Glenn

I think pending OP finding a new setup he will sell the tele's for the above price. So it sounds like they are not for sale right now, but he are likely to be...

This fall looks nasty... Short Article (text below)

Any one have action shots of the cliff?

PM Nick Malozzi (sp?) was looking for a beginner tele setup.

I need to put them on my helmet if I'm going to pay that much (basically anything over $50) for them.

And you may have had to pull dog teeth out of your skull.

No its all good, I heard they have a new trail to increase downhill capacity... :banghead

HAHAHA, I used to live a block away from that stairset with the crazy dude. You don't want to mess with the crystal street bums/drunks. Sometimes they are happy drunks, other times not so much. I've got a pretty sweet scar I got gapping those stairs on my bike though.

The bobsled is over by lake placid. I don't remember how much it costs, but have heard from multiple sources that is a pretty rough ride. I'd rather spend the cold days snowboarding, so I never even considered going myself.

Also keep in mind any gear that is cold and wet; socks, gloves, hats, pants, jackets, thermals, etc will stay cold and wet unless you dry them with the fire, in which case they will be smokey as hell. Same goes for your body. You will need to setup camp after a long day riding/working and will be cold, wet and tired. Basically I would think you would want to test your gear either at a campsite in the winter, or on a trail where you can predict with a certain degree that you will be able to remain dry so if your gear doesn't keep you was warm as you thought you won't be screwed.

Well I thought about this but there are a couple of problems. 1. Camping is for through hikers only. So unless you are section hiking, you really aren't supposed to be camping there. This is to discourage basically what you are doing, as well as having people throwing parties in state lands without paying for campsites. It's a privilege to have the camping available in the first place. 2. It's cold in winter. Hopefully you have some serious gear if you are trying to camp anywhere during the winter, and are prepared for weather should it arrive. 3. Food will still need to be provided and cooked. So you will have to collect firewood and start a fire the cold, or you will need a stove that can operate under windy/cold conditions, as any spot on the AT which you can camp at will likely be windy and cold. If you still want to do this I want to encourage you again to at least section hike a portion of the AT. Make it about HIKING and snowboarding. Perhaps park at the lehigh and hike to blue staying somewhere in the middle over night. Or you can come from wind gap for a longer hike. Either way, it's a hiking trail, not a bums refuge. Plus it will be a great workout carrying all that gear, and if you ever got interested in back country riding you would have all that kind of stuff dialed in. Short answer, it's probably not a good idea.

While we do rip on the local mountains quite a bit, ours is a marginal market. I think everyone on this board would rather the mountains stayed open by looking after their pocket books more than their customers. We just question regularly whether they can look at their customers a little bit more, and in what ways. Since you are new to the sport but have spent some time on this board your opinion is probably a bit skewed. I suggest you ride several mountains this year and get a feel for how different resorts operate. Then report back on your overall opinion of commitment to the customer. I hope that didn't come out wrong. I'm not trying to beat you up and say you know nothing, but at the same time, you have been on a mountain how many times? They marketing is only a small portion of it. Spending a day on the hill is 100% more important than reading a PR bit on small vert hills and early openings are only a small piece of the puzzle. Everyone is eager for openings so opinions are especially harsh right now.

+1 for split boards. It's going to take a couple years to get really proficient skiing. Why waste that time when you could just grab a split board to skin up and ride a board on the way down.

Looks good. If these predictions hold up all the pocono area mountains should be able to open within the next two weeks.

... right. I have 8 inches in my journal. Wind drifts don't count for accumulation, you do know that right?

Threading the buckle is the hardest part of the whole ordeal, so its cool you only have to thread 1 buckle. That being said, unless you ride with impatient skiers all the time, it's not really a huge issue. That also being said lacing "technology" for boots has really caught on so this has promise from a sales point of view. It's certainly a better solution than those flow bindings.

I have no clue what there selection process is. All videos meet a certain level of quality. No awful filming or editing, but some, like this could be much better. Considering this is an opening day edit, they likely got lots of slack on riding quality, filming and editing. There are some other openers that would have been questionable otherwise. Also it's a snowboarding website and skiers aren't really represented at all (or 1 or 2 shots per shorty) in the videos.

PS, when Bode does well, or rather, you find an article where Bode challanges convention and isn't losing you pull the same trolling move. But Ski, we have a little rule around here. You can't reply to your own flame more than once.... just bustin.

Uh, it doesn't hurt boulder. They are mostly ripping on the the style of the riders and the camera work. That video could have been made at ANY mountain and it would have been ripped. Plus TW is notorious for ripping on stuff, even really solid videos. Just a guess but TW gets obscene amounts of traffic. They only put on 2 or 3 videos a week. I check the site semi-regularly and have NEVER seen a teaser or shorty before 50+ comments have been made. Even if the video sucks, it gets the word out they are open and have jibs. That can't be a bad thing for boulder can it?

Um, nice sled?!?!?

I disagree, especially in regard to the navigation/links issue. If you want to provide what is essentially a multi-media presentation you want EVERY visitor to have the same experience. You want splash pages and the user to actively interact to get to various content. If you are selling a product perhaps this is not the best, but when the product IS the website it's a different story. I still haven't seen the site so I don't know how this site stacks up.

Length is relient on weight not boot size. If the boot won't fit on a standard correctly sized board, then he needs to find a wider board, not an oversized one.

Innocent or not, there is no reason to consent to a search. Police use intimidation tactics to get you to waive your right to search and seizure. "Officer I do not give consent to search my vehicle." Practice this. You can be polite, but the officer likely intimidated you to get you to give up waive your rights because he knew he had no cause to search otherwise. The best case scenario from the police perspective is a failed sobriety test or a hit from a k9. Since you waived your right you can't really do much about the search now. I would still try to fight the wrong-way ticket. Take pictures, show there wasn't a wrong way sign or it was hidden and try to get it reduced or dropped. You probably want to talk to a lawyer as to whether to bring up the other facts about the stop, but if the officer is still fired up he will bring it to the table. Either way, you won't be charged with any more, and you might get out of the minor violation as well. What police department was it?

Who cares. You don't like the site anyways. Besides, it's a mobile device, you have to know you aren't getting the whole internet going into it. P.S. I had a better flame, but I can't spell so I backed it off. P.S.S The site is down.

No spell check on this pc. It wasn't a flame anyways, but point taken.