at 10-11pm at night...

Yeah, I've heard groundhogs will return from a ways away and relocating is illegal. If you don't want the pest, others probably don't want it either. Big, nuisance pests (groundhogs, raccoons, etc.) that nobody wants around here that end up in my trap I'll take care of. There are some cats that roam around that I hope keep the chipmunk, mice, etc. population down, so I leave them go also. Even though the rabbits eat the wife's plants, she won't let me plunk them.

Depends upon the caliber and type of the ammo...

Wabbit stew! They ate all the vegetables.... One good turn deserves another!