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I like my oiled duster. A bit heavy for skiing but the length is great for shoveling my driveway down by the road when people swerve to try and spray me with snow.

Reminds me of the time I was s subject in a high altitude experiment on Pike's Peak. They gave me some medicine that was supposed to help me adapt to altitude--didn't work but it gave me raging...

Regarding the parking:

Agreed-although we don't know how many places are being displaced by Phase 1, who will be able to use the new under ground spots (the plan implies not for day users) and as...

I was thinking of sending in my cheek swab and seeing if I have any dog in me, or am I pure goat.

If you really must know there's always this: http://www.wisdompanel.com/ LOL

My recollection is different--that the original village was not planned to cover the entire lot. But I don't see how what was planned years ago matters now--the environmental impact of the current...

There is parking planned under all the buildings, but that obviously won't be nearly as much as there is now. The plan for phase one (of four) is for 500 off site spaces. The plan does not say where...

A few more thoughts. I don't subscribe to the dog owner being the leader of the pack. Dogs have no trouble telling the difference between other dogs and humans. (most dogs won't sniff your butt...

Lock him upon the 4th of July. Guy here lost his blue heeler on the 4th. My dogs don't seem to mind the fireworks but a lot of dogs do and will run off. Not sure what wild animals are around your...

A dog wants one thing--to be with you. Any reason you would keep him outside at night? As far as biking, etc, a dog will go as long as you do, whether he's worn out or not, and he won't tell you when...

Tempting to try to drain it. Don't--skin in that area heals poorly. Drained hematoma --> infected hematoma. Instant swelling=bleeding. Lots of veins in that area. The bleeding stops quickly so Ice...

Why full zip if you're only using them in unexpected bad weather? Unzipped pants aren't real water or windproof.
Easy enough to add grommets to cuffs--go to hardware store and buy a grommet kit....

http://marmot.com/products/minimalist_pant?p=216,222,131,188&ft=188
can't comment on the fit--I'm skinny (although not necessarily in the crotch).
Rock climbing=bail when the weather gets nasty. ...

Agree with all the above. Still--there are helicopters that can be mobilized in the USA--happens all the time for traffic accidents--and reasonable proximity to hospitals with heart lung machines in...

Stolen from my post on the 4 hour burial thread: "There have been reports from Europe--rare--of survival after the prolonged burial of victims who were pulseless and not breathing. These victims had...

60 Minutes last night (I'm so old I watch that show) had a piece on TBI in soldiers. The brain imaging in people with concussions is pretty scary--looks a lot more like the image of someone in a...

Good luck. I've had a pair of previously dry boots start to leak after getting a pair of intuitions, probably because I don't have to buckle them tight any more. I've siliconed them every place I...

Some years ago we were flying out of Detroit, through Minneapolis, to Sacramento on Northworst and the flight out of Detroit was 3 hours late leaving because they couldn't find the owner's manual and...

I flew to Geneva on British Air recently. The airline site price was a little less than Orbitz'.

AS I understand implied warranty it means that the product has to do what it is supposed to do out of the box, not necessarily well. A toaster has to make toast, skis have to ski. Doesn't mean they...

good points.

I've never heard of a company in any industry that warranties products to second hand buyers. When you buy second hand you are depriving the manufacturer of a sale. A lot of high end acoustic guitars...

Can it tell us if you're more likely to die in an avalanche or driving to the mountain?

There have been reports from Europe--rare--of survival after the prolonged burial of victims who were pulseless and not breathing. These victims had air pockets and their hearts stopped beating...

I also agree that Lou's description was very helpful and completely appropriate. I too was wondering about visibility. It was snowing. Not only the avalanche slope but the "obvious" safer route may...

While there is always something you can ski safely any day--even if it's just up a road, the fact that a given party (not talking about any specific party) didn't get avalanched doesn't necessarily...

I've stayed at Les Cretes Blanches in Chamonix--very basic, clean but somewhat rundown. Definitely good for a guys trip, wife trip--depends on the wife. They normally book saturday to saturday but...

I get it. It's Obama's fault the skis are bad.

OP--I've never done this on skis--only on some POS Pella windows (talk about bullshit warranty--it's only honored if you paint them yearly)--but...

thanks for the reminder

Thinking more carefully, I guess I'm wrong about the media thing, and what does it matter anyway what the media does? I do think the mountaineering community understands the risk and the...

Only 8 posts and he snuck sarcasm right by you. Makes us all look bad.

Reading--or rather trying to read--that study got me thinking about the risk of climbing. While the risk of mountaineering varies enormously with the range and the seriousness of the climb it seems...

Assuming it was a windloaded terrain trap--you may be qualified to judge that, I am not--it's easy to see how they did not heed it. They didn't see it. We see what we want to see, we ignore what...

There are two kinds of risk--subjective and objective. I get a thrill--happiness--out of skiing something at the limits of my ability, knowing that I could get hurt if I fail. (Not likely die--I...

The problem with training and and experience and knowledge is that in the end, human beings are just too good at rationalizing what they want to do. Looking up at a beautiful powder slope, the...

An inch I can believe. A foot--bad glue joint. I've been skiing 50 years (yes, 50 years) on mostly major manufacturer stuff--the kind everyone says is crap--uncounted thousands of sticking the tails...

[QUOTE=Cold_Smokin';3972042]Although it's easy to point and assume this was a collection of clueless Joes, it seems pretty far from the truth. As a group, it was a solid collective of education and...

I read it on the internet so it must be true. Goretex itself says to use spray on or wash in. So no, I'm not sure. But it does make sense to me that wash in might plug up the membrane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsbJA9RM4Cc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk (second verse)

Well done. I remember reading Saudan's account of the first ski descent in 1970. Apparently snow was unstable enough that no one would climb it with him so he used a helicopter. A lot of...

Unfortunately in France the written report is only available in French, although they at least give a diagram of risk by exposure and elevation. And the flags lump low and moderate together--yellow. ...

Woolite is a lot cheaper than tech wash (woolite for delicates, not all purpose--they make two kinds now.) Interesting that the maker of my goretex parka--Spyder--says use powder detergent but...

with studded snows and a few hundred pounds of sand in the trunk you should be good to go, as long as you don't live somewhere where chains are mandatory. Make sure your skis will fit though.

That trail from Fallen Leaf from the back parking lot at Satanford Camp (I typed Stanford wrong and decided it looked pretty good) didn't used to be secret--it was a forest service marked trail and...

glad to see this thread has moved away from dick size.
I guess what matters more to me, maybe because I've not paid enough attention to flat bases and the like on new skis, is customer service,...

no pain with resisted wrist extension. I've had lateral epicondylitis a few times--both elbows one particularly heavy winter from shoveling--even had to shovel the roof. Eventually the snow on...

Slight tenderness over the lateral epicondyle with the elbow extended but not flexed. I think I can feel the catching in the radiocapitellar joint. Pain with the catch hard to localize and seems to...

He used oxygen, so it doesn't count.

What a shame. Hard to believe they have to work alone. Nobody knew there was a problem until he didn't make it home after work--reported missing at 730PM.

bad for global warming. also I get funny looks when I make my wife carry my skis and hers both.